Day 7 in the 31 Days of Halloween falls on dark times with COMBAT SHOCK (1984), a horrific, traumatic look at American PTSD after the Vietnam War.
Tag Archives: Social Decay
SADIE and the Child Soldiers of America
Megan Griffiths delivers a powerful, subtle gut punch to America’s blind military worship with SADIE.
X-Rated Social Horror in Roberta Findlay’s TENEMENT
Roberta Findlay’s 1985 shocker TENEMENT came along at the beginning of the crack epidemic. Hard not to see the commentary about a city crumbling around her.
The Horrors of Homelessness in STREET TRASH
STREET TRASH is just a B-movie with nothing to say. Or, maybe it says a lot of things about NYC in the 1980s. Maybe?