Shock Value - Jason Zinoman [133]
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“I told my cast and crew: I never want to see ‘reality’ ”: Roger Corman (far right), on the set of The Raven with (from left) Forrest J. Ackerman, Boris Karloff, Sam Sherman, and Hazel Court.
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Mario Bava (left), inventor of the Italian horror subgenre giallo, directs a scene in Black Sabbath, which inspired the name of the band.
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“When it came out, Night of the Living Dead was powerful shit,” said John Landis of the cult hit, advertised on this double bill for a midnight screening.
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Roman Polanski, on the set of Rosemary’s Baby, attempted something relatively new: a horror movie for adults.
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“Nobody will hit a pregnant woman,” Polanski (right) said, defending shooting Mia Farrow (left) in real Manhattan traffic.
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To avoid fainting, keep repeating: it’s only a movie shoot. Wes Craven, second from the left, directs cast and crew of The Last House on the Left, including David Hess and Jeramie Rain on the far right.
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“I think something about the way my mother looked at me, behind her eyes was the sense that her son was crazy,” says Wes Craven.
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The cast of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre thought they hit the jackpot when they saw this ad in Variety. Then reality hit them over the head.
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Someone’s watching: Tobe Hooper zooms in on his star Marilyn Burns in an early scene of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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“Family dinners can go very wrong. I saw some things growing up that were bizarre,” said Hooper, posing on set.
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Director Brian De Palma gives a note to actress Nancy Allen under the prom decorations on the set of Carrie. They would later marry.
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Birth of a scream queen: John Carpenter prepares Jamie Lee Curtis to be terrorized in Halloween.
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Alien cocreator Dan O’Bannon, left, recruited Swiss artist H. R. Giger to invent a “profane abomination.”
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The Masters of Horror dinner: from left, Ernest Dickerson, Tim Sullivan, John Landis, Larry Cohen, Bill Lustig, Elvis Mitchell, Eli Roth, Joe Lynch, Tobe Hooper, Peter Medak, Stuart Gordon, Armand Mastroianni, Mick Garris, Wes Craven, and Katt Shea.
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