Nightmare USA Film Festival Programme

Nightmare USA Film Festival: Ten Hours of Grindhouse Movie Mayhem was a combined all-day film festival and book launch for the epic FAB Press book Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents

Six original classic grindhouse movies were screened, and each has a write up and rare photos in this full colour programme:

DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE (Joseph Ellison, 1979)
Psycho Redux for the video nasty generation... with flame-throwers!

PIGS (aka Blood Pen) (Marc Lawrence, 1972)
a love story between a psychotic teenage girl and a grave-robbing pig-farmer.

SQUISH (Frederick Friedel, 2007)
A new short film from the director of grindhouse classic Axe, Squish is the moving tale of an escaped mental patient who hides out in a factory full of huge industrial presses!

BLOODY BROTHERS (Frederick Friedel, 2003)
Psycho twins separated at birth embark on separate, simultaneous, violent sprees across the North Carolina landscape, all the while closing the distance between each other, and their inevitable respective fates.

VICTIMS (Daniel DiSomma, 1977)
Paulie is coming apart; his every encounter with the opposite sex costs another woman her life, while stirring up memories of his prostitute mother, her brutal pimp, and the sexually abusive hooker who molested him as a child...

BOARDINGHOUSE (John Wintergate, 1982)
A Lothario with psychic powers rents out rooms in his rambling house to pretty college girls, but his plans for a harem are undone by a malevolent force residing within.

Also featuring Biographies for the following Festival Guests:
Joseph Ellison (director, Don't Go in the House)
Ellen Ellison (producer, Don't Go in the House)
Oliver Wood (cinematographer, Don't Go in the House)
Frederick Friedel (director, Bloody Brothers and Squish)
Chris Huntley (The Strangeness)

Technical Details

Size: 210mm x 148mm

Binding: Magazine

Extent: 12 pages, all printed in full colour

Publication Date: May 2007

Market: Film

Weight: 30g

Cover Price: £2.00