![]() ![]() Driven by a growing counterculture-inspired interest in the environment and a burgeoning market for mass-market scares, a new wave of horror appeared that played on the contemporary zeitgeist in much the same way the mutated monsters featured in two films from 1954- Themand Godzilla-had made manifest the nuclear anxieties of a previous generation. ![]() Maker and Year: Hamlyn/John Halkin, 1980-1985Īs Western society began to shift into its post-industrial phase, the flora and fauna that had once been at the heart of the British agrarian lifestyle, and which for the last several hundred years had been interred beneath factories, exterminated as an annoyance or simply ignored altogether, began to reassert their existence in strange new fictional forms. ![]()
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