The crown jewel of the program is a short by Winkless and Lorimore and starring O’Bannon entitled Judson’s Release. In addition, films by their classmates Terry Winkless (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, The Nest), Alec Lorimore (an Oscar-nominated documentary producer) and Charles Adair’s (Bleeders) zombie film The Demon, to show how USC was a major birthplace for the redefining of the horror genre in the 1970s. The compilation features recently uncovered and previously unseen student films by O’Bannon (Alien, Total Recall) and John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from New York)-including their very first pairing in 1968, Good Morning Dan! Along with Carpenter’s Captain Voyeur and 2 versions of O’Bannon’s Blood Bath, a film which cemented Carpenter’s desire to work with O’Bannon outside of film school(see Carpenter interview in 1980 issue of Cinemafantastique -Vol 10 no. Hefner Moving Image Archive archivist Dino Everett assembled a feature-length compilation of SCA student works from the late ’60s and ’70s entitled Shock Value: The Movie-How Dan O’Bannon and Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror. Using New York Times writer Jason Zinoman’s book Shock Value as inspiration, USC Hugh M.

In a fascinating feature-length horror anthology, Shock Value: The Movie-How Dan O’Bannon and Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror, archivist Dino Everett proves that USC students O’Bannon, John Carpenter and others began redefining the horror genre while at the School of Cinematic Arts in the 1970s. Shock Value: The Movie-How Dan O’Bannon and Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror

Shock value by jason zinoman