Late Night in the Reagan Era: Swimming Upstream on A Personal Horror Journey (PART 4)
B Harrison Smith discussed late-night horror in the Reagan Era!
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B Harrison Smith
*Editor’s Note: B Harrison Smith is well known to horror fans as the writer/director of The Fields, Death House, and Camp Dread. He also directed The Special, released in 2020.
HBO where I got my fix of blood, boobs, babes and horror.
Summer late nights, Christmas breaks from school—all allowed you to watch after hours. The parents went to bed and you got to tune into the movies you missed in theaters, due to the “R” rating, limited release or maybe you just didn’t have the guts to watch on the big screen.