User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/Horror and the American Family/@comment-9584883-20150128151551/@comment-26030957-20150128170806

Thanks. We have more in common then our love of the same films. I am a father and husband as well; I have two children, a nine year old boy and a 18 month old daughter. I, also, live out in the boonies: in an off grid cabin down a long, dirt road in Northern California, and there sure as hell are roads you don't want to go down out here as well.

Protecting your family and the idea of them ever being hurt is the ultimate in true terror for me as well.

What I wanted to express, though, was how these films use the elements of horror as a metaphor for the degredation of the American family and their values.

How about The Hills Have Eyes (both the original and the re-make)? These are some nasty pieces of cinema that really explore the idea of the American Family, especially since Wes Craven credits the Manson Family as a main inspiration. What do you think of Wes Craven films (Last House On The Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street)  and the American Family?