Ryan Stacy's Silver Screams

For the final episode of our first season, we explore some of the issues & discussions this 1974 independent film experienced. From the shoot to screen, the cast & crew of “Texas Chain Saw”had no idea just how massacred they’d be, post-green lighting.

1976 saw MGM release the first ever Stephen King adaption to cinema screens: Brian De Palma’s “Carrie”, co-starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. These two incredible talents would see matching Oscar nods (but lose to more safe, mainstream nominees). In this episode we will look deeper into this, as well as other Oscar-worthy performances, that while are a smash with critics & audiences, have gone universally, and traditionally, ignored by their voting peers.

In 1978, Jamie Lee Curtis starred in John Carpenter & Debra Hill’s opus about a deranged man murdering teenaged babysitters in Smalltown,  USA. Halloween became a record-breaking smash, cementing tropes and techniques in the horror genre that are still used today, more than forty years later. This episode chronicles the various ways “Halloween”  not only left its indelible mark on the entire process of how many approaches making film today, but how it gave creditably to a world of filmmaking that truly had more to offer audiences than their “B movie”  contemporaries. record-breaking