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64 “Awww w!”: Ibid.
64 “It seemed kind of like”: AI with Narelle.
64 “Well, the sad fact”: AI with Diane O’Bannon.
64 That made Dan laugh: Ibid.
65 “We need to do”: AI with Ron Cobb.
66 “I would see him”: AI with Winkless.
66 “Same movie”: AI with O’Bannon.
66 “I was someone”: Ibid.
CHAPTER FOUR
67 “It was the first thing”: AI with Wes Craven.
68 It hospitalized him: AI with Craven, Bonnie Chapin.
68 Coleman encouraged: James Freedman, “Director Wes Craven Reflects on His Time at Homewood,” The Johns Hopkins Newsletter, January 31, 2008.
69 Coleman also gave: AI with Chapin.
69 “There was something Englishy”: AI with Chapin, David Cameron.
70 Continuing to write dark stories: AI with Bonnie Chapin.
70 “He always treated it”: AI with Cameron.
70 “I’m surprised I never”: AI with Craven.
70 “Why don’t you do”: Ibid.
71 That stunned Craven: AI with Craven, Bonnie Chapin.
71 “It’s time to get serious”: AI with Craven.
72 “Summer has settled . . . all the time”: Letter from Craven to David Cameron. April 1970.
72 “The word ‘crazy’ ”: AI with Craven.
73 “We’re very different”: Ibid.
73 “Black dick always sold me”: AI with George Mansour.
73 Twitch of the Death Nerve: David A. Szulkin, Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left (London: FAB Press, 2000), pp. 127–34.
74 By February: Szulkin, Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left, p. 31.
74 “Use it!”: AI with Craven.
75 “I never did”: AI with Veronica Carlson.
76 “We saw Hostel . . . shit over there”: AI with Adam Bryant.
77 The tension between: AI with Craven, Cunningham; Szulkin, Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left, p. 113; Peter Bracke, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (London: Titan Books, 2006), p. 16.
77 “They’ll just let”: AI with David Hess.
78 “I didn’t even know”: AI with Craven.
78 “This is about nastiness”: Ibid.
79 Cunningham says: AI with Sean Cunningham.
80 Carr had it written: Szulkin, Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left, p. 39.
81 “I think for most people”: AI with Cunningham.
81 “Once it was made”: AI with Craven; Bracke, Crystal Lake Memories, p. 16.
81 “It’s not a place”: AI with Craven.
82 “Here it is!”: Ibid.
82 The Hartford Courant: Editorial in Hartford Courant, September 3, 1972.
82 The critic from: Szulkin, Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left, p. 136.
82 The New York Times reviewer: Howard Thompson, “Last House on the Left,” The New York Times, December 22, 1972.
82 “‘This film was so violent’ ”: AI with Cunningham.
82 Jeramie Rain recalls: AI with Jeramie Rain.
82 “All I want to know”: AI with Bonnie Chapin.
83 “But I thought”: AI with Jonathan Craven.
83 “I still believe”: Roger Ebert, “In Defense of a Violent Movie That Makes a Statement Against Violence,” Chicago Sun-Times, December 1, 1972.
83 “Worst of all”: Roger Ebert, “Just Another Horror Movie—Or Is It?,” Reader’s Digest, June 1969.
84 John Carpenter has said: AI with George Romero, John Carpenter, and Forrest Ackerman; David J. Skal, The Monster Show (New York: Penguin Books, 1993), p. 268–74.
85 “Make me laugh.”: AI with Ackerman.
85 “A vampire a day”: Forrest Ackerman. Famous Monsters of Filmland, Collector’s Edition (New York: Imagine, Inc, 1986), p. 17.
85 “And I don’t want”: Letters, Castle of Frankenstein, Summer 1973.
86 “Their sense of wonder”: Frederick S. Clarke, “How’s Your Sense of Wonder?,” Cinefantastique, Fall 1970.
86 Clarke wrote that: Frederick S. Clarke, “Sense of Wonder,” Cinefantastique, Summer 1971.
86 “What makes ‘Night’ ”: Ibid.
87 “Monsterism,” Ackerman wrote: Famous Monster of Filmland, Collector’s Edition, p. 147.
88 Ackerman stood there : AI with Ackerman.
CHAPTER FIVE
90 It felt clammy: AI with William Friedkin.
91 “When it came time”: AI with William Peter Blatty.
91 “Bill, when are you”: Ibid.
92 Ray Bradbury even wrote: Ray Bradbury, “Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury’s New Ending for ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’” Los Angeles Times, January 26, 1969.
92 “It was schlocky”: AI with Blatty.
92 “I could do something”: Ibid.
92 Jaffe decided to buy: AI with Marc