The American Nightmare
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The American Nightmare |
| Original title | The American Nightmare |
| Country of production | USA / UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 73 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adam Simon |
| script | Adam Simon |
| production | Paula Jalfon Caroline Kaplan Colin MacCabe Eliza Mellor Jonathan Sehring |
| music | Karlheinz Stockhausen |
| camera | Immo Horn |
| cut | Paul Carlin |
| occupation | |
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Adam Lowenstein | |
The American Nightmare is a documentary or essay film by Adam Simon from 2000 .
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Seven of the most popular and radical directors of horror films of the late 1960s and 1970s ( George A. Romero , John Carpenter , John Landis , Tom Savini , David Cronenberg , Wes Craven , Tobe Hooper ) have their say and put their motivation and thoughts behind the pioneering films from their work. In addition, film and media scholars (e.g. Adam Lowenstein and Carol Clover) try to explain the psychological effects of the films and to interpret individual elements semantically. For this purpose, excerpts from the most important films of the genre are shown and assembled with footage material from news and documentary material (The Vietnam War, Phan Thị Kim Phúc , Nguyễn Ngọc Loan and Nguyễn Văn Lém , student protests against the Vietnam War , the Kent State massacre , Civil rights protests , assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy , oil crisis , nuclear threat, sexual revolution ).
In the essay, the parallels between cinematic events and the then current events in the USA and Vietnam are highlighted, with the conclusion that the horror film of those years metaphorically reflected the America of its time, which is also expressed in the title of the documentary.
The music of the film comes from a. by Karlheinz Stockhausen and the post rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor .
Mentioned films
| German title | Original title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| American werewolf | An American Werewolf In London | John Landis |
| Texas blood court | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Tobe Hooper |
| The night of the living dead | Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero |
| Halloween | Halloween | John Carpenter |
| The last house on the left | The Last House on the Left | Wes Craven |
| zombie | Dawn of the Dead | George A. Romero |
| The wolf man | The Wolf Man | George Waggner |
| Frankenstein's son | Son of Frankenstein | Rowland V. Lee |
| Martin | Wampyr | Tom Savini |
| Parasite Killer | Shivers | David Cronenberg |