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Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the '70s and '80s
BRAND NEW & EXPANDED EDITION! Now with 125 additional pages of film ads from the 1970s and a new foreword by director Joe Dante! As featured in Entertainment Weekly , The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Fangoria , and more.
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Michael Gingold became obsessed with horror movies, and his love of the genre led him to become a Fangoria writer and editor for over 30 years, as well as a contributor to Rue Morgue and others. But before all that, he took his scissors to local newspapers, collecting countless ads for horror movies, big and small.
Ad Newsprint Nightmares from the '70s and '80s is a year-by-year deep dive into the Gingold archive, with more than 700 ads! Within these pages you'll see rare alternate art for film franchises such as Halloween , Friday the 13th , A Nightmare on Elm Street , Child’s Play , Jaws , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , and The Exorcist . You'll also revel in oddities including Invasion of the Blood Farmers , Psycho from Texas , Dracula Blows His Cool , Zombie Island Massacre , Twitch of the Death Nerve , and many more.
Gingold also provides personal recollections and commentary, and unearths vintage reviews to reveal what critics of the time were saying about these films.
Steel yourselves, genre Ad Nauseam is an unmatched journey into the wild world of 1970s and 1980s horror movies!
Also Ad Nauseam Newsprint Nightmares from the 1990s and 2000s and Ad 20 Years of Newspaper Ads For Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films (the 1980s and 1990s).
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Michael Gingold became obsessed with horror movies, and his love of the genre led him to become a Fangoria writer and editor for over 30 years, as well as a contributor to Rue Morgue and others. But before all that, he took his scissors to local newspapers, collecting countless ads for horror movies, big and small.
Ad Newsprint Nightmares from the '70s and '80s is a year-by-year deep dive into the Gingold archive, with more than 700 ads! Within these pages you'll see rare alternate art for film franchises such as Halloween , Friday the 13th , A Nightmare on Elm Street , Child’s Play , Jaws , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , and The Exorcist . You'll also revel in oddities including Invasion of the Blood Farmers , Psycho from Texas , Dracula Blows His Cool , Zombie Island Massacre , Twitch of the Death Nerve , and many more.
Gingold also provides personal recollections and commentary, and unearths vintage reviews to reveal what critics of the time were saying about these films.
Steel yourselves, genre Ad Nauseam is an unmatched journey into the wild world of 1970s and 1980s horror movies!
Also Ad Nauseam Newsprint Nightmares from the 1990s and 2000s and Ad 20 Years of Newspaper Ads For Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films (the 1980s and 1990s).
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368 pages, Hardcover
Published October 5, 2021
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June 24, 2021
What a trip down memory lane! Gingold’s collection of mostly New York City movie advertisements begins in 1970 with Bloodthirsty Butchers and ends with 1989’s I, Madman, highlighting the evolution of horror films. Not all horror movies are memorialized, but that’s what the Internet is for. Each year comes with brief reviews of a leading film or interesting tidbits of information regarding a film, its cast, or director.
I have loved horror since my introduction to the genre in 1980 with Death Ship. The 1980s section brought memories of reading reviews and articles in Fangoria, watching late-night movies, and scaring others with tales of movies forbidden to them.
Newsprint Nightmares embraces the reader’s memories and doesn’t clutter the leisurely stroll through the horror movie graveyard with unnecessary exposition—it’s just the reader, the movie ad, and their memories.
One interesting aspect of this stroll down memory lane is noticing the flow of themes and how each decade reflected social anxiety. We can see the rise and acceptance of motorcycle horror and graphic violence against women that would grow into grindhouse. The explosion of paranormal movies and tales of possession at the height of the Satanic Worshipers scare in the 80s. And how the social outcast changed into a psychological force to be reckoned. When you’re living in the season of change, it’s hard to notice the finer nuance aside from having more fantastically terrifying movies to watch.
This book is a must-have for horror fans.
Advance reader copy provided by 1984 Publishing
I have loved horror since my introduction to the genre in 1980 with Death Ship. The 1980s section brought memories of reading reviews and articles in Fangoria, watching late-night movies, and scaring others with tales of movies forbidden to them.
Newsprint Nightmares embraces the reader’s memories and doesn’t clutter the leisurely stroll through the horror movie graveyard with unnecessary exposition—it’s just the reader, the movie ad, and their memories.
One interesting aspect of this stroll down memory lane is noticing the flow of themes and how each decade reflected social anxiety. We can see the rise and acceptance of motorcycle horror and graphic violence against women that would grow into grindhouse. The explosion of paranormal movies and tales of possession at the height of the Satanic Worshipers scare in the 80s. And how the social outcast changed into a psychological force to be reckoned. When you’re living in the season of change, it’s hard to notice the finer nuance aside from having more fantastically terrifying movies to watch.
This book is a must-have for horror fans.
Advance reader copy provided by 1984 Publishing
September 28, 2024
Ad Nauseum is a horror book about horror movies for horror lovers. Author Michael Gingold started collecting newspaper advertisements for horror movies in the 1980s. These ads, along with additional material from the 1970s have been collected and presented in a beautiful coffee table sized hardcover. In addition to the ads themselves, there are also reprints of portions of reviews, tidbits of information about the films and their releases, and Gingold’s own memories.
This is the perfect book for anyone who has enjoyed Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue or 42nd Street Forever. Between the artwork and the amazing log-lines, horror fans will return to this collection over and over again.
This is the perfect book for anyone who has enjoyed Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue or 42nd Street Forever. Between the artwork and the amazing log-lines, horror fans will return to this collection over and over again.
March 1, 2024
A fascinating book that reproduces an awe-inspiring collection of newspaper ads from horror movies released during the 70s and 80s. There's also bits of trivia and contemporary critics' reviews. I can't say how strong the appeal would be for general millennial and Gen Z readers, but for horror aficionados or those like myself who grew up in an age where newspapers were a thing and these ads the biggest influence on what we saw, it was a blast. Not to mention reminding me of a lot of old movies to revisit!
June 13, 2024
Great pictures
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