Some great work on the history of horror films but as soon as they started talking about the pop cultural significance of the films they ruined it by injecting their own politics into the analysis. They also tried pimping their own works at the expense of much better material. They have a confusing mix of contributors. Who cares what jack Black thinks about horror films? Would they ask Tom Savini for an analysis of the special effects used in Shallow Hal?
This show would have been much better served by having one person controlling the narrative on the history of the movies and leaving the politics out of it. In the (paraphrased) words of one famous movie, it coulda been a contender.
Review of History of Horror
