It
was the inevitable question. What will you do as a follow-up to MONDO
ARGENTO? The idea to write something on truly horrific horror, gross
gore and sleazy exploitation was two-fold. Firstly, I adore them and
always will, and secondly, I'm rather bored with the way they are being
treated these days. They say horror is respectable again in the wake
of SCREAM. Really? I haven't noticed any change. If you admit to liking
CRASH, CHILD'S PLAY 3 or DEPORTED WOMEN OF THE SS SPECIAL SECTION you
are seen as nothing less than a child molester. Enough. I'm prepared
to stand up and be counted for my taste - or lack of it - and I don't
care what anybody thinks. I never did. I like being shocked to the core
by things I haven't seen on screen before.
I want to be offended by
the non-politically correct. I want to see blood flow in ever more ingenious
ways. I want to see new methods of murder and torture on film. And I
do stress 'On Film'.
Horror
is one of mankind's greatest defences. It's important for us all to
focus on what frightens us and cope with it. If that fear is sublimated
in films like CANNIBAL FEROX, then so be it. It's still a healthy release.
Watching horror and gore does not make us do horrific things. It does
not affect behaviour. If that were the case I would already be a serial
killer by now after the thousands of films I've watched. People who
hide behind that argument are the intellectually and psychologically
suspect ones. What they're really trying to do is squash art. They want
to ban films that vent and talk about things we all hide beneath the
surface - particularly the sort of inhibited and suppressed people the
censors always are. These people are the really dangerous ones. None
of us should forget that it was Hitler who forbade art because it was
obscene and began burning books just before he began burning humans.
I'm proud 'I survived
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE' and this book is a celebration of the joy
I feel whenever I see a new genre film either good, bad or indifferent.
I'm not saying what's in the book are the best horror exploitation movies
in the world, but each one does have that special indefinable something.
The autobiographical notes I've also included here and there will, I
hope, also provide further insight to my life as a die-hard, unapologetic,
no excuses NEKROFILE.
-Alan Jones
Paperback - 78 pages
(1997)
Published in Great Britain by Midnight Media
