Introduction

The 19 seventies were a time of sive upheaval in the movie industry. Gordon lewis broke ground with his lurid and grotesque two thousand maniacs, blood feast and gorgor girls. George a romero proved that you could have a box office hit with an independent film like night of the living dead. West craven's nightmare on elm street series was a canny stew of dreams and nightmares brought to life with wit and style. Toby hooper's texas chainsaw massacre was unrelenting and informed by the viet nam war. Larry cohens, it's alive and god told me two, were powerful personal horror pieces about playing god and blind religious