Nightmare USA Films Discussion Thread

[demonknight]

I managed to pick up a copy of the Hardcover Edition a few years ago. I should say upfront that most of the movies featured in the book remain unseen by my eyes, I've only seen a handful to be honest. It's an exhaustive tome by Stephen Thrower. The blood, sweat and tears that must have gone in to creating this beast of a book, is mind boggling when you think about it. Time for another browse I think

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by demonknight

I managed to pick up a copy of the Hardcover Edition a few years ago. I should say upfront that most of the movies featured in the book remain unseen by my eyes, I've only seen a handful to be honest. It's an exhaustive tome by Stephen Thrower. The blood, sweat and tears that must have gone in to creating this beast of a book, is mind boggling when you think about it. Time for another browse I think

Is the book set out in essay format or specific reviews for each film?

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Is the book set out in essay format or specific reviews for each film?

If my memory serves me correctly, Stephen seems to have employed a synopsis and review for each movie featured

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by demonknight

If my memory serves me correctly, Stephen seems to have employed a synopsis and review for each movie featured

Thanks DK.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

The book is set out into chapters on different directors with synopsis of their work and interviews with the film makers. There is also a large review section of films not discussed in the main text at the back of the book.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

The book is set out into chapters on different directors with synopsis of their work and interviews with the film makers. There is also a large review section of films not discussed in the main text at the back of the book.

Thanks MTDS.

I prefer the review format so you can dip in and out.

More often than not i couldn't care less about the director of a film i could barely sit through.

[Boo Radley]

From FAB Press...


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section One: The Exploitation Independents
A 25,000 word essay charting the rise of Exploitation Horror: from Herschell Gordon Lewis and George Romero to the Slasher phenomenon of the 1980s

Section Two: Essays on Films and Filmmakers
Dirty Games in Hollywood - the career of James Bryan (Don't Go in the Woods)
The Frozen Scream Is a Clean Machine - Renee Harmon (Frozen Scream)
The Fiend from Prime-Time - John Peyser on The Centerfold Girls
Carolina on My Mind - the films of Frederick Friedel (Axe, Kidnapped Coed)
It Came from New Jersey! - Douglas McKeown on The Deadly Spawn
Let's Play Nasty - the films of Don Jones (Schoolgirls in Chains, The Love Butcher, The Forest)
Louisiana Screamin' - James L. Wilson on Screams of a Winter Night
Satan Was an Acid-Head! - the films of David Durston (I Drink Your Blood, Stigma)
Don't Make Me Do Anything Bad, Mother... - Joseph Ellison on Dont Go in the House
If You Go Down in the Caves Today - Mark Sawicki on The Strangeness
The Vigilante of 42nd Street - Robert Endelson on Fight for Your Life
The Living Dead at the All-Night Mall - Willard Huyck on Messiah of Evil
Hollywood After Dark - the films of John Hayes (Grave of the Vampire, Dream No Evil, Garden of the Dead)
What Really Happened to Tony Vorno's Victims? - Daniel DiSomma on Victims
If At First You Don't Succeed... - the films of Tony Malanowski (Night of Horror, Curse of the Screaming Dead)
Punished By the Sun - Marc B. Ray on Scream Bloody Murder
Growing Pains - John Ballard on Friday the 13th: The Orphan
Blood Relations - the films of Irv & Wayne Berwick (Hitch Hike to Hell, Microwave Massacre)
Mind Before Matter - Robert Allen Schnitzer on The Premonition
Spawn of Venice Beach - Stephen Traxler on Slithis
Beyond the Black Room - the films of Norman Thaddeus Vane (The Black Room, The Horror Star)
Robert Voskanian & Robert Dadashian - Raising The Child
Who's the Ghostest with the Mostest? - the films of Fredric Hobbs (Alabama's Ghost, Godmonster of Indian Flats)
To Sleep, Perchance to Scream - George Barry on Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
--- supplemented in the text by a further twenty interviews with cast and crew members.

Section Three: Reviews
Reviews of a further 120 films, with additional notes and commentaries on the reviews by Roger Watkins (director: Last House on Dead End Street), Walter Dallenbach (writer: Psychopath), Jeremy Hoenack (director: The Dark Ride), Christopher Speeth (director: Malatesta's Carnival of Blood), John Wintergate (director: BoardingHouse), Wayne Bell (composer: Death Trap), Michael Gornick (cinematographer: Martin), Don Leifert (star: Fiend)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Blood Sabbath (1972)

A young GI stumbles into a world of witchcraft and water nymphs, where his love for a beautiful girl angers the evil witch queen who heads the coven and demands his soul for their lives.

A hedonistic maelstrom of idle wanderings through leafy glades, bewildering musical cues and lots of gratuitous nudity. Our young GI fresh from Vietnam's killing fields seems intent on throwing his soul away as does any viewer who sits through this to the end of this kaleidoscopic barrage of writhing female flesh in candlelit grotto's with enough thicket on show to thatch the whole of Devon. From my own perspective my brain melted during Dyanne Thorne's rhythmical swaying in her dance of perverse orgasmic thrusting.

A difficult film to recommend as it's fairly light on plot but heavy on psychedelia and campfire fumbling's.

[Rondadoronron]

heavy on psychedelia and campfire fumbling's.

Please insert MTDS jokes here.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Blood Sabbath (1972)

Nice to see I've got a bit of company where unearthing some of these, er, gems are concerned!

Blood Sabbath is one I need to check out... you actually make it sound rather good!