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The family horror film was first coined by British author Tony Williams as beginning in the 1970s from an "American tradition whose literary roots influenced a cinematic tradition developing from Universal, Val Lewton, Hitchcock, and other films."

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Williams is a critic of what he perceived to be a decline of social movements against the status quo in American society since the 1960s, indicated by the continued dominance of the nuclear family in the country over alternatives. He reported that family horror films of the 1970s were countercultural in their portrayal of a "dysfunctional institution", but by the next decade were affected by the corporate marketization of all social sectors of life, "hoping to instill in its victims mindless comfort and consumerism".