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113 “That changed in the seventies”: AI with John Landis.
114 “I cannot even hint . . . even more”: Joyce Carol Oates, ed., Tales of H. P. Lovecraft (New York: Ecco, 1997).
115 “For every creature”: AI with Guillermo del Toro, Dario Argento.
115 Inspiration struck: AI with O’Bannon, Carpenter.
115 “We realized”: AI with O’Bannon.
116 To Carpenter: AI with Carpenter.
117 “Some people will”: AI with O’Bannon.
118 Most of them sat: Ben Cobb, Anarchy and Alchemy: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Clerkenwell, UK: Creation Books, 2006).
118 “Everything is distorted . . . They’re funny looking.”: Letter from Dan O’Bannon, July 12, 1975.
118 “Chummy”: Letter from Dan O’Bannon, September 10, 1975.
120 “He’s somewhere below Wes Craven”: AI with Dan O’Bannon.
121 “That’s when ego problems”: AI with John Russo.
123 “Screens were monopolized”: AI with George Romero.
123 “Bava has a much more”: AI with Dario Argento.
124 So when the producers: AI with Romero; Maitland McDonagh, Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991).
124 “It has to talk”: AI with Romero.
125 “Nobody ever said”: Roger Ebert, “Dawn of the Dead,” Chicago Sun-Times, May 4, 1979.
125 “It was a pie in the face”: AI with Romero.
CHAPTER SEVEN
128 “I was scared shitless”: AI with Wes Craven.
130 He would never: Joe Bloom, “They Came, They Sawed,” Texas Monthly, November 2004; Stefan Jaworzyn, ed., The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Companion (London: Titan Books, 2003); Ellen Farley and William Knoedelseder, Jr., “The Real Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” Los Angeles Times, September 5, 1982. Author interviews with Rob Bozman, Kim Henkel, Ed Neal, Gunnar Hansen, Marilyn Burns, and Tobe Hooper.
132 “We all assumed”: AI with Ron Bozman.
132 “I saw some things”: AI with Tobe Hooper.
133 “There’s something about looking”: Ibid.
134 “We referred to the way”: AI with Kim Henkel.
134 “It’s the tools”: Ibid.
135 But the most compelling: David Schmid, Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp. 77–101.
136 “end of the sixties”: Joan Didion, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (New York: Everyman’s Library, 2006), p. 212.
136 “If I’m looking”: Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1974).
137 As for his violent: Ibid.; Ed Sanders, The Family (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002); Dial Torgerson, “Tearful Polanski Tells of His ‘Truly Happy’ Life With Wife,” Los Angeles Times, August 20, 1969. I watched many documentaries and read scores of newspaper and magazine articles about the Manson murders and the fallout, but coverage in the Los Angeles Times (particularly columns by Joyce Haber) published in the immediate aftermath was particularly helpful.
137 “the dark edge”: Paul O’Neil, “The Monstrous Manson Family,” Life, December 19, 1969.
137 “If you’re young”: Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, p. 298.
138 Roger Ebert called it: Roger Ebert, “Macbeth,” Chicago Sun-Times, January 1, 1971.
138 “I know about bleeding”: Kenneth Tynan, “Polish Imposition,” Esquire, September 1971.
138 Reports that Ted Bundy: Anthony Timpone, “Screamography: Bob Clark,” Fangoria, August 2007.
138 The press added: David Schmid, Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp. 105–38.
139 “he filled up the door”: AI with Hooper.
142 “I moved troops”: AI with Ed Neal.
142 “What then?”: AI with Hooper.
142 “It smelled so bad”: AI with Gunnar Hansen.
142 “We used syrup”: AI with Neal.
143 “It was the one moment”: AI with Hansen.
143 “Harder!”: AI with Marilyn Burns.
145 At least they had a deal: AI with Bozman, Hooper,