A New York native, Joe graduated from an avant-garde theater school upstate, where he was obsessed with sketch comedy. There, he and his lunatic friends founded The Sketchies — which still lives on at ...

The 1970s was a great decade for horror. For a long time, the film industry had been governed by the so-called Hays Code, a system of censorship in place that controlled what could be shown on screen.

In the 1970s, when horror movies started to get more and more extreme, it wasn't just the blood and the savagery that increased. So did the sensation that you were seeing something "real" — not mere ...