Four hundred awesome movies across four super-popular genres, all with bonus material and ranked in a countdown to #1. How many have you seen?

Which LOTR film is the best? What's the best old sci-fi film? Who has the highest-ranked slasher flick, Freddy or Jason? Is The Dark Knight really the greatest comic book movie of all time? Find out the answers to all these questions, then decide those answers are wrong and make up your own. The friendly (and not so friendly) fan debates they spawn will last for days and make you hungry to discover your favorite movies all over again.

Screenwriter and historian Gary Gerani presents and evaluates each entry with an insider's perspective, and each of the four books in this set contains more than 600 color images of rare photos, posters, and never-before-published cultural artifacts, plus an introduction from a well-known Hollywood director associated with the genre.

Gary Gerani is a screenwriter, author, noted film and TV historian, and children's product developer. He is best known for his contribution as co-writer of the Stan Winston-directed horror classic Pumpkinhead and his groundbreaking 1977 nonfiction book Fantastic Television. Over the years he's created various comic books and a record number of trading card sets, working for the famous Topps Company. His graphic novels include Dinosaurs Attack! (inspired by his own Topps cards) and Bram Stoker's Death Ship, an untold story of the Dracula legend. He also has his own publishing unit, Fantastic Press, in partnership with IDW Publishing.