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Shock Value: The Movie — How Dan O’Bannon and Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror

Oct 10, 2014

1h 20m

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Overview

Image Archive archivist Dino Everett assembled a feature-length compilation of SCA student works from the late ’60s and ’70s. The compilation features recently uncovered and previously unseen student films by Dan O’Bannon and John Carpenter. • BLOOD BATH (1969, written and directed by Dan O’Bannon) B/W (original 16mm) 7 min. • THE DEMON (1970, written and directed by Charles Adair) B/W (original 16mm) 19 min. • GOOD MORNING DAN (1968, written and directed by Dan O’Bannon, camera by John Carpenter) Color (original 8mm) 19 min. • CAPTAIN VOYEUR (1969, written and directed by John Carpenter) B/W (original 16mm) 7 min. • BLOOD BATH (1976, written and directed by Dan O’Bannon) Red tint (original 16mm blown up to 35mm) 8 min. • JUDSON'S RELEASE (1971, written by Alec Lorimore, directed by Terence H. Winkless) (original 16mm) Color 15 min. Total program time: 80 minutes.

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Horror

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DKA Films

USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive

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A man volunteers to take part in an experiment that attempts to analyse human behaviour under extreme conditions of terror. His mission is to remain seated inside a dark room for a length of time of 15 minutes. If he manages to hold on, he will receive in return a generous sum of money. Is it possible to terrify an individual who knows beforehand that everything is a farce?

6.0

Vesuvius

Oct 25, 2012

You'll never look at a statue of the Virgin Mary the same way again. Based on the assertion that divine apparitions aren’t what they always appear to be, Vesuvius is an interesting take on the psychopath with Catholicism smacked against the background. Gio Alvarez provides a convincing portrayal of a madman, and people can even argue if this short inclines toward the supernatural or the psychological. Whereas Grave Torture uses darkness impeccably, Vesuvius plays with light so well.

6.0

Mad God: Part 1

Jan 14, 2014

Mad God is a fully practical stop-motion film set in a Miltonesque world of monsters, mad scientists, and war pigs.

6.3

Teeny-Tiny and the Witch Woman

May 31, 1980

A deliciously scary story about a boy who outsmarts an old witch-woman before she can have him and his brothers for dinner.

5.2

Curiosity

Sep 23, 2009

On a quiet night, a young couple find themselves caught up in a nightmarish ordeal after they witness a murderer disposing of a body in this claustrophobic thriller.

6.8

Coyote

Apr 3, 2010

A distraught squatter tries to cope with his werewolf nature through drugs and music.

4.7

Ashes of Doom

Jan 4, 1970

A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.

6.3

Zone

Oct 11, 1995

This is a film about a man without a face. His arms and legs, bound with ropes, the disabled man is still without even a shudder in a white room. A series of unusual scenes in this room expresses what lies between memories, nightmares, and violent images.

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4.9

Why Try to Escape from That Which You Know You Can't Escape From? Because You Are a Coward

Mar 26, 1970

A man is being haunted by a masked stranger. The only language used in the movie comes from three (inter) title cards and a few sentences of sermon-like talk in Danish. Some of the talk is modified citations from the bible and similar sources.

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Nocturna

Mar 28, 2010

A middle aged woman is desperately wondering in the streets looking for her daughter. A man finds her before she does.

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In Session

Sep 1, 2012

A former Sing Sing inmate, accidentally robs and is held captive by his old shrink Dr. Beck, an ex-criminal psychologist turned librarian after the murder of his wife and son, who interrogates the intruder as though it were one of their sessions turned awry.

4.7

Night Swim

Oct 12, 2014

A woman swimming in her pool at night is watched by a shadowy figure.

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Satan VHS

May 1, 2009

3 Wayward youths wallow aimlessly in a video store.

7.4

I Was a Teenage Intellectual (Byl jsem mladistvým intelektuálem)

Jan 27, 1999

Pavel and Eva are two teenagers who live a happy life full of McDonald's food, action movies and pop music. But one night, Pavel stumbles upon a secret gathering of intellectuals in the woods on his way to the video store. Not wanting to be discovered, the intellectuals attack him and the chief intellectual bites him in the leg. Some times later, he begins changing... Will the power of television, Eva's love and pop star Michal David's music save him from the intellectuals' evil clutches?

6.2

Spree

Dec 31, 2015

Seeking fulfillment, a young drifter forgoes isolation to embark on a year-long murder spree.

4.7

Bad Karma

Jan 1, 1991

A group of people is having a barbecue party when two Krishnas appear at their doorstep, both of which transform into hideous monsters and start killing everybody in gory ways. The survivors retreat to a friend's house and realize something bigger is going on...

5.5

Coven

Jun 12, 1997

An alcohol/drug abuser re-examines his life until he nearly dies from an overdose. Then a friend convinces him to join a self-help group which turns out to be demonic.

7.3

The Flat

Jan 1, 1968

A man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.

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Isolation

Jan 1, 2007

This is one of the four "animated comics" taking place in the same universe as the film "I Am Legend". ADX Florence, Colorado, USA, is the most secure prison facility in the United States. During the early stages of the Krippin Virus Pandemic, John Edward Lord, an imprisoned terrorist is deliberately left behind at the prison to die, with no information on the outbreak.

Shock Value: The Movie — How Dan O’Bannon and Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror

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