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Originally published February 2008 in the New York Sun.
Don’t look now. While studios have been busy hyping a receding wave of torture-themed horror films — namely the “Saw” and “Hostel” franchises, as well as overbaked remakes of classics such as “Halloween” and “The Hills Have Eyes” — the horror genre is quietly experiencing a resurgence of its low-budget, high-anxiety, 1970s vitality.
One sure sign is the return of zombie auteur George A. Romero, whose seminal 1968 shocker “Night of the Living Dead” was a template for the contemporary horror film as …
Steve Dollar has been thinking about film since his childhood visits to the drive-in theaters of the Florida Panhandle in the early 1960s, where exposure to Mondo Cane and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly irradiated his tender brain, causing permanent after-effects. Later on, he started writing about the stuff for daily newspapers in large American cities. He lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where he collects Steve Buscemi's junk mail. He also has contributed to such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, the New York Sun, GQ, Paste, Playboy.com, and Time Out New York. 24XPS is a topology of cinematic enthusiasms: interviews with filmmakers, screenwriters, actors and designers; reviews of indie, cult, genre, art, forsaken, forgotten, and forbidden movies; conversations with artists and fans about the films they love and hate; news about upcoming releases; festival coverage; and personal essays about anything and everything celluloid and pixel. Please visit often and tell your friends.
