Continuing its mission to unearth the very best in weird and wonderful horror obscura from the golden age of us independent genre moviemaking, arrow video is proud to present the second volume in its american horror project series co curated by author stephen thrower nightmare usa the untold story of the exploitation independents.starting off with a little seen 1970 offering from underrated cult auteur john hayes grave of the vampire, garden of the dead, dream no evil is a haunting, moving tale of a young woman's desperate quest to be reunited with her long lost father only to find herself drawn into a fantasyland of homicidal madness. Meanwhile, 1976's dark august stars academy award winner kim hunter a streetcar named desire in a story of a man pursued by a terrifying and deadly curse in the wake of a hit and run accident. Lastly, 1977's harry novak produced the child is a gloriously delirious slice of horror mayhem in which a young girl raises an army of the dead against the people she holds responsible for her mother's death.with all three films having been remastered from the best surviving film elements and appearing here alongside a wealth of supplementary material, american horror project volume two offers up yet another fascinating and blood chilling foray into the deepest, darkest corners of stars and stripes terror.3 disc special edition contents2k restorations from original film elementshigh definition blu ray presentationoriginal uncompressed pcm mono audioenglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingreversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by the twins of evildream no evilfilmed appreciation by stephen throweraudio commentary with kat ellinger and samm deighanhollywood after dark the early films of john hayes, 1959 1971 video essay by stephen thrower looking at hayes' filmography leading up to dream no evilwriter chris poggiali on the prodigious career of celebrated character actor edmond o'brienexcerpts from an audio interview with actress rue mcclanahan the golden girls discussing her many cinematic collaborations with director john hayesdark augustfilmed appreciation by stephen throweraudio commentary with writer director martin goldmanon camera interview with martin goldmanon camera interview with producer marianne kanterthe hills are alive dark august and vermont folk horror author and artist stephen r. Bissette on dark august and its context within the wider realm of genre filmmaking out of vermontoriginal press bookthe child1.371 and 1.851 presentations of the featurefilmed appreciation by stephen throweraudio commentary with director robert voskanian and producer robert dadashian, moderated by stephen throweron camera interviews with robert voskanian and robert dadashianoriginal theatrical traileroriginal press book