djwudi's review against another edition

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2.0

The idea is cute, but in addition to having some occasionally questionable ideas of what constitutes horror films (I may not be a great connoisseur of horror, but I don't think I'd ever put _The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover_ in that category, however disturbing a film it may be), the book is simply quite frequently badly written. Not bad as an overview of some of horror cinema's odder moments, as long as you can slog your way through, which I at times had problems doing.
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