Nightmare USA (Stephen Thrower)

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Author: Stephen Thrower

Running to 528 large-format pages, Nightmare USA is a veritable encyclopedia of grindhouse cinema - it's without doubt the year's most ground-breaking film book!

A kaleidoscopic journey through the heyday of Horror and Exploitation Cinema in America!

From Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) to Eli Roth (Hostel), the young guns of modern Hollywood just can't get enough of that exploitation film high. That's because, between 1970 and 1985, American Exploitation movies went berserk. With censorship relaxed, and the gate to excess wide open, horror - the Exploitation genre par excellence - offered a vibrant alternative to the mainstream of American cinema. Luridly titled wonders like The Headless Eyes, Scream Bloody Murder and Hitch Hike to Hell were everywhere, from the drive-ins of Texas to the grindhouses of New York, touting a combination of mind-bruising violence, weird sex and drug-soaked delirium. Massively popular around the world, American exploitation movies added immensely to the richness of the nation's cinema, but they have remained persona non grata in most serious studies of American film. Until now...

Built on five years of research, Nightmare USA explores the development of America's subterranean horror film industry, spotlighting some of the wildest films imaginable from an era unchecked by censorship or 'good taste.' Ranging from cult favourites like I Drink Your Blood to stylish mind-benders like Messiah of Evil and ultra-violent shockers like Don't Go in the House, Nightmare USA goes where no other in-depth study has gone before, revealing the fascinating true stories behind classics and obscurities alike. Stephen Thrower, author of Beyond Terror, the definitive book on Italian gore maestro Lucio Fulci, has explored the attics and cellars of American cinema, delved beneath the floorboards, peered between the walls, searching for the strangest, most exotic cine-lifeforms... Nightmare USA is the reader's guide to what lies beyond the mainstream of American horror, dispelling the shadows to meet the men and women behind fifteen years of screen terror: the Exploitation Independents!

This massive overview of the Horror genre's development through the 1970s and 1980s features:

# In-depth EXCLUSIVE interviews with twenty-five grindhouse movie makers, many of whom are discussing their work for the first time ever in print, including David Durston (I Drink Your Blood), Robert Endelson (Fight for Your Life), Frederick Friedel (Axe), Don Jones (Schoolgirls in Chains); and Joseph Ellison (Don't Go in the House).

# Over 175 individual films reviewed, with full cast and crew credits compiled by world-renowned cinema archivist Julian Grainger.

# Vast quantities of previously unpublished stills, posters, press-books, plus behind-the-scenes photographs from the filmmakers' own collections.

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)

commandé, on verra bien (en même temps, son bouquin sur Fulci était plutot bien)

reçu ce matin, et gros pavé. C'est bourré d'illustration, mais très très peu sont en couleur. Y'a un gros dossier sur "The Deadly Spawn" qui semble partir du point de vue du réal et pas de Ted Bohus...je vais lire ça à la fraiche ce soir et j'en dirai plus.

reçu ce matin, et gros pavé. C'est bourré d'illustration, mais très très peu sont en couleur. Y'a un gros dossier sur "The Deadly Spawn" qui semble partir du point de vue du réal et pas de Ted Bohus...je vais lire ça à la fraiche ce soir et j'en dirai plus.

commandé chez qui ? parce que je me suis renseigné auprès d'une librairie à Dublin ils m'ont dit 60€ alors que le livre est 30$ sur Amazon.com...donc j'aimerai bien savoir où tu l'as commandé...merci pour le renseignement Merci

dans tous les cas c'est du rapide !

je l'ai eu à 40euros sur play

je l'ai eu à 40euros sur play

Merci

Je l'ai feuilleté à l'IFI (Irish Film Institute), c'est MA-GNI-FI-QUE ,

dès que j'ai vu la qualité de l'iconographie et l'ampleur des textes je suis rentré vite fait le commander sur Play (première commande chez eux pour bibi) j'espère que l'emballage est costaud parce qu'il merite beaucoup de respect...

...car c'est un précieux bouquin de cinéma.

Je le recommande VIVEMENT

Reçu il y a peu.... Et nom d'une pute! Le mec a abattu un boulot de malade, consacré des heures de boulot et de recherches à des bouts de pelloches improbables (LE TUEUR DE LA FORET? ) avec entretiens, anecdotes, etc... etc...

Juste feuilleté pour le moment. La taille du machin fait presque peur, pas pratique à manipuler en tous cas...

Juste feuilleté pour le moment. La taille du machin fait presque peur, pas pratique à manipuler en tous cas...

j'en lis une page ou deux tous les mois mais déjà faut faire une demi heure de muscu pour le sortir