Patrick Galloway

Fascinating account of Japanese samurai movies (of which I am a fan).

Unfortunately, I've come to the conclusion that Asian horror - at least the kind Patrick Galloway likes to recommend, is not my cup of tea. The majority of the stuff he's recommending in this book focuses less on the atmospheric and terrifying, and more on the gross-out and disgusting - basically stuff that's closer to saw then The Ring, and with more rape. This was somewhat disappointing, as his book about Samurai films was pretty darn good.

I'd definitely consider this a very good book to have in your collection if you're interested in samurai film, whether casually or seriously.

Galloway's book may be a little bit too heavy on plot synopses of the movies for my liking, but is nevertheless a good introduction into the Samurai film genre and also provides good historical overviews to the background of those movies.