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 Nightmare,
USA
The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
(Book)
Author:Stephen
Thrower
March 2007
480 pages
Features:
• In-depth EXCLUSIVE
interviews with twenty-five cult filmmakers, 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of previously unpublished stills, posters, press-books, plus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.
Book
Author Facts |
Stephen Thrower is a musician
and writer, author of Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio
Fulci, and editor of The Eyeball Compendium, both published
by FAB Press. He has also written about horror and 'off-mainstream'
cinema in the following books: Shock Xpress Vol.1 (ed.
Stefan Jaworzyn), The BFI Companion to Horror (ed. Kim
Newman), Art of Darkness: the Cinema of Dario Argento
(ed. Chris Gallant), Flesh & Blood Compendium (ed.
Harvey Fenton), Ten Years of Terror (ed. Harvey Fenton
& David Flint); Horror - A Century of Cinema on
the Dark Side (ed. James Marriott), and No Focus (eds.
Barber & Sargeant).
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A
kaleidoscopic journey through the heyday of Horror and Exploitation
Cinema in America!
Running to 500 large-format pages, Nightmare, USA
is a veritable encyclopedia of exploitation - it's literally
the year's biggest film book! - and FAB Press customers have
the rare opportunity to purchase a very special exclusive edition.
Pre-order this book now if you want to own the strictly limited,
individually signed and numbered collectors edition. The Nightmare,
USA Signature Edition, is available exclusively from FAB Press,
and is only available to customers who pre-order this book direct
from them. This collectors item absolutely cannot be purchased
anywhere else.
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Info: 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!
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