John McNaughton

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John McNaughton
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1949 in Chicago, IL
Biography:A video camera sits on the floor of the apartment as a pair of vicious serial killers massacre a mother, father, and children in front of one another -- and horrified viewers wonder how much more of this depravity they can stomach. Some run for the theater doors, while others sit entranced by the violence onscreen, almost too frozen with fear to even reach up and cover their eyes. Only then, as the camera pulls away from the image to reveal the killers from that very tape perversely reliving their former glory through the recent advent of home video, are the viewers released from the grips of the celluloid nightmare they have just witnessed to ponder the effects of the onscreen violence they see on a day-to-day basis. The power of this scene cannot be properly conveyed in written words, though perhaps knowing that the actual actress that portrayed the mother in the film went into shock immediately... Full Biography
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