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 Vast quantities of previously unpublished stills, posters, press-books, plus behind-the-scenes photographs from the filmmakers’ own collections.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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Alabama's Ghost
1973, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Alien Dead
1980 — a.k.a. It Fell from the Sky, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Alien Factor
1978, in 0 top lists Check -
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Lisa, Lisa
1977 — a.k.a. Axe, in 0 top lists Check -
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Basket Case
1982, in 2 top lists Check -
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Blood Freak
1972, in 2 top lists Check -
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Blood Mania
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Bloody Birthday
1981, in 1 top list Check -
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Date with a Kidnapper
1976 — a.k.a. House of Terror, in 0 top lists Check -
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Boardinghouse
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The Child
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The Corpse Grinders
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The Crazies
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Crypt of Dark Secrets
1976, 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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Daddy's Deadly Darling
1973 — a.k.a. Pigs, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Deadly Spawn
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Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
1977, in 1 top list Check -
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Don't Go in the House
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Don't Go in the Woods
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Eaten Alive
1976, in 1 top list Check -
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Fight for Your Life
1977 — a.k.a. Blood Bath at 1313 Fury Road, in 1 top list Check -
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The Forest
1982, 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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Godmonster of Indian Flats
1973, in 1 top list Check -
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The Gore Gore Girls
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Hitch Hike to Hell
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I Drink Your Blood
1971, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Last House on Dead End Street
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Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971, in 1 top list Check -
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Maniac
1980, in 1 top list Check -
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Martin
1977, in 4 top lists Check -
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Messiah of Evil
1974, in 1 top list Check -
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Microwave Massacre
1979, 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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A Night to Dismember
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Nightbeast
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Nightmare Circus
1974 — a.k.a. Terror Circus, in 0 top lists Check -
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Nurse Sherri
1978 — a.k.a. Beyond the Living, in 0 top lists Check -
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Phantasm
1979, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Premonition
1976, in 0 top lists Check -
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Satan's Cheerleaders
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Schoolgirls in Chains
1973, 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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Sex Wish
1976, 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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The Slayer
1982 — a.k.a. Nightmare Island, in 0 top lists Check -
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Spawn of the Slithis
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Sole Survivor
1984, in 0 top lists Check -
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Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things
1971, in 0 top lists Check
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