60s basics Horror of Armageddon & horror or the demonic
film More low budget gore shock films appeared War
The haunting The innocents Changes in technology
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 60s 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
The City of The Dead Witchcraft The Devil Rides Out Rosemarys
baby Emerged in the 70s
The Hills Have Eyes Texas Chainsaw Massacre Rise of feminism
feeding men's fantasies