4. • Night of The Living Dead
- shattered taboos of family and personal relations that had, until that time, been left untouched by American culture.
• The Plague of The Zombies
• Devil Doll Men
• while some of these films reinforced the idea that zombies were, in fact the reanimated dead, some films portrayed zombies as being the products of a sort
of vindictive hypnosis. In such films, the ‘monsters’ were not ‘dead’ at all but merely humans who were reduced to a trance-like state and who were,
controlled by a "master.“
• 1960s, zombies began to a adopt a more sinister air. Films such as I Eat Your Skin (1961) and The Plague of the Zombies (1965) offered zombies that were
forced to maintain their posthumous existence by actually consuming human flesh. This version of the zombie was generally still "controlled" by a "master,"
but was awakened from its deathly state by some sort of supernatural or otherwise extraordinary force
• In the late 60’s America had been subjected to the horror of the Vietnam War. With the brutal onslaught of gruesome imagery generated by the media
surrounding the war, America no longer needed "monsters" to scare them. The "horror" generated by mankind itself was frightening enough.
• Manson family murders – everything was becoming very real
• Rocky Horror Picture Show – comedy horror re-emerged
5. • The City of The Dead
• Witchcraft
• The Devil Rides Out
• Rosemary’s baby
• Emerged in the 70s
6. • The Hills Have Eyes
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Rise of feminism
• feeding men's fantasies
