Italian Horror Movie Posters 1957-1990 The Paolo Zelati Collection

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If you are a collector of posters a lover of the most striking graphics or more simply a lover of horror cinema you have surely heard of Italian movie posters and the artists who designed them. The 4-sheet poster designed by Giuliani Nistri for Mario Bava's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Black Sunday </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>has become the iconographic symbol of Italian horror in the world. This book starts right from the Gothic Period (1957 </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lust of the Vampire</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>) and then recounts 30 years of Italian horror cinema during its most glorious season which ended in the late 1980s. A story told through the most colorful sexy extreme brutal and original posters you can imagine designed by the greatest Italian artists of the era. Nothing is really missing: Cannibals Zombies Possessed People Haunted Houses Vampires Witches Ghosts Italian-style Frankenstein Monsters and even...a chapter dedicated to Guilty Pleasures.. Many of the proposed posters are completely unpublished and we would be willing to bet that some of the films presented here will turn out to be a surprise even in the eyes of the most avid Euro-Horror fan. This is the definitive homage to the Italian Horror Posters and you are going to....love it!</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Paolo Zelati lives in Italy is a movie critic writer and Film Historian and owns the largest Italian poster collection around. Previous books include Prince of Darkness - The Fantastical Realistic in the Cinema of John Carpenter (published only in Italian for now...) and American Nightmares: Conversations with 33 Masters of the American New Horror (published by BearManor in 2024). Zelati is a collector of a truly maniacal nature but he's also driven by a burning desire to share his treasures. This book will be just the first one of a long series. </span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>FOREWORD BY JOE DANTE</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>One of the greatest director from the New Horror Period Joe Dante begins his career working for Roger Cormans factory where of course he doesn't make a dime but he learns a lot about filmmaking. Dante's most famous movies are Pirana (1978) The Howling (1980) and of course Gremlins (1984) the movie that consecrated his career. Joe is also a true horror fan an inveterate cinephile and most importantly an hardcore poster collector.</span></p>