Books For Horror Movie Bloggers
Right off the bat I can tell you the one thing you don’t want to get that horror movie blogger on your holiday shopping list: movies. Yes, that’s what I said. Movies.
Sure, they seem like they would go together like bread and butter, Starsky and Hutch, and vampires and romance, but let’s face it, if a horror blogger is worth his or her salt, movies are already piled high all around within easy viewing reach. The last thing any horror movie blogger needs is another movie to add to the pile!
So how about giving that special someone—otherwise known as always difficult to get gifts for–something really useful: something they will really appreciate and actually use to hone their skills; something that will even benefit their readers: books on movies.
And not just horror movies, mind you, but books on all-around movies. Books to broaden knowledge of the cinema, its history, its craft, and its always present commercial side, which impinges on the history and craft sides, sometimes to wondrous result, many times not.
Here’s an essential bookshelf’s worth of reading and reference any smart horror movie blogger would appreciate having in his or her critique la arsenal before letting the slinging arrows of outrageous commentary fly:
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