Author: Aaron AuBuchon

Aaron AuBuchon ran face first into Frankenstein on TV at age five, slicing open his heart in the process and leading him to discover that his blood was one part red food coloring and nine parts spooky crap. It’s been a downhill ride ever since. When not watching or reading about horror, cult, and exploitation films, Aaron teaches film and video production and film studies at Webster University in St. Louis, where he inflicts those nine parts on any undergrad that shares his compulsion. He also writes about horror films (and other kinds of films sometimes, too) for publications such as Grindhouse Purgatory, Midnight! Magazine, We Belong Dead and HorrorHound and books like A Pictorial History of Hammer Horror and the upcoming EuroHorror and Mistresses of the Macabre.

Hippies in Hell in the Heartland: How I Drink Your Blood and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Mirror the Culture Wars in America

...in the early to mid 1970’s two films would emerge that would use this theme to explore the two very different sides of the conversation, creating metaphors for what happens when city progressives are confronted with rural traditionalists in their own environment. I Drink Your Blood (1971) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) would each create an aggressively oversimplified and terrifyingly singular antagonistic “family” which not only held up a mirror to the times in which the films were created, they held up and almost perfectly reflected each other.

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Cult Movie Apparel? Absolutely!

  Inked Up Merch is full of stuff visitors to Channel 31 might find exciting... not like sexually exciting, but regular exciting.  Or maybe sexually exciting.  Like this Videodrome Long Live the New Flesh trucker hat.  Get some.

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