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- Guillermo del Toro once
made this observation

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that, you know, ever since humans
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and could talk, we've been telling stories

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about the dark and what lives inside it.

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(ghostly whispering)

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There's something about that human desire

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to want to tell scary
stories to each other.

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- First of all, I love
anthology horror films,

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and there were a lot of them.

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- I think the appeal of anthology horror

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is that sometimes things are really scary

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in shorter periods of time.

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- [Jovanka Vuckovic] Short form horror,

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it's just this enduring medium.

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(woman screaming)

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(eerie rock music)

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(women screaming)

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- We started this documentary
about anthology horror

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before the pandemic.

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- We had spoken to a handful of experts.

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David Del Valle, Bruce
Hallenbeck, Mick Garris,

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Jovanka Vuckovic, Amanda Reyes.

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- About the whole history
of anthology horror.

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And then the pandemic happened.

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- And we just thought, well,
everybody's at home anyway,

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we might as well contact
people and ask them

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what their favorite anthology film is,

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what their favorite segment
out of an anthology film is.

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- Zoom actually afforded
us the opportunity

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to interview many more people

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than we had originally intended.

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Recording. So you go
ahead when you're ready.

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- It's so difficult to say favorites,

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because it all depends
on which mood I'm in.

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- I have three, I just
couldn't narrow it down to one.

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My first one is "Spirits of the Dead."

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- "Tales from the Darkside."

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- "Kwaidan."

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- "Tales That Witness Madness."

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- "Tales From the Crypt."

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- "Trick 'r Treat."

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- "Tales of Terror."

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- "Ghost Stories" from 2017.

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- "Dead of Night."

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- Probably "Black Sabbath."

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- From 1983, it's "Twilight Zone."”

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- Definitely "From Beyond the Grave."

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It's the best by a country mile,

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and I say that as someone who adores

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every one of them. (chuckles)

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- I suppose I've always been interested

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in the anthology, or the portmanteau,

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as we used to call it,

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because in general, I
prefer the short form,

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i.e., the short story, a
single, as opposed to the album.

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- You could sort of
create a desert island one

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out of stories from different
portmanteaus, couldn't you?

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- It might be good to actually do a poll,

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'cause a lot of people talk about

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what's their favorite episode,
what's their favorite film,

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and there's always a
lot of debate about it.

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- We interviewed over 60 different people,

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and now we're gonna look
at what everybody said.

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- The whole idea of a horror anthology,

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it's just not an obvious
way to make a movie.

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But there were always books
of short stories, or novellas,

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or stories packaged together
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So there had been precedents.

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- [Jovanka Vuckovic] The early
magazines, like "Graham's"

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and "Weird Tales,"

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and places that Poe was
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- Edgar Allan Poe is, I think,

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for any public school
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he's one of the few
authors of horror, mystery,

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superstition, that you're
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I still love his stuff.

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To me, he's the consummate stylist.

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- Many of the greatest
stories in the field

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are short stories, some
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Lovecraft's "Colour Out of Space,"

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Blackwood's "The Willows,"
Machen's "The White People,”

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and you could very easily
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- [Kim Newman] These books were floating around,

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they were always old.

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I'm of the generation that
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like "The Fontana Book
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or the "Pan Book of Horror Stories."

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We grew up with the notion
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- There's "Great Tales of
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from the mid-'40s, and that's pretty well

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all the great series up to that point.

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Not strictly horror, but a
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is "The Weird," which spreads
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and also in terms of internationalism,

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translated work which
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you'd never previously heard of.

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- [Kim Newman] And it's partly because horror,

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particularly ghost stories,

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work really well as short stories,

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arguably better than novel length,

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which did actually feed into
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- The anthology film is a direct result

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of the Germanic influence that
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where children would go
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what they call puppetspiels.

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They were told all of these dark,

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mythic, legendary stories
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to be frightened by, "Hansel and Gretel,"

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"The Tales of Hoffman,"
Grimm's fairytales.

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And these puppetspiels traveled

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in all the major cities,
Berlin, Bremerhaven, Munich.

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And some of those children
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that immigrated to
Hollywood, like Paul Leni,

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Fritz Lang, actors like
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and they lent themselves
to stories of the grotesque

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and the arabesque, as
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- There were in fact, a
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that were anthology films.

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The first one was in 1919 in Germany,

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and that was called "Eerie Tales."

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That was at a time when film

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was just basically
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and they already came
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horror film format.

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There were five different stories in it.

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There was a framing story
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It was basically the template

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for all the ones that followed.

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which was also made in Germany,

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which obviously took place in a wax works,

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and had a Jack the Ripper character.

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- [David Del Valle] You look at
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where Conrad Veidt
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Veidt played Cesare in "The
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He had a face that could lend itself

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to almost any kind of makeup or character.

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And he specialized in the bizarre
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So Conrad Veidt was the
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who specialized in horror.

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also in Germany by the same director.

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Movie which was known in this
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And after that, there was a bit of a lag.

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- [David] Then Julien Duvivier
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"Flesh and Fantasy"
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of another anthology movie
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called "Tales of Manhattan."

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The success of "Tales of Manhattan"

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greenlit "Flesh and Fantasy,"
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the first one involving
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who, on the eve of the Mardi Gras,

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goes to this magic shop
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and for the whole evening,
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And it's a beautifully done story.

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Then there's one with Barbara Stanwyck

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in a circus, involving a dream

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that perhaps someone's going
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- Maybe it will come true.

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- [David Del Valle] And then one
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where Thomas Mitchell is a
clairvoyant who sees death

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in Edward G. Robinson's hands.

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- What is in my hand?

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- [Septimus] Murder.

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- In 1943, there was a movie

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called "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors,"

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which was actually a compilation film.

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- [David Del Valle] What they did was
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like "Return of Chandu,”
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one of the four versions of "The Golem,"

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starring Paul Wegener, Bela
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and then they re-edited them,
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for that movie, Robert Louis
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- [Bruce Hallenbeck] All tied together
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called Dr. Terror, who was investigating

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these strange occurrences.

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- [David Del Valle] I can only speculate

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based on the photographs
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but it achieved a kind of legendary status

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because of the posters and the stills.

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It all looks rather fascinating.

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- Anthology horror films
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but the high point to me has always been

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and probably will always
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(people laughing maniacally)

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- Just room for one more inside, sir.

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- Probably one of the best in anthologies.

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I mean, they've never done
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better than that.

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- That's a truly classic
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- You're sort of teamed
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- Him? My good man, think nothing of it.

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I'm just about through
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(man slapping)

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- [Partygoers] Ooh!

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- It's creepy as hell,

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with Michael Redgrave doing
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as the ventriloquist,

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and it's just a brilliant,
brilliant piece of work.

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- [Kim Newman] It's really tough to
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but the segment I'm gonna go with

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is "The Ventriloquist's Dummy.”

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- I suppose everyone
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and then thinks of "The
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but the linking material.

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- Never this part of the world at all?

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- No, I've never been here before.

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- He meets a bunch of
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this sense of deja vu.

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- I can only tell you that
when I came into this room,

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I recognized you all, instantly.

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- [Larry Fessenden] And then
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- Just room for one inside, sir.

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(ominous music)

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- That has the best framing story,

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and as a person who's
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of varying quality, the framing story

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is incredibly important.

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- This is where Mervyn
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that turns into a nightmare.

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- Let's play another game!

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- Yes! Hide and seek!

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- Who's to hide?

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- I'll hide, I'll hide!

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- [Kim Newman] The nightmare
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from all the stories come back

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is so astonishingly brilliant,

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I'm surprised more anthology
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- [David McGillivray] Has some very weird

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and disturbing images, indeed.

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And this still holds up immensely well.

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- Still there? So it
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- The wraparound is always the
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and they really seem to pull it off,

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in the way that it's almost
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as the stories themselves.

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- [David Del Valle] "Dead of Night"
had a different director

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for each one.

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Robert Hamer did the one with the mirror.

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- [Kim Newman] "The Haunted Mirror”
has a lot really going for it.

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- [David Del Valle] I think that
the reason "Dead of Night"

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resonated so much with audiences

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is it came at the right
time and people wanted it.

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- During the war, most horror
films were banned in England.

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So this was the first chance

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the British got to make a horror film.

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It did very well, it was very successful,

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and the critics loved it.

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- My my, Hugo, we've never played

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to a murderer before, have we?

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- That was pretty much the
end of that horror cycle.

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The cycle that had started
in 1931 with "Dracula."

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It didn't spawn another
imitation immediately

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because of the fact that horror

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was kind of out.

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- In the '40s, they did
attempt them occasionally

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with like "Histories Extraordinaire,"

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that is very rare, and
it involves two stories

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by Edgar Allan Poe and
one by Thomas de Quincey.

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(ominous music)

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(thunder crashing)

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- [Bruce Hallenbeck] In 1955, there
was an anthology film.

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- A movie that almost
no one has ever heard of

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called "Three Cases of Murder."

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- [David Del Valle] It has Orson Welles,

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where he plays a barrister
that has a recurring dream

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that becomes a nightmare.

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- It wasn't entirely horror,

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but there was one story
in it that is really scary,

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about a man who is in a painting.

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- [Mr. X] Have you ever taken
a really good close look?

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- [Bruce Hallenbeck] And he leaves the painting

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(cane knocking)

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(man gasping)
and kills people.

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- [Man] But what?

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- [Bruce Hallenbeck] A really neat idea.

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- Directed by a director named Wendy Toye,

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who is currently not well known.

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She used to be a ballet
dancer, apparently.

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She really had a remarkable style.

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As a subject for further study,

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as (indistinct) used to say, I would say

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Wendy Toye is definitely
worth looking into.

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- [Bruce Hallenbeck] So horror films
that were anthology films

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gradually came back in during the '50s.

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It was really a matter of the cycles.

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The new horror cycle started in 1957

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with "Curse of Frankenstein.”

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- [David Del Valle] What happened
was a kind of renaissance,

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first with Hammer Films coming out

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with "The Curse of Frankenstein" in '57,

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"Horror of Dracula" in '58,

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then we had in Mexico, France, Italy,

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and America, a kind of burst of horror.

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(woman screaming)

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- [Bruce Hallenbeck] In 1962, there
was a movie called "Tales of Terror."

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- [Announcer] Edgar Allan Poe
unfolds his "Tales of Terror."

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- When I was an adolescent,
the movies that I really loved

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were the- I loved- of course
I loved all kinds of stuff,

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but I really liked the Corman Poe stuff.

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And so of course my favorite
anthology is "Tales of Terror."”

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- [Announcer] You will witness fury

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far worse than a woman scorned.

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(woman screaming)

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- [Bruce Hallenbeck] An American International
film, directed by Roger Corman.

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We had Vincent Price, Basil
Rathbone, and Peter Lorre.

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- We had done two complete films,

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and I just thought it would be interesting

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to do a three-part of some
of his very short stories.

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And I worked very well with Dick Matheson,

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I have to give a great deal of credit.

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Dick simply wrote the scripts

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and I went out and we shot 'em.

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(dramatic music)
(flames crackling)

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And we generally had 15 day schedules.

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So it was very simple to say,

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okay, five days for the first one,

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five days for the second one,

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five days for the third.

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(cat yowling)

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- To make one story of "The Black Cat"

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and "The Cask of
Amontillado” was just brill-

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I mean, it was just,
what a smart thing to do,

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because they fit so
well in Corman's movie.

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- [Announcer] Every drop of blood

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feels the freezing paralysis of fear.

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- They had the really
colorful credit sequence,

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which then I made sure with "Re-Animator"

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we had a colorful credit sequence.

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And then they put the
comedic tone to the horror,

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which wasn't real common then.

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- [Announcer] Then you'll enjoy

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"The Black Cat's"
sardonically humorous tale.

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- What kind of a man are you, anyway?

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Make love to my wife, and
doesn't even talk to me!

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- We were going to do three of 'em.

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How would we differentiate?

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Jointly, we said, well,
let's do one with humor

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and see what happens.

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- You're insane!

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- [Bruce Hallenbeck] I love Peter
Lorre and Vincent Price.

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A great team.

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- Very clever.

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- Vincent Price and Peter Lorre.

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Peter Lorre, "The Beast With
Five Fingers," you know,

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and Vincent Price's face kind of melts.

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"Tales of Terror" was just great.

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- [David Del Valle] This movie made money,

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not as much as "Pit and the Pendulum,”

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but it made money. But it didn't catch on.

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Roger never did another anthology movie.

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- We did it once, I thought,
okay, this breaks it up.

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Now we can go back into
the full length features.

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- [Announcer] In this garden of evil,

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unfolds the diabolic delineation

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of the most fantastic horror
conceived by a distorted mind.

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- [David Del Valle] Vincent Price, who
was under contract to AIP,

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managed to make one for Allied Artists

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called "Twice Told Tales."

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- [Announcer] A trio of
terrifying experiences,

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brilliantly portrayed by that
personification of all evil

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on the screen, Vincent Price.

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- [David Del Valle] Nathaniel
Hawthorne was public domain.

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So they decided that they
might as well try and see

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if they can strike gold,
trying to elevate Hawthorne

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into the next Poe.

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This of course suffered,
because they didn't have Roger Corman.

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(sinister music)

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- Do you believe in ghosts?

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(dramatic music)

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(woman screaming)

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- [Announcer] This is the
night when fear and horror

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walk hand in hand.

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- [Bruce Hallenbeck] "Black Sabbath,"
a terrific anthology film,

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one of the very best,
directed by Mario Bava.

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- One of my inspirations in my work,

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a cinematographer turned director.

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And it has a couple of the
most chilling sequences

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that still, when I watch it, to this day,

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send chills down my spine.

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- It's a co-production
between an Italian company

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and American International.
It's an attempt

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to make some hay out of-

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- [Announcer] "Black Sunday."

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- [Joe Dante] Mario Bava's breakthrough.

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- [David Del Valle] And in "Black Sabbath,"

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they adapted stories by Count Tolstoy

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and Nikolai Gogol, you know,

402
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Russian storytellers that lent
themselves to fantasy and horror.

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- It's one of the kings
of all Italian horror movies,

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and all three segments are so unique.

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- I first saw that completely unprepared

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on an afternoon matinee
at a Liverpool cinema,

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and I was absolutely terrified.

408
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(dramatic music)

409
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To have that extraordinary quality

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that Bava brought to the horror film,

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which is images that are simultaneously
horrifying, even gruesome,

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and beautiful. That level of visual beauty

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was something new to me in the cinema.

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- My favorite story in
that is "The Wurdulak."

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- [David Del Valle] Bringing Boris Karloff back,

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and making him something
he'd never played before,

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which was a vampire.

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- [Ernest Dickerson] An amazing piece
about the vampiric aspects of family.

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- That is probably Boris
Karloff's most evil performance.

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- I am hungry.

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- That still is so haunting.

422
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That little boy begging for
his mother to let him in.

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Such a masterful piece
of fantastic cinema,

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that Bava was a master of.

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- [Announcer] An
adventure into black magic

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that goes beyond the
boundaries of the supernatural.

427
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(dramatic music)

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(woman screaming)

429
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- The one that is the thing
that everyone remembers

430
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from that movie, it's "The Drop of Water."

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(water dripping)

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- It's a very simple
story. A woman dies,

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and her servant steals her ring.

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It's so gaudily photographed,
the colors are so iridescent.

435
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It might be my favorite segment.

436
00:18:39,994 --> 00:18:42,622
- Whenever that wretched thing
opened its eyes, yes, yes.

437
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(woman gasps)

438
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That was enough for me.

439
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(woman speaking in foreign language)

440
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- "Black Sabbath" is probably
the scariest anthology.

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- [David Del Valle] All the shock effects

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of having the ghoulish image

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pushed out at you, or floating.

444
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- The most terrifying animated
corpse in cinema history.

445
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It's 20 minutes of sheer terror.

446
00:19:03,017 --> 00:19:03,809
- No! (sobbing)

447
00:19:04,101 --> 00:19:05,561
- "The Drop of Water" segment,

448
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it's just so vivid in my memory,

449
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as just being one of the
most terrifying segments

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of an anthology I've ever seen.

451
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- I saw it really young,

452
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and I returned to it,
and I'm always surprised

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at how much it holds up.

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- And what's interesting
is that the Italian edit

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ended with that.

456
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American international, when they decided

457
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to release it in America,

458
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thought this was too
frightening a way to go out,

459
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so they put it at the front,

460
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presumably not realizing
that some of the audience

461
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might panic and rush out and never see

462
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the other two episodes.

463
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I didn't quite panic, but by gum,

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I never forgot that first experience.

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(woman crying out fearfully
in foreign language)

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(suspenseful music)

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(ominous music)

468
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- [Bruce Hallenbeck] And the year
after that was "Kwaidan,"

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another excellent anthology film

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of very scary Japanese ghost stories.

471
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- That incidentally stemmed
from a series of short stories

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written by a Greek gentleman,

473
00:20:00,741 --> 00:20:03,160
went to Japan over 100 years ago,

474
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married a Japanese lady,

475
00:20:05,538 --> 00:20:09,917
and ended up writing these
stories from what he had observed

476
00:20:10,209 --> 00:20:13,212
of the culture of the
supernatural in Japan.

477
00:20:13,504 --> 00:20:14,547
- I recommend that to anybody

478
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who's a fan of horror in general.

479
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It's got some very, very creepy moments.

480
00:20:19,301 --> 00:20:20,845
- When I was in college in the '70s,

481
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I discovered this Japanese horror film

482
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by Kobayashi Masaki, and
it just blew me away.

483
00:20:25,766 --> 00:20:28,102
It's just amazing what
visually he was able to do,

484
00:20:28,394 --> 00:20:31,397
how he was able to create
these surreal landscapes

485
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on sound stages.

486
00:20:33,023 --> 00:20:34,400
Actually, it wasn't a sound stage.

487
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It was a reconverted airplane hangar.

488
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- And the segment that I think

489
00:20:38,112 --> 00:20:40,865
is particularly outstanding
is "The Woman of the Snow,"

490
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where a woodcutter encounters
a lethal female snow spirit.

491
00:20:46,412 --> 00:20:48,873
- Probably the first time
that anybody in the West

492
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had seen the long hair of death women,

493
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who are by and large the ghosts of women

494
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who committed suicide, or died of grief

495
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after their husbands left
them for other women.

496
00:21:01,677 --> 00:21:04,305
And it's one of my
absolute favorite tropes

497
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of this kind of film, and one that I think

498
00:21:06,724 --> 00:21:10,186
a lot of people became
familiar with after "Ringu."

499
00:21:10,478 --> 00:21:12,271
That is an image that I adore,

500
00:21:12,563 --> 00:21:14,023
and seeing where it comes from,

501
00:21:14,315 --> 00:21:16,025
I think is absolutely fascinating.

502
00:21:16,317 --> 00:21:17,318
(man screaming)

503
00:21:17,610 --> 00:21:20,112
- I'd never heard a ghost story that way.

504
00:21:20,404 --> 00:21:22,573
This kind of like demonic,
evil thing, the snow,

505
00:21:22,865 --> 00:21:23,824
which hums to the sky,

506
00:21:24,116 --> 00:21:26,577
and then he ends up marrying the thing

507
00:21:26,869 --> 00:21:29,121
and having children with her.

508
00:21:29,413 --> 00:21:32,666
That idea of someone spending
a huge portion of their life

509
00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:36,921
with a demonic entity just haunted me.

510
00:21:37,213 --> 00:21:38,589
And that was kind of a big influence

511
00:21:38,881 --> 00:21:40,382
on the first movie I made, "The Pact."

512
00:21:40,674 --> 00:21:41,300
- They're beautiful stories.

513
00:21:41,592 --> 00:21:44,136
"Woman in the Snow" is
a beautiful love story.

514
00:21:44,428 --> 00:21:46,138
(man laughing crazily)

515
00:21:46,430 --> 00:21:47,640
- [Brian Trenchard-Smith] It is truly artistic.

516
00:21:47,932 --> 00:21:49,683
- [Ernest Dickerson] I understand
that Kobayashi himself

517
00:21:49,975 --> 00:21:51,602
painted the backdrops,

518
00:21:51,894 --> 00:21:53,979
which are very surrealistic
and expressionistic.

519
00:21:54,271 --> 00:21:56,732
- This phantasmagorical netherworld,

520
00:21:57,024 --> 00:21:59,944
frost covering everything, and huge eyes

521
00:22:00,236 --> 00:22:05,032
staring down from strangely
colored skies, it's a, ah!

522
00:22:05,491 --> 00:22:06,951
- One of the most beautiful movies

523
00:22:07,243 --> 00:22:09,829
I have ever seen, ravishingly gorgeous.

524
00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:11,372
You could watch it without the sound,

525
00:22:11,664 --> 00:22:13,791
having no idea what was going on,

526
00:22:14,083 --> 00:22:16,126
and I think you would still be swept up

527
00:22:16,418 --> 00:22:18,003
in the sheer beauty of it.

528
00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:20,422
- I also like a couple of Japanese ones.

529
00:22:20,714 --> 00:22:24,343
"Joys of Torture" I think is
really great, Teruo Ishii.

530
00:22:24,635 --> 00:22:26,136
And another one also
called "Love and Crime."

531
00:22:26,428 --> 00:22:28,722
It's about heinous crimes
that women committed.

532
00:22:29,014 --> 00:22:30,599
- Let us not forget, in my opinion,

533
00:22:30,891 --> 00:22:34,937
one of the greatest anthology
movies from the '60s,

534
00:22:35,229 --> 00:22:37,022
(horse whinnying)

535
00:22:37,314 --> 00:22:39,400
"Histoires Extraordinaires."

536
00:22:39,692 --> 00:22:42,069
American international
released it in the States

537
00:22:42,361 --> 00:22:43,404
as "Spirits of the Dead,"

538
00:22:43,696 --> 00:22:46,156
and they got Vincent
Price to do what he did

539
00:22:46,448 --> 00:22:47,658
in "The Conqueror Worm."

540
00:22:48,868 --> 00:22:51,203
- [Vincent] Thy soul
shall find itself alone

541
00:22:51,495 --> 00:22:53,622
amid dark thoughts of the gray tombstones.

542
00:22:54,623 --> 00:22:59,420
Not one of all the crowd to
pry into thine hour of secrets.

543
00:22:59,712 --> 00:23:00,504
- [David Del Valle] So they made
it "Edgar Allan Poe's

544
00:23:00,796 --> 00:23:01,589
Spirits of the Dead."

545
00:23:01,881 --> 00:23:04,300
- [Announcer] Only the tortured
genius of Edgar Allan Poe

546
00:23:04,592 --> 00:23:08,178
could conceive this orgy
of unspeakable horror.

547
00:23:08,470 --> 00:23:10,890
- It was Fellini, Roger
Vadim, and Louis Matte.

548
00:23:11,181 --> 00:23:13,851
Each adapted an Edgar
Allan Poe short story.

549
00:23:14,143 --> 00:23:16,353
Very, very loosely, just
basically took the premise.

550
00:23:16,645 --> 00:23:17,688
- [David Del Valle] You have three stories,

551
00:23:17,980 --> 00:23:20,024
where one is really exemplary,

552
00:23:20,316 --> 00:23:22,526
then you have one that's
not quite so great,

553
00:23:22,818 --> 00:23:25,487
but it does have the
wonderful Bridgette Bardot

554
00:23:25,779 --> 00:23:27,990
in a black wig with Alain Delon.

555
00:23:28,282 --> 00:23:30,159
Then you have for the one and only time,

556
00:23:30,451 --> 00:23:32,161
Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda.

557
00:23:32,453 --> 00:23:33,579
- [Announcer] She owned the world,

558
00:23:33,871 --> 00:23:35,581
but found herself possessed by a love

559
00:23:35,873 --> 00:23:36,916
stranger than madness.

560
00:23:37,207 --> 00:23:39,668
- [David Del Valle] But the Fellini
is world class cinema.

561
00:23:40,628 --> 00:23:42,046
- Anthologies are very specific things,

562
00:23:42,338 --> 00:23:46,675
but when it comes to an actual single one,

563
00:23:46,967 --> 00:23:48,886
that's gonna be "Spirits of the Dead,"

564
00:23:49,178 --> 00:23:50,346
"Toby Dammit."

565
00:23:50,638 --> 00:23:53,390
- "Toby Dammit" is the only
horror film Fellini ever did,

566
00:23:53,682 --> 00:23:55,142
and it's an amazing piece of work.

567
00:23:55,434 --> 00:23:58,604
I loved how he took a
little-known Poe story,

568
00:23:58,896 --> 00:24:00,564
"Never Bet the Devil Your Head,"

569
00:24:00,856 --> 00:24:05,069
and transposed it to
modern day, or 1968, Italy.

570
00:24:05,361 --> 00:24:06,487
- There's so much going on,

571
00:24:06,779 --> 00:24:08,572
and it says so much.

572
00:24:08,864 --> 00:24:09,740
- It's one of those films

573
00:24:10,032 --> 00:24:12,368
that when people see it,
they just go, "Holy shit."

574
00:24:12,660 --> 00:24:14,870
A lot of people are very
snobbish about Fellini.

575
00:24:15,162 --> 00:24:16,121
They're like, "Oh, I love Fellini.

576
00:24:16,413 --> 00:24:17,581
I love '8 1/2,

577
00:24:17,873 --> 00:24:18,874
I love 'Roma,' all this blah, blah, blah."

578
00:24:19,166 --> 00:24:20,376
"Toby Dammit” is it.

579
00:24:20,668 --> 00:24:22,795
The DP's the same DP who
shot "Stendhal Syndrome,"

580
00:24:23,087 --> 00:24:25,714
Tonino Rotunno, it's
amazing, amazing photography.

581
00:24:26,006 --> 00:24:27,883
And the music, Nino Rota did the score,

582
00:24:28,175 --> 00:24:31,512
its a beautiful, haunting,
creepy piano score.

583
00:24:31,804 --> 00:24:32,888
- I just like everything about it.

584
00:24:33,180 --> 00:24:35,224
It's my favorite Fellini movie.

585
00:24:35,516 --> 00:24:36,976
I often find Fellini's full-length movies

586
00:24:37,267 --> 00:24:40,145
drag somewhat, and the
fact that this is short,

587
00:24:40,437 --> 00:24:41,772
and it's Edgar Allan Poe, and
has Terence Stamp as well.

588
00:24:43,482 --> 00:24:44,483
- [Announcer] A man afraid of living,

589
00:24:44,775 --> 00:24:46,944
and more afraid of dying.

590
00:24:47,236 --> 00:24:49,488
- That is the most beautiful
Terence Stamp you're gonna get

591
00:24:49,780 --> 00:24:51,240
for your Terence Stamp dollar.

592
00:24:51,532 --> 00:24:54,201
- I've watched that over
and over again. Huge fan.

593
00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:57,454
(ominous organ music)

594
00:25:01,875 --> 00:25:03,419
- [Announcer] The terrifying
horror of a dreaded man

595
00:25:03,711 --> 00:25:07,381
called Dr. Terror, who with
his deck of mystic cards,

596
00:25:07,673 --> 00:25:09,133
could foretell destiny.

597
00:25:09,425 --> 00:25:10,342
- "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors,"

598
00:25:10,634 --> 00:25:12,011
still my sentimental favorite.

599
00:25:12,302 --> 00:25:13,721
I was 12 years old when I saw it,

600
00:25:14,013 --> 00:25:16,181
which is like the perfect
age to see that movie.

601
00:25:16,473 --> 00:25:17,641
I remember seeing the poster,

602
00:25:17,933 --> 00:25:19,935
and it very prominently
saying an Amicus Production.

603
00:25:20,227 --> 00:25:21,979
And I thought, ooh, this
must be a new company

604
00:25:22,271 --> 00:25:23,147
that's gonna compete with Hammer.

605
00:25:23,439 --> 00:25:24,565
And sure enough, it was.

606
00:25:25,941 --> 00:25:28,527
- In the 1960s, I became
very fond of Amicus,

607
00:25:28,819 --> 00:25:30,404
as many of us did.

608
00:25:30,696 --> 00:25:31,238
- I saw them as a youngster.

609
00:25:31,530 --> 00:25:34,116
I had the good fortune to see
the originals at the drive-in.

610
00:25:34,408 --> 00:25:37,119
- They played nonstop
on late night television

611
00:25:37,411 --> 00:25:38,162
here in Australia.

612
00:25:38,454 --> 00:25:41,707
Had me totally scared
shitless when I was a kid.

613
00:25:41,999 --> 00:25:43,625
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] Max Rosenberg
and Milton Subotsky

614
00:25:43,917 --> 00:25:44,835
were both New Yorkers.

615
00:25:45,127 --> 00:25:46,378
They got together in the mid-'50s.

616
00:25:46,670 --> 00:25:49,173
Subotsky was producing a show for kids

617
00:25:49,465 --> 00:25:50,507
called "Junior Science."

618
00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:52,634
- Milton was a delightful man.

619
00:25:52,926 --> 00:25:54,887
He was really- And he gave me my break,

620
00:25:55,179 --> 00:25:57,806
and he was a gentleman.
There was not a mean stroke

621
00:25:58,098 --> 00:25:58,640
in his body.

622
00:25:58,932 --> 00:26:00,476
He was a very cultured man.

623
00:26:00,768 --> 00:26:02,394
- He met up with Max J. Rosenberg.

624
00:26:02,686 --> 00:26:04,021
They both wanted to get into filmmaking,

625
00:26:04,313 --> 00:26:05,147
and so they made a movie

626
00:26:05,439 --> 00:26:07,775
called "Rock, Rock, Rock!"

627
00:26:08,067 --> 00:26:09,401
Subotsky, who was a big horror fan,

628
00:26:09,693 --> 00:26:12,613
wrote a treatment for a new
adaptation of "Frankenstein,”

629
00:26:12,905 --> 00:26:15,157
and he sent it to Hammer Films in England.

630
00:26:15,449 --> 00:26:16,200
And it just so happened

631
00:26:16,492 --> 00:26:17,034
that they were interested

632
00:26:17,326 --> 00:26:18,160
in looking at something like that,

633
00:26:18,452 --> 00:26:20,245
because they had just done
"The Quatermass Experiment.”

634
00:26:20,537 --> 00:26:23,123
It was a big hit, and they wanted
to do something similar.

635
00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:25,834
They weren't too crazy
about the treatment itself,

636
00:26:26,126 --> 00:26:27,836
but they liked the idea of
doing a "Frankenstein” film.

637
00:26:28,128 --> 00:26:30,506
So they basically paid off Rosenberg

638
00:26:30,798 --> 00:26:32,049
as a kind of silent partner,

639
00:26:32,341 --> 00:26:33,967
and they went and made the
"Curse of Frankenstein,"

640
00:26:34,259 --> 00:26:36,178
which was the first
big Hammer horror film.

641
00:26:36,470 --> 00:26:39,473
Subotsky, I think, felt a little envious

642
00:26:39,765 --> 00:26:41,934
of how they took his idea and ran with it.

643
00:26:42,226 --> 00:26:45,813
- Milton Subotsky was hugely
responsible for what happened

644
00:26:46,105 --> 00:26:47,606
to the horror anthology.

645
00:26:47,898 --> 00:26:50,651
A lot of other companies tried
to cash in on it as well,

646
00:26:50,943 --> 00:26:52,861
but nobody did it like Subotsky did.

647
00:26:53,153 --> 00:26:54,571
- He had written the stories

648
00:26:54,863 --> 00:26:57,407
that became "Dr. Terror's
House of Horrors" years before

649
00:26:57,699 --> 00:26:58,951
for a proposed television series

650
00:26:59,243 --> 00:27:01,161
that never got off the ground.

651
00:27:01,453 --> 00:27:04,414
So he adapted those stories
into the screenplay,

652
00:27:04,706 --> 00:27:06,542
which was quite similar to "Dead of Night,"

653
00:27:06,834 --> 00:27:09,002
in that it had a framing
story and an ending

654
00:27:09,294 --> 00:27:10,796
that was unexpected.

655
00:27:11,088 --> 00:27:12,297
He loved "Dead of Night."

656
00:27:12,589 --> 00:27:14,299
That was one of his favorite films.

657
00:27:14,591 --> 00:27:17,469
- [David Del Valle] Peter Cushing comes
into the train compartment.

658
00:27:17,761 --> 00:27:20,347
- I think there's room for one
more in here, is there not?

659
00:27:20,639 --> 00:27:22,766
- [David Del Valle] And he's a benevolent
figure, that of course

660
00:27:23,058 --> 00:27:24,643
morphs into something else.

661
00:27:26,311 --> 00:27:26,979
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] It had a vampire story.

662
00:27:27,271 --> 00:27:29,606
- There are no such things as vampires.

663
00:27:29,898 --> 00:27:33,026
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] A werewolf story.
It had a man-eating plant,

664
00:27:33,318 --> 00:27:35,362
a voodoo story, and the crawling hand story,

665
00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:37,614
which is the one most
people remember, I think,

666
00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:39,032
from that film.

667
00:27:39,324 --> 00:27:39,867
- It's just so relentless.

668
00:27:40,159 --> 00:27:42,202
The hand that keeps coming
after Christopher Lee.

669
00:27:43,787 --> 00:27:45,914
I love that episode because it's rare

670
00:27:46,206 --> 00:27:48,333
when you see Christopher
Lee genuinely terrified

671
00:27:48,625 --> 00:27:49,376
in a movie.

672
00:27:49,668 --> 00:27:50,419
(man gasping)

673
00:27:50,711 --> 00:27:51,837
- [David Del Valle] It had a great cast.

674
00:27:52,129 --> 00:27:53,005
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] Photographed by Alan Hume,

675
00:27:53,297 --> 00:27:54,798
who photographed Hammer's
"Kiss of the Vampire."

676
00:27:55,090 --> 00:27:56,341
Just a great lookin' film.

677
00:27:57,968 --> 00:28:00,179
I met Freddy Francis shortly
before he passed away.

678
00:28:00,470 --> 00:28:01,805
He wasn't particularly
proud of his horror films.

679
00:28:02,097 --> 00:28:03,974
He didn't think he was that good at it.

680
00:28:04,266 --> 00:28:05,058
I think he was very good,

681
00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:07,102
I think next to Terence
Fisher, he was probably

682
00:28:07,394 --> 00:28:10,522
the most consistently good
horror film director in Britain.

683
00:28:11,565 --> 00:28:12,399
- My card.

684
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,612
Meet your fate at "Dr.
Terror's House of Horrors."

685
00:28:16,904 --> 00:28:19,406
- Kick off the Amicus brand, really.

686
00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:20,866
- Once that movie hit,

687
00:28:21,158 --> 00:28:21,909
(electricity sparking)

688
00:28:22,201 --> 00:28:23,785
Amicus found a formula,

689
00:28:24,077 --> 00:28:25,204
and they just continued to make them.

690
00:28:25,495 --> 00:28:27,873
- [Announcer] What horror
will you next reveal?

691
00:28:28,165 --> 00:28:30,584
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] Next one was
"Torture Garden" in 1968.

692
00:28:30,876 --> 00:28:33,086
- [Announcer] The sinister
world of Dr. Diabolo.

693
00:28:34,129 --> 00:28:36,757
- Burgess Meredith, as a
sort of carnival huckster,

694
00:28:37,049 --> 00:28:40,719
invited people into his tent
to see the torture garden.

695
00:28:41,011 --> 00:28:42,763
This one is usually regarded

696
00:28:43,055 --> 00:28:44,973
as maybe their weakest anthology film.

697
00:28:45,265 --> 00:28:46,600
I think it's a little bit underrated.

698
00:28:46,892 --> 00:28:48,393
They're all written by
Robert Bloch, by the way.

699
00:28:48,685 --> 00:28:51,146
- [David Del Valle] Robert Bloch, of
course, was famous for "Psycho,"

700
00:28:51,438 --> 00:28:53,690
but he was also famous
for writing collections

701
00:28:53,982 --> 00:28:55,192
of short stories.

702
00:28:55,484 --> 00:28:57,152
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] He started out
working with H.P. Lovecraft

703
00:28:57,444 --> 00:29:00,614
and "Weird Tales," and Bloch
actually first got together

704
00:29:00,906 --> 00:29:02,783
with Amicus for "The Skull,"

705
00:29:03,075 --> 00:29:05,827
which was a feature length
film, not an anthology film.

706
00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:07,829
- Robert Bloch had a very authorial voice

707
00:29:08,121 --> 00:29:11,583
in the Amicus films, based
on his own short stories.

708
00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:12,960
And in fact, I think he-

709
00:29:13,252 --> 00:29:15,712
Bloch really, and Richard
Matheson, were the people

710
00:29:16,004 --> 00:29:17,714
that I most wanted to
be when I was growing up

711
00:29:18,006 --> 00:29:19,716
because they were active as novelists,

712
00:29:20,008 --> 00:29:21,260
as well as screenwriters, at the same time.

713
00:29:21,551 --> 00:29:23,971
And I thought, my God,
how great could that be?

714
00:29:24,263 --> 00:29:26,390
- There was a huge mother lode of stories

715
00:29:26,682 --> 00:29:28,976
to choose from, as far as
Robert Bloch was concerned.

716
00:29:29,268 --> 00:29:30,602
Basically how they set things up

717
00:29:30,894 --> 00:29:33,605
was Subotsky would write
the framing stories,

718
00:29:33,897 --> 00:29:36,149
and he would put Bloch's stories in them,

719
00:29:36,441 --> 00:29:38,402
and then Bloch would write the
scripts for his own stories.

720
00:29:38,694 --> 00:29:41,321
- [Announcer] From the
shock author of "Psycho,”

721
00:29:41,613 --> 00:29:42,572
"Torture Garden."

722
00:29:42,864 --> 00:29:44,658
- "The Man Who Collected Poe" segment

723
00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:48,245
from "Torture Garden," just
'cause it unites Peter Cushing

724
00:29:48,537 --> 00:29:50,289
and Jack Palance and Edgar Allan Poe

725
00:29:50,580 --> 00:29:52,457
in the same segment, just makes me happy.

726
00:29:52,749 --> 00:29:55,460
- Did you know that there
are ways to raise the dead?

727
00:29:55,752 --> 00:29:57,421
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] Palance plays
this completely insane

728
00:29:57,713 --> 00:29:59,339
Poe collector, and he discovers

729
00:29:59,631 --> 00:30:00,924
that Peter Cushing has actually collected

730
00:30:01,216 --> 00:30:02,926
Edgar Allan Poe himself in his basement.

731
00:30:03,218 --> 00:30:06,096
- That's amazing. That's a mess of a film,

732
00:30:06,388 --> 00:30:08,056
but that story is something else in there.

733
00:30:08,348 --> 00:30:09,391
What a clever idea.

734
00:30:09,683 --> 00:30:10,892
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] One of the
problems is those two stories

735
00:30:11,184 --> 00:30:11,727
in the middle.

736
00:30:12,019 --> 00:30:13,812
They're just not among
Robert Bloch's best.

737
00:30:14,104 --> 00:30:15,522
And Freddie Francis was a good director,

738
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,941
but if he was not that
interested in the material,

739
00:30:18,233 --> 00:30:19,067
it kind of showed.

740
00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:22,279
(sinister organ music)
(door creaking)

741
00:30:22,571 --> 00:30:24,698
- [Announcer] This
house is full of sounds.

742
00:30:25,615 --> 00:30:29,202
The loudest is your heart
pounding in the night.

743
00:30:30,579 --> 00:30:32,622
- [David DeCoteau] The first
anthology horror movie I saw

744
00:30:32,914 --> 00:30:34,458
was "The House That Dripped Blood."

745
00:30:34,750 --> 00:30:38,628
- [Announcer] Vampires,
voodoo, vixens, and victims.

746
00:30:39,588 --> 00:30:40,839
- I didn't know what
an anthology movie was,

747
00:30:41,131 --> 00:30:43,467
I was 10 years old, but I just remember

748
00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:46,887
the first episode of that
with the character Dominick,

749
00:30:47,804 --> 00:30:51,016
I just remember being
horrified by that crazy face

750
00:30:51,308 --> 00:30:52,851
looking through the window.

751
00:30:53,143 --> 00:30:54,269
- The way that they conveyed Dominick,

752
00:30:54,561 --> 00:30:57,230
and just the way they
started suggesting him,

753
00:30:57,522 --> 00:30:59,232
I thought it was just
really skillfully done.

754
00:30:59,524 --> 00:31:01,151
- There's one point where
Denholm Elliott says,

755
00:31:01,443 --> 00:31:01,985
"He's there now,

756
00:31:02,277 --> 00:31:02,819
he's hiding behind the clock.

757
00:31:03,111 --> 00:31:03,653
Can't you see him?"

758
00:31:03,945 --> 00:31:05,655
And he's just this creepy little...

759
00:31:05,947 --> 00:31:07,324
- Didn't you see him move?

760
00:31:07,616 --> 00:31:08,200
- That was the one

761
00:31:08,492 --> 00:31:09,618
that just really scared
the shit out of me,

762
00:31:09,910 --> 00:31:11,620
directed by Peter Duff ell,

763
00:31:11,912 --> 00:31:14,331
just an amazingly terrifying movie.

764
00:31:14,623 --> 00:31:16,083
- [Announcer] "The House
That Dripped Blood."

765
00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:17,834
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] It sounds like a gruesome movie.

766
00:31:18,126 --> 00:31:19,169
I remember Robert Bloch at the time

767
00:31:19,461 --> 00:31:20,962
was kind of bemused at the title.

768
00:31:21,254 --> 00:31:21,797
He didn't really like it,

769
00:31:22,089 --> 00:31:23,882
but that was Max J. Rosenberg's idea.

770
00:31:24,174 --> 00:31:26,885
He was always the guy who
came up with the lurid titles.

771
00:31:27,177 --> 00:31:29,137
- [Announcer] See "Asylum."

772
00:31:29,429 --> 00:31:32,724
- I don't know what it was
about that particular movie,

773
00:31:33,016 --> 00:31:36,311
but I tend to want to go back
to it over and over again.

774
00:31:36,603 --> 00:31:38,063
(woman screaming)

775
00:31:38,355 --> 00:31:41,024
- It represents the most
sophisticated integration

776
00:31:41,316 --> 00:31:44,528
of the frame story into
the segments themselves.

777
00:31:44,820 --> 00:31:49,366
- This is an asylum of
the incurably insane.

778
00:31:49,658 --> 00:31:52,536
- The gimmick about having
to guess which inmate

779
00:31:52,828 --> 00:31:56,623
in the asylum is the former
superintendent doctor there,

780
00:31:56,915 --> 00:31:58,417
I think really keeps the audience engaged,

781
00:31:58,708 --> 00:32:01,294
because it's brought
up after every segment,

782
00:32:01,586 --> 00:32:03,296
and so that gives the
audience the opportunity

783
00:32:03,588 --> 00:32:05,382
to participate themselves.

784
00:32:05,674 --> 00:32:07,217
- [Ant Timpson] "Asylum” was pretty extraordinary.

785
00:32:07,509 --> 00:32:11,221
- The one episode where the
guy cut his wife up into pieces

786
00:32:11,513 --> 00:32:13,598
and then they were all
wrapped in butcher paper,

787
00:32:13,890 --> 00:32:15,892
and then they were put in the freezer,

788
00:32:16,184 --> 00:32:17,519
that was the greatest.

789
00:32:17,811 --> 00:32:18,687
(paper crinkling)
(ominous music)

790
00:32:18,979 --> 00:32:21,106
- And then the brown
paper and the breathing

791
00:32:21,398 --> 00:32:23,442
was nightmare fuel also,

792
00:32:23,733 --> 00:32:25,277
'cause I was born with a
caul on my head as well,

793
00:32:25,569 --> 00:32:28,780
so I have this thing about
being suffocated and drowning.

794
00:32:29,072 --> 00:32:30,949
And you know what a caul is, right?

795
00:32:31,241 --> 00:32:34,369
So a caul is like when the
birth sac doesn't open,

796
00:32:34,661 --> 00:32:37,497
and so there's a chance
the baby's gonna suffocate

797
00:32:37,789 --> 00:32:38,832
when they're born, 'cause it doesn't-

798
00:32:39,124 --> 00:32:41,042
it normally just breaks
and you just come out.

799
00:32:41,334 --> 00:32:43,170
And so- but the myth
is that if you're born

800
00:32:43,462 --> 00:32:45,464
with a caul on you, it's still
wrapped around your face,

801
00:32:45,755 --> 00:32:47,924
that you can never drown, right?

802
00:32:48,216 --> 00:32:52,304
And so I've survived two
drownings in my life. (chuckles)

803
00:32:52,596 --> 00:32:54,681
That imagery definitely
lasted for a lifetime.

804
00:32:56,725 --> 00:32:58,351
- To see that in a British horror film

805
00:32:58,643 --> 00:32:59,769
in the early '70s,

806
00:33:01,521 --> 00:33:02,189
when it was so tough

807
00:33:02,481 --> 00:33:05,525
to get away with heavier types of content.

808
00:33:05,817 --> 00:33:08,195
- Robert Bloch's final
collaboration with Amicus,

809
00:33:08,487 --> 00:33:10,697
this is like the apotheosis.

810
00:33:10,989 --> 00:33:13,366
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] Amicus, once they
discovered EC Comics, of course,

811
00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:15,327
that took them to a whole different level.

812
00:33:15,619 --> 00:33:17,078
- Somehow, Milton Subotsky from Amicus

813
00:33:17,370 --> 00:33:18,580
managed to get the rights

814
00:33:18,872 --> 00:33:23,084
to the EC Comics from the very
difficult William M. Gaines.

815
00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:25,295
- The EC Comics all had multiple stories

816
00:33:25,587 --> 00:33:27,714
that were unrelated, and so the whole idea

817
00:33:28,006 --> 00:33:30,467
of doing that as a movie
with "Tales From the Crypt"

818
00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:33,929
and "Vault of Horror," trying
to emulate those comic books,

819
00:33:34,221 --> 00:33:35,972
that's where it really kicked off.

820
00:33:36,264 --> 00:33:38,475
- I didn't even know what EC Comics was.

821
00:33:38,767 --> 00:33:41,728
There was a newspaper
called "The Monster Times,"

822
00:33:42,020 --> 00:33:46,816
and it was- it focused not
just on film, but on comics.

823
00:33:48,068 --> 00:33:49,444
So when "Tales From the Crypt" came out,

824
00:33:49,736 --> 00:33:51,738
they had a whole thing about EC Comics

825
00:33:52,030 --> 00:33:53,365
and how they were banned.

826
00:33:53,657 --> 00:33:55,700
They had reprints. I ordered a bunch,

827
00:33:55,992 --> 00:33:58,912
and each issue was like an
anthology with the host,

828
00:33:59,204 --> 00:34:00,163
and you had the four different stories

829
00:34:00,455 --> 00:34:02,457
and they all had that punchline.

830
00:34:02,749 --> 00:34:05,001
- You know, back then it
was considered verboten,

831
00:34:05,293 --> 00:34:07,879
forbidden, because the
Comics Code came into play,

832
00:34:08,171 --> 00:34:11,758
and really put the boot to
the backs of their necks

833
00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:14,261
on a lot of those things.
There were Senate hearings,

834
00:34:14,553 --> 00:34:18,056
and it was just- it became
that forbidden thing.

835
00:34:18,348 --> 00:34:20,475
And of course, if you're a kid,

836
00:34:20,767 --> 00:34:22,269
and you're told something's
not good for you,

837
00:34:22,561 --> 00:34:23,645
don't do that thing,

838
00:34:23,937 --> 00:34:24,854
what's the one thing
you're gonna want to do

839
00:34:25,146 --> 00:34:26,398
more than anything else?

840
00:34:26,690 --> 00:34:27,315
- Let's go back.

841
00:34:28,316 --> 00:34:30,944
(door scraping and crashing)

842
00:34:31,236 --> 00:34:33,530
- [Crypt Keeper] There's no way out there.

843
00:34:33,822 --> 00:34:35,615
- Probably the first one I remember seeing

844
00:34:35,907 --> 00:34:38,868
certainly in a theater was
"Tales From the Crypt."

845
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:40,036
- [Announcer] Death lives.

846
00:34:40,328 --> 00:34:43,540
(ominous music)
(heart beating)

847
00:34:43,832 --> 00:34:45,083
- [Mick Garris] Made a big impression on me.

848
00:34:45,375 --> 00:34:47,877
- I was working at the
British Film Institute.

849
00:34:48,169 --> 00:34:50,046
I wrote for the monthly film bulletin,

850
00:34:50,338 --> 00:34:54,092
and I reviewed it and I gave
it a very good review, indeed.

851
00:34:54,384 --> 00:34:57,470
- No, it's not the only
one based on the EC Comics.

852
00:34:57,762 --> 00:34:59,472
It's the core system for really capturing

853
00:34:59,764 --> 00:35:00,765
the spirit of it.

854
00:35:01,057 --> 00:35:05,312
- That summed up so much of
that American comic ethos

855
00:35:05,604 --> 00:35:08,815
of that era, that was
kind of forbidden fruit

856
00:35:09,107 --> 00:35:11,901
to us in the UK, 'cause we
couldn't get those comics.

857
00:35:12,193 --> 00:35:13,945
- "Tales From the Crypt" is just perfect.

858
00:35:14,237 --> 00:35:15,530
I actually like their versions

859
00:35:15,822 --> 00:35:19,117
of the EC stories than the ones
they did in the '80s and '90s,

860
00:35:19,409 --> 00:35:20,410
because there never was

861
00:35:20,702 --> 00:35:22,412
a whole lot of sex and stuff in those,

862
00:35:22,704 --> 00:35:25,206
but they kind of just took
the exploitation aspects.

863
00:35:25,498 --> 00:35:27,709
And the approach to "Tales From the Crypt"

864
00:35:28,001 --> 00:35:30,211
was very somber, very serious.

865
00:35:30,503 --> 00:35:32,130
The music, Ralph Richardson.

866
00:35:32,422 --> 00:35:33,840
- I always knew that in
the wraparound episodes,

867
00:35:34,132 --> 00:35:35,300
they could get a really good actor,

868
00:35:35,592 --> 00:35:37,552
'cause they'd only have to
pay for him for two days.

869
00:35:37,844 --> 00:35:38,928
So in "Tales From the Crypt,"

870
00:35:39,220 --> 00:35:41,556
they've got Sir Ralph Richardson
playing the Crypt Keeper.

871
00:35:41,848 --> 00:35:43,850
- Why did you come in here?

872
00:35:44,142 --> 00:35:45,101
- That's pretty classy.

873
00:35:46,227 --> 00:35:46,978
- I just saw it recently,

874
00:35:47,270 --> 00:35:47,896
and it still holds up.

875
00:35:48,188 --> 00:35:49,773
I've got to say it's still pretty creepy,

876
00:35:50,065 --> 00:35:51,733
although it's really cheesy in spots, too.

877
00:35:52,025 --> 00:35:53,777
- Perhaps you'll remember Joan Collins

878
00:35:54,069 --> 00:35:55,195
being killed by Santa Claus.

879
00:35:55,487 --> 00:35:57,197
That's what most people remember.

880
00:35:57,489 --> 00:35:59,324
(bell jingling)

881
00:35:59,616 --> 00:36:00,492
- He's here, Mummy!

882
00:36:00,784 --> 00:36:02,869
- The Joan Collins Santa Claus episode

883
00:36:03,161 --> 00:36:04,371
still casts a long shadow.

884
00:36:04,663 --> 00:36:05,622
- They're being trapped in the house,

885
00:36:05,914 --> 00:36:07,499
and you've just got the Christmas carols

886
00:36:07,791 --> 00:36:09,501
and the mad Santa outside.

887
00:36:09,793 --> 00:36:10,877
You know, that's absolutely perfect.

888
00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:11,711
- And I love the fact

889
00:36:12,003 --> 00:36:14,714
that you get all of the information
through, either the radio,

890
00:36:15,006 --> 00:36:16,007
and they have the murderer on the loose,

891
00:36:16,299 --> 00:36:17,384
and then everything just plays out

892
00:36:17,676 --> 00:36:18,885
almost like a silent film,

893
00:36:19,177 --> 00:36:19,928
and I think it's beautifully done.

894
00:36:20,220 --> 00:36:23,139
- The Santa Claus, there's
a guy reading the newspaper,

895
00:36:23,431 --> 00:36:25,642
and there's this blood hits the paper

896
00:36:25,934 --> 00:36:27,602
and starts seeping through.

897
00:36:27,894 --> 00:36:30,855
An image indelible in
cinema, in my opinion.

898
00:36:31,147 --> 00:36:33,900
- I just think that is a perfect piece

899
00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:37,946
of short filmmaking that-
I watch it every Christmas,

900
00:36:38,238 --> 00:36:41,282
because it also evokes
Christmas very well.

901
00:36:41,574 --> 00:36:43,660
- When I think of horror anthologies,

902
00:36:43,952 --> 00:36:46,663
I do think of that, that "All
Through the House"” segment

903
00:36:46,955 --> 00:36:50,250
of "Tales From the
Crypt" as a classic turn

904
00:36:50,542 --> 00:36:52,335
in the history of horror anthologies.

905
00:36:52,627 --> 00:36:53,670
- That's my favorite.

906
00:36:53,962 --> 00:36:55,380
- It is good fun, but
there are another couple

907
00:36:55,672 --> 00:36:56,673
of very good stories.

908
00:36:56,965 --> 00:36:59,676
- My favorite, and it's the
one that really traumatized me,

909
00:36:59,968 --> 00:37:01,136
because I never forgot this image,

910
00:37:01,428 --> 00:37:03,096
there's a rich guy who loses his money

911
00:37:03,388 --> 00:37:04,681
by making bad investments.

912
00:37:04,973 --> 00:37:06,933
And he gets a call from
his business manager.

913
00:37:07,225 --> 00:37:07,767
- Hello?

914
00:37:08,059 --> 00:37:08,768
- He says, "You gotta get in right now.

915
00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:09,602
You've gotta come in."

916
00:37:09,894 --> 00:37:10,437
So he drives.

917
00:37:10,729 --> 00:37:12,564
When the guy looks in his
rearview mirror, driving away,

918
00:37:12,856 --> 00:37:15,233
guy in the motorcycle
comes up and he looks up,

919
00:37:15,525 --> 00:37:17,652
and you could see his face is a skull.

920
00:37:17,944 --> 00:37:20,822
Really that one image- it's
funny, when you think of horror,

921
00:37:21,114 --> 00:37:22,198
we have these specific images

922
00:37:22,490 --> 00:37:25,827
from horror films that
stay with us forever.

923
00:37:26,119 --> 00:37:28,371
- I think my favorite
segment would have to be,

924
00:37:29,789 --> 00:37:31,708
I think it's called "Poetic Justice."

925
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,668
I mean, all the stories in all these films

926
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:34,753
are poetic justice.

927
00:37:35,044 --> 00:37:36,463
- I think that's why I
love these anthologies.

928
00:37:36,755 --> 00:37:39,090
It's really hard to spend an entire film

929
00:37:39,382 --> 00:37:40,467
with characters that you don't like,

930
00:37:40,759 --> 00:37:42,969
or don't care about, but in an anthology,

931
00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:45,054
it's actually really easy,
'cause you know that A,

932
00:37:45,346 --> 00:37:46,765
they're all gonna get their comeuppance.

933
00:37:47,056 --> 00:37:49,976
Like there's a moral
language to the EC comics

934
00:37:50,268 --> 00:37:52,312
we're still really caught up in.

935
00:37:52,604 --> 00:37:53,813
- It's just the enjoyment of them.

936
00:37:54,105 --> 00:37:55,940
But I think the actual story
is called "Poetic Justice."

937
00:37:56,232 --> 00:37:57,942
And it's the one with Peter Cushing.

938
00:37:58,234 --> 00:37:59,152
- "Poetic Justice."

939
00:37:59,444 --> 00:38:02,071
That's probably one of Peter
Cushing's best performances.

940
00:38:02,363 --> 00:38:04,949
- He plays Grimsdyke,
the bullied neighbor.

941
00:38:05,241 --> 00:38:07,202
- Peter Cushing's wife died

942
00:38:07,494 --> 00:38:08,661
the year before the film was made,

943
00:38:08,953 --> 00:38:10,622
and he was still grieving,

944
00:38:10,914 --> 00:38:15,293
and within the story, he's
playing somebody who's grieving

945
00:38:15,585 --> 00:38:16,753
for his dead wife.

946
00:38:17,045 --> 00:38:18,463
- That's all that matters.

947
00:38:18,755 --> 00:38:22,300
- His performance is so credible and good.

948
00:38:22,592 --> 00:38:24,093
- ""Cause your presence ruins it."

949
00:38:28,097 --> 00:38:28,765
Oh...

950
00:38:29,057 --> 00:38:29,974
- [Simon Barrett] It's genuinely
a heartbreaking segment.

951
00:38:30,266 --> 00:38:34,979
- Peter Cushing, I think, is
one of the greatest actors

952
00:38:35,271 --> 00:38:35,814
that ever lived.

953
00:38:36,105 --> 00:38:40,026
(sinister music)
(heart beating)

954
00:38:40,318 --> 00:38:41,611
(man screaming)

955
00:38:41,903 --> 00:38:43,613
- Peter Cushing with that makeup as a kid,

956
00:38:43,905 --> 00:38:45,657
that was a seminal image.

957
00:38:45,949 --> 00:38:46,658
- It's actually pretty remarkable

958
00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:47,951
the amount of times you'll see

959
00:38:48,243 --> 00:38:51,871
the Arthur Grimsdyke corpse
makeup appropriated image,

960
00:38:52,163 --> 00:38:55,166
I've witnessed in all of
Italian horror comics.

961
00:38:55,458 --> 00:38:58,127
- I mean, do I like "Tales
From the Crypt," or what?

962
00:38:58,419 --> 00:38:59,045
You know, this is my little

963
00:38:59,337 --> 00:39:01,422
Arthur Grimsdyke Peter Cushing.

964
00:39:01,714 --> 00:39:03,091
(dramatic music)

965
00:39:03,383 --> 00:39:04,592
(fist pounding)

966
00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:06,928
- The last story, "Blind Alley,”

967
00:39:07,220 --> 00:39:09,597
I described as worthy of Poe.

968
00:39:11,641 --> 00:39:13,017
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] It takes place
in the home for the blind.

969
00:39:13,309 --> 00:39:15,019
- It's such a nasty story.

970
00:39:15,311 --> 00:39:17,021
- I love it because it
has Nigel Patrick in it.

971
00:39:17,313 --> 00:39:19,941
I was a big fan of- I'm
not sure many people admit

972
00:39:20,233 --> 00:39:22,360
to being a huge fan of Nigel Patrick,

973
00:39:22,652 --> 00:39:25,196
always playing stuffy ex-military men.

974
00:39:25,488 --> 00:39:27,657
- Nigel Patrick's horrible, "Shane, Shane!"

975
00:39:28,658 --> 00:39:29,993
- Shane!
(dog barking)

976
00:39:30,285 --> 00:39:31,160
- The beds are cold.

977
00:39:31,452 --> 00:39:32,745
- I am the officer in charge.

978
00:39:33,037 --> 00:39:33,997
- This isn't the bloody army!

979
00:39:34,289 --> 00:39:35,623
- Reece Shearsmith from "The
League of Gentlemen" and I,

980
00:39:35,915 --> 00:39:38,167
we're always doing Patrick Magee.

981
00:39:38,459 --> 00:39:39,586
The men are cold.

982
00:39:39,878 --> 00:39:41,838
- This isn't the bloody army!

983
00:39:42,130 --> 00:39:44,257
- This is not the bloody army!

984
00:39:44,549 --> 00:39:47,468
- The men are cold. (chuckling)

985
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:49,846
- Do you know anything about blind people?

986
00:39:50,138 --> 00:39:52,557
- [Mark Hartley] Beautifully
directed by Freddie Francis.

987
00:39:52,849 --> 00:39:54,350
- Every image in that is amazing.

988
00:39:54,642 --> 00:39:55,727
The razor blade alleyway.

989
00:39:56,019 --> 00:39:58,605
- [Mark Hartley] That still
packs an absolute wallop.

990
00:39:58,897 --> 00:40:01,441
- That was one of the most- (laughs)

991
00:40:01,733 --> 00:40:03,610
That's something that never leaves you.

992
00:40:03,902 --> 00:40:04,944
- That is just a masterpiece.

993
00:40:05,236 --> 00:40:06,112
I mean, "Tales From the Crypt"

994
00:40:06,404 --> 00:40:10,366
is the only anthology film
where every episode is superb.

995
00:40:10,658 --> 00:40:11,409
- I mean, there's no doubt about it.

996
00:40:11,701 --> 00:40:13,995
I still, and I've seen
the movie 1,000 times-

997
00:40:14,287 --> 00:40:15,538
I'm still afraid of it.

998
00:40:15,830 --> 00:40:18,166
When I putiton, I'm
still genuinely creeped out

999
00:40:18,458 --> 00:40:19,751
by "Tales From the Crypt."

1000
00:40:20,043 --> 00:40:22,128
It's got a certain dark magic about it

1001
00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:24,047
that gets me every single time.

1002
00:40:24,339 --> 00:40:26,966
- This film was such a huge
success around the world.

1003
00:40:27,258 --> 00:40:30,178
I read some trivia that in the U.S.

1004
00:40:30,470 --> 00:40:32,597
it was second that year at the box office

1005
00:40:32,889 --> 00:40:33,932
only to "The Godfather."

1006
00:40:34,223 --> 00:40:36,017
People really were embracing these films

1007
00:40:36,309 --> 00:40:37,060
in the early '70s.

1008
00:40:37,352 --> 00:40:38,269
And Subotsky kept going with them,

1009
00:40:38,561 --> 00:40:40,355
and obviously this reinvigorated Amicus,

1010
00:40:40,647 --> 00:40:41,981
and he kept on making them.

1011
00:40:42,273 --> 00:40:43,149
(door scraping)

1012
00:40:43,441 --> 00:40:46,361
- [Announcer] Enter death's waiting room,

1013
00:40:46,653 --> 00:40:48,196
if you dare.

1014
00:40:48,488 --> 00:40:49,405
(woman screaming)

1015
00:40:49,697 --> 00:40:54,494
Below the crypt lies
the "Vault of Horror."

1016
00:40:55,620 --> 00:40:58,539
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] I enjoy it.
Terry Thomas and Glynis Johns,

1017
00:40:58,831 --> 00:41:02,126
that story, I think is a
really good black comedy.

1018
00:41:02,418 --> 00:41:03,419
- Can't you do anything neatly?

1019
00:41:03,711 --> 00:41:04,420
Can't you do anything neatly?

1020
00:41:04,712 --> 00:41:06,255
Can't you do anything neatly?

1021
00:41:06,547 --> 00:41:07,090
(woman screaming)

1022
00:41:07,382 --> 00:41:09,842
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] But the "Vault of
Horror" is not as successful,

1023
00:41:10,134 --> 00:41:10,927
and some people think

1024
00:41:11,219 --> 00:41:13,888
it's kind of a weaker
Amicus anthology film.

1025
00:41:15,682 --> 00:41:18,101
- [Announcer] This is where
the temptations begin.

1026
00:41:19,477 --> 00:41:21,396
Unlimited temptations.

1027
00:41:21,688 --> 00:41:23,439
- The final Amicus anthology film

1028
00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:25,483
is a movie called "From Beyond the Grave."

1029
00:41:25,775 --> 00:41:26,901
- It's beautifully made.

1030
00:41:27,193 --> 00:41:28,736
The cast, the stories,

1031
00:41:29,028 --> 00:41:30,697
rather well-directed, Kevin Connor.

1032
00:41:30,989 --> 00:41:33,116
- I was editing at the
time, and it wasn't enough.

1033
00:41:33,408 --> 00:41:34,784
So I wanted to produce

1034
00:41:35,076 --> 00:41:37,078
or just to move on, do something more.

1035
00:41:37,370 --> 00:41:38,955
Not particularly to direct.

1036
00:41:39,247 --> 00:41:41,207
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] Instead of
Robert Bloch or EC comics,

1037
00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:42,625
all the stories came from a guy

1038
00:41:42,917 --> 00:41:44,210
named R. Chetwynd-Hayes.

1039
00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:47,088
- Optioned 12 short
stories of Chetwynd-Hayes,

1040
00:41:47,380 --> 00:41:49,465
tried to sell them as a TV series,

1041
00:41:49,757 --> 00:41:50,967
but nobody wanted to know about it.

1042
00:41:51,259 --> 00:41:53,261
And thanks to my agent, they ended up

1043
00:41:53,553 --> 00:41:54,971
on Milton Subotsky's desk,

1044
00:41:55,263 --> 00:41:59,142
and he said, "I'm gonna
take four of these stories,

1045
00:41:59,434 --> 00:42:01,269
write a connecting story,

1046
00:42:01,561 --> 00:42:02,770
and you can direct them."

1047
00:42:03,062 --> 00:42:05,148
I said, "Well, I've never directed."

1048
00:42:06,733 --> 00:42:09,318
He said, "Editors make good directors."

1049
00:42:09,610 --> 00:42:10,903
- Can I help you at all?

1050
00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:11,738
- I'll tell you what,

1051
00:42:12,030 --> 00:42:13,281
I'll give you 25 quid to get rid of it.

1052
00:42:13,573 --> 00:42:14,115
- It's a deal.

1053
00:42:14,407 --> 00:42:16,534
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] Which again has
Peter Cushing in the framing story,

1054
00:42:16,826 --> 00:42:18,161
as he was in "Dr. Terror."

1055
00:42:18,453 --> 00:42:19,287
I love this framing story.

1056
00:42:19,579 --> 00:42:21,998
It takes place in a curiosity shop.

1057
00:42:22,290 --> 00:42:23,958
- I love the idea of an antiques dealer,

1058
00:42:24,250 --> 00:42:27,170
who every time he gets
shortchanged by a customer,

1059
00:42:27,462 --> 00:42:29,297
sells them something which is guaranteed

1060
00:42:29,589 --> 00:42:32,341
to make their soul rot in hell.

1061
00:42:32,633 --> 00:42:35,803
Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes was a horror writer,

1062
00:42:36,095 --> 00:42:37,597
but also furniture dealer,

1063
00:42:37,889 --> 00:42:38,723
and I think that's why

1064
00:42:39,015 --> 00:42:41,559
"From Beyond the Grave" has
really got that great feeling

1065
00:42:41,851 --> 00:42:46,022
of mirrors and doors and objects.

1066
00:42:46,314 --> 00:42:47,023
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] Cushing is great in it.

1067
00:42:47,315 --> 00:42:49,776
He's a little bit off the
wall, but he's really fun.

1068
00:42:50,068 --> 00:42:52,278
- Quite a lovely piece is
that, sir, quite lovely.

1069
00:42:52,570 --> 00:42:53,154
- He put the accent in,

1070
00:42:53,446 --> 00:42:56,365
he came up with ideas and the one-liners.

1071
00:42:56,657 --> 00:42:58,159
Talk about an English gentleman.

1072
00:42:58,451 --> 00:43:00,536
He really was polite and never questioned

1073
00:43:00,828 --> 00:43:03,039
my sort of stumbling around as a director.

1074
00:43:03,331 --> 00:43:06,042
And in the editing rooms, we
used to wear cotton gloves,

1075
00:43:06,334 --> 00:43:09,504
and he, in between takes,

1076
00:43:09,796 --> 00:43:12,840
he would put on a cotton
glove to have a cigarette,

1077
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,469
because of the nicotine,
which is very sweet.

1078
00:43:16,761 --> 00:43:20,306
But he also made a railway
station for my son,

1079
00:43:20,598 --> 00:43:22,391
in his spare time, and presented it to me

1080
00:43:22,683 --> 00:43:23,559
before the end of the movie.

1081
00:43:23,851 --> 00:43:26,437
- I don't think the
Amicus anthology movies

1082
00:43:26,729 --> 00:43:28,898
would have been as good or as popular

1083
00:43:29,190 --> 00:43:31,859
if it weren't for him, he
literally elevated that material.

1084
00:43:32,151 --> 00:43:34,028
- I watched it again the other day,

1085
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,698
and thought wow, this really
looks like the lead up

1086
00:43:37,990 --> 00:43:39,117
to Thatcher's Britain.

1087
00:43:39,408 --> 00:43:40,952
It looks like Britain in the '70s.

1088
00:43:41,244 --> 00:43:43,162
It's got such an incredible feeling

1089
00:43:43,454 --> 00:43:46,791
of things being down that hill,
kind of post-war bomb sites

1090
00:43:47,083 --> 00:43:49,460
and just everything gray and weird.

1091
00:43:49,752 --> 00:43:54,132
- It was 1973, and England
was in the doldrums.

1092
00:43:54,423 --> 00:43:56,342
Three-day weeks, power cuts,

1093
00:43:56,634 --> 00:43:59,512
it was horrendous, and the film industry

1094
00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:02,140
was almost non-existent.

1095
00:44:02,431 --> 00:44:05,685
- Weirdly, the EC ones, which
I'm very fond of, obviously,

1096
00:44:05,977 --> 00:44:07,353
there's a strange disconnect

1097
00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:09,772
between the American source material

1098
00:44:10,064 --> 00:44:12,108
and the Sheppertonness of their making.

1099
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:13,860
Whereas with Chetwynd-Hayes' stories,

1100
00:44:14,152 --> 00:44:16,404
they are so properly British.

1101
00:44:16,696 --> 00:44:18,030
There's something very distinct

1102
00:44:18,322 --> 00:44:19,615
about "From Beyond the Grave."

1103
00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:21,450
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] There was a freshness to it,

1104
00:44:21,742 --> 00:44:24,370
especially the one with Donald
Pleasence and his daughter,

1105
00:44:24,662 --> 00:44:26,664
which is a just bizarre tale.

1106
00:44:26,956 --> 00:44:29,250
- [David Del Valle] That is a fantastic segment.

1107
00:44:29,542 --> 00:44:31,502
- [Emily] One quick
stab, just (indistinct).

1108
00:44:33,588 --> 00:44:36,716
- And lan Bannen is in an
unhappy marriage to Diana Dors.

1109
00:44:37,008 --> 00:44:37,925
He ends up befriending Donald Pleasence.

1110
00:44:38,217 --> 00:44:39,969
Donald Pleasence takes him home for dinner

1111
00:44:40,261 --> 00:44:41,637
and introduces him to his daughter,

1112
00:44:41,929 --> 00:44:44,348
played by his real life
daughter, Angela Pleasence.

1113
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,058
- I'm surprised she didn't do more films.

1114
00:44:46,350 --> 00:44:47,185
She was really good.

1115
00:44:47,476 --> 00:44:48,352
- And actually plays the role

1116
00:44:48,644 --> 00:44:51,772
as if she's in some sort
of trance, and lan Bannen

1117
00:44:52,064 --> 00:44:53,900
becomes entranced by her.

1118
00:44:54,192 --> 00:44:57,612
They concoct this plan
to murder Diana Dors,

1119
00:44:57,904 --> 00:44:59,947
so that lan Bannen can
actually become part

1120
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,284
of this really weird family of Pleasences.

1121
00:45:03,576 --> 00:45:04,535
- I'll never forget that sequence,

1122
00:45:04,827 --> 00:45:06,204
which is such a creepy film.

1123
00:45:06,495 --> 00:45:07,288
- It was a good little story.

1124
00:45:07,580 --> 00:45:09,498
And it just- it was just creepy.

1125
00:45:09,790 --> 00:45:10,374
And I think, you know,

1126
00:45:10,666 --> 00:45:13,377
one of the things that
really made it work,

1127
00:45:13,669 --> 00:45:14,212
now I think of it,

1128
00:45:14,503 --> 00:45:18,090
was putting Angela and
Donald together. Their eyes,

1129
00:45:19,008 --> 00:45:20,801
they have the same eyes,
just the pair of them.

1130
00:45:21,093 --> 00:45:24,931
You know, side by side,
those eyes, staring at you.

1131
00:45:26,390 --> 00:45:27,975
- I think the actual quality

1132
00:45:28,267 --> 00:45:30,519
of the acting really
elevate it to another level.

1133
00:45:30,811 --> 00:45:33,606
- All of these stories have one
thing in common, don't they?

1134
00:45:33,898 --> 00:45:38,444
First rate British character
actors, all of them.

1135
00:45:38,736 --> 00:45:40,529
They all take a minute out to work these.

1136
00:45:40,821 --> 00:45:43,783
Robert Morley, Joan Collins, Diana Dors,

1137
00:45:44,075 --> 00:45:46,077
Donald Pleasence, Sir Ralph Richardson,

1138
00:45:46,369 --> 00:45:49,497
Jack Hawkins, David Warner, lan Ogilvy.

1139
00:45:49,789 --> 00:45:51,499
- There was no snobbiness about it.

1140
00:45:51,791 --> 00:45:53,459
They didn't look down on the genre.

1141
00:45:53,751 --> 00:45:55,211
- [David Del Valle] The anthology horror movies

1142
00:45:55,503 --> 00:45:59,340
were always looked upon as
trash by the critics of the day.

1143
00:45:59,632 --> 00:46:01,300
The actors didn't feel that way.

1144
00:46:01,592 --> 00:46:02,551
Some of these actors,

1145
00:46:02,843 --> 00:46:04,720
they do some of their best work in horror.

1146
00:46:05,012 --> 00:46:07,640
- You could get this
wonderful cast for five days,

1147
00:46:07,932 --> 00:46:10,810
or whatever it was, for
scale plus, or something.

1148
00:46:11,102 --> 00:46:12,103
It was the times.

1149
00:46:12,395 --> 00:46:14,563
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] "From Beyond the
Grave" was pretty well received

1150
00:46:14,855 --> 00:46:16,857
at the time, and I think it's
actually one of their best.

1151
00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:18,985
- I think it's in a class apart.

1152
00:46:19,277 --> 00:46:20,278
It's very sad it's the last one.

1153
00:46:20,569 --> 00:46:22,029
'Cause it's like they really got somewhere

1154
00:46:22,321 --> 00:46:23,322
and then it stops.

1155
00:46:24,365 --> 00:46:25,032
- They were pleased with it,

1156
00:46:25,324 --> 00:46:26,617
so they offered me their next one,

1157
00:46:26,909 --> 00:46:29,036
"Land That Time Forgot," which was great.

1158
00:46:29,328 --> 00:46:31,372
But Milton, there was some funny business

1159
00:46:31,664 --> 00:46:33,833
went on between him and Max and so on.

1160
00:46:34,125 --> 00:46:38,504
So which I was on- I
really didn't know about it

1161
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,717
until obviously, there was a split.

1162
00:46:43,009 --> 00:46:44,677
It was a shame, really.

1163
00:46:44,969 --> 00:46:46,512
- [Bruce Hallenbeck] Most people think of Amicus

1164
00:46:46,804 --> 00:46:50,099
as anthology specialists
because they made seven of them.

1165
00:46:50,391 --> 00:46:52,768
They only made about 35 films or so total.

1166
00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:55,146
- I know there are other anthology
movies, aside from the Amicus.

1167
00:46:55,438 --> 00:46:57,732
But those are the
ones I grew up watching.

1168
00:46:58,024 --> 00:47:01,027
And you know, I'm kinda hard
put really to choose which one.

1169
00:47:01,319 --> 00:47:01,861
They all have their merits.

1170
00:47:02,153 --> 00:47:05,614
They all have individual
stories which, I've just embedded

1171
00:47:06,741 --> 00:47:08,701
in my horror consciousness.

1172
00:47:08,993 --> 00:47:12,163
- The very first screenplay
I wrote as a kid,

1173
00:47:12,455 --> 00:47:14,915
as a teenager, was an anthology film.

1174
00:47:15,207 --> 00:47:16,709
And I sent it off to a producer,

1175
00:47:17,001 --> 00:47:19,337
Milton Subotsky, of Amicus films.

1176
00:47:20,338 --> 00:47:23,591
And lo and behold, I
came home one lunchtime

1177
00:47:23,883 --> 00:47:26,761
and there was a letter
marked from Pinewood Studios,

1178
00:47:27,053 --> 00:47:28,387
and there was a letter inside.

1179
00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:29,680
I'll never forget it,

1180
00:47:29,972 --> 00:47:32,850
from Milton Subotsky, saying,
"I've read your script.”

1181
00:47:33,142 --> 00:47:35,269
I was like 16.

1182
00:47:35,561 --> 00:47:37,355
"And I think there's something in it.

1183
00:47:37,646 --> 00:47:40,191
And here are some notes,"
like two pages of notes.

1184
00:47:40,483 --> 00:47:42,234
"If you can figure out
how to do these things,

1185
00:47:42,526 --> 00:47:44,403
we might have a film."

1186
00:47:44,695 --> 00:47:46,405
And I was like, wow.

1187
00:47:46,697 --> 00:47:49,408
- [Announcer] The most
terrifying creature of all

1188
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:53,579
may be waiting for you
round the next corner.

1189
00:47:53,871 --> 00:47:54,580
(man gasping)

1190
00:47:54,872 --> 00:47:56,582
- "The Uncanny” is a
Milton Subotsky production.

1191
00:47:56,874 --> 00:47:58,876
It was after Amicus died.

1192
00:47:59,168 --> 00:48:01,504
- As a very young kid,
staying up on Friday nights

1193
00:48:01,796 --> 00:48:02,338
on Shock Theater.

1194
00:48:02,630 --> 00:48:04,382
My sister would watch it every Friday.

1195
00:48:04,673 --> 00:48:06,967
I was too young, and I would
hide under, like a table

1196
00:48:07,259 --> 00:48:08,010
in the living room, to watch.

1197
00:48:08,302 --> 00:48:11,055
And "The Uncanny" was one of these movies.

1198
00:48:11,347 --> 00:48:12,890
- Not a particularly popular one,

1199
00:48:13,182 --> 00:48:14,392
but it's the one when I thought about it,

1200
00:48:14,683 --> 00:48:16,435
I think "The Uncanny" is
the one that I've seen

1201
00:48:16,727 --> 00:48:17,436
more than any other,

1202
00:48:17,728 --> 00:48:20,856
probably 100 times after
I taped it off television.

1203
00:48:21,148 --> 00:48:24,026
- People used to believe a
cat was the devil in disguise.

1204
00:48:24,318 --> 00:48:25,569
- And I like all three of the stories.

1205
00:48:25,861 --> 00:48:28,072
And I particularly loved
the wraparound story

1206
00:48:28,364 --> 00:48:30,241
with Peter Cushing and Ray Milland.

1207
00:48:30,533 --> 00:48:31,492
- He won't bite you.

1208
00:48:31,784 --> 00:48:32,326
- I'm not so sure.

1209
00:48:32,618 --> 00:48:34,620
- I don't think I knew who Ray Milland was

1210
00:48:34,912 --> 00:48:36,038
when I first saw the film.

1211
00:48:36,330 --> 00:48:37,415
- How are you going to convince the people

1212
00:48:37,706 --> 00:48:39,625
that what you're writing about is true?

1213
00:48:39,917 --> 00:48:40,876
- [David Gregory] But him and Peter Cushing,

1214
00:48:41,168 --> 00:48:41,710
I mean, I could see

1215
00:48:42,002 --> 00:48:44,463
that they were definitely
aging movie stars.

1216
00:48:44,755 --> 00:48:47,550
So I really got into the
story from the wraparound.

1217
00:48:47,842 --> 00:48:49,051
- My favorite segment, it's the one

1218
00:48:49,343 --> 00:48:52,263
about a young girl whose
parents die in a plane crash.

1219
00:48:52,555 --> 00:48:55,891
So she has to go stay with
her aunt, the cat hater.

1220
00:48:56,183 --> 00:48:57,017
- Wellington?

1221
00:48:57,309 --> 00:49:00,020
- They treat this young
little orphan girl so terribly,

1222
00:49:00,312 --> 00:49:02,773
it's almost shocking actually
to sort of watch it now.

1223
00:49:03,065 --> 00:49:06,277
The young Lucy uses her
mom's witchcraft amulet

1224
00:49:06,569 --> 00:49:08,737
and books to shrink her sister

1225
00:49:09,029 --> 00:49:11,699
so she can get her cat
Wellington to torment her,

1226
00:49:11,991 --> 00:49:13,742
and eventually she stomps on her.

1227
00:49:14,034 --> 00:49:15,911
This one was my favorite
'cause I'm a cat lover.

1228
00:49:16,203 --> 00:49:18,789
- [Announcer] There are
millions of them, everywhere.

1229
00:49:19,832 --> 00:49:21,292
Spying on us.

1230
00:49:21,584 --> 00:49:24,587
(woman crying out)
(cats snarling)

1231
00:49:24,879 --> 00:49:27,840
<i>2 Your answer 10 a curse J</i>

1232
00:49:28,132 --> 00:49:29,717
- [David Gregory] "The Monster Club" is also

1233
00:49:30,009 --> 00:49:30,551
a Milton Subotsky production.

1234
00:49:30,843 --> 00:49:33,471
- One of the first film
posters I ever designed

1235
00:49:33,762 --> 00:49:35,306
was for "Monster Club.”

1236
00:49:35,598 --> 00:49:36,974
I was about a year out of college.

1237
00:49:37,266 --> 00:49:38,684
We ended up doing two illustrations,

1238
00:49:38,976 --> 00:49:41,353
because the first one was considered too scary

1239
00:49:41,645 --> 00:49:43,898
because they were actually
gonna pitch it at kids.

1240
00:49:44,190 --> 00:49:47,318
- [David Del Valle] Milton Subotsky
wanted to entertain children.

1241
00:49:47,610 --> 00:49:51,030
"The Monster Club" is a
total children's movie,

1242
00:49:51,322 --> 00:49:55,117
even down to having really
ludicrous monster masks,

1243
00:49:55,409 --> 00:49:57,119
Vincent Price has to dance through.

1244
00:49:57,411 --> 00:49:59,538
- They're not very good. (laughing)

1245
00:49:59,830 --> 00:50:01,373
- [Announcer] Songs by B.A. Robertson.

1246
00:50:01,665 --> 00:50:03,375
- [David Del Valle] They tried to
make it into a musical.

1247
00:50:03,667 --> 00:50:04,752
S I'm from Transylvania »

1248
00:50:05,044 --> 00:50:08,672
<i>2 And I'm a pain in the neck ></i>

1249
00:50:08,964 --> 00:50:10,341
- It was definitely a kids film,

1250
00:50:10,633 --> 00:50:13,969
but it has an atmosphere in it,
particularly in the stories,

1251
00:50:14,261 --> 00:50:15,429
not necessarily in the wraparound.

1252
00:50:15,721 --> 00:50:16,639
- Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes,

1253
00:50:16,931 --> 00:50:18,265
who had written the
book "The Monster Club"

1254
00:50:18,557 --> 00:50:19,808
that the movie is based on,

1255
00:50:20,100 --> 00:50:21,519
there's a character named after him

1256
00:50:21,810 --> 00:50:23,020
played by John Carradine,

1257
00:50:23,312 --> 00:50:24,605
and there's probably no better honor

1258
00:50:24,897 --> 00:50:25,564
if you're a horror writer.

1259
00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:27,816
At the beginning of the wraparound story,

1260
00:50:28,108 --> 00:50:30,110
John Carradine gets bitten by a vampire,

1261
00:50:30,402 --> 00:50:32,112
played by Vincent Price, who was a fan.

1262
00:50:32,404 --> 00:50:35,741
- You are, the great R. Chetwynd-Hayes.

1263
00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:37,785
You are my favorite author.

1264
00:50:38,077 --> 00:50:40,079
- And then brings him
back to this monster club,

1265
00:50:40,371 --> 00:50:42,039
which is full of horror fans,

1266
00:50:42,331 --> 00:50:44,833
so just the idea of horror fandom is

1267
00:50:45,125 --> 00:50:47,920
kind of like woven through
the whole framing story

1268
00:50:48,212 --> 00:50:48,754
of the film.

1269
00:50:49,046 --> 00:50:49,588
As a horror fan myself,

1270
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:51,715
that's definitely something I respond to.

1271
00:50:52,007 --> 00:50:55,886
- Everybody knows about garlic
and stakes through the heart.

1272
00:50:56,178 --> 00:50:58,013
- Yes, we all have our cross to bear.

1273
00:50:59,348 --> 00:51:00,849
- [David Gregory] Obviously they
didn't have that much money,

1274
00:51:01,141 --> 00:51:03,936
but the stories themselves do
actually look quite handsome.

1275
00:51:04,228 --> 00:51:07,606
- The first story is about
a monster, the Shadmock,

1276
00:51:07,898 --> 00:51:10,317
which is basically the
lowest form of monster.

1277
00:51:10,609 --> 00:51:12,570
He puts an ad in the paper
and this woman responds

1278
00:51:12,861 --> 00:51:14,697
to it to help him organize his files,

1279
00:51:14,989 --> 00:51:15,614
and he falls in love with her.

1280
00:51:15,906 --> 00:51:19,118
And the thing is, as
gentle and kind as he is,

1281
00:51:19,410 --> 00:51:20,744
he has this deadly gift.

1282
00:51:21,036 --> 00:51:24,039
- I must never whistle,
no matter what happens.

1283
00:51:24,331 --> 00:51:27,835
- This whistle that
can melt you instantly.

1284
00:51:28,127 --> 00:51:31,213
And so he tries not to use this gift.

1285
00:51:31,505 --> 00:51:33,674
The first story book
I ever remember having

1286
00:51:33,966 --> 00:51:35,467
is a book called "The Lonely Monster.”

1287
00:51:35,759 --> 00:51:38,095
This character is kind of
the personification of that.

1288
00:51:38,387 --> 00:51:41,015
- You could still love me.

1289
00:51:41,307 --> 00:51:43,475
- "The Shadmock," definitely my favorite

1290
00:51:43,767 --> 00:51:45,561
and the one that I can relate to the most,

1291
00:51:45,853 --> 00:51:48,522
I think, out of any horror anthology story.

1292
00:51:48,814 --> 00:51:51,066
- Humgoos? Evil, hell no.

1293
00:51:51,358 --> 00:51:52,776
- [David Gregory] "The Humgoo" episode

1294
00:51:53,068 --> 00:51:54,653
is one that I absolutely love.

1295
00:51:54,945 --> 00:51:56,614
Stuart Whitman goes to a small village.

1296
00:51:56,905 --> 00:51:58,324
They go through a cloud of mist

1297
00:51:58,616 --> 00:52:00,075
and everything becomes gray.

1298
00:52:02,161 --> 00:52:03,954
- As a youngster, "The Monster Club"

1299
00:52:04,246 --> 00:52:05,623
was one of the biggest anthology movies

1300
00:52:05,914 --> 00:52:07,666
I was very influenced by as a kid.

1301
00:52:07,958 --> 00:52:09,627
And certainly the "Humgoo" story

1302
00:52:09,918 --> 00:52:11,211
was a very big deal for me.

1303
00:52:11,503 --> 00:52:13,505
- And it ends with like a really cheeky

1304
00:52:13,797 --> 00:52:14,548
twist ending as well,

1305
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:16,508
which I thought was absolutely terrifying

1306
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,219
when my dad took me to see it
when I was eight years old.

1307
00:52:19,511 --> 00:52:21,805
(eerie music)

1308
00:52:28,979 --> 00:52:31,065
- [David Del Valle] In America, we had "Thriller,"

1309
00:52:31,357 --> 00:52:34,735
which was a TV series Boris
Karloff was the host of.

1310
00:52:35,027 --> 00:52:38,405
- Take my word for it, it's a thriller.

1311
00:52:38,697 --> 00:52:40,115
- As a kid I watched "The Outer Limits"

1312
00:52:40,407 --> 00:52:41,158
and "One Step Beyond."

1313
00:52:41,450 --> 00:52:43,994
Alfred Hitchcock had
a wry sense of humor,

1314
00:52:44,286 --> 00:52:47,456
it wasn't so much a
framing story as a host

1315
00:52:47,748 --> 00:52:49,833
with a sense of very dark humor.

1316
00:52:50,125 --> 00:52:52,211
- Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

1317
00:52:52,503 --> 00:52:55,089
- Which allowed the stories
to be comedic sometimes,

1318
00:52:55,381 --> 00:52:56,757
or dark as hell.

1319
00:52:57,049 --> 00:52:59,593
(dramatic music)

1320
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:03,430
- [Alfred Hitchcock] Good night.

1321
00:53:03,722 --> 00:53:04,264
- [Mick Garris] And "The Twilight Zone."

1322
00:53:04,556 --> 00:53:05,432
- [Announcer] Come with
us into the middle ground

1323
00:53:05,724 --> 00:53:07,101
between light and shadow.

1324
00:53:08,602 --> 00:53:10,979
- [David Del Valle] You cannot get
better than the writing,

1325
00:53:11,271 --> 00:53:12,856
directing, and acting of those shows.

1326
00:53:13,148 --> 00:53:15,776
- [Wayne Coe] "Night Gallery"
was most memorable.

1327
00:53:17,069 --> 00:53:19,822
- Good evening, and
welcome to "Night Gallery."

1328
00:53:20,114 --> 00:53:22,950
A potpourri of paintings
slightly tilted left of center.

1329
00:53:23,242 --> 00:53:24,326
- There was one called "The Earwig,"

1330
00:53:24,618 --> 00:53:26,412
about this insect that's
supposed to burrow

1331
00:53:26,704 --> 00:53:28,080
through your brain and Kill you.

1332
00:53:28,372 --> 00:53:32,626
And a guy pays a man to put
it in a guy's bed at night.

1333
00:53:32,918 --> 00:53:34,545
He wakes up the next morning
with blood coming from his ear

1334
00:53:34,837 --> 00:53:36,338
and realizes the guy's gotten him.

1335
00:53:37,339 --> 00:53:38,799
How do you like that?

1336
00:53:39,091 --> 00:53:41,552
(ominous music)

1337
00:53:43,721 --> 00:53:47,558
- Television had been very conservative

1338
00:53:47,850 --> 00:53:51,353
up to that time, and they realized

1339
00:53:51,645 --> 00:53:53,647
that it was time to change.

1340
00:53:53,939 --> 00:53:57,484
And so they decided to do
"A Door into Darkness."

1341
00:53:57,776 --> 00:54:00,821
At that time, Italian
television had one channel.

1342
00:54:01,113 --> 00:54:05,534
There were many, many protests
against TV for airing that.

1343
00:54:05,826 --> 00:54:08,620
More than 30 million people watching it,

1344
00:54:08,912 --> 00:54:10,330
out of 50 million.

1345
00:54:10,622 --> 00:54:14,376
That's how Dario became famous,

1346
00:54:14,668 --> 00:54:17,546
because he was introducing the episodes.

1347
00:54:17,838 --> 00:54:20,841
(man speaking in foreign language)

1348
00:54:21,133 --> 00:54:25,721
The people connected him,
his face, with the fear,

1349
00:54:26,013 --> 00:54:28,348
with the scare, you know?

1350
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,851
I suggested him to do that,

1351
00:54:31,143 --> 00:54:32,936
like Alfred Hitchcock.

1352
00:54:33,228 --> 00:54:35,564
It was very important for him,

1353
00:54:35,856 --> 00:54:37,399
he became a kind of star.

1354
00:54:37,691 --> 00:54:39,151
- When I think of anthology horror movies,

1355
00:54:39,443 --> 00:54:40,652
I always think of TV movies.

1356
00:54:41,862 --> 00:54:43,906
- [Announcer] The movie of the week.

1357
00:54:44,198 --> 00:54:45,866
(easy '70s lounge music)

1358
00:54:46,158 --> 00:54:48,786
- TV movies came about
because networks were showing

1359
00:54:49,077 --> 00:54:50,996
a lot of theatricals, but
the studios were charging

1360
00:54:51,288 --> 00:54:52,956
a lot of money, and it
was actually cheaper

1361
00:54:53,248 --> 00:54:55,209
for them to produce their own content.

1362
00:54:55,501 --> 00:54:57,669
They farmed out a lot of these movies

1363
00:54:57,961 --> 00:54:59,171
to independent companies.

1364
00:54:59,463 --> 00:55:02,132
- Dan Curtis, when he
created "Dark Shadows"

1365
00:55:02,424 --> 00:55:07,221
in 1966, he opened the door for a revival

1366
00:55:07,846 --> 00:55:09,473
of anthology movies.

1367
00:55:09,765 --> 00:55:11,391
- Dan Curtis and Richard
Matheson got together,

1368
00:55:11,683 --> 00:55:13,602
and they did "Trilogy of Terror."”

1369
00:55:13,894 --> 00:55:15,145
And William F. Nolan wrote some as well.

1370
00:55:15,437 --> 00:55:17,815
- Richard Matheson wrote
for "The Twilight Zone"

1371
00:55:18,106 --> 00:55:19,149
and "Tales of Terror,"

1372
00:55:19,441 --> 00:55:21,527
and he wrote like Rod
Serling's "Night Gallery,"

1373
00:55:21,819 --> 00:55:24,279
and the best segment
of "Trilogy of Terror,"

1374
00:55:24,571 --> 00:55:27,366
and the guy is just a fucking titan.

1375
00:55:27,658 --> 00:55:29,409
- Dan Curtis tried to option a story

1376
00:55:29,701 --> 00:55:30,452
that Richard Matheson had wrote,

1377
00:55:30,744 --> 00:55:32,496
and he offered him very little money.

1378
00:55:32,788 --> 00:55:33,997
Richard Matheson thought it was a joke,

1379
00:55:34,289 --> 00:55:36,500
but he met with him, and they
found out that they jelled

1380
00:55:36,792 --> 00:55:37,334
really well together.

1381
00:55:37,626 --> 00:55:39,086
And they were both
interested in characters.

1382
00:55:39,378 --> 00:55:41,129
And they were both really
into mood and atmosphere.

1383
00:55:41,421 --> 00:55:43,131
Matheson had already written
a lot of short stories,

1384
00:55:43,423 --> 00:55:45,300
and so they adapted some of
them for "Trilogy of Terror,"

1385
00:55:45,592 --> 00:55:47,052
including "The Prey," which
would become the famous one

1386
00:55:47,344 --> 00:55:48,470
with the Zuni fetish doll.

1387
00:55:48,762 --> 00:55:50,138
Karen Black's in all the stories,

1388
00:55:50,430 --> 00:55:52,307
and she has to carry each
one in a different way.

1389
00:55:52,599 --> 00:55:54,268
And it's a showcase for
her really as an actress,

1390
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:55,102
more than anything else.

1391
00:55:55,394 --> 00:55:57,479
- Do I make you nervous, doctor?

1392
00:55:57,771 --> 00:56:00,190
- [Announcer] Karen Black, a major star.

1393
00:56:00,482 --> 00:56:02,401
"Trilogy of Terror."”

1394
00:56:02,693 --> 00:56:04,111
- The average person
could not describe to me

1395
00:56:04,403 --> 00:56:06,697
the first two segments
of "Trilogy of Terror."

1396
00:56:06,989 --> 00:56:09,491
- The last segment was called "Amelia."”

1397
00:56:09,783 --> 00:56:14,538
- The Karen Black doll
episode is just amazing.

1398
00:56:14,830 --> 00:56:16,081
- There's a little Zuni fetish doll

1399
00:56:16,373 --> 00:56:19,501
which is sent as an unsolicited gift,

1400
00:56:19,793 --> 00:56:20,335
and he becomes animated

1401
00:56:20,627 --> 00:56:21,712
and he runs around her apartment,

1402
00:56:22,004 --> 00:56:22,796
hides under the furniture.

1403
00:56:23,088 --> 00:56:24,381
He stabs her in the ankle.

1404
00:56:24,673 --> 00:56:26,383
- A primitive Zuni doll,

1405
00:56:26,675 --> 00:56:29,344
which is some kind of made
up racist African totem,

1406
00:56:29,636 --> 00:56:31,221
like a little tribal antique.

1407
00:56:31,513 --> 00:56:33,807
In a way I define this as
a sort of colonial horror,

1408
00:56:34,099 --> 00:56:36,393
which might be my personal
favorite horror genre,

1409
00:56:36,685 --> 00:56:39,563
because it tells us so much
more than it really wants to.

1410
00:56:39,855 --> 00:56:40,939
(Amelia gasping in fear)
(doll snarling)

1411
00:56:41,231 --> 00:56:42,482
It's such a, sort of fetishistic

1412
00:56:42,774 --> 00:56:44,234
and such a weird segment.

1413
00:56:44,526 --> 00:56:47,237
Something about it was so
dreamlike and disjointed.

1414
00:56:47,529 --> 00:56:49,573
(doll snarling)

1415
00:56:49,865 --> 00:56:53,285
- It's actually quite scary
if you see it at the right age,

1416
00:56:53,577 --> 00:56:55,537
and even in the right mood as an adult.

1417
00:56:55,829 --> 00:56:59,333
- It is a 25 minute masterpiece.

1418
00:56:59,625 --> 00:57:02,669
Dan Curtis directed with his usual skill.

1419
00:57:02,961 --> 00:57:04,504
He just got it perfectly right.

1420
00:57:04,796 --> 00:57:08,133
All the doll sequences are just
brilliant, really contrived.

1421
00:57:08,425 --> 00:57:09,801
- There's something so remarkable

1422
00:57:10,093 --> 00:57:11,970
about the way these shots are designed.

1423
00:57:12,262 --> 00:57:13,680
And the fact that this was made for TV

1424
00:57:13,972 --> 00:57:16,099
is even more kind of
mind blowing, I think.

1425
00:57:16,391 --> 00:57:19,436
- [Brian Trenchard-Smith] Working with
the puppet and knowing exactly

1426
00:57:19,728 --> 00:57:22,439
how much to show, when
to show it in close up,

1427
00:57:22,731 --> 00:57:24,483
when to show it in long shot,

1428
00:57:24,775 --> 00:57:27,361
when to have it suddenly jump into frame.

1429
00:57:27,653 --> 00:57:29,738
- Boy, that little doll was so evil.

1430
00:57:30,030 --> 00:57:31,365
- It might be one of the
creepiest props I've ever seen.

1431
00:57:31,657 --> 00:57:33,909
It's clearly influenced every horror doll

1432
00:57:34,201 --> 00:57:35,744
and every gremlin film ever made.

1433
00:57:36,036 --> 00:57:38,413
- That's the beginning of "Dolls"

1434
00:57:38,705 --> 00:57:41,625
and all the Charlie Band
"Puppet Master" movies.

1435
00:57:41,917 --> 00:57:45,087
And I know it is, because
Charlie used that as an example

1436
00:57:45,379 --> 00:57:47,297
when we were developing "Dolls."

1437
00:57:47,589 --> 00:57:50,133
And it's like, you see something like that

1438
00:57:50,425 --> 00:57:52,803
and you go wow, it's
one character and man,

1439
00:57:53,095 --> 00:57:54,554
Karen Black was great.

1440
00:57:54,846 --> 00:57:56,598
(doll snarling)

1441
00:57:56,890 --> 00:57:59,101
- And Karen Black is
sitting in that great makeup

1442
00:57:59,393 --> 00:58:01,770
with those teeth, with
the knife between her legs

1443
00:58:02,062 --> 00:58:04,523
waiting for her mother
to come through the door.

1444
00:58:04,815 --> 00:58:06,233
That's classic stuff.

1445
00:58:06,525 --> 00:58:08,819
- Supposing that had been made, you know,

1446
00:58:09,111 --> 00:58:13,073
as a key sequence in a
feature film for 1975,

1447
00:58:13,365 --> 00:58:15,784
and instead of it going on ABC television

1448
00:58:16,076 --> 00:58:17,953
interrupted by commercial breaks,

1449
00:58:18,245 --> 00:58:22,249
you would have had that
audience for "Jaws" in '75,

1450
00:58:22,541 --> 00:58:25,419
they'd be jumping out of their
skin at "Trilogy of Terror."

1451
00:58:25,711 --> 00:58:27,671
- In the '90s, I saw its influence

1452
00:58:27,963 --> 00:58:31,133
when I was watching a
collection of gay themed shorts.

1453
00:58:31,425 --> 00:58:34,302
There was a segment
about a very neat gay man

1454
00:58:34,594 --> 00:58:36,263
who gets an unsolicited package

1455
00:58:36,555 --> 00:58:38,598
that contains a gigantic dildo,

1456
00:58:38,890 --> 00:58:42,477
which chases him around his
apartment, terrorizing him.

1457
00:58:42,769 --> 00:58:45,397
(dildo screaming)

1458
00:58:46,606 --> 00:58:48,233
- [Amanda] And then Dan
Curtis did "Dead of Night."

1459
00:58:48,525 --> 00:58:50,610
- [Announcer] This is the "Dead of Night."

1460
00:58:50,902 --> 00:58:53,947
It can happen in sunshine or in moonlight,

1461
00:58:54,239 --> 00:58:56,074
in the best of weather or the worst.

1462
00:58:57,034 --> 00:58:59,995
For the dead of night is a state of mind.

1463
00:59:00,287 --> 00:59:01,329
- [Amanda] There's so many
movies called "Dead of Night,"

1464
00:59:01,621 --> 00:59:04,082
I'm not even sure that Dan
Curtis was aware of that.

1465
00:59:04,374 --> 00:59:05,375
I mean, he must've
been, he was very smart,

1466
00:59:05,667 --> 00:59:06,960
but I've never heard of a connection

1467
00:59:07,252 --> 00:59:08,670
directly between the two.

1468
00:59:08,962 --> 00:59:11,256
- [Announcer] The "Dead of
Night" exists in all of us.

1469
00:59:11,548 --> 00:59:14,468
- Years ago, I was wanting to
show 1945's "Dead of Night"

1470
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:15,302
in a class.

1471
00:59:15,594 --> 00:59:18,096
I went into a video
rental store here in L.A.,

1472
00:59:18,388 --> 00:59:21,141
Eddie Brandt, and said, "I
want to rent "Dead of Night."

1473
00:59:21,433 --> 00:59:23,101
And they said, "We don't
know if we have it,

1474
00:59:23,393 --> 00:59:26,646
but we do have this unlabeled VHS tape,"

1475
00:59:26,938 --> 00:59:29,858
that just had- all it had on
it was a piece of masking tape

1476
00:59:30,150 --> 00:59:30,692
that said "Dead of Night."

1477
00:59:30,984 --> 00:59:32,444
- That awesome one in the '70s,

1478
00:59:32,736 --> 00:59:33,653
yeah, that's a great one.

1479
00:59:33,945 --> 00:59:36,364
- The segments are written
by Richard Matheson,

1480
00:59:36,656 --> 00:59:39,659
and the final segment is so horrifying.

1481
00:59:39,951 --> 00:59:43,872
S Ha ha, Mommy, you gotta find me.

1482
00:59:45,457 --> 00:59:48,418
- [Rebekah McKendry] I watched this
by myself, sitting on my bed.

1483
00:59:48,710 --> 00:59:51,046
S You gotta find me

1484
00:59:51,338 --> 00:59:51,880
- Bobby!

1485
00:59:52,172 --> 00:59:53,965
- [Rebekah McKendry] And up to that
point, the segments are okay.

1486
00:59:54,257 --> 00:59:56,051
The first one's got Ed Begley Jr. in it,

1487
00:59:56,343 --> 00:59:57,761
it's about a time traveling car.

1488
00:59:58,053 --> 01:00:01,848
The second one's about vampires,
and then comes "Bobby."

1489
01:00:02,140 --> 01:00:03,016
- It's quite a horrible story.

1490
01:00:03,308 --> 01:00:04,476
Richard Matheson, of course.

1491
01:00:04,768 --> 01:00:06,978
- [Woman] Return him to me now!

1492
01:00:07,270 --> 01:00:09,022
- There she is, having
done this incantation

1493
01:00:09,314 --> 01:00:12,609
to get him back to life, and he returns,

1494
01:00:12,901 --> 01:00:13,777
or she thinks he does,

1495
01:00:14,069 --> 01:00:15,278
it's very sort of "Pet Semetary" like.

1496
01:00:15,570 --> 01:00:18,073
One of the best bits of
creepy telephone acting

1497
01:00:18,365 --> 01:00:19,199
when she says, "You've got to help me."

1498
01:00:19,491 --> 01:00:20,408
"I've got to help you?"

1499
01:00:20,700 --> 01:00:22,828
- He insists on playing some game.

1500
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:24,454
- [Voice on Phone] Insists
on playing some game.

1501
01:00:24,746 --> 01:00:27,499
- Why are you repeating everything I say?

1502
01:00:27,791 --> 01:00:31,211
- Repeating everything
you say. (chuckling)

1503
01:00:31,503 --> 01:00:32,879
- [Rebekah McKendry] The final moments of this.

1504
01:00:33,171 --> 01:00:34,965
- [Bobby] Ready or not, here I come!

1505
01:00:35,257 --> 01:00:37,050
- Still packs one of the biggest punches

1506
01:00:37,342 --> 01:00:38,718
of any anthology segment.

1507
01:00:39,010 --> 01:00:41,638
- It has a wonderful twist,
just a wonderful last line.

1508
01:00:41,930 --> 01:00:44,182
It's really quite unnerving.

1509
01:00:44,474 --> 01:00:45,600
- And no one ever talks about that one.

1510
01:00:45,892 --> 01:00:48,645
So "Bobby" from 1977's "Dead of Night."

1511
01:00:50,564 --> 01:00:52,399
- [David Gregory] In the '70s and
'80s, we had shows in England

1512
01:00:52,691 --> 01:00:53,733
like "Tales of the Unexpected,”

1513
01:00:54,025 --> 01:00:57,237
which was kind of a "Alfred
Hitchcock Presents” style thing,

1514
01:00:57,529 --> 01:00:58,697
presented by Roald Dahl.

1515
01:00:58,989 --> 01:01:00,157
- "Tales of the Unexpected," oh my God.

1516
01:01:00,448 --> 01:01:03,076
The one that I never
forget is "The Flypaper."

1517
01:01:03,368 --> 01:01:05,495
- This one that you're
going to see at the moment

1518
01:01:05,787 --> 01:01:08,331
is so neat and nice and spooky.

1519
01:01:08,623 --> 01:01:10,458
I only wish I'd thought of it myself.

1520
01:01:10,750 --> 01:01:12,836
- Which is a piece I simply can't believe

1521
01:01:13,128 --> 01:01:15,046
that was ever broadcast,
it's extraordinary.

1522
01:01:15,338 --> 01:01:17,382
Possibly the most disturbing
thing ever conceived,

1523
01:01:17,674 --> 01:01:18,967
it's utterly terrifying.

1524
01:01:20,594 --> 01:01:22,929
It's about a pedophile
who gets away with it.

1525
01:01:25,223 --> 01:01:25,891
- And then we had

1526
01:01:26,183 --> 01:01:28,143
the great "Hammer House
of Horror" in 1980,

1527
01:01:28,435 --> 01:01:29,936
which was 13 episodes,

1528
01:01:30,228 --> 01:01:32,814
most of which were really
good, like "Silent Scream,"

1529
01:01:33,106 --> 01:01:34,399
the one with Peter Cushing.

1530
01:01:34,691 --> 01:01:35,942
He's the owner of a pet shop,

1531
01:01:36,234 --> 01:01:37,485
but he's actually a Nazi war criminal

1532
01:01:37,777 --> 01:01:41,448
who's doing experiments on a
very naive and young Brian Cox,

1533
01:01:42,616 --> 01:01:44,034
before he became Hannibal Lecter.

1534
01:01:44,326 --> 01:01:45,160
And "The House That Bled to Death,"

1535
01:01:45,452 --> 01:01:47,078
of course, is one of the memorable ones.

1536
01:01:47,370 --> 01:01:49,331
- [David Gregory] Mainly because
there's a children's party in it

1537
01:01:49,623 --> 01:01:52,000
where kids are sprayed with blood.

1538
01:01:52,292 --> 01:01:55,503
(children screaming)

1539
01:01:55,795 --> 01:01:57,130
Caused a lot of complaints.

1540
01:01:57,422 --> 01:01:59,674
- The one I liked the
best was "Rude Awakening."

1541
01:01:59,966 --> 01:02:00,800
'Cause it's weird.

1542
01:02:01,092 --> 01:02:02,928
It's quite distinctive to that series.

1543
01:02:03,220 --> 01:02:05,347
It was really kind of surreal episodes,

1544
01:02:05,639 --> 01:02:06,723
not just sort of pure horror.

1545
01:02:07,015 --> 01:02:09,226
- [David Gregory] That tradition
of British anthology,

1546
01:02:09,517 --> 01:02:11,811
horror or weirdness continues to today

1547
01:02:12,103 --> 01:02:14,814
with shows like "Black
Mirror,” "Inside Number Nine."

1548
01:02:15,106 --> 01:02:15,941
- I can explain.

1549
01:02:16,942 --> 01:02:18,860
- Definitely in the
tradition, it's a homage.

1550
01:02:19,152 --> 01:02:20,695
There's been a long illustrious heritage

1551
01:02:20,987 --> 01:02:22,656
of great anthology series.

1552
01:02:22,948 --> 01:02:24,366
And if they're good stories,
if you're hooked,

1553
01:02:24,658 --> 01:02:26,534
and you can grab an
audience and tell a story

1554
01:02:26,826 --> 01:02:28,745
in an hour, 45 minutes,

1555
01:02:29,037 --> 01:02:31,456
or as with "Inside
Number Nine," 30 minutes,

1556
01:02:31,748 --> 01:02:33,208
I think that's all you've got to do.

1557
01:02:33,500 --> 01:02:35,502
It's hard, especially when
there's only two of us

1558
01:02:35,794 --> 01:02:36,836
when we write our "Number Nines,"

1559
01:02:37,128 --> 01:02:38,755
which we feel like we're-

1560
01:02:39,047 --> 01:02:40,924
sometimes we think, what haven't we done?

1561
01:02:41,216 --> 01:02:43,385
- The portmanteau's our favorite thing.

1562
01:02:43,677 --> 01:02:45,136
That's why "The League Christmas Special”

1563
01:02:45,428 --> 01:02:47,180
from 2000 is a tribute.

1564
01:02:47,472 --> 01:02:49,266
- It's a joy to do them because
we've always loved them.

1565
01:02:49,557 --> 01:02:51,643
We're fans of that type of TV

1566
01:02:51,935 --> 01:02:53,019
and that kind of storytelling.

1567
01:02:53,311 --> 01:02:55,146
- I was fortunate enough
when I was growing up

1568
01:02:55,438 --> 01:02:57,857
to have an embarrassment of riches

1569
01:02:58,149 --> 01:03:00,068
in terms of anthologies on television.

1570
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:01,486
- [Mick Garris] "Freddie's Nightmares."

1571
01:03:01,778 --> 01:03:04,281
- Don't let me catch you sleeping!

1572
01:03:05,365 --> 01:03:06,866
- [Announcer] Coming to CBS.

1573
01:03:07,158 --> 01:03:08,743
- When we were asked to do
shows like "Twilight Zone"

1574
01:03:09,035 --> 01:03:10,370
and those kind of things in the '80s,

1575
01:03:10,662 --> 01:03:11,621
it was a little bit similar

1576
01:03:11,913 --> 01:03:14,040
to making short films for Amicus.

1577
01:03:14,332 --> 01:03:16,418
- "Amazing Stories," my
first job as a writer

1578
01:03:16,710 --> 01:03:18,128
and second as a director,

1579
01:03:18,420 --> 01:03:21,506
was something where Spielberg
encouraged each filmmaker

1580
01:03:21,798 --> 01:03:23,008
to do what they do.

1581
01:03:23,300 --> 01:03:24,551
- The great thing about "Amazing Stories"

1582
01:03:24,843 --> 01:03:26,386
was they had the entire
Universal back lot.

1583
01:03:26,678 --> 01:03:28,471
There's all this stuff,
you can just write to it.

1584
01:03:28,763 --> 01:03:29,723
People love anthology shows.

1585
01:03:30,015 --> 01:03:31,099
The problem with anthologies,

1586
01:03:31,391 --> 01:03:33,560
because they require different
sets and different locations,

1587
01:03:33,852 --> 01:03:35,228
they are very difficult to produce

1588
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:36,938
if you don't have a studio behind you.

1589
01:03:37,230 --> 01:03:40,108
- [Announcer] The dark side
is always there, waiting.

1590
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:41,776
- [Kevin Kolsch] Every week, my
siblings used to watch

1591
01:03:42,068 --> 01:03:42,861
"Tales from the Darkside."

1592
01:03:43,153 --> 01:03:44,696
It came out during a time

1593
01:03:44,988 --> 01:03:47,449
when I was just kind of
a budding horror fan.

1594
01:03:47,741 --> 01:03:48,950
- [Announcer] Sunday at 11:30.

1595
01:03:49,242 --> 01:03:50,452
- To me, the opening theme song

1596
01:03:50,744 --> 01:03:52,871
is the scariest thing to me ever.

1597
01:03:53,163 --> 01:03:54,539
You know, like I used to wait every week

1598
01:03:54,831 --> 01:03:56,458
just to see that opening theme.

1599
01:03:56,750 --> 01:03:58,501
Those shots of nature. The voiceover.

1600
01:03:58,793 --> 01:04:00,295
- [Announcer] A dark side.

1601
01:04:01,838 --> 01:04:03,715
- It just made me feel creeped out

1602
01:04:04,007 --> 01:04:06,259
by looking at photos of a countryside.

1603
01:04:06,551 --> 01:04:07,135
(Crypt Keeper giggling evilly)

1604
01:04:07,427 --> 01:04:10,513
- [David Del Valle] And of course
the amazing popular TV series,

1605
01:04:10,805 --> 01:04:12,349
"Tales from the Crypt."

1606
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:13,767
- "Tales from the Crypt" happened

1607
01:04:14,059 --> 01:04:16,686
in sort of the infancy of HBO.

1608
01:04:16,978 --> 01:04:18,188
- Their adaptation of the EC comics,

1609
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,732
"Tales from the Crypt,"
of course was a huge thing

1610
01:04:21,024 --> 01:04:21,566
if you were a kid.

1611
01:04:21,858 --> 01:04:23,234
- [Mick Garris] The whole appeal
was here's something

1612
01:04:23,526 --> 01:04:25,779
you can't get on television.

1613
01:04:26,071 --> 01:04:27,447
- Perfect! (giggling evilly)

1614
01:04:27,739 --> 01:04:29,657
- And then as I got
older, Mick Garris made

1615
01:04:29,949 --> 01:04:31,493
"Masters of Horror."

1616
01:04:31,785 --> 01:04:34,245
- It's amazing to me
that I've produced films

1617
01:04:34,537 --> 01:04:37,999
by Carpenter, and Hooper, and
Dante, and Dario Argento,

1618
01:04:38,291 --> 01:04:41,461
giving them the opportunity
to do what they do

1619
01:04:41,753 --> 01:04:43,088
with no interference.

1620
01:04:43,380 --> 01:04:46,091
(eerie rock music)

1621
01:04:54,974 --> 01:04:56,684
- In the '80s, anthologies were more fun.

1622
01:04:56,976 --> 01:04:58,520
They were like these gore-filled romps.

1623
01:04:58,812 --> 01:05:01,815
- We see them being much more
light, much more comedic.

1624
01:05:02,107 --> 01:05:03,483
- Do you believe in fairies?

1625
01:05:03,775 --> 01:05:05,527
- Do I believe in fairies.

1626
01:05:05,819 --> 01:05:06,361
- [Jovanka Vuckovic] I really love

1627
01:05:06,653 --> 01:05:09,114
this '80s anthology movie
called "Screamtime."

1628
01:05:09,406 --> 01:05:12,742
- [Announcer] It's always
time for "Screamtime."

1629
01:05:13,952 --> 01:05:17,997
- "Screamtime," which pays
tribute to "Dead of Night"

1630
01:05:18,289 --> 01:05:21,376
to some degree, directed by the person

1631
01:05:21,668 --> 01:05:22,627
who did "Primitive London."

1632
01:05:22,919 --> 01:05:25,797
But it also stars David Van Day from Dollar,

1633
01:05:26,089 --> 01:05:28,258
which I thought was quite wonderful.

1634
01:05:28,550 --> 01:05:29,551
- The interstitials are really fun,

1635
01:05:29,843 --> 01:05:32,345
'cause it's about these two
guys who rob a video store,

1636
01:05:32,637 --> 01:05:33,847
stealing some VHS tapes,

1637
01:05:34,139 --> 01:05:35,515
and they take them home
and they watch the movies,

1638
01:05:35,807 --> 01:05:38,309
and the movies are what we end
up watching as the audience.

1639
01:05:38,601 --> 01:05:40,395
- [Announcer] Tales of the supernatural.

1640
01:05:41,354 --> 01:05:42,647
- [Amanda Reyes] It's so unique in what it does.

1641
01:05:42,939 --> 01:05:44,774
- [Announcer] And so terrifying.

1642
01:05:45,066 --> 01:05:45,608
- [Amanda] It's just really fun,

1643
01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:48,194
and I think it captures
the video age really well.

1644
01:05:48,486 --> 01:05:49,779
- Being a kid of the '80s,

1645
01:05:50,071 --> 01:05:54,033
when I think anthology
horror, like Stephen King,

1646
01:05:54,325 --> 01:05:57,745
that's just what anthology
is to me, "Creepshow."

1647
01:05:58,037 --> 01:05:58,538
(thunder crashing)

1648
01:05:58,830 --> 01:06:00,582
- [Announcer] Stephen
King and George Romero,

1649
01:06:00,874 --> 01:06:02,000
the masters of terror,

1650
01:06:02,292 --> 01:06:05,462
bring you a frightening
tale that will grab you,

1651
01:06:05,753 --> 01:06:08,882
grow on you, and give you the creeps.

1652
01:06:09,174 --> 01:06:11,176
- [Announcer 2] "Creepshow," the most fun

1653
01:06:11,468 --> 01:06:14,262
you'll ever have being scared.

1654
01:06:14,554 --> 01:06:15,805
- Who could forget "Creepshow?"

1655
01:06:16,097 --> 01:06:16,890
- I love "Creepshow."

1656
01:06:17,182 --> 01:06:18,975
- "Creepshow" really set the bar.

1657
01:06:19,267 --> 01:06:20,852
- You can't talk about horror anthology

1658
01:06:21,144 --> 01:06:22,312
without talking about "Creepshow."

1659
01:06:22,604 --> 01:06:24,856
- It's hard to say anything
bad about "Creepshow."

1660
01:06:25,148 --> 01:06:26,399
- It's the one that sort of defined

1661
01:06:26,691 --> 01:06:28,776
the '80s anthology, definitely.

1662
01:06:29,068 --> 01:06:31,154
- My favorite anthology,

1663
01:06:31,446 --> 01:06:32,071
it would be a toss up

1664
01:06:32,363 --> 01:06:34,115
between "Dead of Night" and "Creepshow."

1665
01:06:34,407 --> 01:06:37,869
And even though I worked on
"Creepshow," it's my favorite.

1666
01:06:38,161 --> 01:06:41,164
I mean, you got corpses
rising from the grave,

1667
01:06:41,456 --> 01:06:44,292
an Antarctic crate creature eating people,

1668
01:06:44,584 --> 01:06:48,588
shriveled-up drowned zombies
walking in on Leslie Nielsen.

1669
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:51,508
- I saw that when I was a
teenager and just loved it.

1670
01:06:51,799 --> 01:06:54,469
John Harrison's great music
sets the mood so well.

1671
01:06:54,761 --> 01:06:56,804
You have that wonderful
animated title sequence.

1672
01:06:57,096 --> 01:07:00,600
It's so much fun, and Romero
really ties it all together

1673
01:07:00,892 --> 01:07:03,811
with that EC comic style,
which is so colorful

1674
01:07:04,103 --> 01:07:05,813
and striking and really
makes the film unique.

1675
01:07:06,105 --> 01:07:09,192
- I've always been a big
fan of Fluffy in the crate.

1676
01:07:09,484 --> 01:07:10,777
- I had never done an animatronic creature

1677
01:07:11,069 --> 01:07:14,113
like Fluffy before, that
was a triumph on my part.

1678
01:07:14,405 --> 01:07:14,948
(beast roaring)

1679
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:17,784
I went from the King of
Gore, the Sultan of Splatter,

1680
01:07:18,076 --> 01:07:19,827
to finally doing what I wanted to do.

1681
01:07:20,119 --> 01:07:22,956
You know, creating characters
and monsters and creatures.

1682
01:07:23,248 --> 01:07:25,416
- I don't even know what
it was! (laughing crazily)

1683
01:07:25,708 --> 01:07:27,877
- Hal Holbrook and
Adrienne Barbeau in "The Crate”

1684
01:07:28,169 --> 01:07:29,629
are next level good.

1685
01:07:29,921 --> 01:07:31,172
- What's wrong now?

1686
01:07:31,464 --> 01:07:32,006
(gun firing)

1687
01:07:32,298 --> 01:07:33,132
- Romero's actors are generally great.

1688
01:07:33,424 --> 01:07:36,010
Like I love Ken Foree, I love Ben Jones,

1689
01:07:36,302 --> 01:07:39,013
I love everybody, but he
had never gotten to work

1690
01:07:39,305 --> 01:07:40,723
with an all star cast like that.

1691
01:07:41,015 --> 01:07:44,519
It had Ed Harris with hair,
Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson.

1692
01:07:44,811 --> 01:07:47,230
- [David Del Valle] Fritz Weaver, E.G. Marshall.

1693
01:07:47,522 --> 01:07:48,731
- "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill"

1694
01:07:49,023 --> 01:07:51,859
is this tragic comedy
starring Stephen King,

1695
01:07:52,151 --> 01:07:55,488
and it has no right to
be as effective as it is.

1696
01:07:55,780 --> 01:07:56,864
(meteor whooshing)

1697
01:07:57,156 --> 01:07:58,408
- It's a very sweet story.

1698
01:07:58,700 --> 01:07:59,534
Jordy Verrill is not a bad guy

1699
01:07:59,826 --> 01:08:01,286
by any stretch of the imagination.

1700
01:08:01,578 --> 01:08:03,413
His sin is his ignorance.

1701
01:08:03,705 --> 01:08:04,872
That's what does him in.

1702
01:08:05,164 --> 01:08:06,916
- Stephen King's not an actor,

1703
01:08:07,208 --> 01:08:09,544
but he just slays in that role.

1704
01:08:09,836 --> 01:08:11,212
- Oh, the Stephen King one.

1705
01:08:11,504 --> 01:08:14,591
"I got meteor shit!" (laughs) Brilliant!

1706
01:08:14,882 --> 01:08:15,466
- It's so good.

1707
01:08:15,758 --> 01:08:19,846
- I just- that was
embarrassing for me to even wa-

1708
01:08:20,138 --> 01:08:22,098
I feel like, Stephie, ugh.

1709
01:08:22,390 --> 01:08:22,932
- In his kind of overalls

1710
01:08:23,224 --> 01:08:25,268
in this weird hoarder's shack,

1711
01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:29,105
being overtaken by this weird kind of-

1712
01:08:29,397 --> 01:08:33,276
- "Meteor shit!" Ugh, God,
go back to writing, Stephen.

1713
01:08:33,568 --> 01:08:35,570
(laughing) God forgive me for saying that.

1714
01:08:35,862 --> 01:08:36,779
- Meteor shit!

1715
01:08:37,071 --> 01:08:37,905
- These days I get a kick

1716
01:08:38,197 --> 01:08:40,658
out of "The Lonesome
Death of Jordy Verrill"

1717
01:08:40,950 --> 01:08:42,410
because of "Color out of Space."

1718
01:08:42,702 --> 01:08:43,244
- I had to go back

1719
01:08:43,536 --> 01:08:44,871
and look at what the other
sections were in that film.

1720
01:08:45,163 --> 01:08:46,164
I was like, oh yeah,
that was a good one too.

1721
01:08:46,456 --> 01:08:48,416
But that's like a really great short film.

1722
01:08:48,708 --> 01:08:49,500
I'm growin'

1723
01:08:49,792 --> 01:08:50,918
- If you pulled it out of "Creepshow,"

1724
01:08:51,210 --> 01:08:52,462
it would be fantastic.

1725
01:08:52,754 --> 01:08:56,424
- It is the perfect
cinematic take on EC comics.

1726
01:08:56,716 --> 01:08:58,843
- It became a huge video.

1727
01:08:59,135 --> 01:09:00,470
- [Announcer] More selection, more-

1728
01:09:00,762 --> 01:09:02,722
- That's where most people
really ended up seeing it.

1729
01:09:03,014 --> 01:09:04,891
- It was one of those VHS tapes

1730
01:09:05,183 --> 01:09:06,225
that if you had a hold of it,

1731
01:09:06,517 --> 01:09:08,061
you just knew you were
in for a great night.

1732
01:09:08,353 --> 01:09:09,604
- Me and my sister would
go to the video store.

1733
01:09:09,896 --> 01:09:10,772
This is like, way back when,

1734
01:09:11,064 --> 01:09:12,774
when you'd have to rent a VCR

1735
01:09:13,066 --> 01:09:13,941
'cause they were too expensive to own.

1736
01:09:14,233 --> 01:09:16,235
So we'd rent a VCR, and
rent like a handful,

1737
01:09:16,527 --> 01:09:18,780
you know, five or six movies
to go with it for the weekend.

1738
01:09:19,072 --> 01:09:21,324
"Creepshow" was always
one on heavy rotate.

1739
01:09:21,616 --> 01:09:22,909
- My friends had a sleepover without me,

1740
01:09:23,201 --> 01:09:26,329
and all they were talking
about was the cockroaches.

1741
01:09:26,621 --> 01:09:28,998
And the very concept of an anthology film,

1742
01:09:29,290 --> 01:09:30,625
I was really unfamiliar with it.

1743
01:09:30,917 --> 01:09:32,085
I knew who George Romero was,

1744
01:09:32,377 --> 01:09:33,878
I certainly knew who Stephen King was.

1745
01:09:34,170 --> 01:09:36,089
And even Tom Savini, I
knew about Tom Savini

1746
01:09:36,381 --> 01:09:37,674
from reading "Fangoria,"

1747
01:09:37,965 --> 01:09:39,884
so the idea that the three
of them were coming together.

1748
01:09:40,176 --> 01:09:41,135
- George Romero, Stephen King,

1749
01:09:41,427 --> 01:09:43,137
they collaborated on this
because of their love

1750
01:09:43,429 --> 01:09:45,390
for EC comics back in the '50s.

1751
01:09:45,682 --> 01:09:46,683
I remember George talking about it

1752
01:09:46,974 --> 01:09:49,435
and being in terms of
yeah, they were gross

1753
01:09:49,727 --> 01:09:50,561
and everything, but they were funny.

1754
01:09:50,853 --> 01:09:51,813
- I got my cake.

1755
01:09:54,732 --> 01:09:55,900
- [Michael Felsher] It wasn't just gross-out

1756
01:09:56,192 --> 01:09:57,402
for the sake of gross-out.

1757
01:09:57,694 --> 01:09:58,403
There was a moral to the story.

1758
01:09:58,695 --> 01:10:03,032
- I can hold my breath for a long time!

1759
01:10:05,535 --> 01:10:08,371
- Highly quotable,
beautiful special effects.

1760
01:10:08,663 --> 01:10:10,206
- The whole wraparound is really fun.

1761
01:10:10,498 --> 01:10:11,916
- Stephen King's son is in that.

1762
01:10:12,208 --> 01:10:13,418
- I'm sorry.

1763
01:10:13,710 --> 01:10:16,713
- He went over to the guys like,
"Don't fucking beat my kid too badly." (laughing)

1764
01:10:17,004 --> 01:10:19,716
- My favorite part of "Creepshow"
is actually the creeper.

1765
01:10:20,007 --> 01:10:20,883
I love him very much.

1766
01:10:21,175 --> 01:10:24,095
- Every single segment in it is wonderful,

1767
01:10:24,387 --> 01:10:26,806
and I think that that's
so rare in an anthology.

1768
01:10:27,098 --> 01:10:29,726
Usually there's always a weak link.

1769
01:10:30,017 --> 01:10:33,563
- The key to any anthology is
always the batting average,

1770
01:10:33,855 --> 01:10:36,065
how many are good versus how many are bad,

1771
01:10:36,357 --> 01:10:39,277
and "Creepshow" I would
argue is pretty solid.

1772
01:10:39,569 --> 01:10:41,988
- "Creepshow" was everything
I wanted in a movie.

1773
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:44,449
It was just monsters, it was gore,

1774
01:10:44,741 --> 01:10:47,744
it was fun, it was beautiful.

1775
01:10:48,035 --> 01:10:48,995
- Big anthology fan.

1776
01:10:49,287 --> 01:10:52,832
But I can't think of a
singular horror anthology

1777
01:10:53,124 --> 01:10:54,876
that I love and legitimately think

1778
01:10:55,168 --> 01:10:57,211
is better than "Creepshow."

1779
01:10:57,503 --> 01:10:58,963
- I think my all time favorite

1780
01:10:59,255 --> 01:11:02,759
anthology horror movie
has to be "Creepshow 2."

1781
01:11:04,010 --> 01:11:05,762
- [Announcer] "Creepshow 2."

1782
01:11:06,053 --> 01:11:06,596
- But I love "Creepshow 2."

1783
01:11:06,888 --> 01:11:07,680
I just think it's fabulous.

1784
01:11:07,972 --> 01:11:10,349
- I don't think those
stories were as strong.

1785
01:11:10,641 --> 01:11:11,893
- I thought there was too much animation.

1786
01:11:12,185 --> 01:11:13,436
I didn't like the music at all,

1787
01:11:13,728 --> 01:11:14,520
compared to what John Harrison had done

1788
01:11:14,812 --> 01:11:15,897
in the first movie.

1789
01:11:16,189 --> 01:11:17,774
- I remember being really disappointed

1790
01:11:18,065 --> 01:11:19,066
there were only three stories,

1791
01:11:19,358 --> 01:11:20,943
and the first one's like 45 minutes,

1792
01:11:21,235 --> 01:11:21,819
and I was like, come on.

1793
01:11:22,111 --> 01:11:22,945
But "The Raft.”

1794
01:11:23,237 --> 01:11:25,156
- It's a splashy little ditty

1795
01:11:25,448 --> 01:11:29,118
about some people who are left
stranded without a paddle.

1796
01:11:29,410 --> 01:11:32,580
- I have a deep fondness
for the segment "The Raft,"

1797
01:11:32,872 --> 01:11:35,082
because we actually
had one of those rafts.

1798
01:11:35,374 --> 01:11:36,626
We lived on the Shenandoah River,

1799
01:11:36,918 --> 01:11:37,627
my parents still do,

1800
01:11:37,919 --> 01:11:40,838
and they still have one of
those little wooden floaty rafts

1801
01:11:41,130 --> 01:11:42,215
in the middle of the river.

1802
01:11:42,507 --> 01:11:44,926
- Growing up in Vermont, we had lakes,

1803
01:11:45,218 --> 01:11:47,053
we had the floating raft.

1804
01:11:47,345 --> 01:11:47,887
- [Rebekah McKendry] You would get out there

1805
01:11:48,179 --> 01:11:49,222
and then you would have to swim

1806
01:11:49,514 --> 01:11:51,432
the 20 feet back to shore.

1807
01:11:51,724 --> 01:11:55,311
Seeing this kind of monster
come out of the water.

1808
01:11:55,603 --> 01:11:56,229
(creature squelching)

1809
01:11:56,521 --> 01:11:57,647
- I just was like, ah!

1810
01:11:57,939 --> 01:12:00,608
So that's the one that
really stuck with me.

1811
01:12:00,900 --> 01:12:01,442
- Randy!

1812
01:12:01,734 --> 01:12:02,944
- It tormented me as a child,

1813
01:12:03,236 --> 01:12:05,613
but now as an adult, I
just absolutely love it.

1814
01:12:06,989 --> 01:12:07,657
- Help!

1815
01:12:07,949 --> 01:12:08,699
- There's a sort of unrelenting force

1816
01:12:08,991 --> 01:12:10,785
that's there to kill them in nature,

1817
01:12:11,077 --> 01:12:13,037
and it's going to get you.

1818
01:12:13,329 --> 01:12:15,373
And that's kind of what
the scariest horror is,

1819
01:12:15,665 --> 01:12:16,207
it's the unknown.

1820
01:12:16,499 --> 01:12:18,376
- The thing came. It'll go away.

1821
01:12:18,668 --> 01:12:21,838
- "Creepshow 2" is much
more parsed down and spare.

1822
01:12:22,129 --> 01:12:25,508
And I kind of find it
the more grislier one.

1823
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:27,260
It's less elegant for sure.

1824
01:12:27,552 --> 01:12:29,303
It's much grittier.

1825
01:12:29,595 --> 01:12:30,263
(car crashing)

1826
01:12:30,555 --> 01:12:32,598
- The reason I love "Creepshow 2"

1827
01:12:32,890 --> 01:12:36,686
is because of its theme of get whitey.

1828
01:12:36,978 --> 01:12:38,938
And the sequence, I don't
know what its name is,

1829
01:12:39,230 --> 01:12:41,607
but I always call it
"Thanks for the Ride, Lady."

1830
01:12:41,899 --> 01:12:44,610
You know, where the rich
lady runs over the black guy

1831
01:12:44,902 --> 01:12:47,113
and then just drives off
like it didn't happen.

1832
01:12:47,405 --> 01:12:48,114
But then he keeps climbing

1833
01:12:48,406 --> 01:12:49,866
back onto her car and saying-

1834
01:12:50,157 --> 01:12:51,951
- Thanks for the ride, lady!

1835
01:12:52,243 --> 01:12:54,370
- It was one of the first
revenge films I'd seen

1836
01:12:54,662 --> 01:12:56,706
from a person of color's perspective.

1837
01:12:56,998 --> 01:12:59,041
And there's also a Native American killer

1838
01:12:59,333 --> 01:13:00,626
in that anthology as well.

1839
01:13:00,918 --> 01:13:02,295
There's a theme going on.

1840
01:13:02,587 --> 01:13:03,796
- (speaking in foreign
language) Chief Woodenhead.

1841
01:13:04,088 --> 01:13:06,632
- Because it was written by Romero,

1842
01:13:06,924 --> 01:13:09,427
unlike "Creepshow,"
which was written by King,

1843
01:13:10,511 --> 01:13:14,015
the "Creepshow 2," the Romero elements

1844
01:13:14,307 --> 01:13:16,434
that he loves to deal
with are really prevalent.

1845
01:13:16,726 --> 01:13:18,686
Romero ends up dealing
in that first episode

1846
01:13:18,978 --> 01:13:21,063
with issues of Native American tension,

1847
01:13:21,355 --> 01:13:23,983
and actually even has the bad guys-

1848
01:13:24,275 --> 01:13:24,817
- How!

1849
01:13:25,109 --> 01:13:27,361
- Openly talking about resentments inside

1850
01:13:27,653 --> 01:13:29,655
of dealing with a culture and self-hatred,

1851
01:13:29,947 --> 01:13:32,199
and that's where his
violence and rage come from.

1852
01:13:32,491 --> 01:13:33,492
- There's nothing left for us to take.

1853
01:13:33,784 --> 01:13:35,369
There's nothing here we need.

1854
01:13:35,661 --> 01:13:37,830
- Maybe there's nothing
else you need, rich boy,

1855
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:40,166
but there's something else I need.

1856
01:13:40,458 --> 01:13:42,835
- The Native American
statue that comes alive,

1857
01:13:43,127 --> 01:13:44,337
that looks really cool.

1858
01:13:44,629 --> 01:13:47,298
- Over time, I've really
turned a lot on "Creepshow 2,"

1859
01:13:47,590 --> 01:13:49,258
and I really admire a
lot for what they did,

1860
01:13:49,550 --> 01:13:52,053
especially considering they
didn't have as much money.

1861
01:13:53,679 --> 01:13:55,765
- And now "Creepshow" is being rebooted.

1862
01:13:56,057 --> 01:13:59,435
- Shudder, we're looking
to reboot "Creepshow.”

1863
01:13:59,727 --> 01:14:00,603
And I went, "Creepshow?"

1864
01:14:00,895 --> 01:14:03,022
I'm like, "My 'Creepshow' 'Creepshow'?"

1865
01:14:03,314 --> 01:14:07,652
Because I had visited the set
when I was 19 or whatever.

1866
01:14:07,944 --> 01:14:10,279
And George and I have a long history.

1867
01:14:10,571 --> 01:14:14,492
Listen to me, I'm big fan of
short horror fiction anyway,

1868
01:14:14,784 --> 01:14:18,245
I sort of love the idea that
there's no real structure.

1869
01:14:18,537 --> 01:14:20,665
With short films and short horror fiction

1870
01:14:20,957 --> 01:14:25,378
and anthology stuff, you can really
play by any rules that you want.

1871
01:14:25,670 --> 01:14:28,589
I share that sensibility
with a lot of horror fans.

1872
01:14:28,881 --> 01:14:30,675
(dramatic music)

1873
01:14:30,967 --> 01:14:32,843
- [Announcer] Four acclaimed directors,

1874
01:14:33,135 --> 01:14:37,932
George Miller, John Landis, Joe
Dante, and Steven Spielberg,

1875
01:14:38,849 --> 01:14:41,310
take you to another dimension.

1876
01:14:41,602 --> 01:14:44,313
- Each section has its own
sort of tone and texture

1877
01:14:44,605 --> 01:14:46,607
that's really indicative
of those directors.

1878
01:14:46,899 --> 01:14:48,901
And of course, like it has
that horrible backstory

1879
01:14:49,193 --> 01:14:51,612
of Vic Morrow dying while
they were shooting it.

1880
01:14:51,904 --> 01:14:56,701
- The accident left such a
bad taste in my mouth somehow.

1881
01:14:57,243 --> 01:14:58,494
But I still like it.

1882
01:14:58,786 --> 01:14:59,537
- It freaked me out as a kid,

1883
01:14:59,829 --> 01:15:02,498
especially the Joe Dante
segment, the third one,

1884
01:15:02,790 --> 01:15:04,166
"It's a Good Life." It leaves you

1885
01:15:04,458 --> 01:15:08,671
with a couple of images that just
become part of your being in a way.

1886
01:15:08,963 --> 01:15:13,676
- I love the prologue with
Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks.

1887
01:15:15,094 --> 01:15:19,557
It struck me as a kid, as
it's uncomfortable and weird.

1888
01:15:19,849 --> 01:15:21,642
They seemed like a weird pairing.

1889
01:15:21,934 --> 01:15:23,519
- You want to see something really scary?

1890
01:15:23,811 --> 01:15:25,146
- You bet.

1891
01:15:25,438 --> 01:15:26,272
- Really?
- Yeah.

1892
01:15:26,564 --> 01:15:29,859
- It's disturbing in a way that the
rest of the movie, I think, isn't.

1893
01:15:30,151 --> 01:15:32,528
- George Miller's
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"

1894
01:15:32,820 --> 01:15:34,989
with John Lithgow is incredible,

1895
01:15:35,281 --> 01:15:36,407
it's very scary.

1896
01:15:36,699 --> 01:15:38,451
- As someone who flies, used to fly a lot,

1897
01:15:38,743 --> 01:15:40,995
hasn't flown in a while,
but I do a fair amount

1898
01:15:41,287 --> 01:15:42,163
of looking out the window to make sure

1899
01:15:42,455 --> 01:15:44,248
there's no monsters on the wing.

1900
01:15:44,540 --> 01:15:46,375
- [Announcer] Stephen King's "Cat's Eye."

1901
01:15:47,835 --> 01:15:49,962
- "Cat's Eye" is a film that I love.

1902
01:15:50,254 --> 01:15:51,756
I saw it when I was a little kid.

1903
01:15:52,048 --> 01:15:53,090
The three segments are good.

1904
01:15:53,382 --> 01:15:54,633
"Quitters Inc." specifically.

1905
01:15:54,925 --> 01:15:57,636
- "Quitters Inc."” with
James Woods and Alan King

1906
01:15:57,928 --> 01:15:58,888
is pretty great.

1907
01:15:59,180 --> 01:16:00,890
- It's fantastically creepy and wonderful.

1908
01:16:01,182 --> 01:16:04,518
- When James Woods sees his
wife dancing around in the box.

1909
01:16:04,810 --> 01:16:05,519
- [Announcer] Experience a series

1910
01:16:05,811 --> 01:16:06,854
of electrifying adventures.

1911
01:16:07,146 --> 01:16:08,814
- One of the weirdest
things I'd ever seen,

1912
01:16:09,106 --> 01:16:10,316
like I'm never smoking.

1913
01:16:10,608 --> 01:16:12,193
- That was pretty disturbing.

1914
01:16:12,485 --> 01:16:14,820
I have a big love for that one.

1915
01:16:15,112 --> 01:16:16,280
And for that film in general.

1916
01:16:16,572 --> 01:16:18,574
I don't think that it
has the love it deserves.

1917
01:16:18,866 --> 01:16:21,786
- I feel like I've seen
most horror anthologies,

1918
01:16:22,078 --> 01:16:24,497
including some of the
harder to track down ones.

1919
01:16:24,789 --> 01:16:26,916
- I'll open the gates of hell!

1920
01:16:27,208 --> 01:16:29,919
(heavy rock music)

1921
01:16:32,046 --> 01:16:34,381
(gun firing)

1922
01:16:36,550 --> 01:16:38,219
- Go ahead. Scare me.

1923
01:16:41,138 --> 01:16:42,848
(Vincent Price laughing)

1924
01:16:43,140 --> 01:16:43,682
(rifle cocking)

1925
01:16:43,974 --> 01:16:46,018
- I'll keep an eye out just for you.

1926
01:16:46,310 --> 01:16:47,770
(eerie music)

1927
01:16:48,062 --> 01:16:50,564
(man screaming)

1928
01:16:50,856 --> 01:16:51,857
- [Announcer] "The Offspring."

1929
01:16:52,149 --> 01:16:53,567
- It was actually the last movie I saw

1930
01:16:53,859 --> 01:16:54,860
before I came to California.

1931
01:16:55,152 --> 01:16:57,029
I saw it in Detroit at
the Mercury Theater.

1932
01:16:57,321 --> 01:16:58,531
And it was actually the first movie I saw

1933
01:16:58,823 --> 01:16:59,865
<i>when I arrived in LA,</i>

1934
01:17:00,157 --> 01:17:01,659
I loved it so much I
went back and saw it again.

1935
01:17:01,951 --> 01:17:05,454
It's now known on video as
"From a Whisper to a Scream,”

1936
01:17:05,746 --> 01:17:07,748
which I think is kind of like too artsy.

1937
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:09,083
It really was about retribution,

1938
01:17:09,375 --> 01:17:11,043
and had great twist endings.

1939
01:17:11,335 --> 01:17:13,671
Of all the newer anthology
movies at that time,

1940
01:17:13,963 --> 01:17:15,881
I felt it was the one that
most captured the feeling

1941
01:17:16,173 --> 01:17:17,842
of those Amicus movies.

1942
01:17:18,134 --> 01:17:21,303
- One mistake, or one
of many mistakes we made

1943
01:17:21,595 --> 01:17:25,516
in that movie was not
interconnecting the stories

1944
01:17:25,808 --> 01:17:27,184
as much as we could've or should've.

1945
01:17:27,476 --> 01:17:31,647
That's what makes a really
good satisfying anthology,

1946
01:17:31,939 --> 01:17:33,149
the connecting devices.

1947
01:17:33,440 --> 01:17:36,735
- We didn't have a wraparound
device until much later.

1948
01:17:37,027 --> 01:17:38,737
The stories were filmed
like a year before.

1949
01:17:39,029 --> 01:17:41,031
- Vincent Price is the historian,

1950
01:17:41,323 --> 01:17:43,492
Susan Tyrrell is a journalist

1951
01:17:43,784 --> 01:17:46,620
coming from the execution
of Vincent Price's niece.

1952
01:17:46,912 --> 01:17:48,831
And in her execution scene
at the beginning of the film,

1953
01:17:49,123 --> 01:17:50,499
it's kind of funny because David Del Valle

1954
01:17:50,791 --> 01:17:52,376
is actually one of the journalists.

1955
01:17:52,668 --> 01:17:55,462
- When Jeff Burr came to
Los Angeles from Georgia,

1956
01:17:55,754 --> 01:17:59,508
we got Vincent Price to
act as the librarian.

1957
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:02,344
- One is never too old for nightmares.

1958
01:18:02,636 --> 01:18:05,014
- For our first project,
we wanted to do something

1959
01:18:05,306 --> 01:18:08,225
where we could get a lot of cast in it

1960
01:18:08,517 --> 01:18:11,687
with the very little money
that we had been able to raise.

1961
01:18:11,979 --> 01:18:15,316
And so we were able to get,
eventually, Vincent Price

1962
01:18:15,608 --> 01:18:19,862
and Susan Tyrrell, Clu
Gulager, Cameron Mitchell.

1963
01:18:20,154 --> 01:18:22,781
No one forget Martine
Beswick and Lawrence Tierney.

1964
01:18:23,073 --> 01:18:25,159
And now we were able
to put 'em in a movie.

1965
01:18:25,451 --> 01:18:26,452
- [Kier-La Janisse] One of the
things I liked about it

1966
01:18:26,744 --> 01:18:27,828
is how regional it feels.

1967
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:30,122
You know, that all of the
stories are taking place

1968
01:18:30,414 --> 01:18:32,333
in the South and dealing
with very Southern issues.

1969
01:18:32,625 --> 01:18:34,793
You know, it's dealing
heavily with Southern Gothic.

1970
01:18:35,085 --> 01:18:37,129
It's dealing with all the
racial history of the South.

1971
01:18:37,421 --> 01:18:39,590
- [Announcer] Here in
a small American town,

1972
01:18:39,882 --> 01:18:42,384
the horrors of the past have
come alive in the present.

1973
01:18:42,676 --> 01:18:45,846
- It's very gratifying, or funny,

1974
01:18:46,138 --> 01:18:50,351
to hear everyone's
different favorite episode.

1975
01:18:50,643 --> 01:18:52,144
- My favorite episode stars Clu Gulager,

1976
01:18:52,436 --> 01:18:54,688
one of these kind of like
no holds barred performances,

1977
01:18:54,980 --> 01:18:57,399
where he plays a introverted bachelor

1978
01:18:57,691 --> 01:18:59,026
who lives this horrible life

1979
01:18:59,318 --> 01:19:01,320
taking care of his invalid sister.

1980
01:19:01,612 --> 01:19:04,073
He becomes infatuated with
a woman he works with.

1981
01:19:04,365 --> 01:19:09,078
- His performance is the glue
for this amazing segment.

1982
01:19:09,370 --> 01:19:10,704
- I think it's like probably
his greatest performance.

1983
01:19:10,996 --> 01:19:15,167
- It was a joy and a challenge
to do an anthology film.

1984
01:19:15,459 --> 01:19:16,543
We put our all into it.

1985
01:19:16,835 --> 01:19:17,836
- We're young guys.

1986
01:19:18,128 --> 01:19:19,213
We're just havin' a ball.

1987
01:19:20,256 --> 01:19:21,507
(creature screaming)

1988
01:19:21,799 --> 01:19:24,635
(ominous rock music)

1989
01:19:30,474 --> 01:19:33,143
- [Narrator] There is a
grim menace in the West.

1990
01:19:33,435 --> 01:19:36,105
- "Star Wars" had been
fabulously successful

1991
01:19:36,397 --> 01:19:38,774
mixing sci-fi and swashbuckling,

1992
01:19:39,066 --> 01:19:41,318
and I thought, well, what
genres haven't been mixed,

1993
01:19:41,610 --> 01:19:43,654
or haven't been mixed much,
that I could play with?

1994
01:19:43,946 --> 01:19:46,031
So I said, well, how
about horror and Western?

1995
01:19:46,323 --> 01:19:47,825
(guns firing)

1996
01:19:48,117 --> 01:19:49,368
- [Announcer] Fear rides the range.

1997
01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:54,248
- [Wayne Coe] Westerns are the
archetypal capitalist story.

1998
01:19:54,540 --> 01:19:57,918
The white male with a gun
who protects the woman,

1999
01:19:58,210 --> 01:20:01,422
subdues the Native
Americans or the blacks.

2000
01:20:01,714 --> 01:20:05,092
So something in me went, I
went to do an anti-Western.

2001
01:20:05,384 --> 01:20:07,636
To do an anti-Western you
invert the Western theme.

2002
01:20:07,928 --> 01:20:09,221
- [Announcer] "Grim Prairie Tales."

2003
01:20:09,513 --> 01:20:11,515
- Why is "Grim Prairie
Tales”" an anthology?

2004
01:20:11,807 --> 01:20:12,641
It was pure economics.

2005
01:20:12,933 --> 01:20:16,061
- [Announcer] Starring Brad
Dourif and James Earl Jones.

2006
01:20:16,353 --> 01:20:18,022
- You only need James
Earl Jones for a week.

2007
01:20:18,314 --> 01:20:19,898
You don't need him for three months.

2008
01:20:21,817 --> 01:20:23,694
(ominous music)

2009
01:20:23,986 --> 01:20:28,073
- The first R-rated movie I
got to see in theaters as a kid

2010
01:20:28,365 --> 01:20:30,951
was I think when I was, I'm
gonna say like 10 or so,

2011
01:20:31,243 --> 01:20:34,621
my father took me at my
like ceaseless demands,

2012
01:20:34,913 --> 01:20:35,956
because I'd become obsessed

2013
01:20:36,248 --> 01:20:38,917
with like the network
TV spots for this film.

2014
01:20:39,209 --> 01:20:41,628
- [Announcer] Four tales
of overwhelming terror.

2015
01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:45,132
- The kind of "Tales from the
Crypt," EC comics plot twist

2016
01:20:45,424 --> 01:20:46,675
was something, you know, at that young age

2017
01:20:46,967 --> 01:20:47,801
I really hadn't seen before.

2018
01:20:48,093 --> 01:20:50,471
Also there's like a ton
gore and adult content.

2019
01:20:50,763 --> 01:20:53,307
- You promised you'd never tell!

2020
01:20:53,599 --> 01:20:54,141
- No!

2021
01:20:54,433 --> 01:20:56,810
- This movie hit me at this perfect moment

2022
01:20:57,102 --> 01:20:59,730
of adolescence where I
was not completely ready

2023
01:21:00,022 --> 01:21:01,398
to watch hardcore stuff yet,

2024
01:21:01,690 --> 01:21:03,400
but at the same time,
I'd graduated from things

2025
01:21:03,692 --> 01:21:04,735
like "The Monster Squad”

2026
01:21:05,027 --> 01:21:06,945
and "Something Wicked This Way Comes."

2027
01:21:07,237 --> 01:21:09,782
- I still really think
it's like a great film.

2028
01:21:10,074 --> 01:21:12,826
I know that's not like a
totally common consensus

2029
01:21:13,118 --> 01:21:14,203
about that motion picture.

2030
01:21:15,162 --> 01:21:16,622
- [Announcer] Edgar Allan Poe,

2031
01:21:16,914 --> 01:21:19,958
the writer who first gave fear a face.

2032
01:21:20,918 --> 01:21:23,253
Dario Argento and George Romero,

2033
01:21:23,545 --> 01:21:24,213
(gun firing)

2034
01:21:24,505 --> 01:21:26,590
The most twisted minds in horror movies,

2035
01:21:26,882 --> 01:21:29,009
all three united to make a film

2036
01:21:29,301 --> 01:21:31,595
that will blow your
peace of mind to pieces.

2037
01:21:32,638 --> 01:21:33,931
- I have always had a soft spot

2038
01:21:34,223 --> 01:21:37,768
for "Two Evil Eyes," and
specifically, Argento's segment.

2039
01:21:38,060 --> 01:21:40,270
- [Karim Hussain] An incredible
vortex into the mind

2040
01:21:40,562 --> 01:21:41,397
of Edgar Allan Poe,

2041
01:21:41,688 --> 01:21:44,733
made by a guy who's really
obsessed with the material.

2042
01:21:45,984 --> 01:21:47,528
- What's the big hurry, Usher?

2043
01:21:47,820 --> 01:21:49,196
Stiff's not goin" nowhere.

2044
01:21:49,488 --> 01:21:52,533
- The George Romero
episode is fine, it's okay.

2045
01:21:52,825 --> 01:21:53,659
- [Ernest] Where is she?

2046
01:21:53,951 --> 01:21:55,411
- I think Romero was a little bit bummed

2047
01:21:55,702 --> 01:21:56,870
he couldn't make the actual episode

2048
01:21:57,162 --> 01:21:57,746
that he did want to make,

2049
01:21:58,038 --> 01:21:59,540
which was "Masque of the Red Death,"

2050
01:21:59,832 --> 01:22:00,999
which would have been pretty amazing

2051
01:22:01,291 --> 01:22:05,462
and actually strangely timely
in this time of COVID-19,

2052
01:22:05,754 --> 01:22:07,423
particularly what he wanted to do.
So that didn't happen

2053
01:22:07,714 --> 01:22:08,590
and he had to choose

2054
01:22:08,882 --> 01:22:10,259
"The Facts of the Case of Mr. Valdemar,"

2055
01:22:10,551 --> 01:22:12,928
which obviously he
wasn't that thrilled by.

2056
01:22:13,220 --> 01:22:14,179
- He's still alive.

2057
01:22:15,389 --> 01:22:17,224
(cat snarling)

2058
01:22:17,516 --> 01:22:18,267
- [Karim Hussain] Whereas "The Black Cat,"

2059
01:22:18,559 --> 01:22:21,937
Argento obviously was incredibly
thrilled with his material.

2060
01:22:22,229 --> 01:22:23,730
- Do you see it?

2061
01:22:24,022 --> 01:22:25,524
S Look what I got in the forest.

2062
01:22:25,816 --> 01:22:26,859
<i>2 Look what I, I have for you >.</i>

2063
01:22:27,151 --> 01:22:28,819
- It's kind of bat shit bonkers.

2064
01:22:29,111 --> 01:22:30,154
It doesn't make sense.

2065
01:22:30,446 --> 01:22:31,405
It's kind of stream of conscious

2066
01:22:31,697 --> 01:22:33,323
and gets really surreal at points.

2067
01:22:33,615 --> 01:22:36,160
But I have just always loved this one.

2068
01:22:36,452 --> 01:22:38,912
- Nicola Pecorini was
the Steadicam operator,

2069
01:22:39,204 --> 01:22:40,164
and then also second unit director,

2070
01:22:40,456 --> 01:22:44,334
and just did absolutely
phenomenal work on it.

2071
01:22:44,626 --> 01:22:47,129
As usual, he's one of the
greatest Steadicam operators

2072
01:22:47,421 --> 01:22:49,465
in the world, and as a camera person,

2073
01:22:49,756 --> 01:22:51,175
that's something that really spoke to me.

2074
01:22:51,467 --> 01:22:53,010
Also the music from Pino Donaggio

2075
01:22:53,302 --> 01:22:54,803
was absolutely phenomenal.

2076
01:22:55,095 --> 01:22:56,138
(woman groaning)

2077
01:22:56,430 --> 01:22:58,348
(eerie music)

2078
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:01,810
You get a tremendous
sense of madness in it.

2079
01:23:02,102 --> 01:23:04,438
(man screaming)

2080
01:23:04,730 --> 01:23:06,565
- [Announcer] From the
very depths of hell.

2081
01:23:07,900 --> 01:23:09,735
- The 1993 film "Necronomicon"

2082
01:23:10,027 --> 01:23:12,446
went direct to video in the United States,

2083
01:23:12,738 --> 01:23:16,492
and I discovered it on VHS and
I was just utterly floored.

2084
01:23:16,783 --> 01:23:18,577
I mean, it's Brian Yuzna,
it's Christophe Gans,

2085
01:23:18,869 --> 01:23:21,330
and Shusuke Kaneko, writer-directors

2086
01:23:21,622 --> 01:23:23,457
who are coming at Lovecraft

2087
01:23:23,749 --> 01:23:26,835
with knowledge of who he was

2088
01:23:27,127 --> 01:23:28,837
and the like greater mythos.

2089
01:23:29,129 --> 01:23:31,590
- With "Necronomicon,"
I got to work Shusuke,

2090
01:23:31,882 --> 01:23:32,633
and with Christophe,

2091
01:23:32,925 --> 01:23:35,302
and the idea that we were trying to make,

2092
01:23:35,594 --> 01:23:37,513
within like a regular production,

2093
01:23:38,430 --> 01:23:41,141
but just bring- but we were overlapping.

2094
01:23:41,433 --> 01:23:44,603
We had to have two DPs and three ADs,

2095
01:23:44,895 --> 01:23:47,064
'cause everybody got to
do whatever they wanted.

2096
01:23:47,356 --> 01:23:48,690
- They're all great directors,

2097
01:23:48,982 --> 01:23:50,150
but it was the first time Christophe Gans

2098
01:23:50,442 --> 01:23:51,360
had ever directed anything.

2099
01:23:51,652 --> 01:23:53,570
And he's so on point.

2100
01:23:53,862 --> 01:23:55,697
His segment's basically just dripping

2101
01:23:55,989 --> 01:23:57,324
with water and slime.

2102
01:23:57,616 --> 01:23:59,326
It's so beautifully done.

2103
01:23:59,618 --> 01:24:03,705
It embodies everything
that is a Lovecraft story,

2104
01:24:03,997 --> 01:24:05,582
when people think of Lovecraft.

2105
01:24:05,874 --> 01:24:07,543
You know, the vast majority
of Lovecraft's work

2106
01:24:07,834 --> 01:24:10,295
actually isn't about tentacle monsters,

2107
01:24:10,587 --> 01:24:12,798
but of all the movies
about tentacle monsters

2108
01:24:13,090 --> 01:24:14,758
that are Lovecraft's, to me that one,

2109
01:24:15,050 --> 01:24:17,928
I think lands it stronger
than any other film.

2110
01:24:18,220 --> 01:24:19,596
The movie itself is really wonderful,

2111
01:24:19,888 --> 01:24:20,639
but that one little piece,

2112
01:24:20,931 --> 01:24:23,517
"The Drowned" by Christophe
Gans, is beautiful.

2113
01:24:23,809 --> 01:24:24,434
- Welcome!

2114
01:24:25,435 --> 01:24:26,103
(guns firing)

2115
01:24:26,395 --> 01:24:27,020
To hell!

2116
01:24:27,938 --> 01:24:29,731
- [Announcer] From executive
producer Spike Lee.

2117
01:24:30,023 --> 01:24:31,525
- "Tales from the Hood."

2118
01:24:31,817 --> 01:24:32,359
That was awesome.

2119
01:24:32,651 --> 01:24:34,861
- [Announcer] In this
neighborhood is a house

2120
01:24:35,153 --> 01:24:37,197
where souls never rest.

2121
01:24:37,489 --> 01:24:40,659
- You don't have a lot of
urban anthology movies.

2122
01:24:40,951 --> 01:24:43,537
I mean, it's probably
one of the only ones.

2123
01:24:43,829 --> 01:24:45,080
- I've been waiting for you, boys.

2124
01:24:45,372 --> 01:24:48,333
- It came about from a desire to tell

2125
01:24:48,625 --> 01:24:51,420
anthology horror stories
from a black point of view.

2126
01:24:51,712 --> 01:24:55,465
We wanted to include social issues

2127
01:24:55,757 --> 01:24:58,302
that the country was
dealing with at the time.

2128
01:24:58,594 --> 01:25:03,390
Police brutality, domestic
violence, racist politicians.

2129
01:25:04,224 --> 01:25:06,727
We're really glad that
in the 25 years since,

2130
01:25:07,019 --> 01:25:09,771
all of these problems
have gone away. (laughs)

2131
01:25:10,063 --> 01:25:11,857
- One story that I think is very timely

2132
01:25:12,149 --> 01:25:15,485
for this day and age is the
one starring Corbin Bernsen,

2133
01:25:15,777 --> 01:25:18,739
where he is like this
David Duke type character

2134
01:25:19,031 --> 01:25:20,490
who has bought this house that, you know,

2135
01:25:20,782 --> 01:25:23,869
all these slave owners had,
and horrible things happened.

2136
01:25:24,161 --> 01:25:25,203
With the little stop animation dolls.

2137
01:25:25,495 --> 01:25:26,538
- Dolls don't want you there!

2138
01:25:26,830 --> 01:25:27,998
They want reparations!

2139
01:25:28,290 --> 01:25:30,000
- Doing urban horror stories

2140
01:25:30,292 --> 01:25:31,627
was really ahead of its time.

2141
01:25:31,918 --> 01:25:32,669
- I just loved the format.

2142
01:25:32,961 --> 01:25:34,296
I've always loved the format.

2143
01:25:34,588 --> 01:25:37,132
The movie seems more relevant
now than it ever did,

2144
01:25:37,424 --> 01:25:41,178
which wasn't something we were hoping for.

2145
01:25:41,470 --> 01:25:43,639
It's kind of why we're back doing sequels.

2146
01:25:43,930 --> 01:25:45,432
(stopwatch ticking)

2147
01:25:45,724 --> 01:25:48,352
(switch cracking)

2148
01:25:50,604 --> 01:25:54,316
- "Family Portraits,”
directed by Doug Buck

2149
01:25:54,608 --> 01:25:55,942
really hit its mark, and I think

2150
01:25:56,234 --> 01:25:57,903
it's a beautiful anthology,

2151
01:25:58,195 --> 01:26:01,698
where the three films link
together extremely well.

2152
01:26:01,990 --> 01:26:03,533
- I love anthologies.

2153
01:26:03,825 --> 01:26:05,702
I love working on them,
I love doing short films.

2154
01:26:05,994 --> 01:26:08,497
If I had to choose between
a career of features

2155
01:26:08,789 --> 01:26:09,665
and a career of short films,

2156
01:26:09,956 --> 01:26:12,834
not that I had either of those
careers, but if I had one,

2157
01:26:13,126 --> 01:26:14,544
I would choose the short film,

2158
01:26:14,836 --> 01:26:16,546
like just endless short films.

2159
01:26:16,838 --> 01:26:19,508
- It's just a dazzling anthology,

2160
01:26:19,800 --> 01:26:24,429
and each of the individual
segments could stand alone,

2161
01:26:24,721 --> 01:26:27,933
yet they honestly connect to one another.

2162
01:26:28,225 --> 01:26:30,394
(sinister music)

2163
01:26:30,686 --> 01:26:32,813
- Aside from perfectly capturing

2164
01:26:33,105 --> 01:26:34,314
the spirit of Halloween-

2165
01:26:34,606 --> 01:26:35,399
- I hate Halloween.

2166
01:26:35,691 --> 01:26:37,818
- What Mike Dougherty did
with "Trick 'r Treat,"

2167
01:26:38,110 --> 01:26:40,153
in terms of being able to
weave these stories together

2168
01:26:40,445 --> 01:26:41,655
in a really coherent way

2169
01:26:41,947 --> 01:26:43,532
and make it feel like one film-

2170
01:26:43,824 --> 01:26:44,366
- Forget your costume?

2171
01:26:44,658 --> 01:26:45,742
- [Graham Skipper] Was just totally masterful.

2172
01:26:46,034 --> 01:26:49,204
- I think Mike Dougherty's
"Trick 'r Treat" is a standout,

2173
01:26:49,496 --> 01:26:52,874
because it allows the filmmaker
to build one off the other.

2174
01:26:53,166 --> 01:26:55,502
And I think that it's wonderful
when it's a cohesive piece.

2175
01:26:55,794 --> 01:26:57,671
- I feel like it is a bit underrated.

2176
01:26:57,963 --> 01:27:00,549
All of us horror fans kind
of knew how great it was,

2177
01:27:00,841 --> 01:27:03,385
but it didn't go, you know,
go on to have that big level

2178
01:27:03,677 --> 01:27:05,637
of success that it really deserved.

2179
01:27:05,929 --> 01:27:07,347
- I used to test movies for a living.

2180
01:27:07,639 --> 01:27:08,849
I did market research for film.

2181
01:27:09,141 --> 01:27:11,059
And so I remember testing this movie,

2182
01:27:11,351 --> 01:27:13,687
and loving it myself, and
then this film never came out.

2183
01:27:13,979 --> 01:27:14,938
And I kept on telling friends,

2184
01:27:15,230 --> 01:27:17,315
Warner Brothers has this
fucking awesome movie

2185
01:27:17,607 --> 01:27:19,443
that they're- I don't know
what they're doing with it.

2186
01:27:19,735 --> 01:27:22,612
- I look at it as the "Pulp
Fiction" of horror movies.

2187
01:27:22,904 --> 01:27:26,408
- I love "Three... Extremes."

2188
01:27:26,700 --> 01:27:27,951
- I was quite young when I saw that,

2189
01:27:28,243 --> 01:27:30,495
and I was so happy at that age

2190
01:27:30,787 --> 01:27:34,458
that there was an Asian horror anthology

2191
01:27:34,750 --> 01:27:36,251
that acknowledged that horror

2192
01:27:36,543 --> 01:27:39,045
from all different parts
of Asia would be different.

2193
01:27:39,337 --> 01:27:40,380
- Who were the directors on there?

2194
01:27:40,672 --> 01:27:41,423
Park Chan-Wook.

2195
01:27:41,715 --> 01:27:43,842
I love "Oldboy," "Sympathy
for Mr. Vengeance,"

2196
01:27:44,134 --> 01:27:44,718
it's gonna be amazing.

2197
01:27:45,010 --> 01:27:45,969
Takashi Miike. I mean, come on.

2198
01:27:46,261 --> 01:27:47,888
I made "Hostel" because of "Audition."

2199
01:27:48,180 --> 01:27:49,306
And then Fruit Chan.

2200
01:27:49,598 --> 01:27:50,390
Who is Fruit Chan?

2201
01:27:50,682 --> 01:27:51,933
Never heard of Fruit Chan.

2202
01:27:52,225 --> 01:27:54,436
Well, the movie you wind up talking about

2203
01:27:54,728 --> 01:27:57,105
at the end of that is Fruit
Chan's movie "Dumplings."

2204
01:27:57,397 --> 01:28:01,151
- Wow, I still like, I
still remember the imagery.

2205
01:28:01,443 --> 01:28:06,114
Blood, corpse oil, using
the remains is a huge thing

2206
01:28:06,406 --> 01:28:08,200
in Asian black magic.

2207
01:28:09,284 --> 01:28:12,078
And the fact that they brought
up something that obscure

2208
01:28:12,370 --> 01:28:14,706
and started using it was just like-

2209
01:28:14,998 --> 01:28:16,166
I guess it's not obscure to us,

2210
01:28:16,458 --> 01:28:17,918
but it's obscure to the rest of the world.

2211
01:28:18,210 --> 01:28:19,586
It was really fantastic.

2212
01:28:19,878 --> 01:28:21,963
- It is so shocking and so good.

2213
01:28:22,255 --> 01:28:23,673
I was blown away.

2214
01:28:23,965 --> 01:28:25,801
- What's been interesting
looking at it over the years

2215
01:28:26,092 --> 01:28:29,012
is the way it transitioned
from the films are usually made

2216
01:28:29,304 --> 01:28:31,973
by one director who kind
of brought the same style

2217
01:28:32,265 --> 01:28:33,350
to each segment,

2218
01:28:33,642 --> 01:28:36,770
and then in the, I guess
in the late '90s or 2000s,

2219
01:28:37,062 --> 01:28:38,146
you started to get into the films

2220
01:28:38,438 --> 01:28:41,274
where you had multiple directors
approaching a common theme,

2221
01:28:41,566 --> 01:28:43,819
and you kind of got very different views

2222
01:28:44,110 --> 01:28:45,028
on the same subject.

2223
01:28:45,320 --> 01:28:47,781
(intense music)

2224
01:28:52,869 --> 01:28:56,665
- Having had a dry spell,
the anthology movie is back

2225
01:28:56,957 --> 01:28:58,291
in our midst again.

2226
01:28:58,583 --> 01:29:00,418
(ominous music)

2227
01:29:00,710 --> 01:29:01,920
- I don't know if I can blow the trumpet

2228
01:29:02,212 --> 01:29:05,465
for "Theatre Bizarre," because
I do enjoy "Theatre Bizarre."

2229
01:29:05,757 --> 01:29:09,511
- "Theatre Bizarre," which
has the ubiquitous Udo Kier,

2230
01:29:09,803 --> 01:29:11,805
and Udo Kier should have
been in anthology movies

2231
01:29:12,097 --> 01:29:12,973
way before this.

2232
01:29:13,265 --> 01:29:16,935
He's Klaus Kinski meets Peter Cushing.

2233
01:29:17,227 --> 01:29:17,978
- I love where each one's

2234
01:29:18,270 --> 01:29:20,522
a different genre type of storytelling.

2235
01:29:20,814 --> 01:29:24,150
- They're unrelated and
stylistically vastly different,

2236
01:29:24,442 --> 01:29:26,528
but it was done with a philosophy

2237
01:29:26,820 --> 01:29:27,654
from beginning to end,

2238
01:29:27,946 --> 01:29:29,447
and not just saying,
hey, that's a good movie,

2239
01:29:29,739 --> 01:29:30,699
hey, there's a good movie over there,

2240
01:29:30,991 --> 01:29:32,033
and just cram them together.

2241
01:29:32,325 --> 01:29:32,868
That's not a movie.

2242
01:29:33,159 --> 01:29:34,327
That's a collection of shorts.

2243
01:29:34,619 --> 01:29:36,705
- Even though the filmmakers
were very disparate-

2244
01:29:36,997 --> 01:29:37,622
- Don't forget to feed it.

2245
01:29:37,914 --> 01:29:39,833
- [Jeremy Kasten] Stylistically and otherwise,

2246
01:29:40,125 --> 01:29:43,169
there's like some DNA that's shared.

2247
01:29:43,461 --> 01:29:44,963
And I also was in the cool position

2248
01:29:45,255 --> 01:29:49,217
of finding the fabric
that would cinch it tight.

2249
01:29:49,509 --> 01:29:51,219
When those stories are brought together

2250
01:29:51,511 --> 01:29:53,847
under one movie it works really well.

2251
01:29:54,139 --> 01:29:56,683
- "Theatre Bizarre," you got
a bunch of great filmmakers

2252
01:29:56,975 --> 01:29:58,310
putting together stories.

2253
01:29:58,602 --> 01:30:02,314
They are technically shorts,
but they are bound together.

2254
01:30:02,606 --> 01:30:04,190
They're made under the same auspices.

2255
01:30:04,482 --> 01:30:08,236
- A super hard form to actually
make work, that's for sure.

2256
01:30:08,528 --> 01:30:09,613
- The other thing about
the anthology side,

2257
01:30:09,905 --> 01:30:10,822
you don't make any money,

2258
01:30:11,114 --> 01:30:13,450
but you get this total, total control.

2259
01:30:13,742 --> 01:30:16,661
On "The Theatre Bizarre,"
we had total final cut,

2260
01:30:16,953 --> 01:30:19,289
we had casting, we had total freedom.

2261
01:30:19,581 --> 01:30:23,251
"Theatre Bizarre" is in
some ways my best film,

2262
01:30:23,543 --> 01:30:26,254
favorite film, because
it is totally completely

2263
01:30:26,546 --> 01:30:27,756
what I wanted it to be.

2264
01:30:28,048 --> 01:30:31,551
- You're working in a
spirit of mutual love

2265
01:30:31,843 --> 01:30:36,514
for the art form and mutual
respect for each other.

2266
01:30:36,806 --> 01:30:39,059
I think that plays a
big part in it as well.

2267
01:30:40,101 --> 01:30:41,811
(person screaming)

2268
01:30:42,103 --> 01:30:43,605
- [Man] What's so special about this tape?

2269
01:30:43,897 --> 01:30:44,439
- Did you erase it?

2270
01:30:44,731 --> 01:30:47,108
- I liked the "V/H/S"
films, especially the first.

2271
01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:49,152
- [Simon Barrett] When we first
started talking about "V/H/S,"

2272
01:30:49,444 --> 01:30:50,236
which is right around the time

2273
01:30:50,528 --> 01:30:51,738
"Theatre Bizarre" was happening-

2274
01:30:52,030 --> 01:30:52,572
- I like you.

2275
01:30:52,864 --> 01:30:53,406
(woman screaming)

2276
01:30:53,698 --> 01:30:54,824
- The "Theatre Bizarre" approach ended up

2277
01:30:55,116 --> 01:30:56,868
being also the "V/H/S"
and "ABCs" approach,

2278
01:30:57,160 --> 01:30:59,371
which was just like give
a bunch of filmmakers

2279
01:30:59,663 --> 01:31:01,957
a small amount of money and
have them go make a short film

2280
01:31:02,248 --> 01:31:05,085
and hope that there's some
kind of stylistic coherency,

2281
01:31:05,377 --> 01:31:05,919
or at least hope

2282
01:31:06,211 --> 01:31:07,629
that they're all like in
the same aspect ratio.

2283
01:31:07,921 --> 01:31:08,838
- [Man] Which one is it?

2284
01:31:09,130 --> 01:31:09,923
- I don't know, man.

2285
01:31:11,341 --> 01:31:14,511
- "V/H/S/2," Gareth Evans' "Safe Haven"

2286
01:31:14,803 --> 01:31:16,346
was obviously impressive.

2287
01:31:16,638 --> 01:31:18,723
- That movie feels more like a nightmare

2288
01:31:19,015 --> 01:31:20,308
than any movie I've ever seen.

2289
01:31:20,600 --> 01:31:22,352
You're seeing it literally
this guy's point of view,

2290
01:31:22,644 --> 01:31:24,896
through this camera, running
through this environment,

2291
01:31:25,188 --> 01:31:27,065
everything around there
trying to kill him.

2292
01:31:27,357 --> 01:31:27,983
He can't escape.

2293
01:31:28,274 --> 01:31:29,401
There's no way to get out,

2294
01:31:29,693 --> 01:31:31,194
and it just captures that feeling you have

2295
01:31:31,486 --> 01:31:32,612
when you have a bad dream

2296
01:31:32,904 --> 01:31:35,031
and something's after you and
you can't get away from it

2297
01:31:35,323 --> 01:31:36,408
no matter what you do.

2298
01:31:36,700 --> 01:31:38,159
That little segment of "V/H/S/2"

2299
01:31:38,451 --> 01:31:41,246
is one of the most terrifying
films I've ever seen.

2300
01:31:41,538 --> 01:31:45,041
- Timo's one, a crew comes
in and unleashes a demon,

2301
01:31:45,333 --> 01:31:47,377
and there's so many exploding heads.

2302
01:31:47,669 --> 01:31:49,337
That's the one that goes for broke.

2303
01:31:49,629 --> 01:31:50,171
(guns firing)

2304
01:31:50,463 --> 01:31:52,090
- I actually think all
the "V/H/Ses" are good

2305
01:31:52,382 --> 01:31:55,260
in the same way that anthologies
have that charming quality

2306
01:31:55,552 --> 01:31:57,721
of one of them or two of
them aren't that good.

2307
01:31:58,013 --> 01:31:59,889
I would often try to pitch anthology films

2308
01:32:00,181 --> 01:32:02,183
back in the '90s or the early 2000s,

2309
01:32:02,475 --> 01:32:05,603
and everyone always said,
"That's not gonna fly,

2310
01:32:05,895 --> 01:32:07,147
people don't like anthology,"

2311
01:32:07,439 --> 01:32:09,983
and actually it's patently not true.

2312
01:32:10,275 --> 01:32:12,944
- I think people who
make movies like them.

2313
01:32:13,236 --> 01:32:15,864
I think people who make
movies love the idea

2314
01:32:16,156 --> 01:32:17,657
of making an anthology.

2315
01:32:17,949 --> 01:32:19,868
- Basically, a feature
film is two to five years

2316
01:32:20,160 --> 01:32:21,077
of your life.

2317
01:32:21,369 --> 01:32:23,246
I mean, you know, to
do like an indie film.

2318
01:32:23,538 --> 01:32:26,875
To do an anthology, you shoot in a week,

2319
01:32:27,167 --> 01:32:28,126
and it's done.

2320
01:32:28,418 --> 01:32:31,838
- You don't get to make
a lot of stories.

2321
01:32:32,130 --> 01:32:34,007
And you know, there are so many

2322
01:32:34,299 --> 01:32:38,720
that you have to, you
know, just forget about

2323
01:32:39,012 --> 01:32:40,305
through your career, and I think

2324
01:32:40,597 --> 01:32:43,850
that making anthology
is your chance to give-

2325
01:32:44,142 --> 01:32:47,145
to make something
shorter and maybe be able

2326
01:32:47,437 --> 01:32:51,566
to try a little bit of
different approaches

2327
01:32:51,858 --> 01:32:54,069
and different universes.

2328
01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:55,987
- Directors like to do it

2329
01:32:56,279 --> 01:32:57,697
because generally they're left alone.

2330
01:32:57,989 --> 01:33:00,825
I mean, the entirety of
the movie is not riding

2331
01:33:01,117 --> 01:33:01,826
on your stories.

2332
01:33:02,118 --> 01:33:03,995
- "ABCs of Death,"
which I got involved in,

2333
01:33:04,287 --> 01:33:05,997
was one of the first
new wave of anthologies.

2334
01:33:06,289 --> 01:33:07,707
It wasn't a traditional
anthology in the sense

2335
01:33:07,999 --> 01:33:09,292
of a kind of a "Dead of Night,"

2336
01:33:09,584 --> 01:33:10,960
or a "Tales from the
Crypt" or "Dr. Terror's,"

2337
01:33:11,252 --> 01:33:12,629
it didn't have a wraparound story.

2338
01:33:12,921 --> 01:33:13,838
Certainly, they had a concept,

2339
01:33:14,130 --> 01:33:16,091
but nothing really linked together

2340
01:33:16,382 --> 01:33:17,842
other than the idea of the alphabet.

2341
01:33:18,134 --> 01:33:18,885
- When we were doing "ABCs,"

2342
01:33:19,177 --> 01:33:21,012
I was trying to look at
the research of the history

2343
01:33:21,304 --> 01:33:22,639
of the "ABC" punishment books,

2344
01:33:22,931 --> 01:33:26,142
so I was trying to find some
strong literary background.

2345
01:33:26,434 --> 01:33:28,269
I came up with this ridiculous idea,

2346
01:33:28,561 --> 01:33:29,562
just to give it some sort of grounding,

2347
01:33:29,854 --> 01:33:31,773
and then debased it completely

2348
01:33:32,065 --> 01:33:34,109
in a really hopefully subversive way,

2349
01:33:34,400 --> 01:33:35,860
aiming for the lowest common denominator,

2350
01:33:36,152 --> 01:33:37,987
which I always think is kind of funny.

2351
01:33:38,279 --> 01:33:39,656
- It was almost
like a way to get a lot

2352
01:33:39,948 --> 01:33:41,866
of interesting directors' voices.

2353
01:33:42,158 --> 01:33:44,285
- [Jovanka Vuckovic] Films like the "V/H/S" movies,

2354
01:33:44,577 --> 01:33:46,371
then the "ABCs of Death" films.

2355
01:33:46,663 --> 01:33:49,541
- I'm here every night!

2356
01:33:49,833 --> 01:33:53,419
- Those were the more recent
independently made anthologies

2357
01:33:53,711 --> 01:33:56,381
that have kind of led this new wave.

2358
01:33:56,673 --> 01:33:57,590
They're not really comparable

2359
01:33:57,882 --> 01:34:01,219
to the old British Amicus anthologies,

2360
01:34:01,511 --> 01:34:05,348
because those movies had a
lot of money behind them,

2361
01:34:05,640 --> 01:34:08,143
and these ones are much more

2362
01:34:08,434 --> 01:34:11,271
kind of scrappy, independent anthologies.

2363
01:34:11,563 --> 01:34:13,773
And I think that's what
people really like about them.

2364
01:34:14,065 --> 01:34:17,152
- My favorite is "Southbound,"
I really love it.

2365
01:34:17,443 --> 01:34:19,070
I love the world of the desert.

2366
01:34:19,362 --> 01:34:22,574
They capture what it feels like to be lost

2367
01:34:22,866 --> 01:34:25,368
and in the middle of nowhere really well.

2368
01:34:25,660 --> 01:34:26,870
- I thought the Radio Silence section

2369
01:34:27,162 --> 01:34:28,496
was really, really good.

2370
01:34:28,788 --> 01:34:30,123
- I wrote a novel, "Night Driver,"

2371
01:34:30,415 --> 01:34:31,624
about a woman who drives at night,

2372
01:34:31,916 --> 01:34:34,669
and this tale of the deserted highway,

2373
01:34:34,961 --> 01:34:36,212
which may be a gateway to hell,

2374
01:34:36,504 --> 01:34:41,176
or maybe purgatory itself,
is too tempting to resist.

2375
01:34:41,467 --> 01:34:43,178
- [The D.J.] We're all just
trying to find our way home.

2376
01:34:43,469 --> 01:34:44,804
- It's a bunch of different filmmakers,

2377
01:34:45,096 --> 01:34:46,389
and they each have a different segment,

2378
01:34:46,681 --> 01:34:47,807
but they do a really good job

2379
01:34:48,099 --> 01:34:51,352
of making the whole world
feel really unified.

2380
01:34:51,644 --> 01:34:53,855
It has the same tone and style.

2381
01:34:55,857 --> 01:34:58,193
- There was a film called "Holidays."

2382
01:34:58,484 --> 01:34:59,360
(man pounding on glass)

2383
01:34:59,652 --> 01:35:01,112
- I'm sorry, we're closed.

2384
01:35:01,404 --> 01:35:02,238
- Oh, no, no, no. I called, about the-

2385
01:35:02,530 --> 01:35:04,157
- Sorry, pal. Holidays are hell.

2386
01:35:05,158 --> 01:35:06,910
- [Eli Roth] Where everybody
picked a different holiday.

2387
01:35:07,202 --> 01:35:09,120
And there was one that was
actually called "Father's Day,"

2388
01:35:09,412 --> 01:35:11,873
with Jocelin Donahue from
"The House of the Devil"

2389
01:35:12,165 --> 01:35:13,541
that Anthony Scott Burns directed,

2390
01:35:13,833 --> 01:35:15,335
I thought was really, really good.

2391
01:35:16,878 --> 01:35:18,922
- Kevin and I, you know, we
both made a lot of short films

2392
01:35:19,214 --> 01:35:20,215
in film school, as you do.

2393
01:35:20,506 --> 01:35:22,008
But then ironically, we came out of that

2394
01:35:22,300 --> 01:35:24,052
and we were like, "Let's
go right to features."

2395
01:35:24,344 --> 01:35:27,096
You know, and so when
"Starry Eyes" came out,

2396
01:35:27,388 --> 01:35:29,515
we were approached to work
on the "Holidays" anthology.

2397
01:35:29,807 --> 01:35:31,726
It instantly appealed to
us because we could take

2398
01:35:32,018 --> 01:35:32,727
all that knowledge we have

2399
01:35:33,019 --> 01:35:34,145
from all those short films we made

2400
01:35:34,437 --> 01:35:36,397
and fit it into the mold

2401
01:35:36,689 --> 01:35:38,024
of what this anthology was gonna be.

2402
01:35:38,316 --> 01:35:39,400
Even now after "Pet Semetary,"

2403
01:35:39,692 --> 01:35:41,986
we get approached a lot to
work on other anthologies.

2404
01:35:42,278 --> 01:35:43,696
- Yeah, we've been itching to do it again,

2405
01:35:43,988 --> 01:35:46,741
because it's just really a lot of fun.

2406
01:35:47,033 --> 01:35:49,035
- They bring a lot of filmmakers together,

2407
01:35:49,327 --> 01:35:51,955
so it's a celebration of
a lot of different talents

2408
01:35:52,247 --> 01:35:54,082
and a lot of different
voices coming together

2409
01:35:54,374 --> 01:35:55,917
to make one solid project.

2410
01:35:56,209 --> 01:35:57,752
- [Mike Mendez] You know, well, I could spend

2411
01:35:58,044 --> 01:36:01,130
a million dollars on one movie, or-

2412
01:36:01,422 --> 01:36:02,882
- Every year on Halloween.

2413
01:36:03,174 --> 01:36:05,969
- I could give six filmmakers $50,000

2414
01:36:06,261 --> 01:36:07,178
and see what they come up with.

2415
01:36:07,470 --> 01:36:09,055
You know, as much as I love that,

2416
01:36:09,347 --> 01:36:10,306
and we did that with "Tales of Halloween,"

2417
01:36:10,598 --> 01:36:12,767
you do lose something,
having the singular director

2418
01:36:13,059 --> 01:36:15,103
and the singular writer working together.

2419
01:36:15,395 --> 01:36:16,813
- Some of 'em are pretty interesting

2420
01:36:17,105 --> 01:36:19,107
in terms of using different directors.

2421
01:36:19,399 --> 01:36:21,276
I mean, I've seen lots of them,

2422
01:36:21,567 --> 01:36:24,612
but the first one that
popped into my head was "XX."

2423
01:36:24,904 --> 01:36:26,864
- What's in the box? Can I see?

2424
01:36:27,156 --> 01:36:28,199
- Stop being so nosy.

2425
01:36:28,491 --> 01:36:29,284
- [The Man] It's okay.

2426
01:36:29,575 --> 01:36:32,120
(haunting music)

2427
01:36:33,037 --> 01:36:36,040
- It's a great way in for
an emerging filmmaker,

2428
01:36:36,332 --> 01:36:37,917
but you know, like asking
people to make a movie

2429
01:36:38,209 --> 01:36:42,171
for like $5,000, it literally
means no one is getting paid.

2430
01:36:42,463 --> 01:36:43,256
Like, no one.

2431
01:36:43,548 --> 01:36:46,592
In fact, probably everybody
is going in the hole.

2432
01:36:46,884 --> 01:36:48,428
That's something we were trying to avoid

2433
01:36:48,720 --> 01:36:49,846
when we put together "XX."

2434
01:36:50,138 --> 01:36:52,098
We wanted to make sure
that women were being given

2435
01:36:52,390 --> 01:36:55,518
healthy budgets so that they
could actually make something

2436
01:36:55,810 --> 01:36:57,437
that showcases their abilities.

2437
01:36:57,729 --> 01:37:00,815
- Your son tore my
daughter's fingernails off.

2438
01:37:01,107 --> 01:37:03,735
- Four emerging women directors.

2439
01:37:04,027 --> 01:37:08,072
None of 'em really had a
track record at the time.

2440
01:37:08,364 --> 01:37:12,410
It was really interesting
watching how they approached it.

2441
01:37:12,702 --> 01:37:15,580
- There's this director
problem that women have,

2442
01:37:15,872 --> 01:37:18,333
just 4% of all working
directors are women.

2443
01:37:18,624 --> 01:37:21,461
Over the last 100 years, 90% of all films

2444
01:37:21,753 --> 01:37:22,795
have been made by men.

2445
01:37:23,087 --> 01:37:24,130
We felt like it was time

2446
01:37:24,422 --> 01:37:28,176
for the women to get a
chance to tell their stories.

2447
01:37:28,468 --> 01:37:31,429
- If you don't eat, eventually you'll die.

2448
01:37:31,721 --> 01:37:32,347
- So?

2449
01:37:33,306 --> 01:37:36,309
- Another one I really
like is "Nightmare Cinema."

2450
01:37:36,601 --> 01:37:38,144
- In the case of "Nightmare Cinema,"

2451
01:37:38,436 --> 01:37:39,645
"Masters of Horror" as a series,

2452
01:37:39,937 --> 01:37:42,482
they're established
filmmakers who want to tell

2453
01:37:42,774 --> 01:37:45,485
a certain story and are
excited about the opportunity

2454
01:37:45,777 --> 01:37:48,613
to tell something that's personal to them.

2455
01:37:48,905 --> 01:37:49,530
- Find the damn devil.

2456
01:37:49,822 --> 01:37:52,325
- It's very difficult to
get a theatrical release

2457
01:37:52,617 --> 01:37:53,951
on an anthology movie.

2458
01:37:54,243 --> 01:37:56,954
They are not known to be great box office.

2459
01:37:57,246 --> 01:38:00,792
They do good VOD business,
Netflix and Amazon and streaming

2460
01:38:01,084 --> 01:38:02,585
and all that, if they're good movies,

2461
01:38:02,877 --> 01:38:04,837
but it's incredibly difficult to do it.

2462
01:38:05,129 --> 01:38:08,591
- I just wonder what the
future of anthology films

2463
01:38:08,883 --> 01:38:10,593
is gonna be, based on the fact

2464
01:38:10,885 --> 01:38:13,429
that most of our content
is gonna be coming to us

2465
01:38:13,721 --> 01:38:16,015
over these little boxes here, you know.

2466
01:38:16,307 --> 01:38:20,269
- When I attempted to make my
own anthology, "Worst Fears,"

2467
01:38:20,561 --> 01:38:23,523
I learned that it really
is harder than you think.

2468
01:38:25,441 --> 01:38:26,526
- Worst fears.

2469
01:38:32,156 --> 01:38:34,784
- "Worst Fears" really
wasn't very popular at all.

2470
01:38:35,076 --> 01:38:36,202
And in fact, it was so unsuccessful

2471
01:38:36,494 --> 01:38:39,163
that I'll probably never
make another horror film

2472
01:38:39,455 --> 01:38:40,206
as long as I live.

2473
01:38:42,250 --> 01:38:44,252
- Danny Boyle, the director
went on record as saying

2474
01:38:44,544 --> 01:38:46,462
that he didn't really
like portmanteau films

2475
01:38:46,754 --> 01:38:49,799
because you couldn't identify
with characters long enough

2476
01:38:50,091 --> 01:38:51,300
to get involved with them.

2477
01:38:51,592 --> 01:38:53,344
I'm not sure I really agree with that,

2478
01:38:53,636 --> 01:38:55,596
because I think with an anthology,

2479
01:38:55,888 --> 01:38:58,516
the person you identify with, weirdly,

2480
01:38:58,808 --> 01:39:01,310
is kind of the filmmaker, the storyteller.

2481
01:39:01,602 --> 01:39:03,396
- My favorite horror
anthologies in general

2482
01:39:03,688 --> 01:39:06,441
are the ones that were
made by a single filmmaker.

2483
01:39:06,732 --> 01:39:08,234
When you have the singularity of vision

2484
01:39:08,526 --> 01:39:10,695
<i>coming from one filmmaker,
be it a Roy Ward Baker</i>

2485
01:39:10,987 --> 01:39:13,531
or Freddie Francis, Mario
Bava, George Romero.

2486
01:39:13,823 --> 01:39:17,326
I mean, I think those films
are so much fun to watch.

2487
01:39:17,618 --> 01:39:22,373
- So from our panel of experts
of 61 people, the results.

2488
01:39:23,458 --> 01:39:26,043
(ominous music)

2489
01:39:30,465 --> 01:39:32,467
- [Announcer] At number five from Japan,

2490
01:39:32,758 --> 01:39:37,513
1965, Masaki Kobayashi's
haunting "Kwaidan."

2491
01:39:44,312 --> 01:39:49,066
In fourth place, 1974 brought
the final Amicus anthology,

2492
01:39:50,234 --> 01:39:51,611
"From Beyond the Grave."

2493
01:39:55,406 --> 01:39:57,992
At number three, Amicus again,

2494
01:39:58,284 --> 01:40:02,246
and their 1972 adaptation
of "Tales from the Crypt."

2495
01:40:05,124 --> 01:40:07,668
The runner up, also hailing from Britain,

2496
01:40:09,295 --> 01:40:13,716
Eating Studios' 1945
classic, "Dead of Night."

2497
01:40:17,011 --> 01:40:18,638
And the film our expert panel voted

2498
01:40:18,930 --> 01:40:21,224
the number one horror
anthology movie ever.

2499
01:40:21,516 --> 01:40:23,476
- [Announcer] Jolting tales of horror.

2500
01:40:23,768 --> 01:40:26,687
- The most fun you'll
ever have being scared.

2501
01:40:26,979 --> 01:40:28,648
George Romero's "Creepshow."

2502
01:40:31,275 --> 01:40:33,611
- Anyone that tells you
they like anthology movies,

2503
01:40:33,903 --> 01:40:35,821
you name one, whether
it's "Dead of Night,"

2504
01:40:36,113 --> 01:40:38,407
"From Beyond the Grave,"
"Tales from the Crypt,"

2505
01:40:38,699 --> 01:40:40,326
they're gonna come up with one story.

2506
01:40:40,618 --> 01:40:42,453
- Anthologies, you're always
kind of cherry picking

2507
01:40:42,745 --> 01:40:44,080
which segment you like best,

2508
01:40:44,372 --> 01:40:45,665
and I'm sure the ultimate goal

2509
01:40:45,957 --> 01:40:48,000
for a lot of us is to
create the mothership,

2510
01:40:48,292 --> 01:40:50,336
the master anthology horror film

2511
01:40:50,628 --> 01:40:51,671
that has all our favorites in them.

2512
01:40:51,963 --> 01:40:53,589
- According to our panel of experts,

2513
01:40:53,881 --> 01:40:57,218
the desert island horror anthology film

2514
01:40:57,510 --> 01:41:00,054
would contain the
following top five films.

2515
01:41:00,346 --> 01:41:03,140
There's actually six, because
number three is a tie.

2516
01:41:04,600 --> 01:41:06,018
- [Announcer] In fifth place,

2517
01:41:06,310 --> 01:41:08,563
the terrifying "A Drop of Water”

2518
01:41:08,854 --> 01:41:12,358
from Mario Bava's "Black Sabbath," 1963.

2519
01:41:13,859 --> 01:41:18,447
At number four, Dan
Curtis's 1977 TV movie,

2520
01:41:18,739 --> 01:41:21,534
"Dead of Night's”
climactic episode, "Bobby."

2521
01:41:27,331 --> 01:41:29,250
At number three we have a tie.

2522
01:41:29,542 --> 01:41:32,336
Both from 1972's "Tales from the Crypt."

2523
01:41:32,628 --> 01:41:36,173
Peter Cushing rises from the
tomb in "Poetic Justice,"

2524
01:41:37,508 --> 01:41:40,553
and the razor-sharp finale "Blind Alleys."

2525
01:41:47,893 --> 01:41:51,647
In second place, Federico
Fellini takes on Edgar Allan Poe.

2526
01:41:51,939 --> 01:41:55,735
"Toby Dammit" from 1968's
"Spirits of the Dead."

2527
01:41:58,904 --> 01:42:00,615
And in the number one spot,

2528
01:42:00,906 --> 01:42:02,033
Dan Curtis again.

2529
01:42:02,325 --> 01:42:05,453
Karen Black goes head to
head with a Zuni fetish doll

2530
01:42:05,745 --> 01:42:09,540
in "Amelia" from 1975's
"Trilogy of Terror."”

2531
01:42:11,083 --> 01:42:13,336
- So many anthology films
have a framing story

2532
01:42:13,628 --> 01:42:16,422
where it is someone
telling or reading stories,

2533
01:42:16,714 --> 01:42:18,841
sort of passing on these histories.

2534
01:42:19,133 --> 01:42:20,551
And it's so connected to people

2535
01:42:20,843 --> 01:42:24,555
sitting around a campfire,
telling ghost stories and things.

2536
01:42:24,847 --> 01:42:27,933
Part of why people like the
anthology structure so much

2537
01:42:28,225 --> 01:42:30,978
is because it is so
tied to these older ways

2538
01:42:31,270 --> 01:42:33,356
of sharing horror stories.

2539
01:42:33,648 --> 01:42:35,483
- All right, we got it.

2540
01:42:35,775 --> 01:42:38,986
(eerie electronic music)