Michael H. Price - Forgotten Horrors to the Nth Degree: Dispatches from a Collapsing Genre

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Copr. 2013 by Michael H. Price & John Wooley
Afterword Copr. 2013 by Stephen R. Bissette

Recommended video sources: VCI Video Alpha Video
Something Weird Video
Life Is a MovieDOTCOM

Relevant Websites: www.johnwooley.com
www.forgottenhorrors.blogspot.com
www.janalanhenderson.com
www.srbissette.com
and the Forgotten Horrors Podcast

The career pieces on Larry Buchanan and Leo Fong originated in MichaelWeldons Psychotronic Video magazine. The discussion of Night of theLiving Dead originated in the Daily News & GlobeTimes of Amarillo,Texas (1968) and reappears here for the first time. Selected chapters areexpanded from their original appearances in John Wooleys Hot SchlockHorror! (1992). The main body of the manuscript is expanded fromMichael H. Price & John Wooleys serialized Forgotten Horrors feature inFangoria magazine (20022009).
Grateful acknowledgments are extended to: Tony Timpone, MichaelGingold, Thomas C. Rainone, Stephen R. Bissette, Josh Alan Friedman,Paul McSpadden, Sam Sherman, Steve Kaplan, Jim Vance, Cathy Logan,Dennis King, Joey Hambrick, Emily Johnson, Jonathan Wooley, StevenWooley, the American Film Institute, Turner Classic Movies, and theClassic Horror Film Board.
Without limiting any rights reserved under the Copyright RegisteredAbove, no part of This Publication may be reproduced, stored into aretrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, withoutthe Prior Written Permission of the Copyright Owners or the Publisher.So there, already.

Frontispieces.......... 210The Barn of the Naked DeadThe Eye Creatures (Title Card) Beast of Blood The Other Sideof Bonnie and Clyde FrightmareTerror Circus ( A . K . A . The Barn ofthe Naked Dead)

Words to the ForeBy M ICHAEL H. P RICE And FurtherforeBy J OHN W OOLEY & M.H. P RICE David F. Friedman:

By J OHN W OOLEY The FriedmanLewis
Blood Trilogy (19631965):Blood Feast Two ThousandManiacs! Color Me Blood Red House of the Damned (1963) .. 52The Crawling Hand (1963).... 56The Thrill Killers (1965).... 61Orgy of the Dead (1965).... 66

Larry Buchanan:
The Life & Times of a
Hungry Visionary....... 74

Interlude: Forgotten
Horrors in Fangoria...... 104

Night of the Living
Dead (1968)............ 106
The Witchmaker (1969)... 111
Beast of Blood (1970)..... 115
The Wizard of Gore (1970)... 119
Blood Freak (1971)....... 124
The Mephisto Waltz (1971).. 128
Beware! The Blob (1972)... 135
Blood of Ghastly
Horror (1972).......... 140
Death Line
(Raw Meat; 1972).........144
The Barn of the Naked Dead(Terror Circus; 1973)..... 154Criminally Insane (1973) .. 157Cannibal Girls (1973)..... 162Invasion of the
Bee Girls (1973)........ 166Leo Fong: Kung Fu
Missionary............ 172Satans Black
Wedding (1974)......... 182Blue Sunshine (1976)..... 185Rattlers (1976).......... 189Alien Zone (1977)........ 193Rabid (1977)........... 200Shock Waves (1977)...... 204Peetie Wheatstraw, the
The Entity (1981)........ 237Blood Song
(Dream Slayer; 1982)..... 241Frightmare (1982)....... 244The Last Horror
Film (1982)............ 247 Appointment with
Fear (1985)............ 252Hell High (1989)......... 261Blood Cult and the
End of an Era (1985)..... 265

Nomads April Fools DayThe Boys Next Door FreddysDead: The Final Nightmare

Index of Relevant
Nomenclature......... 286
Product Placement...... 304

By MICHAEL H. PRICE
Various participants in the Web-based Classic Horror Film Boardhave fretted sufficiently about the varied editions of Forgotten Horrors ETSEQ. that one of the more prominent voices, film devote par excellenceRyan Brennan, occasionally asks me to weigh in and help sort things out.(The perpetual-motion symposium is situated at www.monsterkid.com.)

The present volume, Forgotten Horrors to the NTH Degree, shouldcompound the confusion nicely. John Wooley and I have sidesteppedthe stricter chronology of the series overall, as well as its attemptedcomprehensive purview, to move into a stretch of representative titlesfrom the 1960s into the waning 1980s.

Yes, and here lies a genre in upheaval, given such audaciousbenchmarks as the so-called gore pictures of Herschell Gordon Lewisand David F. Friedman; George A. Romeros Night of the Living Deadand Tobe Hoopers The Texas Chain Saw Massacre; Larry Buchanansrun of minimalist Dream Logic fugues for American InternationalPictures television subsidiary; and in general, a landslide shifting ofthe Poverty Row (read: low-budget independent) horror-movie paradigm to such an extent that the species had turned itself insideoutby 1985more revolution than evolution.

The shift found the major-league studios of Corporate Hollywoodapplying epic-calibre resources to cheap-thrills yarns. Foreshadowingsoccur in Universals prophetic cribbing from Roger Corman, with Jawsin 1975; and in 20TH CenturyFoxs takeoff on 1958s It! The Terror frombeyond Space, with Alien in 1979. Fox made a more emphatic assertionof Ghastardly Taste, Writ Large, with Predator