Matt Becker definitely has a great grasp on the horror movie and hippie ideology. In this section of the article he expands upon his people against people theme. He brings up plenty great examples of who the true monsters are in this theme of horror. These “Hippie filmmakers” techniques and themes are vary layered and are never just “black and white”.
The theme of people against people is not that complex, the idea of the theme is to give the monster (The ideal antagonist) identifiable to viewer. According to Becker “By making their monsters identifiably human these hippie horror films both reflected and critiqued the egregious violence and intense human conflicts of the late 1960s and early 1970s”(Becker). The quote described the theme of
The theme of people against people is not that complex, the idea of the theme is to give the monster (The ideal antagonist) identifiable to viewer. According to Becker “By making their monsters identifiably human these hippie horror films both reflected and critiqued the egregious violence and intense human conflicts of the late 1960s and early 1970s”(Becker). The quote described the theme of