Forgotten Horrors to the Nth Degree: Dispatches from a Collapsing Genre

531 Pages·2013·21 MB·English

by  Michael H. Price

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By MICHAEL H. PRICE
& JOHN WOOLEY
AUTHORS OF A NUMBER OF THE THINGS
OF WHICH THIS WORLD IS FULL
FEATURING AN AFTERWORD BY
STEPHEN R. BISSETTE
CREMO STUDIOS • LOWER KL OPS T OKIA ALSO BY
Price & Wooley
& VARIOUS ACCOMPLICES
Forgotten Horrors ET SEQ.
with Jan Alan Henderson & George E. Turner
The Big Book of Biker Flicks
...AND OTHERS TOO HUMOROUS TO MENTION
Cover & Interior Design: Cremo Studios, Inc.
Copr. © 2013 by Michael H. Price & John Wooley
Afterword Copr. © 2013 by Stephen R. Bissette
Recommended video sources: VCI Video • Alpha Video
Something Weird Video
Life Is a Movie– –
DOT COM
Relevant Websites: www.johnwooley.com
www.forgottenhorrors.blogspot.com
www.janalanhenderson.com
www.srbissette.com
and the Forgotten Horrors Podcast
at Facebook and iTunes
The career pieces on Larry Buchanan and Leo Fong originated in Michael
Weldon’s Psychotronic Video magazine. The discussion of Night of the Living
Dead originated in the Daily News & Globe–Times of Amarillo, Texas (1968)
and reappears here for the first time. Selected chapters are
expanded from their original appearances in John Wooley’s Hot Schlock Horror!
(1992). The main body of the manuscript is expanded from
Michael H. Price & John Wooley’s serialized Forgotten Horrors feature in
Fangoria magazine (2002–2009).
Grateful acknowledgments are extended to: Tony Timpone, Michael
Gingold, Thomas C. Rainone, Stephen R. Bissette, Josh Alan Friedman,
Paul McSpadden, Sam Sherman, Steve Kaplan, Jim Vance, Cathy Logan,
Dennis King, Joey Hambrick, Emily Johnson, Jonathan Wooley, Steven
Wooley, the American Film Institute, Turner Classic Movies, and the
Classic Horror Film Board.
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Above, no part of This Publication may be reproduced, stored into a
retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without
the Prior Written Permission of the Copyright © Owners or the Publisher.
So there, already.
ISBN–13: 978–1481986175
EAN–10: 1481986171

TABLE OF
MALCONTENTS
Frontispieces . . . . . . . . . . 2–10
The Barn of the Naked Dead
The Eye Creatures (Title Card) •
Beast of Blood • The Other Side
of Bonnie and Clyde • Frightmare
Terror Circus (A.K.A. The Barn of the Naked Dead)
Forgotten Horrors ...
to the NTH Degree . . . . . . . 11 Script & Lettering: M.H. PRICE Artwork:
ROB’T HAYWARD WEBB Brother, Can You
Spare a Paradigm? . . . . . . . 17
Words to the Fore
By MICHAEL H. PRICE Carnival Girl Goes to Town . . . 22 And Furtherfore
By JOHN WOOLEY & M.H. PRICE David F. Friedman:
My Favorite Johnson . . . . 27
By J
OHN WOOLEY The Friedman–Lewis
Blood Trilogy (1963–1965):
Blood Feast • Two Thousand
Maniacs! • Color Me Blood Red House of the Damned (1963) . . 52
The Crawling Hand (1963) . . . . 56
The Crawling Hand (1963) . . . . 56
The Thrill Killers (1965) . . . . 61
Orgy of the Dead (1965) . . . . 66
Mars Needs Women (1966) . . . 70
Larry Buchanan:
The Life & Times of a
Hungry Visionary . . . . . . . 74
She Freak
(1967) . . . . . . . . . 99
Interlude: Forgotten
Horrors in Fangoria . . . . . . 104
By JOHN WOOLEY
Night of the Living
Dead (1968) . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
The Witchmaker (1969) . . . 111
Beast of Blood (1970) . . . . . 115
The Wizard of Gore (1970) . . . 119
Blood Freak (1971) . . . . . . . 124
The Mephisto Waltz (1971). . 128
Werewolves on Wheels (1971) . . 131
Beware! The Blob (1972) . . . 135
Blood of Ghastly
Horror (1972) . . . . . . . . . . 140
Death Line
(Raw Meat; 1972) . . . . . . . . .144
The Barn of the Naked Dead
(Terror Circus; 1973) . . . . . 154
Criminally Insane (1973) . . 157
Cannibal Girls (1973) . . . . . 162
Invasion of the
Bee Girls (1973) . . . . . . . . 166 Leo Fong: Kung Fu
Missionary . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Satan’s Black
Wedding (1974) . . . . . . . . . 182
Blue Sunshine (1976) . . . . . 185
Rattlers (1976) . . . . . . . . . . 189
Alien Zone (1977) . . . . . . . . 193
The Manitou (1977) . . . . . . 197 Rabid (1977) . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Shock Waves (1977) . . . . . . 204
Peetie Wheatstraw, the
Devil’s Son–in–Law . . . . . 208 Tourist Trap (1978) . . . . . . 213
Magic (1978) . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Terror Train (1978) . . . . . . . 220
Without Warning (1980) . . . 224 Motel Hell (1980) . . . . . . . . 233 The Entity
(1981) . . . . . . . . 237
Blood Song
(Dream Slayer; 1982) . . . . . 241
Frightmare (1982) . . . . . . . 244
The Last Horror
Film (1982) . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Appointment with
Fear (1985) . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Retribution (1987) . . . . . . . 257 Hell High
(1989) . . . . . . . . . 261
Blood Cult and the
End of an Era (1985) . . . . . 265
BONUS
TRACKS
Afterword: Vermonsters . . . 271
By STEPHEN R. BISSETTE
Flashback: From M.H. Price’s
News Syndicate Columns . . 278
Nomads • April Fool’s Day
The Boys Next Door • Freddy’s
Dead: The Final Nightmare
• • •
Index of Relevant
Nomenclature . . . . . . . . . 286
Product Placement . . . . . . 304