1 00:00:02,089 --> 00:00:05,739 [unsettling music] 2 00:00:05,788 --> 00:00:08,138 - A house can just be a labyrinth of death, 3 00:00:08,182 --> 00:00:11,402 and you would never know from the outside. 4 00:00:11,446 --> 00:00:13,056 - One movie... 5 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:14,320 [thunder booming] 6 00:00:14,362 --> 00:00:16,282 That's really, really scary... 7 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,060 ♪ 8 00:00:18,105 --> 00:00:20,105 I would say Rob Reiner's "Misery." 9 00:00:20,150 --> 00:00:22,590 - God's sake. - It's for the best. 10 00:00:22,631 --> 00:00:23,761 - Annie, please! 11 00:00:23,806 --> 00:00:26,456 - [wailing] 12 00:00:26,504 --> 00:00:29,034 - "Last House on the Left" is kind of just, like, 13 00:00:29,072 --> 00:00:30,682 the world's most, you know, 14 00:00:30,726 --> 00:00:32,946 [bleep]-up after-school special, you know? 15 00:00:32,989 --> 00:00:34,769 ♪ 16 00:00:34,817 --> 00:00:36,037 - Just a bunch of, like, 17 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:39,649 horrible hillbilly, evil people 18 00:00:39,691 --> 00:00:41,001 doing their worst to you. 19 00:00:41,041 --> 00:00:42,961 - Blow your brains out! - [crying] 20 00:00:42,999 --> 00:00:44,389 [gunshot] 21 00:00:45,828 --> 00:00:46,868 - I mean, "House of 1000 Corpses" 22 00:00:46,916 --> 00:00:48,826 to me seems exactly like if you took 23 00:00:48,874 --> 00:00:51,664 "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" 24 00:00:51,703 --> 00:00:53,973 And "Rocky Horror Picture Show" 25 00:00:54,010 --> 00:00:56,190 and threw it in a blender 26 00:00:56,230 --> 00:00:57,710 and spit out another movie. 27 00:00:57,753 --> 00:01:01,023 ♪ 28 00:01:01,061 --> 00:01:02,151 - [screams] 29 00:01:02,192 --> 00:01:03,452 [all gasp] 30 00:01:03,498 --> 00:01:07,278 - "Cabin in the Woods" might be the most fun 31 00:01:07,328 --> 00:01:11,068 that I've had watching a movie in the last ten years. 32 00:01:11,114 --> 00:01:12,464 [ghastly snarl] 33 00:01:12,507 --> 00:01:15,807 ♪ 34 00:01:15,858 --> 00:01:17,078 - Most haunted house stories 35 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:18,950 are really glorified family dramas. 36 00:01:18,991 --> 00:01:20,521 - [shouts] 37 00:01:20,558 --> 00:01:23,468 - There is no safer place for you to be than your house. 38 00:01:23,518 --> 00:01:25,518 - [shrieks] - [screams] 39 00:01:25,563 --> 00:01:28,133 - When the place that you live in rebels against you, 40 00:01:28,175 --> 00:01:29,255 that's terrifying. 41 00:01:29,306 --> 00:01:36,176 ♪ 42 00:01:38,272 --> 00:01:41,192 [eerie music] 43 00:01:41,231 --> 00:01:48,201 ♪ 44 00:01:48,847 --> 00:01:50,627 - [screams] 45 00:02:06,126 --> 00:02:08,996 male narrator: Home is where the heart is, 46 00:02:09,041 --> 00:02:13,221 unless you happen to live in a house of hell... 47 00:02:13,263 --> 00:02:14,483 [gunshot] 48 00:02:14,525 --> 00:02:18,265 A house where love sours into hate 49 00:02:18,312 --> 00:02:20,052 and the echoes of the violent past 50 00:02:20,096 --> 00:02:22,576 return to haunt the present. 51 00:02:22,620 --> 00:02:26,190 ♪ 52 00:02:26,233 --> 00:02:30,113 - Well, houses effectively are great locations for horror 53 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:33,810 because a house is anything you want it to be. 54 00:02:33,849 --> 00:02:36,289 It can be a home, 55 00:02:36,330 --> 00:02:38,380 or it can be a prison. 56 00:02:38,419 --> 00:02:41,509 You never can tell what's going on on the inside, 57 00:02:41,552 --> 00:02:43,952 and that's sort of that macabre curiosity 58 00:02:43,989 --> 00:02:45,639 that I think we all have. 59 00:02:45,687 --> 00:02:47,597 Whenever you hear about some serial killer, like, 60 00:02:47,645 --> 00:02:51,425 "They--their house looked so normal from the outside." 61 00:02:51,475 --> 00:02:54,825 narrator: When it comes to creating houses of hell, 62 00:02:54,870 --> 00:02:57,610 Stephen King has few rivals. 63 00:02:57,655 --> 00:02:59,265 - [screams] 64 00:02:59,309 --> 00:03:00,659 - I know, like,you don't wanna play favorites, 65 00:03:00,702 --> 00:03:02,532 but is there is one adaptationof yours 66 00:03:02,573 --> 00:03:04,143 that you're like,"That's the one 67 00:03:04,184 --> 00:03:05,974 that nailed exactlywhat was in my head"? 68 00:03:06,011 --> 00:03:08,231 - Well, it depends on whether you're talking about 69 00:03:08,275 --> 00:03:10,355 one of the balls-to-the-wall horror movies, 70 00:03:10,407 --> 00:03:14,367 but if I had to say what's the one movie 71 00:03:14,411 --> 00:03:18,331 that's really, really scary and just is unrelenting, 72 00:03:18,372 --> 00:03:21,242 I would say probably Rob Reiner's "Misery." 73 00:03:21,288 --> 00:03:24,508 narrator: Best-selling romance novelist Paul Sheldon 74 00:03:24,552 --> 00:03:26,382 has a terrible car accident. 75 00:03:26,423 --> 00:03:29,863 [dramatic music] 76 00:03:29,905 --> 00:03:33,515 He's rescued by a seemingly kind and cheerful nurse 77 00:03:33,561 --> 00:03:35,261 named Annie Wilkes. 78 00:03:35,302 --> 00:03:38,222 - I'm your number one fan. 79 00:03:38,261 --> 00:03:40,311 - Anybody who works in the arts 80 00:03:40,350 --> 00:03:42,790 has experienced people that consider themselves 81 00:03:42,831 --> 00:03:44,401 your number one fan, 82 00:03:44,441 --> 00:03:47,311 and it just feels so real, 83 00:03:47,357 --> 00:03:50,317 and Rob Reiner really got it right. 84 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:51,930 He really understood it. 85 00:03:51,970 --> 00:03:53,840 - Look what I got. 86 00:03:53,885 --> 00:03:56,575 narrator: Annie is obsessd with Misery Chastain, 87 00:03:56,627 --> 00:03:58,407 the heroine of Paul's books. 88 00:03:58,455 --> 00:04:00,885 - I slammed my money down.I got the first copy. 89 00:04:00,936 --> 00:04:03,236 ♪ 90 00:04:03,286 --> 00:04:06,376 You dirty bird. 91 00:04:06,420 --> 00:04:08,030 How could you? 92 00:04:08,073 --> 00:04:09,553 narrator: When she finds out 93 00:04:09,597 --> 00:04:10,687 he's killing the character off, 94 00:04:10,728 --> 00:04:12,378 she does not take the news well. 95 00:04:12,426 --> 00:04:14,426 - You did it! You did it! 96 00:04:14,471 --> 00:04:16,651 You murdered my Misery! 97 00:04:16,691 --> 00:04:18,001 - Annie! 98 00:04:20,477 --> 00:04:23,177 narrator: Annie turns Paul into a prisoner. 99 00:04:23,219 --> 00:04:25,789 Her isolated country house becomes a cage 100 00:04:25,830 --> 00:04:27,620 he can't escape. 101 00:04:27,658 --> 00:04:30,398 - If someone is captive in a house in--in a movie, 102 00:04:30,444 --> 00:04:32,014 that's part of the psychological torture 103 00:04:32,054 --> 00:04:34,404 is that someone might be able to see freedom 104 00:04:34,448 --> 00:04:37,018 or people walking by on the outside 105 00:04:37,059 --> 00:04:39,059 but just be trapped on-- you know, on the inside. 106 00:04:39,104 --> 00:04:40,634 In "Misery," it's like, 107 00:04:40,671 --> 00:04:42,631 there were so many other claustrophobic elements. 108 00:04:42,673 --> 00:04:44,203 There was a blizzard, 109 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:45,850 and she lives out in the middle of nowhere. 110 00:04:45,894 --> 00:04:47,204 [dark music] 111 00:04:47,243 --> 00:04:49,383 narrator: Disabled and trapped in his room, 112 00:04:49,419 --> 00:04:52,069 Paul is forced to write a new book 113 00:04:52,117 --> 00:04:54,027 that brings Misery back to life. 114 00:04:54,076 --> 00:04:56,506 - Think of me as your inspiration. 115 00:04:56,557 --> 00:05:00,687 - One of the things that made that film work 116 00:05:00,735 --> 00:05:03,165 and made Rob Reiner the perfect person to do it 117 00:05:03,215 --> 00:05:05,825 is because humor and horror 118 00:05:05,870 --> 00:05:08,870 are really two sides of the same coin. 119 00:05:08,917 --> 00:05:11,307 - Mm-hmm. - You know, I always say, uh, 120 00:05:11,354 --> 00:05:13,754 "It stops being funny when it starts being you." 121 00:05:13,791 --> 00:05:17,321 You know, so that a lot of times in a horror movie, 122 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,100 something really terrible will happen, 123 00:05:19,144 --> 00:05:20,544 and the audience will go, "Aah!" 124 00:05:20,581 --> 00:05:22,541 And then they'll laugh, you know, 125 00:05:22,583 --> 00:05:24,543 because they're trying to play it off a little bit, so... 126 00:05:24,585 --> 00:05:26,015 - Awesome. 127 00:05:26,064 --> 00:05:27,724 - And "Misery" has a lot of funny things in it. 128 00:05:27,762 --> 00:05:29,852 - Oh, this whole house is gona be filled with romance! 129 00:05:29,894 --> 00:05:31,034 [gasps] 130 00:05:31,069 --> 00:05:32,719 I'm gonna put on my Liberace records. 131 00:05:32,767 --> 00:05:35,417 - That whole Liberace thing wasn't in the book. 132 00:05:35,465 --> 00:05:36,895 - Really? 133 00:05:36,945 --> 00:05:38,245 - How crazy she is about Liberace. 134 00:05:38,294 --> 00:05:41,344 [jovial piano music] 135 00:05:41,384 --> 00:05:48,524 ♪ 136 00:05:49,305 --> 00:05:52,085 [typewriter dings] [thunder booming] 137 00:05:52,134 --> 00:05:53,964 narrator: As Paul recovers, 138 00:05:54,005 --> 00:05:56,395 he sneaks out of his room, 139 00:05:56,443 --> 00:05:59,973 finds out some disturbing things about Annie, 140 00:06:00,011 --> 00:06:02,411 and plots his escape, 141 00:06:02,449 --> 00:06:04,929 but Annie is one step ahead of him. 142 00:06:04,973 --> 00:06:06,843 [tense music] 143 00:06:06,888 --> 00:06:08,278 - It all builds up to that scene-- 144 00:06:08,324 --> 00:06:09,244 - The penguin. 145 00:06:09,281 --> 00:06:11,281 [suspenseful music] 146 00:06:11,936 --> 00:06:13,456 - [sighs] 147 00:06:13,503 --> 00:06:16,163 - When he puts the penguin the wrong way, 148 00:06:16,201 --> 00:06:18,291 the whole audience went, "No! 149 00:06:18,334 --> 00:06:19,994 She's gonna know!She's gonna know!" 150 00:06:20,031 --> 00:06:22,731 [thunder booming] 151 00:06:24,079 --> 00:06:25,779 - [grunts] 152 00:06:25,820 --> 00:06:28,130 - In the book, Annie Wilks cuts his foot off with an ax. 153 00:06:28,170 --> 00:06:31,000 [eerie music] 154 00:06:31,042 --> 00:06:34,222 Rob just felt that that wasn't what was appropriate 155 00:06:34,263 --> 00:06:36,573 for the character 156 00:06:36,613 --> 00:06:37,923 and the movie. 157 00:06:37,962 --> 00:06:39,572 So he said, "We're--we're gonna do this thing 158 00:06:39,616 --> 00:06:40,786 called hobbling." 159 00:06:40,835 --> 00:06:42,915 - Paul, do you know about 160 00:06:42,967 --> 00:06:45,877 the early days at the Kimberly diamond mines? 161 00:06:45,927 --> 00:06:47,577 Do you know what they did to the native workers 162 00:06:47,624 --> 00:06:48,764 who stole diamonds? 163 00:06:48,799 --> 00:06:50,449 [tense music] 164 00:06:50,497 --> 00:06:52,147 - "And so what we're gonna do is, 165 00:06:52,194 --> 00:06:54,154 "we're gonna put a block of wood, 166 00:06:54,196 --> 00:06:56,756 and then we're gonna use a sledgehammer." 167 00:06:56,807 --> 00:06:59,237 So the way that we designed that scene, 168 00:06:59,288 --> 00:07:01,638 we made these fake legs out of gelatin 169 00:07:01,682 --> 00:07:04,822 with a PVC pipe in them, with hinges in the ankle, 170 00:07:04,859 --> 00:07:07,169 and we had cable on 'em so that we could pull the cable 171 00:07:07,209 --> 00:07:10,339 when she swings the sledgehammer. 172 00:07:10,386 --> 00:07:12,606 You know, if you watch the way that that scene 173 00:07:12,649 --> 00:07:14,389 is edited together, 174 00:07:14,434 --> 00:07:17,444 you see she hefts up the sledgehammer, 175 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:18,790 so you know it's a real sledgehammer. 176 00:07:18,829 --> 00:07:20,049 We never used a rubber sledgehammer. 177 00:07:20,091 --> 00:07:21,401 It was always real. 178 00:07:21,441 --> 00:07:22,311 So you can see it took some effort. 179 00:07:22,354 --> 00:07:23,974 And they cut back to the wide. 180 00:07:24,008 --> 00:07:26,138 There's no insert close-up of the ankle breaking. 181 00:07:26,184 --> 00:07:28,674 - It's for the best. - Annie, please! 182 00:07:28,709 --> 00:07:31,799 [screams] 183 00:07:31,842 --> 00:07:34,802 - Almost done. Just one more. 184 00:07:34,845 --> 00:07:37,975 - You never even see the second ankle breaking. 185 00:07:38,022 --> 00:07:39,682 - [screams] 186 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:41,200 - You only see-- 187 00:07:41,243 --> 00:07:43,033 there's literally one shot in the movie. 188 00:07:43,071 --> 00:07:44,071 - [whimpers] 189 00:07:44,115 --> 00:07:46,635 - God, I love you. 190 00:07:46,683 --> 00:07:49,383 - Kathy Bates is somebody you'd never seen in a movie before. 191 00:07:49,425 --> 00:07:51,595 She'd only been on Broadway before. 192 00:07:51,645 --> 00:07:53,295 - [mockingly] "I can't write on this paper, Annie." 193 00:07:53,342 --> 00:07:54,782 Well, I'll get your stupid paper... 194 00:07:54,822 --> 00:07:57,172 - And you buy her as Annie Wilkes completely. 195 00:07:57,215 --> 00:07:58,735 - Mr. Man! 196 00:07:58,782 --> 00:08:00,182 - [yells] 197 00:08:00,218 --> 00:08:01,738 [grunting] 198 00:08:01,785 --> 00:08:04,655 - And James Caan had never done a horror film before, 199 00:08:04,701 --> 00:08:07,401 and even though it wasn't supernatural, 200 00:08:07,443 --> 00:08:09,273 this was very much a horror movie. 201 00:08:09,314 --> 00:08:12,234 [both grunting] 202 00:08:12,274 --> 00:08:14,154 [suspenseful music] 203 00:08:14,189 --> 00:08:16,929 - [grunts] 204 00:08:16,974 --> 00:08:18,024 - [grunts] 205 00:08:18,062 --> 00:08:19,412 - [grunts] 206 00:08:19,455 --> 00:08:22,715 ♪ 207 00:08:22,763 --> 00:08:24,373 [grunts] 208 00:08:24,416 --> 00:08:26,976 - A lot of my dad's stuff, a lot of Stephen King's stuff, 209 00:08:27,028 --> 00:08:28,598 his worldview and philosophy 210 00:08:28,638 --> 00:08:33,078 has always been kind of a more New Testament sort of thing. 211 00:08:33,121 --> 00:08:36,651 Um, there is evil in the world, 212 00:08:36,690 --> 00:08:39,910 and the darkness can be held back, 213 00:08:39,954 --> 00:08:42,354 but the cost is usually human sacrifice. 214 00:08:42,391 --> 00:08:45,571 We can only force the darkness back 215 00:08:45,612 --> 00:08:48,442 at a great cost of blood and tears. 216 00:08:48,484 --> 00:08:50,624 narrator: Secluded country houses 217 00:08:50,660 --> 00:08:53,320 make ideal hideaways for psychopaths. 218 00:08:53,358 --> 00:08:54,838 [ominous music] 219 00:08:54,882 --> 00:08:57,102 But ordinary houses in the suburbs 220 00:08:57,145 --> 00:08:59,315 have their secrets too, 221 00:08:59,364 --> 00:09:01,724 particularly if your family problems 222 00:09:01,758 --> 00:09:05,108 awaken something sinister. 223 00:09:10,288 --> 00:09:13,508 narrator: In horror films, houses are characters 224 00:09:13,553 --> 00:09:16,083 with personalities just as strong 225 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,080 as their occupants. 226 00:09:18,122 --> 00:09:21,342 James Whale's classic "The Old Dark House" 227 00:09:21,386 --> 00:09:24,826 was one of the first to make a crumbling Gothic mansion 228 00:09:24,868 --> 00:09:27,998 reflect the insanity of the family living inside it. 229 00:09:28,045 --> 00:09:29,525 - Wouldn't it be dramatic, 230 00:09:29,569 --> 00:09:32,139 supposing the people inside were dead, 231 00:09:32,180 --> 00:09:33,570 all stretched out 232 00:09:33,616 --> 00:09:35,656 with the lights quietly burning about them? 233 00:09:35,705 --> 00:09:37,525 narrator: And Gothic houses of hell 234 00:09:37,577 --> 00:09:39,317 later featured prominently 235 00:09:39,361 --> 00:09:42,411 in classics like Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho"... 236 00:09:42,451 --> 00:09:44,191 [unsettling music] 237 00:09:44,235 --> 00:09:46,925 Robert Wise's "The Haunting," 238 00:09:46,977 --> 00:09:50,147 and Lucio Fulci's "The Beyond," 239 00:09:50,198 --> 00:09:52,718 which conjures up a nightmarish vision 240 00:09:52,766 --> 00:09:55,376 of a house built over a gateway to hell 241 00:09:55,420 --> 00:09:56,940 and the evil that's unleashed 242 00:09:56,987 --> 00:09:57,807 when the gateway opens. 243 00:09:57,858 --> 00:10:00,598 ♪ 244 00:10:02,210 --> 00:10:03,990 But sometimes 245 00:10:04,038 --> 00:10:07,428 a house from hell doesnt look frightening at all, 246 00:10:07,476 --> 00:10:09,126 like the suburban ranch house 247 00:10:09,173 --> 00:10:11,353 in Scott Derrickson's terrifying film... 248 00:10:11,393 --> 00:10:13,573 [suspenseful musical sting] 249 00:10:13,613 --> 00:10:15,443 "Sinister." 250 00:10:15,484 --> 00:10:16,964 - I think we really don't ge "Sinister" enough credit 251 00:10:17,007 --> 00:10:21,877 for how incredibly friggin' scary that movie is. 252 00:10:21,925 --> 00:10:24,275 [unsettling music] 253 00:10:24,319 --> 00:10:27,929 It is so much more 254 00:10:27,975 --> 00:10:29,495 hideously violent, 255 00:10:29,541 --> 00:10:31,671 I think, than what you would expect 256 00:10:31,718 --> 00:10:34,068 from most, like, studio-released horror movies. 257 00:10:34,111 --> 00:10:41,121 ♪ 258 00:10:41,162 --> 00:10:43,992 - I always say that the best horror movies feel dangerous, 259 00:10:44,034 --> 00:10:45,344 and this felt dangerous. 260 00:10:45,383 --> 00:10:52,393 ♪ 261 00:10:54,218 --> 00:10:55,698 - And you have Ethan Hawke in the lead, 262 00:10:55,742 --> 00:10:57,352 obviously a tremendous actor 263 00:10:57,395 --> 00:10:58,875 giving a great performance, 264 00:10:58,919 --> 00:11:02,229 and the dread that it manages to build... 265 00:11:02,270 --> 00:11:04,190 - Last night, 266 00:11:04,228 --> 00:11:08,278 I thought something was in the house. 267 00:11:08,319 --> 00:11:09,889 [breathing heavily] 268 00:11:09,930 --> 00:11:13,240 And I woke up on the couch holding a baseball bat. 269 00:11:13,281 --> 00:11:17,021 [ominous music] 270 00:11:17,067 --> 00:11:21,027 - "Sinister" is about, uh, a writer, Ellison Oswalt, 271 00:11:21,071 --> 00:11:22,641 played by Ethan Hawke, 272 00:11:22,682 --> 00:11:24,812 who had really come into his own 273 00:11:24,858 --> 00:11:26,818 by writing a hit, best-selling book 274 00:11:26,860 --> 00:11:28,820 called "Kentucky Blood," true crime book. 275 00:11:28,862 --> 00:11:30,252 - Start by askingy do you spend so much time 276 00:11:30,298 --> 00:11:33,038 investigating such grisly content? 277 00:11:33,083 --> 00:11:34,743 - Fame and money. [laughter] 278 00:11:34,781 --> 00:11:36,391 No, I'm... 279 00:11:36,434 --> 00:11:40,054 - And, uh, he obtained fae and fortune, notoriety 280 00:11:40,090 --> 00:11:43,220 and since then had written two follow-ups 281 00:11:43,267 --> 00:11:44,697 that were not so good. 282 00:11:44,747 --> 00:11:46,747 - And he was looking to recapture that, 283 00:11:46,793 --> 00:11:49,273 and the way he thinks he can recapture that 284 00:11:49,317 --> 00:11:51,927 is by moving into this house which was a murder house. 285 00:11:51,972 --> 00:11:53,672 What he doesn't do is tell his family, 286 00:11:53,713 --> 00:11:55,853 "Hey, I'm moving you guys into a murder house." 287 00:11:55,889 --> 00:11:58,889 - [laughs] Oh. Oh, man. 288 00:11:58,935 --> 00:12:01,065 Oh, that is a conversation 289 00:12:01,111 --> 00:12:02,681 that I would not wanna be around for. 290 00:12:02,722 --> 00:12:03,902 - No, me neither. 291 00:12:03,940 --> 00:12:05,770 - And that's the biggest sin he could commit. 292 00:12:05,812 --> 00:12:07,472 ♪ 293 00:12:07,509 --> 00:12:09,029 - I wanted the house to feel 294 00:12:09,076 --> 00:12:10,506 like its general appearance on the outside 295 00:12:10,555 --> 00:12:11,855 isn't scary at all, 296 00:12:11,905 --> 00:12:13,725 that wh--that when they're moving in, 297 00:12:13,776 --> 00:12:16,686 there's just no sense of, like, "Oh, this is a haunted house." 298 00:12:16,736 --> 00:12:18,216 Doesn't feel like that at all, 299 00:12:18,259 --> 00:12:19,829 but it's--you turn all the lights out... 300 00:12:19,869 --> 00:12:22,959 [suspenseful musical sting] 301 00:12:23,003 --> 00:12:25,793 It's a long walk from the office to the bedroom. 302 00:12:25,832 --> 00:12:30,622 ♪ 303 00:12:30,662 --> 00:12:32,972 - As he's investigating what happened in the house, 304 00:12:33,013 --> 00:12:35,323 he finds a box of--of film, 305 00:12:35,363 --> 00:12:37,543 and each film is in these little cans, 306 00:12:37,582 --> 00:12:38,802 these little home movies, 307 00:12:38,845 --> 00:12:41,715 and they just say really ambiguous things 308 00:12:41,761 --> 00:12:44,551 like "Lawn mower" or "Carpool." 309 00:12:44,589 --> 00:12:46,899 [unsettling music] 310 00:12:46,940 --> 00:12:48,900 And grabs a glass of whiskey 311 00:12:48,942 --> 00:12:51,252 and strings up the projector 312 00:12:51,292 --> 00:12:53,122 and settles in for a night to watch these home movies 313 00:12:53,163 --> 00:12:55,083 after his family goes to bed, 314 00:12:55,122 --> 00:12:57,822 and they are basically snuff movies. 315 00:12:57,864 --> 00:12:59,744 [projector crackling] 316 00:12:59,779 --> 00:13:02,559 ♪ 317 00:13:02,607 --> 00:13:05,607 And once Ethan watches that first movie, 318 00:13:05,654 --> 00:13:08,354 you're like, "Dude, get out of the house." 319 00:13:08,396 --> 00:13:11,136 - Where was it you think we met? 320 00:13:11,181 --> 00:13:12,441 [tense music] 321 00:13:12,487 --> 00:13:14,967 - At your house. Don't you remember? 322 00:13:15,011 --> 00:13:17,581 - "Lost Highway" was the movie 323 00:13:17,622 --> 00:13:19,712 that made me figure out 324 00:13:19,755 --> 00:13:22,705 how to make the Super 8 films scary. 325 00:13:22,758 --> 00:13:24,368 I remember the effectiveness 326 00:13:24,412 --> 00:13:26,372 of them putting those videotapes in 327 00:13:26,414 --> 00:13:28,594 and watching the footage, 328 00:13:28,633 --> 00:13:31,463 uh, that was moving deeper and deeper into their home. 329 00:13:31,506 --> 00:13:36,376 ♪ 330 00:13:36,424 --> 00:13:37,994 [horrific musical sting] 331 00:13:38,034 --> 00:13:39,954 [distorted music] 332 00:13:39,993 --> 00:13:41,913 In "Sinister," once it started, 333 00:13:41,951 --> 00:13:44,391 you had--the audience has the experience 334 00:13:44,432 --> 00:13:46,612 of their own as the character. 335 00:13:46,651 --> 00:13:47,871 You never cut back to them 336 00:13:47,914 --> 00:13:49,964 until you're-- till you're done watching. 337 00:13:50,003 --> 00:13:55,623 ♪ 338 00:13:55,660 --> 00:13:57,180 [dramatic musical sting] 339 00:13:57,227 --> 00:13:58,837 - He's a good true crime investigator, 340 00:13:58,881 --> 00:14:01,621 so he just kind of follows the bread crumbs 341 00:14:01,666 --> 00:14:04,186 until he discovers that there's this entity 342 00:14:04,234 --> 00:14:07,024 named Bughuul 343 00:14:07,063 --> 00:14:10,023 which is using children to kill adults, 344 00:14:10,066 --> 00:14:11,586 kill the parents. 345 00:14:11,633 --> 00:14:13,593 [horrific musical sting] 346 00:14:13,635 --> 00:14:15,415 [tense music] 347 00:14:15,463 --> 00:14:16,683 - And he kind of pays 348 00:14:16,725 --> 00:14:17,935 the ultimate sins for what he's done, 349 00:14:17,987 --> 00:14:20,337 because he opens up the door, 350 00:14:20,381 --> 00:14:21,561 this Pandora's box 351 00:14:21,599 --> 00:14:23,779 of this supernatural horror, 352 00:14:23,819 --> 00:14:25,779 this horrible entity that, um, you know, 353 00:14:25,821 --> 00:14:28,001 leads to the downfall of his family. 354 00:14:28,041 --> 00:14:34,921 ♪ 355 00:14:34,961 --> 00:14:39,011 - But it's a horror film about a guy watching horror films. 356 00:14:39,052 --> 00:14:41,662 Watching horror can be a dangerous business. 357 00:14:41,706 --> 00:14:45,666 Anybody who watches real true crime 358 00:14:45,710 --> 00:14:48,190 and anybody who watches horror cinema 359 00:14:48,235 --> 00:14:50,625 knows of those moments in their life 360 00:14:50,672 --> 00:14:53,152 when they overreached. 361 00:14:53,196 --> 00:14:54,326 - [shrieks] 362 00:14:54,371 --> 00:14:56,811 - [shouts] 363 00:14:56,852 --> 00:14:58,072 - And they were really punished 364 00:14:58,114 --> 00:15:00,514 for watching that particular film. 365 00:15:00,551 --> 00:15:04,211 We've all had that experience. 366 00:15:04,251 --> 00:15:05,171 - [screaming] 367 00:15:05,208 --> 00:15:06,988 narrator: Some houses of hell 368 00:15:07,036 --> 00:15:10,206 conceal their evil behind bland façades, 369 00:15:10,257 --> 00:15:12,957 and some are exactly what they appear to be: 370 00:15:12,999 --> 00:15:15,039 houses you can enter 371 00:15:15,088 --> 00:15:17,918 but you'll never leave. 372 00:15:21,007 --> 00:15:24,047 narrator: What kind of people would live in a house of hell? 373 00:15:24,097 --> 00:15:26,577 [scary music] 374 00:15:26,621 --> 00:15:28,011 ♪ 375 00:15:28,057 --> 00:15:30,227 In "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," 376 00:15:30,277 --> 00:15:32,057 Tobe Hooper showed us 377 00:15:32,105 --> 00:15:34,715 a house of hell is a home, sweet home 378 00:15:34,759 --> 00:15:36,369 to a family from hell. 379 00:15:36,413 --> 00:15:38,073 - [screams] 380 00:15:38,111 --> 00:15:39,331 narrator: The image of that house 381 00:15:39,373 --> 00:15:40,983 and that family 382 00:15:41,027 --> 00:15:43,457 burned into the brains of many future filmmakers. 383 00:15:43,507 --> 00:15:45,507 - [screaming] 384 00:15:45,553 --> 00:15:47,513 narrator: It's influence looms large 385 00:15:47,555 --> 00:15:49,245 in Rob Zombie's twisted, 386 00:15:49,296 --> 00:15:52,076 violent, weirdly comic debut film, 387 00:15:52,125 --> 00:15:55,475 "House of 1000 Corpses." 388 00:15:55,519 --> 00:15:57,909 - Hope you like what you see! 389 00:15:57,957 --> 00:15:59,917 [ominous music] 390 00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:01,089 - "House of 1000 Corpses" to me 391 00:16:01,134 --> 00:16:02,874 seems exactly like if you took 392 00:16:02,918 --> 00:16:05,398 "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" and "Rocky Horror Picture Show" 393 00:16:05,442 --> 00:16:08,052 and threw it in a blender and spit out another movie. 394 00:16:08,097 --> 00:16:10,317 I was trying to make, you know, 395 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,930 this sort of gritty, back roads redneck movie, 396 00:16:12,972 --> 00:16:14,972 which I always loved, 397 00:16:15,017 --> 00:16:19,497 and just the so over-the-top "Rocky Horror" vibe. 398 00:16:20,153 --> 00:16:23,553 - What do they call you, sweetie? 399 00:16:23,591 --> 00:16:25,421 - I'm Qualsnargof the Crab Nebula. 400 00:16:25,462 --> 00:16:26,942 - [laughs] 401 00:16:26,986 --> 00:16:28,596 - Rob said, "I'm writing a character for, like, 402 00:16:28,639 --> 00:16:30,949 a really obnoxious ass[bleep] that's perfect for you." 403 00:16:30,990 --> 00:16:32,690 [laughing] It's literally what he said. 404 00:16:32,730 --> 00:16:35,040 And so he asked me to be in it, and I was in it, 405 00:16:35,081 --> 00:16:37,341 and I got to be in "House of 1000 Corpses." 406 00:16:37,387 --> 00:16:40,517 ♪ 407 00:16:40,564 --> 00:16:42,574 Four 20-somethings 408 00:16:42,610 --> 00:16:44,830 are driving across country 409 00:16:44,873 --> 00:16:47,703 taking note of, like, these kind of, you know, like, 410 00:16:47,745 --> 00:16:49,175 roadside America, 411 00:16:49,225 --> 00:16:50,785 all these, you know, weird attractions that you see 412 00:16:50,835 --> 00:16:52,655 when you drive across the country 413 00:16:52,707 --> 00:16:54,057 in a pre-internet era, 414 00:16:54,100 --> 00:16:55,580 'cause this took place in the '70s, 415 00:16:55,623 --> 00:16:58,373 and then, eh, you know, 416 00:16:58,408 --> 00:16:59,928 [bleep] goes sideways, 417 00:16:59,975 --> 00:17:02,975 maybe because of my character 418 00:17:03,022 --> 00:17:04,502 when they stumble across 419 00:17:04,545 --> 00:17:08,415 Captain Spaulding's Chicken Shack and Murder Museum. 420 00:17:08,462 --> 00:17:10,772 There was actually a murder ride. 421 00:17:10,812 --> 00:17:12,072 - A murder ride? - [laughs] Yeah. 422 00:17:12,118 --> 00:17:13,818 - I don't wanna goon a murder ride. 423 00:17:13,858 --> 00:17:14,948 - [baby talk] Yes, you do wanna go on a murder ride. 424 00:17:14,990 --> 00:17:16,040 - No, I don't. - Hey. 425 00:17:16,078 --> 00:17:18,338 How 'bout if we skipthe murder ride? 426 00:17:18,385 --> 00:17:19,945 - [baby talk] Hey, how 'bout if we go? 427 00:17:19,995 --> 00:17:21,295 [screaming] 428 00:17:21,344 --> 00:17:24,874 That film is largely about claustrophobia 429 00:17:24,913 --> 00:17:29,093 because from the second they leave the murder ride 430 00:17:29,135 --> 00:17:31,745 and--when the film unfolds and you realize, like, 431 00:17:31,789 --> 00:17:33,179 it's all been planned, 432 00:17:33,226 --> 00:17:34,966 you know the trap is set, 433 00:17:35,010 --> 00:17:36,450 and--and it's really just the trap 434 00:17:36,490 --> 00:17:38,190 getting tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter 435 00:17:38,231 --> 00:17:39,411 until it snaps. [claps] 436 00:17:39,449 --> 00:17:42,279 [dark music] 437 00:17:42,322 --> 00:17:43,932 ♪ 438 00:17:43,975 --> 00:17:45,185 [all scream] 439 00:17:45,238 --> 00:17:47,328 - [screaming] 440 00:17:47,370 --> 00:17:49,330 narrator: The 20-somethings become prisoners 441 00:17:49,372 --> 00:17:52,682 in the nightmarish home of the Firefly Clan... 442 00:17:54,247 --> 00:17:56,247 Sadistic serial killers 443 00:17:56,292 --> 00:17:58,732 with larger-than-life personalities. 444 00:17:58,773 --> 00:18:00,473 - [screams] 445 00:18:00,514 --> 00:18:02,954 - I like the villains. I always like the villains. 446 00:18:02,994 --> 00:18:05,654 So even when I'm creating 447 00:18:05,693 --> 00:18:07,913 horrible homicidal maniacs, 448 00:18:07,956 --> 00:18:09,516 I'm--they're the people I like. 449 00:18:09,566 --> 00:18:10,996 ♪ 450 00:18:11,046 --> 00:18:12,956 As long as they're cool, 451 00:18:13,004 --> 00:18:15,404 the audience will let them get away with--well, 452 00:18:15,442 --> 00:18:17,012 you can let them get away with murder, 453 00:18:17,052 --> 00:18:18,662 'cause when you're cool, you can get away with anything. 454 00:18:18,706 --> 00:18:20,136 - Right. - [laughs] 455 00:18:20,186 --> 00:18:21,486 - Well, I'd bet you'd stik your head in fire 456 00:18:21,535 --> 00:18:22,835 if I told you you could see hell. 457 00:18:22,884 --> 00:18:26,584 ♪ 458 00:18:26,627 --> 00:18:28,457 - When, you know, I got together with Rob 459 00:18:28,498 --> 00:18:30,458 and we started going over the character, 460 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:32,240 uh, it turns out that he wanted, 461 00:18:32,285 --> 00:18:34,195 like, a--like, a badass. 462 00:18:34,243 --> 00:18:36,853 You know, thumb in your, you know, belt buckle 463 00:18:36,898 --> 00:18:38,328 kind of, you know, badass, 464 00:18:38,378 --> 00:18:40,468 and I was thinking, "Man, I'm not that guy." 465 00:18:40,510 --> 00:18:43,300 It's all true. 466 00:18:43,339 --> 00:18:47,259 The bogeyman is real, and you found him. 467 00:18:48,170 --> 00:18:50,430 And when we did the "run, rabbit, run" scene, 468 00:18:50,477 --> 00:18:52,907 that's when I really deeply connected 469 00:18:52,957 --> 00:18:55,047 to the spirit about us. 470 00:18:55,090 --> 00:18:56,660 After that, I was off and running. 471 00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:59,140 [rock music] 472 00:18:59,181 --> 00:19:02,011 Run, rabbit, run. 473 00:19:02,053 --> 00:19:03,323 Run, rabbit! 474 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,099 The best way to play a crazy guy 475 00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:07,284 is to firmly believe 476 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:09,930 that you're the only sane one in the room, 477 00:19:09,974 --> 00:19:13,674 and if you do that, then you're not playing crazy. 478 00:19:13,717 --> 00:19:15,587 Run, rabbit! 479 00:19:15,632 --> 00:19:16,852 - [yelps] 480 00:19:16,894 --> 00:19:18,594 - There's no way to get around 481 00:19:18,635 --> 00:19:20,285 how influenced that movie was from "Chain Saw Massacre" 482 00:19:20,333 --> 00:19:22,293 and the house in that: 483 00:19:22,335 --> 00:19:23,895 the wall with the skulls on it, 484 00:19:23,945 --> 00:19:25,115 the chicken bones on the floor, 485 00:19:25,164 --> 00:19:27,044 and the feathers. 486 00:19:27,078 --> 00:19:28,908 But, you know, everything surrounding it, 487 00:19:28,950 --> 00:19:30,780 the grounds, the--the cemetery with, like, 488 00:19:30,821 --> 00:19:33,081 the hundreds of crosses, and the subterranean lair, 489 00:19:33,128 --> 00:19:34,958 even thought that was kind of a wacky idea 490 00:19:34,999 --> 00:19:38,179 that was never in the original script; I kind of, like, 491 00:19:38,220 --> 00:19:39,700 came up with that after the fact. 492 00:19:39,743 --> 00:19:41,923 ♪ 493 00:19:41,963 --> 00:19:44,573 narrator: The hostages find out the hard way 494 00:19:44,618 --> 00:19:49,228 that the Firefly house is just the tip of an acid iceberg. 495 00:19:49,275 --> 00:19:50,745 [horrific musical sting] 496 00:19:50,798 --> 00:19:52,798 Beneath the house, 497 00:19:52,843 --> 00:19:55,723 the sinister Dr. Satan conducts ghoulish experiments 498 00:19:55,759 --> 00:19:58,329 in his labyrinthine laboratory. 499 00:19:58,371 --> 00:19:59,891 - No! 500 00:19:59,937 --> 00:20:02,807 narrator: It's a basement portal to hell 501 00:20:02,853 --> 00:20:06,423 that lets Zombie's flair for art direction run wild. 502 00:20:06,466 --> 00:20:09,466 - It goes from being this very, like, homespun 503 00:20:09,512 --> 00:20:10,992 DIY-looking kind of movie 504 00:20:11,035 --> 00:20:12,775 to, like, you know, 505 00:20:12,820 --> 00:20:14,600 this foyer of skulls 506 00:20:14,648 --> 00:20:15,998 and this laboratory 507 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,570 and Dr. Satan, and I had all this makeup and stuff. 508 00:20:18,608 --> 00:20:20,568 - There was a certain point where I thought, like, 509 00:20:20,610 --> 00:20:22,130 "Oh, so I'm, like, turning the whole movie 510 00:20:22,177 --> 00:20:23,827 into 'Alice in Wonderland.'" 511 00:20:23,874 --> 00:20:25,754 They go underground, and then it just goes insane, 512 00:20:25,789 --> 00:20:27,489 and you don't know, are they dead? 513 00:20:27,530 --> 00:20:30,010 Are the crazy? Is any of this happening? 514 00:20:30,054 --> 00:20:32,014 I don't even know if I know at this point. 515 00:20:32,056 --> 00:20:33,796 [laughs] 516 00:20:33,841 --> 00:20:35,891 [suspenseful music] 517 00:20:35,930 --> 00:20:37,410 ♪ 518 00:20:37,453 --> 00:20:38,933 - What do you mean, "It was all right"? 519 00:20:38,976 --> 00:20:41,066 - I mean, it was cool, but it wasn't that great. 520 00:20:41,109 --> 00:20:43,019 - You know, people didn't seem to love the movie 521 00:20:43,067 --> 00:20:44,627 when it came out, 522 00:20:44,678 --> 00:20:46,938 but then because of home video or whatever, 523 00:20:46,984 --> 00:20:48,944 like, something happened, 524 00:20:48,986 --> 00:20:51,286 and within a handful of years, 525 00:20:51,337 --> 00:20:54,427 it was just, like, this cult classic, you know? 526 00:20:54,470 --> 00:20:56,300 Like, people still, when they come to me, 527 00:20:56,342 --> 00:20:58,342 they still, like, "Hey, can you do Dr. Satan?" 528 00:20:58,387 --> 00:21:00,167 So I'm like, "Dr. Satan!" 529 00:21:00,215 --> 00:21:03,385 Dr. Satan! Aah, Dr. Satan! 530 00:21:03,436 --> 00:21:05,436 [dramatic musical sting] 531 00:21:05,481 --> 00:21:07,791 narrator: The cult populariy of the Firefly Clan 532 00:21:07,831 --> 00:21:09,311 led Zombie to bring them back 533 00:21:09,355 --> 00:21:10,875 in the films "The Devil's Rejects" 534 00:21:10,921 --> 00:21:12,711 and "3 From Hell." 535 00:21:12,749 --> 00:21:14,579 - [grunts] 536 00:21:14,621 --> 00:21:16,411 narrator: The dark fanty of Dr. Satan's lair 537 00:21:16,449 --> 00:21:18,579 was traded out for nihilistic crime 538 00:21:18,625 --> 00:21:20,145 in the sun-bleached desert. 539 00:21:20,191 --> 00:21:21,541 - [screams] 540 00:21:23,151 --> 00:21:25,681 narrator: Zombie may have left the Firefly house behind him, 541 00:21:25,719 --> 00:21:28,549 but it's earned a place in the horror hall of fame. 542 00:21:28,591 --> 00:21:30,991 A nice place to live, 543 00:21:31,028 --> 00:21:33,768 if you're a psychotic killer. 544 00:21:33,814 --> 00:21:35,294 [horrific musical sting] 545 00:21:35,337 --> 00:21:38,037 But can a house itself be psychotic? 546 00:21:38,079 --> 00:21:41,209 Can a house thirst for your blood? 547 00:21:44,868 --> 00:21:47,518 [scary music] 548 00:21:47,567 --> 00:21:49,997 ♪ 549 00:21:50,047 --> 00:21:51,957 narrator: In horror films, 550 00:21:52,006 --> 00:21:54,176 houses are twisted reflectis of their owners. 551 00:21:54,225 --> 00:21:56,915 - The house tried to kill me. 552 00:21:56,967 --> 00:21:58,357 It almost succeeded. 553 00:21:58,404 --> 00:22:00,234 - [screams] 554 00:22:00,275 --> 00:22:02,885 narrator: Every fear, anxie, and character flaw 555 00:22:02,930 --> 00:22:04,410 is brought to the surface 556 00:22:04,453 --> 00:22:06,593 in the pressure cooker of the family home. 557 00:22:06,629 --> 00:22:07,719 - [yelps] 558 00:22:08,936 --> 00:22:11,236 narrator: And those problems get a hundred times worse 559 00:22:11,286 --> 00:22:12,806 when you make the mistake 560 00:22:12,853 --> 00:22:15,733 of moving into a haunted house. 561 00:22:15,769 --> 00:22:16,899 - [roars] 562 00:22:16,944 --> 00:22:19,384 - You heard it.I know you heard it! 563 00:22:19,425 --> 00:22:21,855 ♪ 564 00:22:21,905 --> 00:22:25,075 narrator: This is the premise of the 1979 film 565 00:22:25,126 --> 00:22:26,906 "The Amityville Horror"... 566 00:22:26,954 --> 00:22:28,264 [chandelier chiming] 567 00:22:28,303 --> 00:22:30,483 Based on the supposedly true story 568 00:22:30,523 --> 00:22:33,833 of a family beset by a demonic house. 569 00:22:33,874 --> 00:22:35,404 [thunderclap] 570 00:22:35,441 --> 00:22:37,831 - I just wish that, uh, 571 00:22:37,878 --> 00:22:40,048 all those people hadn't died here. 572 00:22:41,708 --> 00:22:45,318 I mean, ugh, a guy kills his whole family? 573 00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:46,714 Doesn't that bother you? 574 00:22:46,756 --> 00:22:49,146 - Oh, yeah, sure, but... 575 00:22:49,193 --> 00:22:51,813 houses don't have memories. 576 00:22:51,848 --> 00:22:54,588 - "The Amityville Horror" begins, uh, actually, 577 00:22:54,634 --> 00:22:56,904 uh, before the family even moves into the house. 578 00:22:56,940 --> 00:22:58,590 [thunder booming] 579 00:22:58,638 --> 00:23:01,468 In 1974, 580 00:23:01,510 --> 00:23:03,120 a disturbed young man took a shotgun 581 00:23:03,164 --> 00:23:05,954 and murdered his family. 582 00:23:05,993 --> 00:23:07,523 He went to jail, and, uh, 583 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,690 a new family, the Lutzes, moved into the house 584 00:23:10,737 --> 00:23:12,127 in Amityville, Long Island, 585 00:23:12,173 --> 00:23:15,663 and over the course of 28 days, um, 586 00:23:15,698 --> 00:23:18,138 the family supposedly experienced 587 00:23:18,179 --> 00:23:21,659 a whole wealth of supernatural phenomena. 588 00:23:21,704 --> 00:23:23,794 - [shrieks] 589 00:23:23,837 --> 00:23:25,007 - Swarms of flies... 590 00:23:25,055 --> 00:23:27,485 [flies buzzing] 591 00:23:27,536 --> 00:23:30,886 - Mysterious ooze and slime, 592 00:23:30,931 --> 00:23:32,151 loud noises. 593 00:23:32,193 --> 00:23:33,463 [high-pitched bang] 594 00:23:33,499 --> 00:23:35,979 You know, it ran the whole gamut, you know? 595 00:23:37,546 --> 00:23:39,636 [ominous music] 596 00:23:39,679 --> 00:23:42,549 - People say,"Amityville Horror, oh, I mean, 597 00:23:42,595 --> 00:23:43,935 what was it like to film that?" 598 00:23:43,987 --> 00:23:45,597 I... 599 00:23:45,641 --> 00:23:47,861 It was like any other film I did. 600 00:23:47,904 --> 00:23:49,344 ♪ 601 00:23:49,384 --> 00:23:52,004 The prep that you do and what you do 602 00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:54,389 to enter your character 603 00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:58,183 and try to have something happen 604 00:23:58,219 --> 00:24:01,049 and try to put a--a line you don't cross 605 00:24:01,091 --> 00:24:03,441 where you're-- you're overdoing everything. 606 00:24:03,485 --> 00:24:06,785 [Bleep] damn it, this is my house! 607 00:24:06,836 --> 00:24:09,226 In the beginning of the movie, 608 00:24:09,273 --> 00:24:10,843 George had a lot of hair 609 00:24:10,884 --> 00:24:13,364 'cause I'd had a lot of hair from a previous movie, 610 00:24:13,408 --> 00:24:15,368 and so I'm quite coiffed and everything. 611 00:24:15,410 --> 00:24:18,760 - Hmm. Your hair's getting long. 612 00:24:18,805 --> 00:24:21,195 - So when we got to that place, 613 00:24:21,242 --> 00:24:22,642 it was really fun 614 00:24:22,678 --> 00:24:26,068 to start taking, uh, goop and crap 615 00:24:26,116 --> 00:24:28,986 and starting to make your hair look a little unkempt 616 00:24:29,032 --> 00:24:30,822 and dirty and crazy. 617 00:24:30,860 --> 00:24:32,040 - Honey. 618 00:24:32,079 --> 00:24:35,819 - Oh, mother of God, I'm coming apart! 619 00:24:35,865 --> 00:24:37,555 - George, you look terrible. 620 00:24:37,606 --> 00:24:39,566 - So she keeps telling me. 621 00:24:39,608 --> 00:24:41,778 The most fun for me was-- 622 00:24:41,828 --> 00:24:43,998 was the transformation. 623 00:24:44,047 --> 00:24:45,917 Okay. 624 00:24:45,962 --> 00:24:48,232 Being in that tux with everybody having a good time 625 00:24:48,269 --> 00:24:50,049 and me in the bathroom, like, 626 00:24:50,097 --> 00:24:53,137 turning into some kind of monster weirdo. 627 00:24:53,187 --> 00:24:56,187 I'm gonna write you a check, 628 00:24:56,233 --> 00:24:57,543 and either that's good enough for you, 629 00:24:57,583 --> 00:24:59,803 or you're gonna eatyour own goddamn food. 630 00:24:59,846 --> 00:25:01,626 [dramatic musical sting] 631 00:25:01,674 --> 00:25:04,074 - It's their first house. It's a fixer-upper. 632 00:25:04,111 --> 00:25:06,851 They're underwater quite quickly with--with the money, 633 00:25:06,896 --> 00:25:08,326 with the cost of it, 634 00:25:08,376 --> 00:25:12,246 and the house starts to exert an influence 635 00:25:12,293 --> 00:25:14,563 on the husband, on the father. 636 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,080 - Just drop it, Jeff. 637 00:25:16,123 --> 00:25:17,733 - You marry a dame with three kids, 638 00:25:17,777 --> 00:25:19,947 you buy a big houe with mortgages up to your ass, 639 00:25:19,996 --> 00:25:22,256 you change your religion, and you forget about business. 640 00:25:22,303 --> 00:25:23,653 Great. Really great. 641 00:25:24,610 --> 00:25:26,310 - Most horror stories, 642 00:25:26,350 --> 00:25:27,480 most haunted house stories, when you-- 643 00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:28,566 when you boil them down, 644 00:25:28,614 --> 00:25:30,884 are really glorified family dramas. 645 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,620 You know, they're about some kind of-- 646 00:25:32,661 --> 00:25:34,621 they're about alcohol abuse at some level 647 00:25:34,663 --> 00:25:37,233 or--or parental abuse at some level or... 648 00:25:37,274 --> 00:25:38,624 - Aah! 649 00:25:38,667 --> 00:25:40,447 - In the case of the original "Amityville," 650 00:25:40,495 --> 00:25:43,185 they're about kind of economic distress. 651 00:25:43,237 --> 00:25:44,587 - You're the one that wanted a house. 652 00:25:44,630 --> 00:25:46,500 This is it, so just shut up. 653 00:25:47,458 --> 00:25:49,458 - You bastard. 654 00:25:50,853 --> 00:25:51,993 - [shouts] 655 00:25:52,028 --> 00:25:53,638 - [shrieks] 656 00:25:53,682 --> 00:25:55,122 - Stephen King in his book "Danse Macabre" 657 00:25:55,162 --> 00:25:56,602 makes a good case 658 00:25:56,642 --> 00:25:58,382 that the central horrific moment in that film 659 00:25:58,426 --> 00:26:00,596 is the disappearance of some money. 660 00:26:00,646 --> 00:26:02,466 - What money? 661 00:26:02,517 --> 00:26:04,477 - The money for the caterer, $1,500. 662 00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:06,129 I put it in-- I put it in this pocket. 663 00:26:06,173 --> 00:26:08,483 - And it's hinted that the haunted house 664 00:26:08,523 --> 00:26:09,703 has stolen the money because it knows 665 00:26:09,742 --> 00:26:12,312 that that's a good way to get at them. 666 00:26:12,353 --> 00:26:14,533 So, you know, the--the moment 667 00:26:14,573 --> 00:26:16,273 of greatest suffering in the film 668 00:26:16,313 --> 00:26:19,063 is when James Brolin finds an empty money clip. 669 00:26:19,099 --> 00:26:20,669 [tragic music] 670 00:26:20,709 --> 00:26:22,279 This is really what this film is about. 671 00:26:22,319 --> 00:26:24,539 It's about this moment when a man is financially undercut 672 00:26:24,583 --> 00:26:26,413 by forces beyond his control. 673 00:26:26,454 --> 00:26:27,934 ♪ 674 00:26:27,977 --> 00:26:31,147 - Where the hell is it? 675 00:26:31,198 --> 00:26:32,808 [suspenseful music] 676 00:26:32,852 --> 00:26:35,902 narrator: The film's strangest moments come at the end, 677 00:26:35,942 --> 00:26:38,292 all drawn from the since discredited book 678 00:26:38,335 --> 00:26:39,945 about the Amityville haunting. 679 00:26:39,989 --> 00:26:41,819 - [screams] - [grunts] 680 00:26:41,861 --> 00:26:43,341 I had a little trouble with, 681 00:26:43,384 --> 00:26:44,914 you know, the pig in the window. 682 00:26:44,951 --> 00:26:48,221 [rain pattering] 683 00:26:48,258 --> 00:26:49,348 [thunder booming] 684 00:26:49,390 --> 00:26:52,310 Um, I don't go there. 685 00:26:53,655 --> 00:26:55,735 But I didn't have any problem 686 00:26:55,788 --> 00:26:58,398 with the stuff leaking out of the walls 687 00:26:58,442 --> 00:27:02,102 or even the possibility of George being bit in the leg 688 00:27:02,142 --> 00:27:04,542 by a--a ceramic thing, 689 00:27:04,579 --> 00:27:06,629 you know, that's shaped like a lion. 690 00:27:08,583 --> 00:27:10,193 - Looks like teeth marks. 691 00:27:10,237 --> 00:27:13,277 - Will you stop nagging at me? 692 00:27:13,327 --> 00:27:15,897 [explosion] 693 00:27:15,938 --> 00:27:18,328 ♪ 694 00:27:18,375 --> 00:27:19,985 The process of a movie 695 00:27:20,029 --> 00:27:22,549 is going from a lovely marriage 696 00:27:22,597 --> 00:27:24,077 and two people in love 697 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:26,950 to the point of them having to leave in fear 698 00:27:26,993 --> 00:27:28,953 in their car. 699 00:27:28,995 --> 00:27:31,995 Good and delightful to bad and horrible, you know? 700 00:27:32,041 --> 00:27:34,391 - George! No! 701 00:27:34,435 --> 00:27:36,215 No! [thunder booming] 702 00:27:36,263 --> 00:27:40,143 [unsettling music] 703 00:27:40,180 --> 00:27:41,700 narrator: "The Amityville Horror" 704 00:27:41,747 --> 00:27:43,567 gave us supernatural mayhem 705 00:27:43,618 --> 00:27:46,188 in upscale Long Island, 706 00:27:46,229 --> 00:27:49,619 but for full-on blood-soaked craziness, 707 00:27:49,668 --> 00:27:53,628 take a vacation in a cabin in the woods. 708 00:27:57,632 --> 00:28:00,202 narrator: 1981 introduced the world 709 00:28:00,243 --> 00:28:02,383 to one of the most iconic houses in horror... 710 00:28:02,419 --> 00:28:04,469 - Shut it off! 711 00:28:04,508 --> 00:28:07,418 narrator: The haunted cabin from "The Evil Dead." 712 00:28:07,468 --> 00:28:09,038 [chaotic music] 713 00:28:09,078 --> 00:28:12,468 In 1987, director Sam Raimi returned to the cabin 714 00:28:12,516 --> 00:28:15,606 for "Evil Dead 2," 715 00:28:15,650 --> 00:28:18,830 a horror comedy update of the original film. 716 00:28:18,871 --> 00:28:20,921 [horrific musical sting] 717 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,220 - People go crazy for "Evil Dead 2." 718 00:28:23,266 --> 00:28:24,656 Like, "Oh, my God, you worked on that movie? 719 00:28:24,703 --> 00:28:25,753 I love that movie." 720 00:28:25,791 --> 00:28:28,621 There's something about horror films 721 00:28:28,663 --> 00:28:32,843 that have that aspect of being a bit outrageous 722 00:28:32,885 --> 00:28:35,185 that takes them to a different place. 723 00:28:35,235 --> 00:28:37,585 - Who's laughing now? 724 00:28:37,628 --> 00:28:41,148 [screams] 725 00:28:41,197 --> 00:28:43,677 narrator: Raimi's wildly inventive directing 726 00:28:43,722 --> 00:28:46,992 inspired a generation of filmmakers. 727 00:28:47,029 --> 00:28:48,989 I paid tribute to the "Evil Dead" cabin 728 00:28:49,031 --> 00:28:51,821 in my first film, "Cabin Fever," 729 00:28:51,860 --> 00:28:53,950 and so did Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard 730 00:28:53,993 --> 00:28:57,303 in their film "The Cabin in the Woods." 731 00:28:57,344 --> 00:28:58,654 [eerie music] 732 00:28:58,693 --> 00:29:01,783 - One spider, and I'm sleeping in the Rambler. 733 00:29:01,827 --> 00:29:03,437 narrator: "The Cabin in the Woods" 734 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,310 begins with a familiar premise: 735 00:29:05,352 --> 00:29:08,832 five college students go off for a weekend retreat. 736 00:29:08,877 --> 00:29:10,227 None of them will survive. 737 00:29:10,270 --> 00:29:11,660 [wood creaking] 738 00:29:11,706 --> 00:29:13,746 But though it looks familiar, 739 00:29:13,795 --> 00:29:17,015 this is not your ordinary haunted murder cabin. 740 00:29:17,059 --> 00:29:19,759 [all gasp] - What the hell was that? 741 00:29:19,801 --> 00:29:21,061 [ominous music] 742 00:29:21,107 --> 00:29:24,017 - What do you think'sdown there? 743 00:29:24,066 --> 00:29:26,676 - Not having an original take on the cabin 744 00:29:26,721 --> 00:29:29,121 proves so much more valuable later on 745 00:29:29,158 --> 00:29:31,938 when--when the whole big picture comes into play. 746 00:29:31,987 --> 00:29:34,557 When you finally see what this whole movie's all about, 747 00:29:34,598 --> 00:29:37,078 having this sort of cabin that's literally plucked from, 748 00:29:37,123 --> 00:29:40,303 like, you know, an '80s classic or whatever is perfect. 749 00:29:40,343 --> 00:29:42,693 Uh, guys? 750 00:29:43,912 --> 00:29:48,092 I'm not sure it's awesome to be down here. 751 00:29:48,134 --> 00:29:50,534 - "The Cabin in the Woods" says to the viewer, 752 00:29:50,571 --> 00:29:54,011 "We get each other. We both know horror. 753 00:29:54,053 --> 00:29:55,013 Sure, okay." 754 00:29:55,054 --> 00:29:56,624 ♪ 755 00:29:56,664 --> 00:29:58,974 So it does a great job of, at the very beginning, 756 00:29:59,014 --> 00:30:01,454 hitting all the tropes that, uh, you wanna see... 757 00:30:01,495 --> 00:30:03,705 ♪ 758 00:30:03,758 --> 00:30:07,408 But--and then starts turning things on its head. 759 00:30:07,457 --> 00:30:08,937 - "Then we will be restored, 760 00:30:08,981 --> 00:30:11,291 and the Great Pain will return." 761 00:30:12,985 --> 00:30:15,545 And then--then there's something in Latin. 762 00:30:15,596 --> 00:30:19,116 - Okay, I'm drawing a line in the [bleep] sand here. 763 00:30:19,165 --> 00:30:21,295 Do not read the Latin. - [whispering] Read it. 764 00:30:22,603 --> 00:30:24,133 narrator: As you might expect, 765 00:30:24,170 --> 00:30:26,000 in the basement, 766 00:30:26,041 --> 00:30:27,561 the students unleash terrible supernatural forces. 767 00:30:27,608 --> 00:30:31,918 - [speaking Latin] 768 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,220 [scary music] 769 00:30:35,268 --> 00:30:37,228 ♪ 770 00:30:37,270 --> 00:30:38,970 narrator: But you might nt suspect that the cabin 771 00:30:39,011 --> 00:30:41,581 is just the front end of a supernatural 772 00:30:41,622 --> 00:30:43,892 "Big Brother"-style reality show 773 00:30:43,929 --> 00:30:47,579 made for an audience of ancient evil gods 774 00:30:47,628 --> 00:30:51,888 run by a team of scientists working deep underground. 775 00:30:51,937 --> 00:30:53,977 - We have a winner. [people groan] 776 00:30:54,026 --> 00:30:55,936 It's the Buckners, ladies and gentlemen. 777 00:30:55,984 --> 00:30:58,684 The Buckners pull the W. 778 00:30:58,726 --> 00:31:00,336 All right, 779 00:31:00,380 --> 00:31:04,430 that means that congratulatios go to maintenance. 780 00:31:04,471 --> 00:31:05,951 [people cheering] 781 00:31:05,994 --> 00:31:08,484 Who share the pot with Ronald the intern. 782 00:31:08,518 --> 00:31:10,168 - Yeah! 783 00:31:10,216 --> 00:31:13,176 - I love that it's outrageous. 784 00:31:13,219 --> 00:31:15,959 You're setting up that--that all over the world, 785 00:31:16,004 --> 00:31:17,664 there are these scientists 786 00:31:17,701 --> 00:31:21,791 that are responsible for making sacrifices 787 00:31:21,836 --> 00:31:24,966 in order to keep these unseen gods at check. 788 00:31:25,013 --> 00:31:27,933 I mean, right there, the premise is so brilliant. 789 00:31:27,973 --> 00:31:29,843 - Not here. 790 00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:31,628 - Oh, baby, come on. 791 00:31:31,672 --> 00:31:33,942 We're all alone. 792 00:31:33,979 --> 00:31:36,849 ♪ 793 00:31:36,895 --> 00:31:38,415 - These kids, they go to this cabin, 794 00:31:38,461 --> 00:31:40,461 and they're under surveillance 795 00:31:40,507 --> 00:31:44,157 by this kind of ridiculs military-industrial complex, 796 00:31:44,206 --> 00:31:45,466 right? 797 00:31:45,512 --> 00:31:47,172 And they're kind of watching them, 798 00:31:47,209 --> 00:31:49,389 filming them being killed by these monsters, 799 00:31:49,429 --> 00:31:50,999 and it's--it's-- 800 00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:52,779 they're--they're watchig a horror film. 801 00:31:52,823 --> 00:31:54,913 - [screaming] - [screams] 802 00:31:56,653 --> 00:31:59,833 - And the way that they all sort of consume this 803 00:31:59,874 --> 00:32:01,754 as entertainment, almost, 804 00:32:01,789 --> 00:32:03,699 in an almost sort of religious way 805 00:32:03,747 --> 00:32:05,447 was sort of its own kind of commentary 806 00:32:05,488 --> 00:32:08,618 on sort of the--I think maybe, like, a depraved sort of turn 807 00:32:08,665 --> 00:32:10,405 that we've all taken, perhaps, 808 00:32:10,450 --> 00:32:13,670 with sort of recent horror films. 809 00:32:13,714 --> 00:32:15,414 Aah! Oh! 810 00:32:15,455 --> 00:32:16,885 Aah! 811 00:32:16,935 --> 00:32:18,235 narrator: To appease the evil gods, 812 00:32:18,284 --> 00:32:19,854 this high-tech death trap 813 00:32:19,894 --> 00:32:21,854 follows a strict set of rules 814 00:32:21,896 --> 00:32:24,726 about who dies and in what order, 815 00:32:24,768 --> 00:32:26,988 just like the tropes of slasher films. 816 00:32:27,032 --> 00:32:28,862 - [grunts] 817 00:32:28,903 --> 00:32:30,473 - But she's still alive. 818 00:32:30,513 --> 00:32:32,173 How can the ritual be complete? 819 00:32:32,211 --> 00:32:35,131 - The virgin's death is optional as long as it's last. 820 00:32:35,170 --> 00:32:37,780 Main thing is that she, you know, suffers. 821 00:32:37,825 --> 00:32:42,565 ♪ 822 00:32:42,612 --> 00:32:44,312 Which one? 823 00:32:44,353 --> 00:32:46,363 narrator: But the controlle' plans are disrupted 824 00:32:46,399 --> 00:32:48,439 when two of the students escape 825 00:32:48,488 --> 00:32:50,318 into the subterranean compound. 826 00:32:50,359 --> 00:32:53,709 - It's an elevator. 827 00:32:53,754 --> 00:32:55,234 - [roars] [both scream] 828 00:32:55,277 --> 00:32:57,187 - They're going down the elevator, 829 00:32:57,236 --> 00:32:58,886 and you see little cubicles 830 00:32:58,933 --> 00:33:00,943 with all the different monsters. 831 00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:03,809 [muffled screaming] 832 00:33:03,851 --> 00:33:05,941 [dog barks] [baby cries] 833 00:33:05,984 --> 00:33:08,684 [metal clanging] [ghostly moaning] 834 00:33:10,031 --> 00:33:12,381 - And the seeing all the behind the scenes 835 00:33:12,425 --> 00:33:15,115 of, okay, so this is, like, a big government-run 836 00:33:15,167 --> 00:33:19,647 situation where you have all these different, uh, monsters 837 00:33:19,693 --> 00:33:22,043 and then that going haywire 838 00:33:22,087 --> 00:33:25,307 and them all getting loose from their own pods. 839 00:33:25,351 --> 00:33:26,961 - Oh, [bleep]. 840 00:33:27,005 --> 00:33:28,475 [elevator bells ding] 841 00:33:28,528 --> 00:33:31,048 [gunfire, screaming, and screeching] 842 00:33:32,619 --> 00:33:34,839 [metallic whirring] 843 00:33:34,882 --> 00:33:36,752 ♪ 844 00:33:36,797 --> 00:33:38,577 - That's the depiction of... 845 00:33:38,625 --> 00:33:39,885 how I think most people feel 846 00:33:39,930 --> 00:33:41,720 about government incorporations now, 847 00:33:41,758 --> 00:33:43,058 where we're like, 848 00:33:43,108 --> 00:33:44,538 "Oh, they think they have everything together," 849 00:33:44,587 --> 00:33:46,067 and what they're actually doing 850 00:33:46,111 --> 00:33:49,591 is delicately holding together chaos, 851 00:33:49,636 --> 00:33:52,856 something that could destroy our entire society. 852 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:54,290 - [roars] 853 00:33:54,336 --> 00:33:57,116 - They've decided that they know how to control it 854 00:33:57,165 --> 00:33:59,335 and can keep it together 855 00:33:59,385 --> 00:34:01,075 and we don't even know it's happening. 856 00:34:01,126 --> 00:34:04,346 So we're just sitting here, victims of something 857 00:34:04,390 --> 00:34:07,610 we are not even aware of. 858 00:34:07,654 --> 00:34:09,264 narrator: As chaos reigns, 859 00:34:09,308 --> 00:34:11,698 the students discover there's an even lower level 860 00:34:11,745 --> 00:34:13,355 to this house of hell, 861 00:34:13,399 --> 00:34:16,579 one that literally adjoins the underworld. 862 00:34:16,619 --> 00:34:18,139 - At the end of the day, 863 00:34:18,186 --> 00:34:19,966 it's all sort of really run 864 00:34:20,014 --> 00:34:22,284 by some, like, weird primitive, you know, 865 00:34:22,321 --> 00:34:24,801 giant--barbaric, giant, evil gods or whatever. 866 00:34:24,845 --> 00:34:26,625 - What's beneath us? 867 00:34:26,673 --> 00:34:27,983 - The ancient ones, 868 00:34:28,022 --> 00:34:30,552 the gods that used to rule the Earth. 869 00:34:30,590 --> 00:34:32,900 As long as they accept our sacrifice, 870 00:34:32,940 --> 00:34:35,160 they remain below. 871 00:34:35,203 --> 00:34:36,813 - And think there's something funny in that sense, 872 00:34:36,857 --> 00:34:39,727 that sort of we--we--we like to think that we've, you know, 873 00:34:39,773 --> 00:34:42,083 sort of created this nice civilized society 874 00:34:42,123 --> 00:34:44,043 but perhaps, at the end of the day, 875 00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:46,692 it's all really just cosmic indifference. 876 00:34:46,736 --> 00:34:49,906 - You can die with them, 877 00:34:49,957 --> 00:34:52,527 or you can die for them. 878 00:34:55,049 --> 00:34:58,569 - Gosh, they're bothso enticing. 879 00:34:58,618 --> 00:34:59,968 - By the time you end, 880 00:35:00,010 --> 00:35:02,010 you're in a completely different place, 881 00:35:02,056 --> 00:35:03,356 and you never saw it coming, 882 00:35:03,405 --> 00:35:05,405 and you had a great time getting there. 883 00:35:05,451 --> 00:35:07,061 That's a win-win for me. 884 00:35:07,105 --> 00:35:08,625 [explosion booming] 885 00:35:08,671 --> 00:35:11,631 [dramatic music] 886 00:35:11,674 --> 00:35:13,594 [both laughing] 887 00:35:13,633 --> 00:35:15,243 narrator: "The Cabin in the Woods" 888 00:35:15,287 --> 00:35:18,027 was a fantastic darkly funny commentary 889 00:35:18,072 --> 00:35:19,732 on horror and horror fans. 890 00:35:19,769 --> 00:35:20,769 - I'm chilly. 891 00:35:20,814 --> 00:35:22,214 [people moan] 892 00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:24,250 - But there's few laughs and no fantasy 893 00:35:24,296 --> 00:35:25,906 waiting at our last stop... 894 00:35:25,949 --> 00:35:27,209 - [crying] 895 00:35:27,255 --> 00:35:28,945 narrator: "The Last House on the Left." 896 00:35:28,996 --> 00:35:30,996 - Yes, who is it? 897 00:35:35,045 --> 00:35:37,305 narrator: In 1972, 898 00:35:37,352 --> 00:35:40,662 one notorious film turned a quiet suburban home 899 00:35:40,703 --> 00:35:43,233 into a metaphor for American society. 900 00:35:43,271 --> 00:35:44,931 [horrific musical sting] 901 00:35:44,968 --> 00:35:48,358 It has one of the most famous trailers in horror history. 902 00:35:48,407 --> 00:35:50,407 ♪ 903 00:35:50,452 --> 00:35:52,892 male announcer: "The Last House on the Left." 904 00:35:52,933 --> 00:35:56,073 To avoid fainting keep repeating... 905 00:35:56,110 --> 00:35:59,640 all: It's only a movie. Only a movie. 906 00:35:59,679 --> 00:36:02,329 Only a movie. 907 00:36:02,377 --> 00:36:04,807 narrator: Two teenage girls looking to score drugs 908 00:36:04,858 --> 00:36:06,948 before a concert in the city 909 00:36:06,990 --> 00:36:10,080 wind up being raped and murdered by escaped criminals. 910 00:36:10,124 --> 00:36:11,914 [scary music] 911 00:36:11,952 --> 00:36:14,912 But retribution will come 912 00:36:14,955 --> 00:36:17,565 in a suburban house-turned-abattoir. 913 00:36:17,610 --> 00:36:19,260 ♪ 914 00:36:19,307 --> 00:36:20,997 - "Last House on the Left" is kind of just, like, 915 00:36:21,048 --> 00:36:22,748 the world's most, you know, 916 00:36:22,789 --> 00:36:24,969 [bleep]-up after-school special, you know? 917 00:36:25,008 --> 00:36:28,228 - Uh, you don't know where we could, uh, score on some, 918 00:36:28,273 --> 00:36:30,103 uh, good grass, do you? 919 00:36:30,144 --> 00:36:31,714 - Nah, I don't knowthat stuff. 920 00:36:31,754 --> 00:36:33,504 - Aw. - Thanks. 921 00:36:33,539 --> 00:36:35,369 - [laughing] It's--it's kind f just like, "Oh, my God, 922 00:36:35,410 --> 00:36:37,500 "if I go into the big city and smoke weed, 923 00:36:37,543 --> 00:36:39,113 "I'm gonna get, like, 924 00:36:39,153 --> 00:36:42,073 "horribly, like, molested in the woods 925 00:36:42,112 --> 00:36:43,942 and then shot in the head?" 926 00:36:43,984 --> 00:36:46,124 That's a very rough movie. 927 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:47,770 - Aah! 928 00:36:47,814 --> 00:36:50,604 [chaotic music] 929 00:36:50,643 --> 00:36:53,123 ♪ 930 00:36:53,167 --> 00:36:55,947 - I'm gonna kill that bitch. 931 00:36:55,996 --> 00:36:57,256 [dramatic musical sting] 932 00:36:57,302 --> 00:36:59,742 narrator: 1972 was a rough year 933 00:36:59,782 --> 00:37:01,522 for the United States of America. 934 00:37:01,567 --> 00:37:03,307 Cities were crumbling, 935 00:37:03,351 --> 00:37:06,271 the war in Vietnam was a lost cause, 936 00:37:06,311 --> 00:37:07,791 and the flowered hippie dream had collapsed 937 00:37:07,834 --> 00:37:10,534 into the darkness of the drug culture. 938 00:37:10,576 --> 00:37:13,836 First-time writer-director Wes Craven 939 00:37:13,883 --> 00:37:15,893 and producer Sean Cunningham 940 00:37:15,929 --> 00:37:17,889 decided to make a film 941 00:37:17,931 --> 00:37:19,631 that reflected the ugliness around them. 942 00:37:19,672 --> 00:37:22,892 - Wes' thought was that we could shape this movie 943 00:37:22,936 --> 00:37:27,376 by showing a sort of a personalized violence 944 00:37:27,419 --> 00:37:30,379 that the audience could react to. 945 00:37:30,422 --> 00:37:34,082 - [crying]No. No. 946 00:37:34,121 --> 00:37:35,911 [gasping] 947 00:37:35,949 --> 00:37:39,609 [bird cawing] 948 00:37:40,954 --> 00:37:43,304 - That, uh, it would become a much more visceral experience, 949 00:37:43,348 --> 00:37:45,438 not unlike "The Virgin Spring." 950 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,220 ♪ 951 00:37:47,265 --> 00:37:49,655 narrator: Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" 952 00:37:49,702 --> 00:37:53,752 is an unsparing study of rape, murder, and revenge. 953 00:37:53,793 --> 00:37:55,323 "The Last House on the Left" 954 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:56,970 borrows "The Virgin Spring'" plot 955 00:37:57,013 --> 00:37:59,763 but trades Bergman's art house perfection 956 00:37:59,799 --> 00:38:03,759 for a raw style inspired by cinema verité documentaries 957 00:38:03,803 --> 00:38:06,373 and the constant barrage of violent war footage 958 00:38:06,414 --> 00:38:08,424 broadcast on television. 959 00:38:08,460 --> 00:38:11,720 - Oh! [grunts] 960 00:38:11,767 --> 00:38:13,287 - The impulse I had for "Last House" is, 961 00:38:13,334 --> 00:38:15,514 I'll stage these various scenes, 962 00:38:15,554 --> 00:38:18,434 and I'll--I'll do it like it's actually happening, 963 00:38:18,470 --> 00:38:20,650 and I'll do it basically like a documentary. 964 00:38:20,689 --> 00:38:23,559 It was only after we did a couple scenes like that 965 00:38:23,605 --> 00:38:25,825 that I realized they were powerful, 966 00:38:25,868 --> 00:38:26,958 and you could start to feel it. 967 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,220 - [wailing] 968 00:38:32,092 --> 00:38:33,832 - I think that's part of the reasons why 969 00:38:33,876 --> 00:38:35,396 that it engages you so, 970 00:38:35,443 --> 00:38:38,193 because it doesn't-- doesn't look staged. 971 00:38:38,228 --> 00:38:40,708 It looks sick. [laughs] 972 00:38:40,753 --> 00:38:42,673 ♪ 973 00:38:42,711 --> 00:38:45,851 - The assault itself is even almost so much more horrifying 974 00:38:45,888 --> 00:38:47,538 because it, too, looks amateur. 975 00:38:47,586 --> 00:38:49,456 It looks like a bunch of people who have no idea 976 00:38:49,501 --> 00:38:51,631 what they're doing. 977 00:38:51,677 --> 00:38:53,197 Just a bunch of, like, 978 00:38:53,243 --> 00:38:56,073 horrible hillbilly, evil people 979 00:38:56,116 --> 00:38:58,676 doing their worst to you. 980 00:38:58,727 --> 00:38:59,817 [gunshot] 981 00:38:59,859 --> 00:39:03,429 [dark music] 982 00:39:03,471 --> 00:39:04,821 narrator: The last act of the film 983 00:39:04,864 --> 00:39:07,354 takes place in the last house on the left. 984 00:39:07,388 --> 00:39:09,958 - This place is in the middle of nowhere, you know that? 985 00:39:09,999 --> 00:39:11,389 ♪ 986 00:39:11,436 --> 00:39:13,916 narrator: Posing as traveling salesmen, 987 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,960 the killers are welcomed into a nice suburban home 988 00:39:17,006 --> 00:39:18,616 by a doctor and his wife... 989 00:39:18,660 --> 00:39:20,010 ♪ 990 00:39:20,053 --> 00:39:22,063 Who offer to let them stay the night. 991 00:39:22,098 --> 00:39:23,748 - Guess who lives here. 992 00:39:23,796 --> 00:39:25,486 ♪ 993 00:39:25,537 --> 00:39:28,277 narrator: They soon realize they're staying in the home 994 00:39:28,322 --> 00:39:29,892 of their latest victim. 995 00:39:29,932 --> 00:39:31,062 - [breathing heavily] 996 00:39:31,107 --> 00:39:32,757 I'm all right. I'm all right. 997 00:39:32,805 --> 00:39:34,235 - [gasps] 998 00:39:34,284 --> 00:39:36,074 narrator: When the parents learn the truth, 999 00:39:36,112 --> 00:39:38,202 they take brutal revenge. 1000 00:39:38,245 --> 00:39:39,935 - Don't move. 1001 00:39:39,986 --> 00:39:42,116 ♪ 1002 00:39:42,162 --> 00:39:45,342 narrator: The mask of civility drops. 1003 00:39:45,383 --> 00:39:49,523 The nice suburban house becomes a torture chamber. 1004 00:39:49,561 --> 00:39:52,781 [chain saw whirring] 1005 00:39:52,825 --> 00:39:55,305 - I think there is a morally questionable dynamic 1006 00:39:55,349 --> 00:39:57,129 going on in that movie 1007 00:39:57,177 --> 00:39:59,267 because I find revenge to be, um, 1008 00:39:59,309 --> 00:40:02,569 a distinctly American, uh, derangement. 1009 00:40:02,617 --> 00:40:05,047 There are revenge films, um, 1010 00:40:05,098 --> 00:40:07,708 elsewhere in the world and always have been, 1011 00:40:07,753 --> 00:40:11,323 but revenge is such a staple of American cinema, 1012 00:40:11,365 --> 00:40:13,315 and then you take it into the horror genre, 1013 00:40:13,367 --> 00:40:15,847 and you get really grapc and extreme with it. 1014 00:40:15,891 --> 00:40:17,891 I think you're tapping into the American id 1015 00:40:17,937 --> 00:40:20,157 in a way that is, uh, 1016 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,900 revealing but not healthy. 1017 00:40:22,942 --> 00:40:24,772 [chain saw whirring] 1018 00:40:24,813 --> 00:40:26,863 - It's a very difficult film to watch. 1019 00:40:26,902 --> 00:40:29,992 - [screaming] 1020 00:40:30,036 --> 00:40:34,166 [chain saw whirring] 1021 00:40:34,214 --> 00:40:36,354 - When I went back to it ten years later, 1022 00:40:36,390 --> 00:40:39,520 I just found myself going, "Oh, Jesus." 1023 00:40:39,567 --> 00:40:41,347 Going, "Oh, God." 1024 00:40:41,395 --> 00:40:44,915 all: It's only a movie. Only a movie. 1025 00:40:44,964 --> 00:40:47,404 Only a movie. 1026 00:40:47,445 --> 00:40:49,395 narrator: As often happens in horror, 1027 00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:52,227 a wave of imitators sought to cash in 1028 00:40:52,275 --> 00:40:54,925 on the success of "The Last House on the Left," 1029 00:40:54,974 --> 00:40:57,324 and in 1984, 1030 00:40:57,367 --> 00:40:59,497 Wes Craven returned to housebound horror 1031 00:40:59,544 --> 00:41:01,114 with "A Nightmare on Elm Street" 1032 00:41:01,154 --> 00:41:03,334 starring Freddy Krueger, 1033 00:41:03,373 --> 00:41:05,383 whose name is a play on Krug, 1034 00:41:05,419 --> 00:41:07,989 "Last House's" lead psychopath. 1035 00:41:08,030 --> 00:41:09,510 [ominous music] 1036 00:41:09,554 --> 00:41:12,694 Houses of hell are sometimes realistic... 1037 00:41:12,731 --> 00:41:15,171 [gunshot] 1038 00:41:15,211 --> 00:41:16,781 Sometimes supernatural... 1039 00:41:16,822 --> 00:41:18,522 ♪ 1040 00:41:18,563 --> 00:41:20,173 But they all poke at our illusions 1041 00:41:20,216 --> 00:41:22,866 of comfort and safety. 1042 00:41:22,915 --> 00:41:24,565 They remind us that no matter where you live 1043 00:41:24,612 --> 00:41:27,792 or who you are, life is short... 1044 00:41:28,834 --> 00:41:31,494 Human relationships are fragile, 1045 00:41:31,532 --> 00:41:35,192 and you should never move into the murder house. 1046 00:41:35,231 --> 00:41:38,101 [scary music] 1047 00:41:38,147 --> 00:41:39,537 ♪