Hello, my name's Justin the Cluhr. I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to the spooky important cinema club.

Woo!

I just did the sound of a door creaking open.

And today we're doing...

It gets a little less fun every year doing that.

Yeah, we got to find new sounds.

We've got to like sit down and be like, all right, what can we do?

What sound does like a jacko lantern make?

Should we do perhaps the Friday the 13th?

Like...

Ch, ch ch ch... Yeah. But, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch.

Yeah. But that's, um, for, you know, after we're done recording, because we're talking about a subject this week. And we're talking about specifically Nightmare USA, a book written by Stephen Throar. How are we talking about a whole book, Will? I think this is one of our favorite books.

You turn me on to this book.

It's a book.

Wait. written by Stephen Thrower. How are we talking about a whole book, Will? I think this is one of our favorite books. You turn me on to this book. It's a book. Wait, I believe that I sent you a text being like, Will, I found a used copy. Do you have one? I'll buy it for you. Yeah, and I was incredibly appreciative of that. I mean, it's a wonderful book. It's a book you can get lost in. It's an intimidating book, actually.

There's so much in there, and that was one reason why I wanted to do this episode, because I wanted to, like, crack my way into the book a little bit more.

The book, for those who don't know it, it's by Stephen Throer, a British film critic, and it is about American independent exploitation films from between

1970 to 1975. It's a huge doorstop of a book. He focused on mostly regional horror films,

and you may be asking, what is a regional horror film? It's popularly understood as a low-budget, independent horror movie

that was shot away from the Hollywood film industry. So not in Los Angeles, not in New York

City. When I think of regional horror films, I think of, you know, a cabin in the woods in

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