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ZOMBIES’ ‘STANISM’ ‘YOUR FAMILY’ ‘GHOSTS’

1960's horror

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  • 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