In the margin

Here is a book designed, conceived and concocted for a very specific audience: Anyone who loves what is called the "Series B" these kind of films that were part of our childhood by illustrating the themes that were either shunned by the intelligentsia and thus reserved to popular culture, shortly discussed in the leading cinema because of Pharaonic budget would have had to assign it to illustrate the beautiful way.
So, and this is paradoxical, the universe shifted (fantasy, horror, past or prehistory, exotic adventure, etc.), not found their fulfillment in secondary production of very low budget (the famous "Cinema bis", so) ...

However, the success of such films will never fade away while remaining on the margins of cinema history. Often difficult to see (some distributed shortly disseminated rooms reserved for "local cinemas" existing only in big cities), they MOREOVER fueled the fantasy of many fans (yours truly, eg !), which finally assign value of their "cult films".

The whole point of this book designed by Laurent Lucas Balbo Aknin and is in the care to illustrate the richness of the world of "bis". Far from merely the only kind of fantasy, the authors highlight all genres through which this type of cinema has managed to survive for more than half a century (and it still continues today). So we find it horror movies and fantasy films, science fiction movies, adventure movies and epic films, but also crime novels, thrillers, spy movies, westerns, comedies, erotic films, cloak and dagger films and karate films, and films from sub-genres such as gore, the "Giallo" (the Italian horror thriller), the "blaxploitation" (African movies -américains 70s) or the "Nazi exploitation" (Nazi torture movies!) ...
It's very interesting because if the presentation of each film (one sheet per page on average) does not develop much to connoisseurs, this grouping of all genres allows everyone to discover the pearls in cinema arcana bis the least explored in the other works of the same kind.

This collection is not designed for specialists who already know all these movies on the fingertips and who would have come in search of the treasures of encyclopedic knowledge, because again the plugs are too synthetic for authors systematically to develop a pamphlet ( the title is indeed "The film classics bis", not the "unknown film bis" ...). But it is for against a perfect "memo" to the fans, who will find almost all their cult films listed in chronological order!

At the finish, "The film classics bis" is a sort of kind of dictionary, which runs 520 sheets provided from 1955 to 2013. The film "2nd expanded edition" adds to the previous twenty sheets (up 2013, so ...). Absolute nanars It includes ("Bride of the Monster" Ed Wood, "Konga", "Superman against Women-Vampires" or "Goldocrack the Conquest of Atlantis"), paradoxically cult rarities ("The Night Towards the Giants, "" Warning Terror Alien "), small friendly productions (" Winnetou and the Treasury of the Blue Mountains, "" Dr. Goldfoot & the Bikini Machine "or" Super Vixens "), but lousy productions revered by some "Bisseux" (the films of Max Pecas, the Italian erotic comedies with Edwige Fenech or the series "Black Emmanuelle"), as well as classics ("The Mask of the Demon", "For a Fistful of Dollars," " Fist of Fury "," Texas Chainsaw Massacre "or Mad Max). Or American movies, Mexican, Spanish, Italian, English, German, French, Chinese and a few other unexpected country ...

I take off a star to my review because of presentation because, on one hand the book is published in paperback, secondly no image is in color, somewhat mitigating its aura of collectible. ..