http://ambival.net/movies/going-to-pieces-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-slasher-movie Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 17 May 2008 00:35:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://ambival.net/movies/going-to-pieces-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-slasher-movie#comment-6877 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » The American Nightmare Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:13:56 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/going-to-pieces-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-slasher-movie#comment-6877 [...] Like Going to Pieces, this is a wonderfully focussed documentary on the horror genre – in fact, if anything, it’s even more focussed, dedicating around 10 minutes each just to Romero’s Dead trilogy (well, the first two parts, and Tom Savini’s make-up work thereon), Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left, John Carpenter’s Halloween, Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw, and David Cronenberg’s Shivers. There’s some brilliant intercutting from the movies concerned to actual reality footage of the time, truly putting the movies in question in context. [...] [...] Like Going to Pieces, this is a wonderfully focussed documentary on the horror genre – in fact, if anything, it’s even more focussed, dedicating around 10 minutes each just to Romero’s Dead trilogy (well, the first two parts, and Tom Savini’s make-up work thereon), Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left, John Carpenter’s Halloween, Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw, and David Cronenberg’s Shivers. There’s some brilliant intercutting from the movies concerned to actual reality footage of the time, truly putting the movies in question in context. [...]

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