American Nightmare - 2000

Director: Adam Simon
Prod Co. Minerva Films/ Independent Film Channel
Film Editor: Paul Carlin
Runtime: 73 min.
Country: USA, UK

George Romero, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, David Cronenberg and John Carpenter are the filmmakers whose seminal work in the late Sixties and Seventies forms the focus of American Nightmare. This documentary persuasively argues that the images and ideology of their groundbreaking films were influenced by the mood of the times.

American Nightmare was an opportunity to re-examine the films that disturbed me as a teen and then all over again as we pulled them apart to examine the cause of their psychosis.

American Nightmare premiered at the Toronto Film Fest in 2000.