The American Nightmare
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 30, 2004
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: New Video Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Featured: | Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, John Landis & Tom Savini | |
Directed by | Adam Simon | |
Produced by | Paula Jalfon, Colin MacCabe & Jonathan Sehring |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Although several segments will appeal to horror aficionados, it often feels like a political statement couched in a format that will appeal to the blood and popcorn crowd.
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eFilmCritic.com
We've never had American horror as we did in the decade between Night of the Living Dead and Halloween (1978), no doubt because we've never had American history like that.
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Product Description:
Legendary horror directors reveal the inspirations behind their groundbreaking films of the 1960s and '70s in this thought-provoking documentary from filmmaker Adam Simon. Through film clips and interviews, masters of mayhem George Romero, Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, John Landis, John Carpenter, and Tom Savini discuss how their disturbing cinematic creations were a direct social commentary on the real-life political horrors happening in the U.S. during that turbulent era, including Vietnam, the Cold War, racial segregation, political assassinations, and the Kent State shootings. By placing seminal films like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, SHIVERS, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE in their proper historical context, THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE finally gives the horror genre the credit it so rightly deserves as a barometer of the American sociopolitical landscape.
Keywords:
History
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Social Issues
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Documentary
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Recommended
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Historical
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Film About Film
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1960s
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1970s
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Filmmakers
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Filmmaking
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Film History
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American History
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Horror Movies
Product Info
- ISBN: 0767049640
- UPC: 767685951538
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item