Disfigured knife-wielding murderers. Buxom teens fleeing for
their lives through dark woods. Hordes of the undead
limping along deserted streets. These images, now synonymous with horror movies,
were born in
the groundbreaking
films of horror masters such as
Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm
Street), John Carpenter (The Fog, Christine), and George
Romero (Dawn of the Dead).
Go behind-the-scenes with these and other
filmmaking greats, as
they reveal their inspiration for
the disturbingly
gruesome films that emerged during the 1960s
and 70s.
Exploding with clips from fright favorites including Halloween, Night of the Living
Dead, Shivers, The Last House on the Left,
and The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Independent
Film Channel’s The American Nightmare celebrates the ‘golden
age of horror’ with the legends
who brought the horror
genre back from the dead.
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