Horror Cinema 1950-1959 is coming. Framed by a foreword by Roger Corman, one of the kings of the B series, From Death specializes in giving the viewer chills. It’s a good choice for Carlos Aguilar to sink his teeth into a suggestion that wisdom is linked to the kindness of its author’s unfailing style. Undaunted by the scope of the project, Aguilar comprehensively covers the history of horror cinema during the extraordinary decade of the 1950s. He does this by giving due importance to the great classics, but without turning his back on works that have fallen into oblivion and from which Aguilar cleared the cobwebs to save many gems. They were important years because Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff or Lon Chaney Jr. We have moved from a system driven by charisma to a new system where the stars are Vincent Price, Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee, three marvels of elegance and knowledge. It’s time to put your eyes first. The years when drive-in cinemas were pampered and filled with B-series double programs (arata).
