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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! Featuring the creators and crew members behind: The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Terminator 3, The Conjuring, Avatar, Final Destination, Twilight, The Devil's Carnival, The Monster Squad, Snake Outta Compton, Death House, Sleepaway Camp, Reanimator the Musical, The Mind's Eye, Bethany, Tales of Halloween, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 2, Cabin in the Woods, The Hobbit, Passion of the Christ, The Watchmen, Cabin Fever, Puppetmaster III, Class of 1999, Victor Crowley, Swiss Army Man, American Horror Story, and many more! Featuring legends of horror with some of the most prolific and unique new voices in the genre! Our 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

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"""An altogether engrossing compendium detailing the impact of art upon artists, My Favorite Horror Movie is a terrifying must read!"" -Tom Holland - Writer-Director (Child's Play, Fright Night, Psycho 2)"

An altogether engrossing compendium detailing the impact of art upon artists, My Favorite Horror Movie is a terrifying must read! -Tom Holland - Writer-Director (Child's Play, Fright Night, Psycho 2)

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Christian Ackerman is a Los Angeles-based producer, writer, and director who began his career as a production assistant at The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Ever since, he has gone on to produce over 25 feature films including Portal, Deadly Reunion, Bethany, Mistress Hunter, Stalked By My Doctor: Patient's Revenge, Stalked By My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare, and Family Vanished. In 2019, Slayer: The Repentless Killogy was released in 1500 theaters featuring two music videos he co-produced for the band Slayer. As a director, Christian's short films have won over 30 film festival awards with 50+ nominations. In 2018-2019, his production company/publishing house Black Vortex Cinema released a trilogy of books of essays by 150 horror film legends and luminaries under the My Favorite Horror Movie moniker, along with their award winning first production, Our Next Caller (starring Eric Roberts).

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