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Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) had a more modern
backdrop; it was a prime example of a menace stemming
from nature gone mad and one of the first American
examples of the horror - of - Armageddon sub-genre.
One of
the most influential horror films of the late 1960s was
George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968).
This
horror-of-Armageddon film about zombies was later deemed
"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"
enough to be preserved by the United States National
Film Registry.
Blending psychological insights with
gore, it moved the genre even further away from the
gothic horror trends of earlier eras and brought horror
into everyday life.
Low-budget gore-shock films from the likes of
Herschell Gordon Lewis also appeared.
Examples included
1963's Blood Feast (a devil-cult story) and 1964's
Two
Thousand Maniacs (a ghost town run by the shades of
Southerners), which featured splattering blood and
bodily dismemberment.
Horror film - History - 1970s
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