{"id":6722,"date":"2015-10-30T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T04:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=6722"},"modified":"2015-10-31T03:34:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T07:34:23","slug":"johns-horror-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/johns-horror-30\/","title":{"rendered":"John D&#8217;Amico&#8217;s Horror on YouTube #30 &#8211; The American Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6509\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/americannightmare.jpg\" alt=\"nightmare\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k5v03a_zCSM\" target=\"_blank\">The American Nightmare<\/a>\u00a0(2000) | Dir. Adam Simon | 73 min.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Every day in October, a recommendation from John D&#8217;Amico\u00a0of a horror\u00a0movie or TV episode available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re coming to the end of our 31 days, and now that we\u2019ve got ourselves a bit of a god\u2019s eye view of the genre, it\u2019s a good time to give it a hard look. This powerful, probing documentary explores horror and history from the era from when Night of the Living Dead kicked the doors down to when Halloween closed them back up. It juxtaposes the violence of \u2018Nam with the violence of our cinema and asks, straight out: \u201cCan a whole country have a nightmare?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chock full of surprisingly deep and personal interviews with George Romero, John Carpenter, Tom Savini, John Landis, David Cronenberg, Wes Craven, and Tobe Hooper, The American Nightmare is a powerful and rattling look at just why the hell we watch, and make, these movies.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this nearly a decade ago when it was making the rounds on AMC and I still haven\u2019t forgotten George Romero\u2019s words: \u201cWhat are zombies? Us. We know we\u2019re gonna die, right? So, we\u2019re the living dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>P.S. &#8211; Keep an ear out for it using Godspeed You! Black Emperor&#8217;s East Hastings two years before 28 Days Later!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The American Nightmare - Documentary (2000)\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k5v03a_zCSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6509\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/americannightmare.jpg\" alt=\"nightmare\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k5v03a_zCSM\" target=\"_blank\">The American Nightmare<\/a>\u00a0(2000) | Dir. Adam Simon | 73 min.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Every day in October, a recommendation from John D&#8217;Amico\u00a0of a horror\u00a0movie or TV episode available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1157,5100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-johns-reviews","category-youtubehorror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6738,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions\/6738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}