Because the topic is so rich and Weismann's map is so wide, most of the hundreds of films he covers receives little more than a name-drop but he slows down to study the most essential horror films, stars, and filmmakers with greater thoroughness. He keeps his tone conversational and loves to crack wise. Weismann sometimes lets his fandom get the better of himself (is Frank Darabont's adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist really "brilliant"?), but it's hard to begrudge him that when he drops so much valuable information on us and is such an amiable tour guide. Weismann is well aware of the social, cultural, political, and artistic merits and implications of the films he discusses, but he also clearly realizes that even an academic text about a genre as fun as horror deserves better than a strictly academic analysis.
