FAB Press has teamed up with FrightFest once more to launch The FrightFest Guide to Grindhouse Movies, the fifth in the series of books the pair has released.

The book, written by FrightFest co-director Alan Jones, will go on sale exclusively during Arrow Video FrightFest, which takes place from August 26th – 30th. Jones will of course be on hand to sign copies.

The book has a foreword by Jane Giles, whose book Scala Cinema 1978-1993 chronicled the infamous London mecca for cult film lovers.

Jones said of the book: “For sixteen years, from 1965 to 1981, I kept a yearly film diary of every Horror, Science Fiction, Sexploitation and Fantasy title I saw, where I saw it, in which cinema, on what date and exactly what I thought. It just so happened that this period coincided with the richest and grubbiest era in the Golden Age of Exploitation, with cheap thrills, seminal gore, full-frontal nudity and taboo subject matters displayed across beyond belief marquees”.

Author Alan Jones with Dario Argento pic: Julie Edwards

The exclusive launch of the book is at Arrow Video FrightFest 2021, with official signings taking place at Cineworld, Leicester Square on Friday, August 27th and Saturday 28th. The FrightFest exclusive hardcover will be on sale for just £20 and people not attending in person won’t miss out as they have the option to pre-order the book from www.fabpress.com. Pre-ordered books will ship the first week of September.