REVIEW: Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch (nonfiction book) by Emily C. Hughes

Horror for Weenies is nonfiction. I bought my copy new.

Review:

This covers 25 movies released between 1960 and 2018. Each movie includes a brief description, reasons you might want to watch or continue to avoid the movie (these parts tended to be more humorous than helpful), a detailed description of exactly what happens, info about why this particular movie matters in the history of horror films, some trivia, some iconic moments, and 3-4 similar books you might be interested in reading if you find that horror novels are easier for you to handle than movies.

I was hesitant to get this because, well, Wikipedia exists, and that's generally how I find out what happens in movies I'm too chicken to watch. However, the descriptions in this book are much more thorough and entertaining than Wikipedia - it made me wish that Hughes had covered many more movies than she did. I just checked whether she'd ever written books similar to this one and didn't find anything. Too bad.

The information about the impact of each of the various movies was helpful. Also, as someone who does generally do better with horror novels than movies, I appreciated the book recommendations (although it would have been nice if they'd been annotated with brief descriptions or some mention of why they were being recommended). Not that I need more book recommendations.