The lights go down. 90 minutes from now, your feeble mind will never be the same. Thoughts of flowers, puppy dogs, and serene shopping malls will be replaced with ghosts in your TV, zombies tearing your flesh, and chainsaws ripping through your chest! This singular horror movie experience, which caused you to forever hold disdain for preppies, wear black to family functions, and scare your siblings to death, is now embedded in your DNA! Long live horror!

Produced and edited by horror filmmaker Christian Ackerman, My Favorite Horror Movie is a ghoulish celebration of how the singular viewing of a horror film can inspire someone to find their identity and develop an obsession of dark arts. Featuring contributors with various professional horror backgrounds such as filmmakers, actors, writers, directors, painters, musicians, journalists and film festival directors, the essays in My Favorite Horror Movie celebrate classic films from the likes of George Romero, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi, Tobe Hooper, Dan O’Bannon, Wes Craven, Alfred Hitchcock, and many more!

Films covered: Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Alien, Aliens, An American Werewolf in London, Beaches, Brain Damage, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Creepshow, Day of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Deadly Friend, Devil Doll, Drag Me To Hell, Evil Dead, The Exorcist, Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman, Friday The 13th: Part 2, Fright Night, Godzilla (1954), Halloween, It, Jaws, Night Of The Living Dead, A Nightmare On Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Poltergeist, Predator, Psycho, Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers, Soylent Green, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining, The Sighting, The Thing, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Contributors: Alex Napiwocki, Arielle Brachfeld, B. Harrison Smith, Bill Shafer, Blake Reigle, C. Courtney Joyner, Calder Greenwood, Cerina Vincent, Chris Hampton, Christian Ackerman, Christopher Jimenez, Chuck Foster, Chuck Parello, Clint Carney, Dave Parker, Eric Spudic, Ernie Trinidad, Esther Goodstein, Felissa Rose, Frank Merle, Graham Skipper, Hank Braxton, Hunter Johnson, Jack Bennett, James Cullen Bressack, Jared Rivet, Jeffrey Reddick, Jonathan Martin, Josh McKevitt, Joshua Lou Friedman, Julia Hapney, Ken Jacobsen, Matt Mercer, Michael Gingold, Michael Klug, Miguel Rodriguez, Nick Phillips, Rolfe Kanefsky, Ryan Lambert, Sarah Nicklin, Sean Decker, Spooky Dan Walker, Staci Layne Wilson, Tammy Sutton, Terry Wolfinger, Todd Robey, Tony Timpone, & Trista Robinson

And don't miss our new stand-alone sequels My Favorite Horror Movie 2: The New Blood & My Favorite Horror Movie 3: Scream Warriors for 100 essays by an all new batch of legends and luminaries!

**Rondo Awards Nominee for Book of the Year!**

You savored the first My Favorite Horror Movie front to back, clinging to it everywhere you went, staying up deep into the witching hour because you couldn’t put it down. You devoured it and craved more, but just like that a special edition disc with all the features, you can’t bleed another drop out of it...Until now.

In the grand tradition of horror franchises comes My Favorite Horror Movie 2: The New Blood, 50 more essays by fans who were inspired by that single film to make a living in horror. These filmmakers, writers, actors, musicians and artists cut deep into their psyches to illuminate us on the movie that sent them down a path of artistic mayhem and bloodshed.

Discover what cinematic horrors inspired some of your favorite legends and luminaries, then experience those tales of terror for yourself…if you dare!

Curated & Edited by filmmakers Christian Ackerman (Portal), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp) & Chuck Foster (Film Threat).

Contributors: Alex Vincent (Child’s Play), Alexis Iacono (Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks), Andrew Kasch (Tales of Halloween), Anthony Arrigo (Dread Central), Brian Henderson (Forever Midnight), Brian Netto (Delivery: The Beast Within), Brooke Lewis (iMurders), Buz Wallick (Twinsanity), Camilla Jackson (Los Angeles Overnight), Chris Lorusso (Hi-8), Chris Sergi (I’m Just F*cking With You), Curtis Rx (Creature Feature), Del Howison (Dark Delicacies), Dick Grunert (Adventure Time), Dylan Matlock (Along Came the Devil), Eben McGarr (Mad Monster Party), Edward W. Stephens III (Zedfest Film Festival), Erick Wessel (The Mystic Museum), Fred Topel (Rotten Tomatoes), Gavin Williams (Await Further Instructions), Gus Krieger (The Binding), Harry Manfredini (Friday the 13th Parts 1-10), Jay Kay (Horror Happens Radio), Jeanne “Hollywood” Basone (GLOW), Jef Overn (Forever Midnight), Jennifer Foster (Pide Ayuda), Jesse Merlin (Bliss), Joe Knetter (Blind), Jordan Downey (The Head Hunter), Josh Staples (Forever Midnight), Kevin Shulman (I Am Fear), Larry Ross (Blast From the Past), London May (Samhain), Mark Chavez (Disco Bloodbath), Matt Oswalt (Mystery Science Theater 3000), Matthew Currie Holmes (The Curse of Buckout Road), Medusa Midnight (Attic Vision), Michael Varrati (Tales of Poe), Mike Mendez (Tales of Halloween), Paul Haynes (I’ll Be Gone in the Dark), Paula Lindberg (American Mary), Ricky Dean Logan (Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare), Ryan Turek (Halloween 2018), Sam Boxleitner (Die! Sitter! Die! : Rupert), Sarah French (Blind), Steven Shea (Abyssmal), Theresa Tilly (The Evil Dead), Thommy Hutson (Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy), Tiffany Shepis (Victor Crowley), Wendy Medrano (Zedfest Film Festival), Yan Birch (The People Under The Stairs)

**Rondo Awards Nominee for Book of the Year!**

You’ve watched dozens, maybe even hundreds, of horror films, preparing yourself for a serial killing psycho, vengeful ghost, a pack of too-sexy-to-resist vampires, or even a zombie outbreak. But then, out of nowhere, a film hits you so hard that you have to reset everything you’ve ever held as truth. The fears you once conquered have returned full-force, making you rethink everything you’ve ever known.

Luckily for you, My Favorite Horror Movie 3: Scream Warriors attacks like an angry poltergeist with 50 new essays by filmmakers, writers, actors, musicians, and artists who’ve lived to tell tales of the terrors that most deeply affected them.

Your survival bible has arrived. Your destiny as a Scream Warrior has come to fruition!

The power of horror compels you!

Curated & Edited by filmmakers Christian Ackerman (Portal), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp) & Chuck Foster (Film Threat).

Contributors: Aaron LaPlante (Hotel Transylvania 3), Aaron Mento (Ugly Sweater Party), Ama Lea (Deathcember), Beverly Randolph (Return of the Living Dead), Brandon Slagle (Crossbreed), Charles Chudabala (Ugly Sweater Party), Charles Winecoff (Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins), Chelsea Stardust (Satanic Panic), Chris Gore (Film Threat), Christian Mioli (Arena Cinelounge Hollywood), Cyrus Voris (Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight), Dan Crawley (Captain Marvel), Dave Reda (Bit Parts), Donald M. Jones (Murderlust), Douglas Tait (Hellboy 2019), Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist), Erlingur Thoroddsen (Child Eater), Ethan Reiff (Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight), Garo Setian (Automation), Graham Denman (Greenlight), Gregory Blair (Garden Party Massacre), Gregory S. Burkhart (Tales from the Netherweb), Heidi Honeycutt (Etheria Film Festival), Hillary & Courtney Andujar (Girl on the Third Floor), Jack Ulrich (Tom Holland’s Terror Time), Joe Castro (Blood Feast 2: All You Can Eat)Joel Hodge (Bellflower), Josh Miller (Sonic the Hedgehog), Josh Millican (Dread Central), JP Ouellette (All the Creatures Were Stirring), Lara Jean (2 Jennifer), Lee Boxleitner (Die! Sitter! Die! : Rupert), Meredith Borders (Fangoria), Michael Coulombe (Soundbite), Michael Kallio (Hatred of a Minute), Michael Perez (More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead), Myk Watford (The Kitchen), Najarra Townsend (Contracted), Natasha Pascetta (Fangoria), Preston Fassel (Fangoria), Robert Parigi (Tales from the Crypt), Ronnie Angel (Slashed Dreams), Sadie Katz (Wrong Turn 6), Scott Dunn (Mandao of the Dead), Sean Keller (All That We Destroy), Shane Bitterling (Beneath Loch Ness), Stephen Imhoff (Excision), Steve Barton (Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy), Tom Holland (Child’s Play), Tony Newton (VHS Lives: A Schlockumentary), William Malone (House on Haunted Hill 1999)