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NR,1hr 13min
Genres:
Documentary,Horror
Released:
February 9, 2001
Distributor:
Minerva Pictures
Starring:
George A. Romero, John Carpenter, Tom Savini  ... More
Synopsis: In the late '60s, the tone of American horror films began to shift in the wake of the startling success of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead -- horror films became gorier, bleaker, and began to subtly reflect the political and social upheaval gripping the country. Through the '70s and '80s, films like Last House on the Left, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Halloween held a distorted mirror up to American culture, reflecting its fear and chaos in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate. The American ... Full Synopsis
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Brian J. Dillard, AMG Review
Unlike 1984's Terror in the Aisles, which merely strung together the money shots from a wide variety of horror films, the documentary The American Nightmare takes a specific subset of this enduring genre and convincingly argues a case about its historical context and sociological significance. Director Adam Simon's method of interspersing clips from the transgressive North American horror films of ... Read Review
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