Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents by Stephen Thrower
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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 Vast quantities of previously unpublished stills, posters, press-books, plus behind-the-scenes photographs from the filmmakers’ own collections.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
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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.
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Victims
1982, in 0 top lists -
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The Crazies
1973, in 1 top list Check -
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The Nesting
1981 — a.k.a. Phobia, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Mafu Cage
1978 — a.k.a. Deviation, in 0 top lists Check -
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Simon, King of the Witches
1971 — a.k.a. Simon, King of the Warlocks, in 0 top lists Check -
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Boardinghouse
1982, in 0 top lists Check -
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Alabama's Ghost
1973, in 0 top lists Check -
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Girls Nite Out
1982 — a.k.a. The Scaremaker, in 0 top lists Check -
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A Scream in the Streets
1973 — a.k.a. Girls in the Street, in 0 top lists Check -
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Martin
1977, in 4 top lists Check -
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Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things
1971, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Premonition
1976, in 0 top lists Check -
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Club Life
1986 — a.k.a. King of the City, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Toolbox Murders
1978, in 1 top list Check -
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Satan's Cheerleaders
1977, in 0 top lists Check -
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Basket Case
1982, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Centerfold Girls
1974, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Curse of the Screaming Dead
1982 — a.k.a. Curse of the Cannibal Confederates, in 0 top lists Check -
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Eaten Alive
1976, in 1 top list Check -
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Grave of the Vampire
1972, in 0 top lists Check -
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Malibu High
1979, in 0 top lists Check -
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Messiah of Evil
1974, in 1 top list Check -
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The Slayer
1982 — a.k.a. Nightmare Island, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Strangeness
1987, in 0 top lists Check -
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Godmonster of Indian Flats
1973, in 1 top list Check -
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Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971, in 1 top list Check -
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Phantasm
1979, in 2 top lists Check -
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Troika
1969, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Black Room
1982, in 0 top lists Check -
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Bloody Brothers
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Nurse Sherri
1978 — a.k.a. Beyond the Living, in 0 top lists Check -
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Roseland
1971, in 0 top lists Check -
35 new
Hitch Hike to Hell
1977, in 0 top lists Check -
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Maniac
1980, in 1 top list Check -
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The Orphan
1979, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Silent Scream
1979, in 0 top lists Check -
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To All a Goodnight
1980, in 0 top lists Check -
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Blood Freak
1972, in 2 top lists Check -
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Frightmare
1983, in 0 top lists Check -
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Midnight
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Nightmare Circus
1974 — a.k.a. Terror Circus, in 0 top lists Check -
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Schoolgirls in Chains
1973, in 0 top lists Check -
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Spawn of the Slithis
1978, in 0 top lists Check -
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Bloody Birthday
1981, in 1 top list Check -
77 new
The Executioner, Part II
1984, in 0 top lists Check -
28 new
The Forest
1982, in 0 top lists Check -
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Frozen Scream
1975, in 0 top lists Check -
66 new
Sole Survivor
1984, in 0 top lists Check -
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I Drink Your Blood
1971, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Witch Who Came from the Sea
1976, in 0 top lists Check
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