The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s
Scott Aaron Stine
Language: English
Pages: 296
ISBN: 078640924X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
For the uninitiated the author has obligingly supplied a definition for the slasher/splatter film: "Any motion picture which contains scenes of extreme violence in graphic and grisly detail...." For those film viewers who think this is a good thing and are more likely to select The Texas Chainsaw Massacre than The Remains of the Day, or for those who are not quite sure but are nevertheless drawn to the phantasmagoric, or for those horrified by gratuitous violence and blood for bloods sake but are researching this filmic phenomenon, this reference book provides all the gory details. From At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul Away to Zombie 2: The Dead Are Among Us, this book is an exhaustive study of the splatter films of the 1960s and 1970s. After a history of the development of the genre, the main meat of the book is a filmography. Each entry includes extensive credits, alternate names and foreign release titles; availability of the film on videocassette; availability of soundtracks and film novelization; and reviews. Extensive cross-referencing is also included.
to listen-to him or anyone else it seemed. Not only had the notoriety of the film snowballed to unprecedented proportions, but it had become accepted "fact" that snuff films were a national scourge and no amount of debunking would change the public's mindset. The incidental showing of Slaughter that sparked Shackleton's decision to play up the sordid implications of the snuff myth lead to Detective Joseph Horman's claims that the New York Police Department had "reliable sources attesting to the
Candyman), Barker continues to offer filmgoers unique horror films which refuse to insult the viewers' intelligence, and offer the gorehound an imaginative alternative to the usual Hollywood body-counters which have squelched the life from the genre. Taking a momentary reprieve from the films and the filmmakers themselves, the difference between 1970s gore and the slough of splatter fare in the 1980s couldn't have been much greater. Whereas most of the earlier decade's films were-by today's
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