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[rich]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
still scares me that movie--as a kid, the scare factor was
infinite--had to sleep with my parents for a few days after watching
hat

still think deathdream (1974) is up there w/ Vietnam-era bad shit

Deathdream is a 1974 Canadian horror film, directed by Bob Clark and
written by Alan Ormsby. It was inspired by the W.W. Jacobs short story
The Monkey's Paw. a GI returns from the dead

a-and Tom Savini's first picture as special effects guru and a george
romero favorite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathdream


> To me the 68 timing of Night of the Living Dead relates to the Vietnam War,
> and I think that  and other examples of the master voodoo priests of
> Corporate military imperialism subjecting the weak to their control  is the
> indirect target of Pynchon's reference to Zombies. But it has a very large
> human dimension  having to do with what is the controlling influence in
> one's life and consciousness. There is a line in the Torah _ I have set
> before you life and death. Choose life that you may live.
>
>  Paranoia strikes deep
>  into your life it will creep
> Starts when you're always afraid
> Step out of line the man come
> and take you away
>
>