Phantom's Ultimate Video Guide, The

by Joe Kane, The Phantom of the Movies

That wildly popular cult figure, The Phantom of the Movies, presents the mostcomplete collection of reviews available on the best of the worst, low budgetflicks and offbeat videos with over 4,000 entries.

Genres: Film, Media Tie In, Horror

756 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was pretty much my bible in high school.

[Jeremy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great movie reviews and peppered with interviews with such notables as George Romero and Beverly Garland.

[Uku · Rating 4 out of 5]

Goes definetelly to one of my favorite books. Enchanting fantasy. Usually I'm annoyed when text is written in I point of view. ( - Twilight is example about how annoying I person story can be on it's worst. ) While reading Divine by Mistake I felt that there is a person nearby who tells me what has happened to her and that is probably how I point of views should be. O..o' I was impressed by Cast's story and characters. -Though there was little bit of over-detailing some features of certain characters but it wasn't really that disturbing. No. I really enjoyed my stay with this fantasy adventure.

[Daddy Bookworm · Rating 5 out of 5]

another of the seminal books of my youth that solidified my love of this special breed of movies.

[Andrew Crisp · Rating 4 out of 5]

Try to always avoid the nostalgic path, but this was great fun to revisit. Much of my misspent youth took in the types of flicks the Phantom writes so lovingly about. And while I'm not sure I could, you know, actually watch a lot of the drek on offer here, it transported me back to standing around in a Mom-and-Pop video store, transfixed with box cover art and imagining (and most likely, improving upon) the contents within.

[Robert Lawson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent reference book. RIP.

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Back in 1989 everything was easy and simple. All you ever wanted to watch was inside this massive volume: action/adventure (always an option), the fright stuff (mostly), scifi/fantasy (rarely), killer/thrillers (of course), comedy (no), oddities (yes), exploitation (Russ Meyer was always welcome), shockumentaries (I still remember Faces of Death watching with my mates), Rock, cult TV, and a video shopping list with over 1000 film in different genres. We were regulars at the rental store back then and tried to watch as many films as possible. This book brought back the time and memories. Today nobody knows about video cassettes anymore. Highly recommended!

[Joe Besserfan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Joe Kane's "The Phantom of the Movies' VIDEOSCOPE: The Ultimate Guide to the Latest, Greatest, and Weirdest Genre Videos" has been one of my go-to movie reference books for years. Kane doesn't waste time with those dull award winning snoozers. He writes about horror, sci-fi, exploitation, action and other genre movies that we are actually interested in seeing. I wish they would publish an updated version of this book. (Don't be jealous but my copy was autographed by Kane.)