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176 The pressure increased: AI with Craven, Peter Locke.
177 They take a detour: AI with De Palma.
178 There he is!: AI with Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter.
178 Carpenter concurred: AI with John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Irwin Yablans.
182 “It stuck in my mind”: AI with Carpenter.
182 “I had never seen that”: Ibid.
182 “Even the most”: Ibid.
182 And when Laurie asks: AI with Carpenter, Harris; “Riding High on Horror,” Cinefantastique, Volume 10. February 1980; Giles Boulenger, John Carpenter: The Prince of Darkness (Los Angeles: Silman James Press, 2003).
185 “The unknown killer”: AI with Carpenter.
185 “One of my main objectives”: Anthony Timpone, “Screamography: Bob Clark,” Fangoria, August 2007.
186 Carpenter and Clark: Ibid.
186 “I was going to call it Halloween”: Timpone, “Screamography: Bob Clark.”
187 “I know exactly what to do”: AI with Yablans.
187 “I wanted to”: AI with Carpenter.
188 He made over: AI with Yablans.
188 Roger Ebert singled: Sneak Previews, PBS, October 23, 1980.
188 Allen also was: Tom Allen, “The Sleeper That’s Here to Stay,” Village Voice, November 6, 1978.
189 “When the studios see”: AI with Yablans.
189 “Why don’t we rip it off?”: Peter M. Bracke, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (London: Titan Books, 2006), p. 17.
CHAPTER TEN
191 “I don’t think so”: AI with Diane O’Bannon.
192 “It was sheer cruelty”: AI with Dan O’Bannon.
192 O’Bannon wrote: AI with Ronald Shusett.
193 “I steal from everybody”: AI with O’Bannon.
194 “The monster”: AI with Shusett, O’Bannon.
194 He called his: Paul M. Sammon, “The Explosive Films of David Cronenberg,” Cinefantastique, Spring 1981; Jonathan Dee, “David Cronenberg’s Body Language,” The New York Times, September 18, 2005; David J. Skal, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993).
195 “There’s no comeback”: Janet Guttsman, “Cronenberg Gets Down and Dirty with Russian Mob,” Reuters, September 10, 2007.
195 “Pure id”: AI with Larry Cohen.
196 Lynch apparently: Skal, The Monster Show, pp. 298–300.
196 He grabbed his stomach: AI with Jean Smyth.
196 “No, I want to see”: AI with O’Bannon.
196 After The Last House: Carol J. Clover, Men, Women and Chain Saws (London: BFI Publishing, 1992). In this incisive book, Clover makes the case for I Spit on Your Grave as well as anyone could. She also describes the loathing of the dreary film. For another, more fullthroated defense, see Joe Bob Briggs’s smart and very funny commentary on the DVD.
197 “In certain types . . . more intense”: AI with O’Bannon.
198 O’Bannon told Giger: AI with H. R. Giger, O’Bannon; H. R. Giger, Giger’s Alien (Las Vegas, NV: Morpheus International, 1994).
199 But Shusett argued: AI with Shusett.
200 “By the end”: AI with Walter Hill.
200 “They want to go”: Ibid.
201 “We kept making”: AI with Shusett.
201 “My eyeballs nearly fell out”: “Alien: Anatomy of the Chestburster Scene: An Oral History with Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt,” Empire, November 2009.
202 “So Ladd made the movie”: AI with Shusett.
202 This would be like: AI with Cobb, Giger, O’Bannon; Giger, Giger’s Alien.
203 “I was convinced”: AI with O’Bannon.
204 “You know: science-fiction writers!”: AI with Hill.
204 His stomach ached: AI with O’Bannon, Shusett, Hill, Alan Ladd, Jr.
205 “This couldn’t be”: AI with O’Bannon.
207 “Just because”: Ibid.
207 John Carpenter also: “Riding High on Horror.”
207 “Halloween was”: AI with O’Bannon.
207 Comparing the two: Cover story, “Hollywood’s Scary Summer,” Newsweek, June 18, 1979.
209 Critics did not: Ron Rosenbaum, “Gooseflesh: The Strange Turn Toward Horror,” Harper’s, September 1979.
210 “a great big”: Vincent LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick: A Biography (New York: Westview, 1997), p. 453.
210 “New horror cultivates”: Rosenbaum, “Gooseflesh.”
CHAPTER ELEVEN
212 “like watching a skater”: Pauline Kael, “The Current Cinema,” The New Yorker, June 9, 1980; Kael, For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies (New York: Penguin, 1994).
212 “It is said . . . laid to rest”: Kael, For Keeps,