If you loved Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, try Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
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What they share
Theyboth carry the bittersweet, cerebral mood tags, and they sit in Documentary territory. If that's the register that drew you to Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Nightmares in Red, White and Blue is
Queasy drive-in marquee in twilight, Halloween special: a graveyard of celluloid slashers flickers to life. Archival teeth and talking-head directors trade stories about the teeth behind the screams. Lurid monument to the genre’s own corpse.
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