1 00:00:02,420 --> 00:00:04,881 - Everyone knows that sequels suck. 2 00:00:08,552 --> 00:00:10,804 - By definition alone, they're inferior films. 3 00:00:10,845 --> 00:00:12,514 - Or do they? 4 00:00:12,556 --> 00:00:14,307 - What I love about sequels is 5 00:00:14,349 --> 00:00:16,142 the characters are all established, 6 00:00:16,184 --> 00:00:17,519 we know who they are. 7 00:00:17,561 --> 00:00:20,188 So let's just get into it. 8 00:00:20,230 --> 00:00:22,357 - As great as Anthony Perkins is in "Psycho," 9 00:00:22,399 --> 00:00:24,693 I think he's even better in "Psycho 2." 10 00:00:24,734 --> 00:00:27,779 - I'm Norman. Norman Bates. 11 00:00:27,821 --> 00:00:29,698 - "Nightmare on Elm Street 3" is my favorite one. 12 00:00:29,739 --> 00:00:32,033 - Man, it's so good. - It wasn't just scary 13 00:00:32,075 --> 00:00:33,702 it was funny. - This is it, Jennifer, 14 00:00:33,743 --> 00:00:36,079 your big break in TV. 15 00:00:36,121 --> 00:00:38,540 - I think people know when they see the Chucky movie, 16 00:00:38,582 --> 00:00:41,001 you know what you're going to get. 17 00:00:41,042 --> 00:00:44,254 - I love "The Purge" franchise. 18 00:00:44,296 --> 00:00:47,966 You want to understand how this even all started. 19 00:00:48,008 --> 00:00:50,510 - "Gremlins 2," I think 20 00:00:50,552 --> 00:00:52,971 might possibly be the best sequel of all time. 21 00:00:53,013 --> 00:00:55,015 It takes everything 22 00:00:55,056 --> 00:00:57,642 that you love about the first film, 23 00:00:57,684 --> 00:01:00,687 and it cranks it up to a whole other level. 24 00:01:00,729 --> 00:01:03,732 - Horror movie sequels do not suck. 25 00:01:03,773 --> 00:01:06,776 Horror movie sequels are actually fantastic. 26 00:01:06,818 --> 00:01:10,405 And sometimes they're even better than the originals. 27 00:01:13,450 --> 00:01:20,248 ♪ ♪ 28 00:01:32,469 --> 00:01:36,056 ♪ ♪ 29 00:01:37,849 --> 00:01:40,810 - Damien. 30 00:01:40,852 --> 00:01:43,605 - Horror sequels. 31 00:01:43,647 --> 00:01:48,234 They can be fun. 32 00:01:48,276 --> 00:01:52,697 But usually, they're a long way from being great. 33 00:01:52,739 --> 00:01:54,991 It's really hard to pull off a good horror sequel. 34 00:01:55,033 --> 00:01:57,535 There's so many of them that suck. 35 00:02:00,372 --> 00:02:03,041 - But then there are a few that actually really don't suck. 36 00:02:03,083 --> 00:02:04,918 And it's all the more impressive when you can go 37 00:02:04,959 --> 00:02:07,712 from "Alien," which is one of the most iconic 38 00:02:07,754 --> 00:02:09,923 movies in cinema, and come out with "Aliens." 39 00:02:09,964 --> 00:02:12,342 - Come on, come on! 40 00:02:12,384 --> 00:02:16,888 - Sometimes sequels fall far short of the original. 41 00:02:16,930 --> 00:02:19,224 And sometimes they amp up the body count 42 00:02:19,265 --> 00:02:21,851 and are even better. 43 00:02:21,893 --> 00:02:23,687 The tradition of the great horror sequel 44 00:02:23,728 --> 00:02:25,105 goes all the way back 45 00:02:25,146 --> 00:02:28,358 to James Wales' "Bride of Frankenstein." 46 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,695 - I always loved "Bride of Frankenstein," you know, 47 00:02:31,736 --> 00:02:35,031 just the fact that it picks up right where the original movie 48 00:02:35,073 --> 00:02:38,243 left off, I think really has a lot of power. 49 00:02:38,284 --> 00:02:41,121 Like wait a minute, so okay, so the windmill burns down 50 00:02:41,162 --> 00:02:42,997 and then what happens? 51 00:02:43,039 --> 00:02:46,209 So you feel like you're getting a continuing saga. 52 00:02:46,251 --> 00:02:48,461 - Well, you can use a sequel to enhance and-- 53 00:02:48,503 --> 00:02:49,629 and build on something 54 00:02:49,671 --> 00:02:52,173 that you did in the first one. 55 00:02:52,215 --> 00:02:54,008 - Groovy. - Or you can take it 56 00:02:54,050 --> 00:02:55,552 in a different direction. There's a million things you 57 00:02:55,593 --> 00:02:57,554 can do if you got some good piece of material 58 00:02:57,595 --> 00:03:01,099 that warrants being revisited. - I've got to remain logical. 59 00:03:01,141 --> 00:03:03,226 - I like making sequels because 60 00:03:03,268 --> 00:03:04,519 I don't have to explain anything. 61 00:03:04,561 --> 00:03:06,312 I can just start from the get-go 62 00:03:06,354 --> 00:03:09,691 and do some new adventure. 63 00:03:09,733 --> 00:03:12,819 - For a sequel that delivers on all levels, 64 00:03:12,861 --> 00:03:16,114 there's no better example than the greatest slasher sequel 65 00:03:16,156 --> 00:03:17,407 of all time. 66 00:03:19,242 --> 00:03:21,453 - "Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors" 67 00:03:21,494 --> 00:03:23,204 is like the peak 68 00:03:23,246 --> 00:03:24,664 of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series. 69 00:03:24,706 --> 00:03:27,292 - It's just jam-packed with cool stuff. 70 00:03:27,333 --> 00:03:30,128 - There's certain films that it's almost like 71 00:03:30,170 --> 00:03:33,214 the second movie wasn't so great or wasn't as good 72 00:03:33,256 --> 00:03:35,508 as the first one, and then the third one reinvents 73 00:03:35,550 --> 00:03:37,093 the franchise and becomes a masterpiece. 74 00:03:37,135 --> 00:03:38,553 - Well, you're right. 75 00:03:38,595 --> 00:03:39,929 Now "Dream Warriors" managed to click 76 00:03:39,971 --> 00:03:41,514 into the mythology of the first one-- 77 00:03:41,556 --> 00:03:44,809 - Freddy's home. - In a way that was exciting 78 00:03:44,851 --> 00:03:47,896 for audiences, but it also seemed on a slightly bigger 79 00:03:47,937 --> 00:03:50,023 canvas and you were surprised by the bigness 80 00:03:50,064 --> 00:03:52,692 and the sense of fun. 81 00:03:52,734 --> 00:03:55,028 - For "Dream Warriors," 82 00:03:55,069 --> 00:03:57,489 series creator Wes Craven returned 83 00:03:57,530 --> 00:03:59,949 as producer and co-writer. 84 00:03:59,991 --> 00:04:04,454 He brought back his beloved heroine, Nancy Thompson. 85 00:04:07,665 --> 00:04:10,210 - You. - Oh, my God. 86 00:04:10,251 --> 00:04:12,295 - I think Wes really believed 87 00:04:12,337 --> 00:04:14,380 that Nancy was kind of the best aspect 88 00:04:14,422 --> 00:04:16,466 that we all have inside of us. 89 00:04:16,508 --> 00:04:22,180 That she is the kind of person who faces fear head on 90 00:04:22,222 --> 00:04:26,601 and doesn't avoid the thing that's endangering their lives. 91 00:04:26,643 --> 00:04:29,187 But just goes straight at it. - Krueger's back. 92 00:04:29,229 --> 00:04:31,981 - Fred Krueger is dead. 93 00:04:31,981 --> 00:04:33,942 - I loved that they brought her back. 94 00:04:33,983 --> 00:04:35,944 I loved how they brought her back and that she was there 95 00:04:35,985 --> 00:04:37,570 to sort of help the children. 96 00:04:37,612 --> 00:04:41,074 And in a sense, she's there to save them. 97 00:04:41,115 --> 00:04:44,327 - Now a grad student studying dream psychology... 98 00:04:44,369 --> 00:04:47,330 - I have had some experience with pattern nightmares. 99 00:04:47,372 --> 00:04:50,291 - Nancy comes home to help a new generation of teens 100 00:04:50,333 --> 00:04:53,461 targeted by the dream killer, Freddy Krueger. 101 00:04:53,503 --> 00:04:55,255 ♪ ♪ 102 00:04:55,296 --> 00:04:57,590 The Elm Street parents, clueless as ever, 103 00:04:57,632 --> 00:05:00,552 have put the tormented teens in a mental institution. 104 00:05:00,593 --> 00:05:03,096 - You're killing us! - Ah. 105 00:05:03,137 --> 00:05:05,223 - But they have a secret weapon, 106 00:05:05,265 --> 00:05:08,309 newcomer Kristen, played by Patricia Arquette, 107 00:05:08,351 --> 00:05:11,688 has the power to bring people into her dreams. 108 00:05:11,729 --> 00:05:13,857 Nancy. 109 00:05:13,898 --> 00:05:15,441 - For the first time, 110 00:05:15,483 --> 00:05:17,569 Freddy's victims have safety in numbers. 111 00:05:17,610 --> 00:05:18,653 ♪ ♪ 112 00:05:20,697 --> 00:05:24,617 Led by Nancy, they form a gang of freedom fighters. 113 00:05:24,659 --> 00:05:27,704 - They're able to take on these, like, superhero personas 114 00:05:27,745 --> 00:05:29,789 in their dreams and fight back against Freddy. 115 00:05:29,831 --> 00:05:32,542 So like one of the them becomes this super cool punk chick. 116 00:05:32,584 --> 00:05:34,335 - Let's dance. 117 00:05:34,377 --> 00:05:35,003 - The kid who's in the wheelchair is, like, 118 00:05:35,044 --> 00:05:36,504 able to walk. 119 00:05:36,546 --> 00:05:39,841 It's about wish fulfillment as well as, you know, 120 00:05:39,883 --> 00:05:43,386 being murdered. 121 00:05:43,428 --> 00:05:45,889 - But the teens soon discover Freddy has his own bag 122 00:05:45,930 --> 00:05:47,390 of new tricks. 123 00:05:47,432 --> 00:05:49,809 ♪ ♪ 124 00:05:49,851 --> 00:05:53,938 - Freddy is in the imagination of the person he's haunting. 125 00:05:53,980 --> 00:05:56,524 And the imagination is larger than life, it's kicked up, 126 00:05:56,566 --> 00:06:00,361 it's surreal. 127 00:06:00,403 --> 00:06:04,741 - There's a massive worm-like creature that is gruesome 128 00:06:04,782 --> 00:06:06,576 but also perverted. 129 00:06:06,618 --> 00:06:09,370 And I think that's just what makes it all the better. 130 00:06:09,412 --> 00:06:11,497 It's horror, like, be weird. 131 00:06:11,539 --> 00:06:14,417 - This film has some of the more spectacular 132 00:06:14,459 --> 00:06:16,252 and memorable deaths. 133 00:06:16,294 --> 00:06:18,630 - The scene where the guy's veins are being ripped out 134 00:06:18,671 --> 00:06:21,466 with Freddy playing him like a little puppet 135 00:06:21,507 --> 00:06:23,468 and then slicing those veins, 136 00:06:23,509 --> 00:06:25,803 and he falls to his death; 137 00:06:25,845 --> 00:06:28,473 that's an amazing kill. 138 00:06:30,558 --> 00:06:33,144 - The thing that made "Nightmare on Elm Street 3" stick out 139 00:06:33,186 --> 00:06:37,482 so much is that it was the first entry into fun Freddy 140 00:06:37,523 --> 00:06:39,859 before he became silly Freddy. 141 00:06:39,901 --> 00:06:41,903 So he was still scary in this, 142 00:06:41,945 --> 00:06:44,322 but having a bit more time to quip. 143 00:06:44,364 --> 00:06:46,491 - What a rush. 144 00:06:46,532 --> 00:06:50,578 There were scenes in 3 where I would be really bad, 145 00:06:50,620 --> 00:06:52,121 really evil. 146 00:06:52,163 --> 00:06:54,332 And then they would add a one-liner. 147 00:06:54,374 --> 00:06:57,835 Sorry, kid, I don't believe in fairy tales. 148 00:06:59,587 --> 00:07:01,339 - That, all of a sudden, becomes scarier, 149 00:07:01,381 --> 00:07:03,424 of this guy just like, not only is he gonna kill you, 150 00:07:03,466 --> 00:07:05,677 but he's gonna have a little too much fun doing it. 151 00:07:09,514 --> 00:07:13,184 - I altered one line to play a little better as Freddy. 152 00:07:13,226 --> 00:07:15,895 And it's become a fan favorite. 153 00:07:15,937 --> 00:07:17,522 Welcome to prime time, bitch. 154 00:07:22,735 --> 00:07:24,779 - Wes would tell you that he's a little upset 155 00:07:24,821 --> 00:07:27,824 with the exploitation of the humorous part 156 00:07:27,865 --> 00:07:29,200 of Freddy's personality. 157 00:07:29,242 --> 00:07:31,452 And I back him on that. 158 00:07:31,494 --> 00:07:33,413 But Wes is responsible for that. 159 00:07:33,454 --> 00:07:38,084 Wes created a character that cracked wise. 160 00:07:38,126 --> 00:07:41,379 I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy. 161 00:07:41,421 --> 00:07:44,632 But the fans loved that, and that's one reason we exploited 162 00:07:44,674 --> 00:07:47,135 the humor so much is because the fans, 163 00:07:47,176 --> 00:07:50,096 you know were just crazy for Freddy's personality. 164 00:07:50,138 --> 00:07:53,391 - Great sequels make bold choices. 165 00:07:53,433 --> 00:07:56,936 "Nightmare 3" saves its biggest shock for last. 166 00:07:56,978 --> 00:07:59,063 - Whatever happens, stay together. 167 00:07:59,105 --> 00:08:02,066 - It's so heartbreaking because he--he tricks Nancy 168 00:08:02,108 --> 00:08:04,235 after he's already wreaked havoc on her dad 169 00:08:04,277 --> 00:08:06,738 in the real world, and he reenters the dream world 170 00:08:06,779 --> 00:08:07,947 in the form of her dad. 171 00:08:07,989 --> 00:08:09,991 Then he lulls her into this 172 00:08:10,033 --> 00:08:13,745 state of, like, comfort and familiarity. 173 00:08:13,786 --> 00:08:16,706 - I'll always love you. 174 00:08:16,748 --> 00:08:19,292 - And then Freddy Krueger's there again. 175 00:08:19,333 --> 00:08:20,918 He'll get ya. 176 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:25,423 ♪ ♪ 177 00:08:25,465 --> 00:08:27,842 Die. 178 00:08:27,884 --> 00:08:30,470 - Nancy dying in part 3 was hard to take. 179 00:08:30,511 --> 00:08:32,764 I mean she was the O.G. 180 00:08:32,805 --> 00:08:35,433 So you never want the O.G. to be killed off. 181 00:08:35,475 --> 00:08:38,102 But I didn't see it coming. I didn't think--I thought 182 00:08:38,144 --> 00:08:39,687 for sure Nancy would never die. 183 00:08:39,729 --> 00:08:41,481 - And I think that's something that the fans needed 184 00:08:41,522 --> 00:08:43,816 and the story needed, and I think that bringing her back 185 00:08:43,858 --> 00:08:45,902 and bringing that story full circle, 186 00:08:45,943 --> 00:08:49,322 helped make Freddy Krueger who he is today. 187 00:08:49,363 --> 00:08:52,075 - Some sequels reinvent the franchise. 188 00:08:52,116 --> 00:08:53,076 And some-- 189 00:08:55,578 --> 00:08:58,623 Dig even deeper into the formula. 190 00:08:58,664 --> 00:08:59,957 - It's happening again, isn't it? 191 00:08:59,999 --> 00:09:02,126 Hello? 192 00:09:10,676 --> 00:09:12,553 - For a sequel to be great, you have to give the audience 193 00:09:12,595 --> 00:09:14,055 what they're expecting, just not in the way they think 194 00:09:14,097 --> 00:09:16,015 they're gonna get it. You gotta be like a magician. 195 00:09:16,057 --> 00:09:17,517 You know the trick's coming, I'm telling you the trick's 196 00:09:17,558 --> 00:09:18,893 coming, I'm telling you the trick's coming, 197 00:09:18,935 --> 00:09:20,228 and then you still do it, and they go "Wow." 198 00:09:20,269 --> 00:09:22,271 I didn't see that coming." 199 00:09:22,313 --> 00:09:24,941 ♪ ♪ 200 00:09:24,982 --> 00:09:27,819 After the massive success of "Scream," 201 00:09:27,860 --> 00:09:30,863 the pressure was on director Wes Craven, and writer 202 00:09:30,905 --> 00:09:34,158 Kevin Williamson to come up with another magic trick. 203 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:35,743 - How do you make a sequel to a horror movie 204 00:09:35,785 --> 00:09:37,203 that's about horror movies? 205 00:09:37,245 --> 00:09:38,579 It's a film commenting on itself essentially 206 00:09:38,621 --> 00:09:40,456 all the way through. And the answer is, 207 00:09:40,498 --> 00:09:41,624 of course, you make a sequel that's about sequels 208 00:09:41,666 --> 00:09:43,751 to horror movies. - Sequels suck. 209 00:09:43,793 --> 00:09:45,586 No. 210 00:09:45,628 --> 00:09:47,338 - By definition alone, they're inferior films. 211 00:09:47,380 --> 00:09:49,799 - So it does a good job of honoring the first movie, 212 00:09:49,841 --> 00:09:54,220 but also having its own identity making fun of sequels. 213 00:09:54,262 --> 00:09:57,140 - It's been two years since the Woodsboro murders, 214 00:09:57,181 --> 00:09:59,559 Neve Campbell returns as Sidney Prescott, 215 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:00,643 now in college. 216 00:10:00,685 --> 00:10:03,896 - Hello? - Hello, Sidney. 217 00:10:03,938 --> 00:10:06,107 - Sidney really starts the movie 218 00:10:06,149 --> 00:10:07,525 with some post-traumatic stress. 219 00:10:07,567 --> 00:10:09,235 - Who is this? 220 00:10:09,277 --> 00:10:10,987 - You tell me. 221 00:10:11,028 --> 00:10:13,489 ♪ ♪ 222 00:10:13,531 --> 00:10:16,450 Cory Gillis. 223 00:10:16,492 --> 00:10:17,952 - Sidney seems to be coping 224 00:10:17,994 --> 00:10:20,121 until a sneak preview of "Stab," 225 00:10:20,163 --> 00:10:22,999 a movie based on the events of the first "Scream," 226 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,376 ends when someone dressed as Ghostface 227 00:10:25,418 --> 00:10:27,795 goes on a killing spree. 228 00:10:27,837 --> 00:10:29,797 - One of the things I think horror does really well 229 00:10:29,839 --> 00:10:32,717 is when an old nightmare comes back. 230 00:10:32,758 --> 00:10:34,552 And it comes back in a worse way. 231 00:10:34,594 --> 00:10:36,596 And that's what happens to Sidney. 232 00:10:36,637 --> 00:10:38,347 - The two Windsor College students were murdered 233 00:10:38,389 --> 00:10:40,391 last night during a sneak preview 234 00:10:40,433 --> 00:10:42,351 of the new movie "Stab." 235 00:10:42,393 --> 00:10:46,022 - To survive, Sidney and her friends have to ask, 236 00:10:46,063 --> 00:10:49,108 "What would the killer in a sequel do?" 237 00:10:49,150 --> 00:10:50,735 - In "Scream," they've set out the rules. 238 00:10:50,776 --> 00:10:53,112 How to survive a horror movie. Well, by "Scream 2," 239 00:10:53,154 --> 00:10:54,322 there are rules for sequels. 240 00:10:56,115 --> 00:10:58,659 - The kills are more elaborate, 241 00:10:58,701 --> 00:11:01,078 the body count is always bigger. 242 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,788 Never assume the killer is dead. 243 00:11:02,830 --> 00:11:04,624 - Remember me? - Why don't you show your face 244 00:11:04,665 --> 00:11:06,709 you coward. 245 00:11:06,751 --> 00:11:08,628 - My pleasure. 246 00:11:08,669 --> 00:11:10,046 - The return of Ghostface 247 00:11:10,087 --> 00:11:12,506 throws the audience off balance. 248 00:11:12,548 --> 00:11:14,967 The film disorients its audience even more 249 00:11:15,009 --> 00:11:17,887 by intercutting pieces of "Stab." 250 00:11:17,929 --> 00:11:21,933 Perhaps the first-ever remake inside of a sequel. 251 00:11:21,974 --> 00:11:24,060 - The "Stab" franchise comes into its own in this film. 252 00:11:24,101 --> 00:11:27,521 So "Scream 2" gets to comment on, you know, the history 253 00:11:27,563 --> 00:11:30,566 not only of slasher films and that, but its own legacy. 254 00:11:30,608 --> 00:11:33,069 Because you get a recreation of the original Scream in there 255 00:11:33,069 --> 00:11:35,988 that's hysterically funny. - Really? 256 00:11:36,030 --> 00:11:37,990 - You still think it's me? - No. 257 00:11:38,032 --> 00:11:40,326 - Said I didn't do it. I'm innocent. 258 00:11:40,368 --> 00:11:42,870 - I know. - So it becomes this strange 259 00:11:42,912 --> 00:11:44,538 sort of hall of mirrors thing. - I've been going through 260 00:11:44,580 --> 00:11:46,582 a lot lately, Billy. - Someone tried to kill me. 261 00:11:46,624 --> 00:11:48,334 - I know, I know. - Sid, I think you need 262 00:11:48,376 --> 00:11:50,002 to just move on. I mean... 263 00:11:50,044 --> 00:11:51,963 both: When my mom left my dad, I accepted it. 264 00:11:52,004 --> 00:11:53,506 - Yeah. both: Your mom left town. 265 00:11:53,547 --> 00:11:55,091 - She's not lying in a coffin somewhere. 266 00:11:55,132 --> 00:11:57,802 - My mom's dead and she's never coming back, ever. 267 00:11:57,843 --> 00:11:59,637 - Stupid. 268 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:00,888 - Stupid. 269 00:12:00,930 --> 00:12:02,515 - So tell us about this part 270 00:12:02,556 --> 00:12:04,058 you're getting rave reviews for. 271 00:12:04,100 --> 00:12:07,103 - Well, I play this young girl, Sidney Prescott. 272 00:12:07,144 --> 00:12:09,981 - "Scream 1," my agent sent me the script 273 00:12:10,022 --> 00:12:12,775 and I got to the part where they were like, "You know, 274 00:12:12,817 --> 00:12:13,985 they might make a movie of your life." 275 00:12:14,026 --> 00:12:15,403 And she's like, "Yeah." 276 00:12:15,444 --> 00:12:17,196 - With my luck, they'd cast Tori Spelling. 277 00:12:17,238 --> 00:12:21,117 - And I was like-- - But because, um, 278 00:12:21,158 --> 00:12:24,370 she says that, when they make "Scream 2" they were like, 279 00:12:24,412 --> 00:12:26,497 "Oh, we'll cast Tori Spelling," which was kind of brilliant. 280 00:12:26,539 --> 00:12:29,083 I was like, "I'm in. Perfect." 281 00:12:29,125 --> 00:12:30,793 - But beneath the self-aware jokes... 282 00:12:30,835 --> 00:12:32,378 - When'd she start smoking? 283 00:12:32,420 --> 00:12:34,338 - Ever since those nude pictures on the internet. 284 00:12:34,380 --> 00:12:35,756 - It was just my head. 285 00:12:35,798 --> 00:12:37,008 It was Jennifer Anniston's body. 286 00:12:37,049 --> 00:12:39,051 - "Scream 2" asks 287 00:12:39,093 --> 00:12:41,137 "What is the real emotional impact 288 00:12:41,178 --> 00:12:44,849 on slasher film characters who make it to the sequel?” 289 00:12:44,890 --> 00:12:47,601 - Look, Sid, if there is some freaked out psycho 290 00:12:47,643 --> 00:12:49,645 trying follow in Billy Loomis's footsteps, 291 00:12:49,687 --> 00:12:52,982 they're probably already in your life. 292 00:12:53,024 --> 00:12:55,401 - As Neve Campbell's character learns about life, 293 00:12:55,443 --> 00:12:57,194 we're learning with her. 294 00:12:57,236 --> 00:12:58,446 And part two is, "Guess what. It's not over. 295 00:12:58,487 --> 00:13:00,239 "You thought it was over? 296 00:13:00,281 --> 00:13:02,033 "You thought only one bad thing would happen to you? 297 00:13:02,074 --> 00:13:03,868 "No, things can get much worse. 298 00:13:03,909 --> 00:13:05,369 "This horrible thing happened 299 00:13:05,411 --> 00:13:08,789 and you have to deal with that trauma forever.” 300 00:13:08,831 --> 00:13:11,417 - I don't want to see you get hurt. 301 00:13:11,459 --> 00:13:14,170 - She can't trust anyone around her. 302 00:13:14,211 --> 00:13:15,629 That's a big theme in these movies. 303 00:13:15,671 --> 00:13:17,298 Who can you trust? 304 00:13:17,340 --> 00:13:18,632 Because you got to know the killer. 305 00:13:18,674 --> 00:13:20,926 - I need to be alone right no, okay? 306 00:13:20,968 --> 00:13:23,804 - Sidney goes up against Ghostface again, 307 00:13:23,846 --> 00:13:27,224 but as we know, the original killers are no more. 308 00:13:28,976 --> 00:13:31,437 - So we have no idea who it could possibly be. 309 00:13:31,479 --> 00:13:32,855 Could it be Gale Weathers 310 00:13:32,897 --> 00:13:34,690 trying to get another book deal? 311 00:13:34,732 --> 00:13:37,109 Could it be Dewey? Does he really have that limp? 312 00:13:37,151 --> 00:13:39,070 Is he faking it? - You have a point. 313 00:13:39,111 --> 00:13:43,240 - And I think that was the main point of part two. 314 00:13:43,282 --> 00:13:47,161 It was removing all trust so that the audience 315 00:13:47,203 --> 00:13:48,829 is just completely nervous and on edge, 316 00:13:48,871 --> 00:13:50,873 trying to figure out what's going on. 317 00:13:53,292 --> 00:13:56,128 - The twist-filled climax reveals the Ghostfaces 318 00:13:56,170 --> 00:13:58,589 are two new characters; 319 00:13:58,631 --> 00:14:01,384 psychopathic film student-- 320 00:14:01,425 --> 00:14:04,053 - Mickey? - I'm gonna blame the movies. 321 00:14:04,095 --> 00:14:07,056 - And the mother of the murderer Sidney defeated 322 00:14:07,056 --> 00:14:09,433 in the original film. - Mrs. Loomis? 323 00:14:09,475 --> 00:14:13,187 - You killed my son. 324 00:14:13,229 --> 00:14:15,481 - The killers' identity has a purpose, 325 00:14:15,523 --> 00:14:18,067 to deepen the series' exploration 326 00:14:18,109 --> 00:14:20,319 of the nature of violence. 327 00:14:20,361 --> 00:14:22,238 - "Scream 1" basically asked the question, 328 00:14:22,279 --> 00:14:25,116 "If you can't blame the movies, who can you blame?" 329 00:14:25,157 --> 00:14:27,034 - Movies don't create psychos! 330 00:14:27,076 --> 00:14:28,786 Movies make psychos more creative! 331 00:14:30,454 --> 00:14:33,207 - "Scream 2" suggested who you can blame. 332 00:14:33,249 --> 00:14:34,750 And look who the killer was. 333 00:14:34,792 --> 00:14:36,252 It was the mother. 334 00:14:36,293 --> 00:14:38,295 So "Scream 2," in a weird way, is saying 335 00:14:38,337 --> 00:14:40,005 we can blame the parents. 336 00:14:40,047 --> 00:14:41,882 Bad parenting creates psychos. 337 00:14:41,924 --> 00:14:44,510 - And it sets up for the other sequels. 338 00:14:44,552 --> 00:14:48,264 Now you know it can be anybody. 339 00:14:48,305 --> 00:14:50,808 - Another way to make an old franchise new again, 340 00:14:50,850 --> 00:14:53,811 is to turn the clock back to the very beginning. 341 00:14:53,853 --> 00:14:55,354 - Let's purge, y'all! 342 00:15:02,445 --> 00:15:04,738 - This is not a test. 343 00:15:04,780 --> 00:15:06,365 This is your Emergency Broadcast System 344 00:15:06,407 --> 00:15:09,326 announcing the commencement of The Annual Purge. 345 00:15:11,162 --> 00:15:16,208 - 2013 saw the release of "The Purge." 346 00:15:16,250 --> 00:15:18,169 A film about a near-future America 347 00:15:18,210 --> 00:15:21,297 in which all violent crime is legal for 12 hours. 348 00:15:25,050 --> 00:15:27,136 - The violence and brutality of "The Purge" 349 00:15:27,178 --> 00:15:29,930 was intended to reflect the rising tensions 350 00:15:29,972 --> 00:15:32,099 writer/director, James DeMonaco, 351 00:15:32,141 --> 00:15:34,935 and his collaborators saw growing in America. 352 00:15:34,977 --> 00:15:36,896 ♪ ♪ 353 00:15:36,937 --> 00:15:39,190 - Working in the horror genre allows you 354 00:15:39,231 --> 00:15:41,692 to not necessarily explore themes that are different 355 00:15:41,734 --> 00:15:44,904 than would be in a drama, but it allows those themes 356 00:15:44,945 --> 00:15:48,407 to reach a much broader audience. 357 00:15:48,449 --> 00:15:50,242 "The Purge" is a great example of that. 358 00:15:50,284 --> 00:15:53,996 - Didn't you hear what I said? No more killing tonight. 359 00:15:54,038 --> 00:15:57,708 - I think this country has gone off the rails 360 00:15:57,750 --> 00:15:59,043 with its relationship to guns, 361 00:15:59,084 --> 00:16:00,753 and "The Purge" is about 362 00:16:00,794 --> 00:16:02,922 if that keeps going where we might wind up. 363 00:16:02,963 --> 00:16:04,215 Kind of a cautionary tale. 364 00:16:04,256 --> 00:16:07,510 - Is it that hard to understand? 365 00:16:07,551 --> 00:16:09,762 - "The Purge" was an enormous success, 366 00:16:09,803 --> 00:16:12,389 so inevitably, sequels followed. 367 00:16:15,059 --> 00:16:17,394 For the fourth film in the franchise 368 00:16:17,436 --> 00:16:21,774 DeMonaco decided to explore the origins of Purge night, 369 00:16:21,815 --> 00:16:25,486 turn the focus from the privileged to the poor. 370 00:16:25,528 --> 00:16:28,155 He brought in Gerard McMurray to direct. 371 00:16:28,197 --> 00:16:32,201 - You can't purge me, man. I purge you. 372 00:16:32,243 --> 00:16:34,328 - It was centered around these inner-city communities 373 00:16:34,370 --> 00:16:37,039 which was very heavily within our Black communities. 374 00:16:37,081 --> 00:16:40,292 You needed a Black filmmaker and Gerard was able to really 375 00:16:40,334 --> 00:16:42,169 bring home the honesty and the truth. 376 00:16:42,211 --> 00:16:44,755 - What they're doing to us, what they're doing 377 00:16:44,797 --> 00:16:47,925 to this country-- I am worried about this country. 378 00:16:47,967 --> 00:16:49,468 ♪ ♪ 379 00:16:49,510 --> 00:16:51,929 - The result was "The First Purge," 380 00:16:51,971 --> 00:16:55,182 an action/horror film that's also a scathing indictment 381 00:16:55,224 --> 00:16:58,477 of race, class, and power in America. 382 00:16:58,519 --> 00:17:01,355 - The American dream is dead. 383 00:17:01,397 --> 00:17:04,024 We will do whatever it takes to let you dream again. 384 00:17:04,066 --> 00:17:06,402 USA! 385 00:17:06,443 --> 00:17:09,572 - In the near future, the NFFA, 386 00:17:09,613 --> 00:17:12,199 America's neo-fascist ruling party, 387 00:17:12,241 --> 00:17:15,536 runs a test of the Purge in the New York borough 388 00:17:15,578 --> 00:17:17,913 of Staten Island. - Staten Island, 389 00:17:17,955 --> 00:17:22,585 the chosen site, has become the focus for the entire world. 390 00:17:22,626 --> 00:17:27,214 - The FFA offers money to people who need it, 391 00:17:27,256 --> 00:17:30,426 and this is how they incentivize murder. 392 00:17:30,467 --> 00:17:32,678 - The benefit of acting violently without worry 393 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:37,016 of consequence, that's a freeing violence. 394 00:17:37,057 --> 00:17:40,728 - They have their reasoning for it, which is, you know, 395 00:17:40,769 --> 00:17:44,982 if we give one night of access and freedom to commit 396 00:17:45,024 --> 00:17:48,611 any crime you want to do, then that would lower the crime rate 397 00:17:48,652 --> 00:17:50,029 for the rest of the year. 398 00:17:50,070 --> 00:17:51,905 That's what they say. 399 00:17:51,947 --> 00:17:55,284 This bull experiment really happening tonight? 400 00:17:55,326 --> 00:17:58,787 - Community activist Nya is against the Purge. 401 00:17:58,829 --> 00:18:01,332 But her younger brother Isaiah sees it as a way out 402 00:18:01,373 --> 00:18:04,251 of poverty. 403 00:18:04,293 --> 00:18:08,088 - I think Isaiah's anger is relatable to everyone. 404 00:18:08,130 --> 00:18:11,258 I think everyone feels, you know, a responsibility 405 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:14,595 to feed, look after their family, 406 00:18:14,637 --> 00:18:16,472 and the frustration of the opportunity 407 00:18:16,513 --> 00:18:17,431 that might not be there. 408 00:18:17,473 --> 00:18:19,516 - This is wrong! 409 00:18:19,558 --> 00:18:22,645 - The sister wants to help her community survive, 410 00:18:22,686 --> 00:18:25,439 and learns some unsettling truths along the way. 411 00:18:25,481 --> 00:18:28,233 - Nya discovers that this is deeply rooted 412 00:18:28,275 --> 00:18:31,278 in something bigger than just a crime rate. 413 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:35,032 This is rooted in classism, racism. 414 00:18:35,074 --> 00:18:36,784 - You really think these regular folk 415 00:18:36,825 --> 00:18:39,244 gonna pop each other like gangsters when the time comes? 416 00:18:39,286 --> 00:18:41,705 - Yeah, people pissed. They ain't got no money. 417 00:18:43,207 --> 00:18:44,708 - But at least at the beginning, 418 00:18:44,750 --> 00:18:48,087 it's not all darkness. 419 00:18:48,128 --> 00:18:49,880 - What would Black people do when it comes to the Purge? 420 00:18:49,922 --> 00:18:51,382 Right, like, we gonna have a party. 421 00:18:51,423 --> 00:18:52,633 We gonna be out on the estate. 422 00:18:52,675 --> 00:18:54,343 We gonna be doing what we doing. 423 00:18:54,385 --> 00:18:56,011 We gonna be having some fun and it's a Purge party. 424 00:18:56,053 --> 00:18:57,346 ♪ ♪ 425 00:18:57,388 --> 00:18:58,764 - There's no law. 426 00:18:58,806 --> 00:19:00,349 We can have a street party all night long 427 00:19:00,391 --> 00:19:01,850 and nobody will stop it. 428 00:19:01,892 --> 00:19:03,394 That's kind of what I think would really happen 429 00:19:03,435 --> 00:19:04,395 if there were a Purge. 430 00:19:04,436 --> 00:19:06,230 - Some kind of block party. 431 00:19:06,271 --> 00:19:08,148 - The FFA saw that-- 432 00:19:08,190 --> 00:19:11,402 they were confused. - Parties? 433 00:19:11,443 --> 00:19:13,696 - They're watching, like why are they just having fun? 434 00:19:13,737 --> 00:19:14,822 We mean business. 435 00:19:17,574 --> 00:19:20,119 - But, of course, in the film, and also maybe this would also 436 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,497 really happen, people came from outside of this community 437 00:19:23,539 --> 00:19:25,124 and they're wearing clan outfits. 438 00:19:25,165 --> 00:19:27,209 And they're wearing neo-Nazi outfits. 439 00:19:30,337 --> 00:19:33,048 - By the end, a ruthless drug dealer, 440 00:19:33,090 --> 00:19:35,300 who in virtually any other movie would be a villain, 441 00:19:35,342 --> 00:19:36,969 almost singlehandedly 442 00:19:37,010 --> 00:19:41,515 fights off the government assassins. 443 00:19:41,557 --> 00:19:44,476 - You know, he's the community "thug" so to speak, 444 00:19:44,518 --> 00:19:46,520 who has to sort of rise up 445 00:19:46,562 --> 00:19:49,940 and fight off these outsiders... 446 00:19:52,609 --> 00:19:55,446 Who have literally flooded this poor community 447 00:19:55,487 --> 00:19:57,865 to try to just kill as many Black and brown people 448 00:19:57,906 --> 00:19:59,742 as they can. 449 00:19:59,783 --> 00:20:01,201 And it's tough. It's tough to watch. 450 00:20:12,296 --> 00:20:13,964 - That's the truth. 451 00:20:14,006 --> 00:20:16,633 What do we do and how are we supposed to remain optimistic? 452 00:20:16,675 --> 00:20:19,094 Which they do, which is a beautiful ending. 453 00:20:19,136 --> 00:20:20,596 It's very optimistic. 454 00:20:20,637 --> 00:20:22,431 And "We're gonna fight this thing." 455 00:20:22,473 --> 00:20:26,268 But honestly, where do you go after that moment? 456 00:20:26,310 --> 00:20:28,312 - So what to do we do now? 457 00:20:28,353 --> 00:20:31,815 - Now... we fight. 458 00:20:31,857 --> 00:20:33,901 - When I spoke to a lot of my friends about it, 459 00:20:33,942 --> 00:20:37,112 "The First Purge" felt the most truest to real life 460 00:20:37,154 --> 00:20:40,199 and people felt like "Yo, wow. This--this feels" 461 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:41,825 like it could actually happen. 462 00:20:44,661 --> 00:20:47,372 And if we don't actually come together as a people, 463 00:20:47,414 --> 00:20:50,083 then nothing's going to change. 464 00:20:50,125 --> 00:20:52,753 - It's over? 465 00:20:52,795 --> 00:20:53,921 - For now. 466 00:20:56,924 --> 00:20:58,217 - There is another way to breathe life 467 00:20:58,258 --> 00:21:00,511 into a horror sequel. 468 00:21:00,552 --> 00:21:01,678 - Awake! Awake! Awake! 469 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:02,805 - Go for the laughs. 470 00:21:07,351 --> 00:21:10,229 Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play? 471 00:21:10,270 --> 00:21:11,855 - Hey, wanna play? 472 00:21:11,897 --> 00:21:13,941 Hi, I'm your friend to the end. 473 00:21:16,109 --> 00:21:18,946 - What do you do when yr iconic horror franchise... 474 00:21:18,987 --> 00:21:21,365 I'm your friend to the end. 475 00:21:21,406 --> 00:21:24,868 - Feels tapped out? 476 00:21:24,910 --> 00:21:27,287 - There had been three Chucky movies, 477 00:21:27,329 --> 00:21:29,998 "Child's Play" 1, 2, and 3. 478 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,001 "But Child's Play 3" was not very successful. 479 00:21:33,043 --> 00:21:34,670 - You got me. 480 00:21:34,711 --> 00:21:36,588 I'm bad. 481 00:21:36,630 --> 00:21:39,091 - And I felt that we had fallen into a rut of kind of 482 00:21:39,132 --> 00:21:40,717 remaking the same movie. 483 00:21:40,759 --> 00:21:44,721 All: Ade due Damballa. 484 00:21:44,763 --> 00:21:47,558 - And that was something I didn't want to do again. 485 00:21:47,599 --> 00:21:50,477 - So Chucky creator Don Mancini threw away 486 00:21:50,519 --> 00:21:54,898 the slasher formula and went in a very different direction. 487 00:21:56,817 --> 00:21:59,444 Horror comedy. 488 00:21:59,486 --> 00:22:03,657 The result was "Bride of Chucky." 489 00:22:03,699 --> 00:22:06,451 - I felt that if we embraced the absurdity 490 00:22:06,493 --> 00:22:08,120 inherent in the premise 491 00:22:08,161 --> 00:22:10,289 of a two-foot killer doll who swears 492 00:22:10,330 --> 00:22:12,833 and wields a knife and chases you down and kills you, 493 00:22:12,875 --> 00:22:15,711 we could revive the franchise. 494 00:22:15,752 --> 00:22:18,505 - "Bride of Chucky" introduces Tiffany, 495 00:22:18,547 --> 00:22:20,382 girlfriend of the serial killer 496 00:22:20,424 --> 00:22:21,633 trapped in Chucky's body. 497 00:22:21,675 --> 00:22:23,927 - Well, hello, dolly. 498 00:22:23,969 --> 00:22:27,222 - She's determined to bring her lover back to life 499 00:22:27,264 --> 00:22:30,183 and she will stop at nothing to get her way. 500 00:22:30,225 --> 00:22:33,228 - Awake! 501 00:22:33,270 --> 00:22:36,607 - In a stroke of genius, Jennifer Tilly was cast 502 00:22:36,648 --> 00:22:40,569 opposite Brad Dourif, the voice of Chucky. 503 00:22:40,611 --> 00:22:43,906 - She's the perfect person for this in so many ways. 504 00:22:43,947 --> 00:22:46,909 She's an Oscar nominee, just as Brad Dourif is, 505 00:22:46,950 --> 00:22:50,954 she has incredible comedic charisma, 506 00:22:50,996 --> 00:22:55,417 physical beauty, sexiness, and a wonderful voice. 507 00:22:55,459 --> 00:22:58,253 - Thanks, sweet face, I owe ya one. 508 00:22:58,295 --> 00:23:00,464 - Tiffany has a certain insouciance 509 00:23:00,505 --> 00:23:02,382 that people are attracted to. 510 00:23:02,424 --> 00:23:04,426 I mean she's just like the super cool girl. 511 00:23:04,468 --> 00:23:06,803 You know, she just doesn't give a. 512 00:23:06,845 --> 00:23:08,639 - Let me in, huh? I'll catch my death out here. 513 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,557 - Promises, promises. 514 00:23:10,599 --> 00:23:12,225 - But she's also a dichotomy 515 00:23:12,267 --> 00:23:14,061 because she loves Martha Stewart, 516 00:23:14,102 --> 00:23:15,729 she likes to make Swedish meatballs 517 00:23:15,771 --> 00:23:17,314 and chocolate chip cookies. 518 00:23:17,356 --> 00:23:19,399 Who the is Martha Stewart? 519 00:23:19,441 --> 00:23:20,984 - My idol. 520 00:23:21,026 --> 00:23:23,236 - Whoa! 521 00:23:23,278 --> 00:23:26,365 - To be Chucky's soulmate, of course, she had to be 522 00:23:26,406 --> 00:23:28,742 a remorseless killer, 523 00:23:28,784 --> 00:23:31,662 but on the other hand, she's also very sentimental 524 00:23:31,703 --> 00:23:34,998 and romantic and kind of sweet. 525 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,001 - We belong dead. 526 00:23:38,043 --> 00:23:40,087 - That's not Chucky at all. 527 00:23:40,128 --> 00:23:45,550 So it created a combustible relationship. 528 00:23:45,592 --> 00:23:47,344 - Tiffany resurrects Chucky 529 00:23:47,386 --> 00:23:49,680 but their reunion quickly turns sour. 530 00:23:56,812 --> 00:23:59,314 - After a fatal lover's quarrel, 531 00:23:59,314 --> 00:24:02,943 Tiffany's spirit is also trapped in plastic. 532 00:24:02,985 --> 00:24:07,823 - You son of bitch! What have you done to me? 533 00:24:07,864 --> 00:24:10,492 When she suddenly finds herself in a doll's body, 534 00:24:10,534 --> 00:24:12,494 she's kind--she's mad. 535 00:24:12,536 --> 00:24:14,371 I mean, but she doesn't fall into depression. 536 00:24:14,413 --> 00:24:16,039 She gets out the hair dye 537 00:24:16,081 --> 00:24:19,084 and the black nail polish and tries to approximate a look 538 00:24:19,126 --> 00:24:21,545 that she is comfortable with. 539 00:24:21,586 --> 00:24:24,715 - To regain human form, the couple needs to get across 540 00:24:24,756 --> 00:24:28,719 the country to steal a magical amulet. 541 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,014 They hitch a ride with two unsuspecting teenage runaways. 542 00:24:32,055 --> 00:24:34,391 - Oh, my God. 543 00:24:34,433 --> 00:24:37,394 - A road trip that quickly turns into a bloodbath. 544 00:24:39,479 --> 00:24:41,773 - There is so much more gore 545 00:24:41,815 --> 00:24:43,567 in this movie than the other films. 546 00:24:43,608 --> 00:24:46,570 - It's a measure of how much respect Don has for you 547 00:24:46,611 --> 00:24:48,363 if he kills you in a really horrible way. 548 00:24:48,405 --> 00:24:50,574 Now! 549 00:24:50,615 --> 00:24:53,660 - Ah! 550 00:24:53,702 --> 00:24:55,954 - Killing together helps Chucky and Tiffany 551 00:24:55,996 --> 00:24:59,291 revive their love and lust. 552 00:24:59,332 --> 00:25:02,044 - All couples have something that brings them together 553 00:25:02,085 --> 00:25:03,545 in the first place. 554 00:25:03,587 --> 00:25:05,547 In Chucky and Tiffany's case, of course, 555 00:25:05,589 --> 00:25:07,549 it's murder and sex. 556 00:25:07,591 --> 00:25:09,301 - Well, at least you haven't forgotten 557 00:25:09,342 --> 00:25:11,845 how to show a girl a good time. 558 00:25:11,887 --> 00:25:13,847 - So they have their honeymoon period 559 00:25:13,889 --> 00:25:18,643 which climaxes in their big night in Niagara Falls. 560 00:25:18,685 --> 00:25:21,605 - One of the bloodiest scenes in the movie 561 00:25:21,646 --> 00:25:25,776 leads into one of the most strange and ridiculous scenes 562 00:25:25,817 --> 00:25:27,319 in the whole film. 563 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:29,821 Which is when they're in the love motel. 564 00:25:29,863 --> 00:25:31,448 And that couple's in the bed. 565 00:25:31,490 --> 00:25:33,116 Tiffany has the champagne bottle 566 00:25:33,158 --> 00:25:34,743 and throws it up into the mirror. 567 00:25:34,785 --> 00:25:38,205 And it just shatters into hundreds of pieces 568 00:25:38,246 --> 00:25:40,082 and impales them on the waterbed. 569 00:25:40,123 --> 00:25:43,502 And blood and water explodes everywhere, 570 00:25:43,543 --> 00:25:45,420 which then leads into... 571 00:25:45,462 --> 00:25:49,091 a very bizarre sex scene. 572 00:25:49,132 --> 00:25:51,718 - Oh. 573 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,472 - Which is so weird, but so fantastic. 574 00:25:55,514 --> 00:25:57,599 But again, really weird. 575 00:25:59,810 --> 00:26:01,812 - We were the first people to do doll sex. 576 00:26:01,853 --> 00:26:04,815 After that, "South Park" did a movie where they had doll sex. 577 00:26:04,856 --> 00:26:09,236 Our doll sex I thought was a little bit more charming. 578 00:26:09,277 --> 00:26:11,071 - But like many love stories, 579 00:26:11,113 --> 00:26:14,199 this one takes a tragic turn. 580 00:26:14,241 --> 00:26:18,078 - She so wants to be loved by Chucky, 581 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:19,788 and does so much stuff for Chucky, 582 00:26:19,830 --> 00:26:22,374 like cooking and making his favorite dish 583 00:26:22,415 --> 00:26:24,209 and trying to make him happy. 584 00:26:24,251 --> 00:26:27,587 And he does a thing where he's critical or puts her down. 585 00:26:27,629 --> 00:26:30,006 And then every once in a while, she snaps. 586 00:26:30,048 --> 00:26:33,218 - Those dishes aren't gonna wash themselves, you know. 587 00:26:33,260 --> 00:26:35,846 - The Tiffany character is an abused woman. 588 00:26:35,887 --> 00:26:38,098 You know, she's an abused spouse. 589 00:26:38,140 --> 00:26:41,351 The movie's throwing in its sympathies 590 00:26:41,393 --> 00:26:43,812 with the woman victim. 591 00:26:48,692 --> 00:26:51,319 - I feel like the "Bride of Chucky" is a romantic tragedy 592 00:26:51,319 --> 00:26:53,989 because it's almost Romeo and Juliet. 593 00:26:54,030 --> 00:26:56,992 It's almost like a love that was never meant to be. 594 00:26:57,033 --> 00:26:59,119 I love you, Chucky. 595 00:26:59,161 --> 00:27:02,998 We belong together, forever. 596 00:27:03,039 --> 00:27:04,416 - And at the end, 597 00:27:04,457 --> 00:27:08,712 she turns the tables on her abuser. 598 00:27:12,716 --> 00:27:15,051 - We belong dead. 599 00:27:15,093 --> 00:27:17,888 Goodbye, darling. 600 00:27:17,929 --> 00:27:19,806 I'll see you in hell. 601 00:27:23,018 --> 00:27:24,853 - Following up a hit is difficult. 602 00:27:29,024 --> 00:27:31,276 - Now imagine making a sequel 603 00:27:31,318 --> 00:27:33,862 to an all-time horror classic. 604 00:27:39,534 --> 00:27:41,912 -In 1960 Alfred Hitchcock directed 605 00:27:41,953 --> 00:27:45,540 one of the most famous and influential films of all time, 606 00:27:45,582 --> 00:27:47,083 "Psycho." 607 00:27:47,125 --> 00:27:48,835 - We all go a little mad sometimes. 608 00:27:48,877 --> 00:27:51,588 Haven't you? 609 00:27:51,630 --> 00:27:55,467 - 23 years later came the sequel no one asked for. 610 00:27:56,968 --> 00:27:59,012 "Psycho IL" 611 00:27:59,054 --> 00:28:02,057 - By the '80s, Hitchcock was treated like some sort of 612 00:28:02,098 --> 00:28:04,226 cinematic saint. - Mm-hmm. 613 00:28:04,267 --> 00:28:09,481 - So the idea of remaking a Hitchcock film-- 614 00:28:09,522 --> 00:28:13,193 - The idea of sequelizing a Hitchcock icon was unthinkable. 615 00:28:13,235 --> 00:28:15,779 - People talked about it like sacrilege. 616 00:28:15,820 --> 00:28:17,113 - I'm sorry. 617 00:28:17,155 --> 00:28:20,075 I didn't mean it to sound uncaring. 618 00:28:20,116 --> 00:28:22,994 - What do you know about caring? 619 00:28:23,036 --> 00:28:25,830 - But "Psycho 2" proved everyone wrong. 620 00:28:25,872 --> 00:28:29,292 Richard Franklin, director of the Australian thriller 621 00:28:29,334 --> 00:28:32,671 "Road Games," was convinced he could make a sequel 622 00:28:32,712 --> 00:28:34,631 that paid tribute to the original 623 00:28:34,673 --> 00:28:37,425 but was strong enough to stand on its own. 624 00:28:37,467 --> 00:28:41,471 Franklin hired Tom Holland, another Hitchcock disciple, 625 00:28:41,513 --> 00:28:43,181 to write the screenplay. 626 00:28:43,223 --> 00:28:45,433 - I was desperate for a job, 627 00:28:45,475 --> 00:28:48,853 and I thought, "Well, that's really the end of my career." 628 00:28:48,895 --> 00:28:53,400 Because I--you just knew that the critics were gonna savage 629 00:28:53,441 --> 00:28:56,152 you for having the temerity to do it. 630 00:28:56,194 --> 00:28:57,737 - Holland and Franklin knew 631 00:28:57,779 --> 00:28:59,572 that they couldn't give "Psycho" the sequel 632 00:28:59,614 --> 00:29:03,702 it deserved without one essential element. 633 00:29:03,743 --> 00:29:06,037 - The only way that we could do it 634 00:29:06,079 --> 00:29:09,916 was to get Tony Perkins back as Norman Bates. 635 00:29:09,958 --> 00:29:11,960 ♪ ♪ 636 00:29:12,002 --> 00:29:15,547 Tony had felt that the Norman Bates was a curse. 637 00:29:15,588 --> 00:29:18,008 And so he didn't want to do a sequel. 638 00:29:18,049 --> 00:29:20,802 So I had to figure out how to write a script 639 00:29:20,844 --> 00:29:24,306 that would be so terrific for the actor 640 00:29:24,347 --> 00:29:26,808 that he'd have to do it. 641 00:29:26,850 --> 00:29:29,561 And so it was how to give him a character arc, 642 00:29:29,602 --> 00:29:33,189 how to make it into an acting piece. 643 00:29:33,231 --> 00:29:35,066 And that's how I came up with, 644 00:29:35,108 --> 00:29:38,570 well, you just ask logically, if it's 22 years later-- 645 00:29:38,611 --> 00:29:40,905 Which is what the time had been since the original-- 646 00:29:40,947 --> 00:29:43,158 where would Norman have been? 647 00:29:43,199 --> 00:29:45,827 - The film opens as Norman Bates is released 648 00:29:45,869 --> 00:29:48,747 from a mental facility and returns home. 649 00:29:48,788 --> 00:29:51,166 His doctor says he is cured. 650 00:29:51,207 --> 00:29:53,084 Others have their doubts. 651 00:29:53,126 --> 00:29:55,170 Norman's redemption is threatened 652 00:29:55,211 --> 00:29:58,840 by a vengeful figure from his past, Lila Loomis. 653 00:29:58,882 --> 00:30:01,843 The sister of the woman Norman killed in the shower. 654 00:30:01,885 --> 00:30:05,138 Once again, Lila is played by Vera Miles. 655 00:30:05,180 --> 00:30:07,057 - And when he murders again, 656 00:30:07,098 --> 00:30:09,392 you will be directly responsible. 657 00:30:09,434 --> 00:30:12,854 - I think we identify with Norman in a different way 658 00:30:12,896 --> 00:30:16,149 in "Psycho 2" than we did in "Psycho 1." 659 00:30:16,191 --> 00:30:19,152 "Psycho 2" is about, you know, 660 00:30:19,194 --> 00:30:22,864 a misfit trying to find his way back to the world. 661 00:30:22,906 --> 00:30:24,491 - Can I help you? 662 00:30:24,532 --> 00:30:27,369 - I'm Norman. Norman Bates. 663 00:30:27,410 --> 00:30:30,246 The new cook's helper. 664 00:30:30,288 --> 00:30:33,208 - Norman gets a job at a diner and begins a relationship 665 00:30:33,249 --> 00:30:37,462 with a sympathetic coworker, Mary, played by Meg Tilly. 666 00:30:37,504 --> 00:30:38,963 They move in together. 667 00:30:39,005 --> 00:30:41,591 - Is this room where you had your troubles? 668 00:30:41,591 --> 00:30:43,927 - One of them, yeah. 669 00:30:43,968 --> 00:30:45,512 - Well, I don't know what happened to you in the past, 670 00:30:45,553 --> 00:30:46,554 Norman, but you're never gonna get over it. 671 00:30:46,596 --> 00:30:49,265 Not unless you face it. 672 00:30:49,307 --> 00:30:52,310 - Then he starts getting messages from Mother. 673 00:30:54,562 --> 00:30:57,148 Is Norman back to his old ways, 674 00:30:57,190 --> 00:30:59,275 or is someone trying to frame him? 675 00:30:59,317 --> 00:31:02,404 - I'm becoming... confused again. 676 00:31:02,445 --> 00:31:04,489 - You're rooting for Norman to keep it together. 677 00:31:04,531 --> 00:31:07,283 You're rooting for Norman to be a--to be sane. 678 00:31:07,325 --> 00:31:09,577 To be happy. 679 00:31:09,619 --> 00:31:12,205 And now you don't want any of the horror stuff to happen. 680 00:31:12,247 --> 00:31:14,499 - To stay true to Hitchcock's style 681 00:31:14,541 --> 00:31:16,960 while updating it for 1983, 682 00:31:17,001 --> 00:31:20,296 Richard Franklin hired cinematographer Dean Cundey, 683 00:31:20,338 --> 00:31:23,299 then known for "Halloween"” and "The Thing." 684 00:31:23,341 --> 00:31:26,845 - Originally, we wanted to do it in black and white 685 00:31:26,886 --> 00:31:30,390 so that it looked like the original. 686 00:31:30,432 --> 00:31:32,642 But Universal was pretty adamant, 687 00:31:32,684 --> 00:31:34,602 no black and white. 688 00:31:34,644 --> 00:31:38,064 Richard was very, very specific about how he wanted to, 689 00:31:38,106 --> 00:31:41,818 you know, make sure that visually our version 690 00:31:41,860 --> 00:31:43,319 was a continuation. 691 00:31:43,361 --> 00:31:45,905 Nothing unusual. 692 00:31:45,947 --> 00:31:48,867 And to me, that was a great sort of challenge, 693 00:31:48,908 --> 00:31:51,995 but fun thing to look at. 694 00:31:52,036 --> 00:31:54,581 - The filmmakers also modernized the sequel 695 00:31:54,622 --> 00:31:56,583 with graphic violence Hitchcock wouldn't have 696 00:31:56,624 --> 00:32:00,170 been allowed to show in 1960. 697 00:32:00,211 --> 00:32:02,255 - This is very post "Friday the 13," post "Halloween,"” 698 00:32:02,297 --> 00:32:03,631 so you do get some nods to that. 699 00:32:03,673 --> 00:32:04,674 You get to Dennis Franz, for example, 700 00:32:04,716 --> 00:32:06,926 getting his face slashed. 701 00:32:10,180 --> 00:32:11,806 - Which is kind of a full color version of what happens 702 00:32:11,848 --> 00:32:13,683 to Martin Balsam in the original one, but you know, 703 00:32:13,725 --> 00:32:16,269 to see it in color makes a big difference, obviously. 704 00:32:16,311 --> 00:32:18,897 - "Psycho 2" ends with a series of twists 705 00:32:18,938 --> 00:32:21,107 that would make Hitchcock proud. 706 00:32:21,149 --> 00:32:23,109 - Why did you lie to that sheriff and say Bates 707 00:32:23,151 --> 00:32:25,820 was with you this afternoon? - Mother. 708 00:32:25,862 --> 00:32:28,281 - The Meg Tilly character is the daughter of Vera Miles. 709 00:32:28,323 --> 00:32:30,283 They start to torture him and drive him mad. 710 00:32:30,325 --> 00:32:33,369 And then Mary, who's wormed her way 711 00:32:33,411 --> 00:32:35,705 into living in the house with Norman, 712 00:32:35,747 --> 00:32:38,208 starts to feel sorry for Norman. 713 00:32:38,249 --> 00:32:39,959 - I've been to all your meetings, 714 00:32:40,001 --> 00:32:41,461 I've done everything you've asked me for years, 715 00:32:41,503 --> 00:32:43,755 but I am not going to hurt Norman anymore. 716 00:32:43,796 --> 00:32:46,716 - And she realizes that Norman really is a good person 717 00:32:46,758 --> 00:32:50,220 at that moment and trying to hold on to his sanity. 718 00:32:50,261 --> 00:32:52,722 - Norman, do you recognize me? 719 00:32:52,764 --> 00:32:54,057 It's me, your mother. 720 00:32:54,098 --> 00:32:57,060 - And eventually, it costs her life 721 00:32:57,101 --> 00:32:59,854 because Norman has gone crazy. 722 00:32:59,896 --> 00:33:02,524 - Let me help you. - You killed them all! 723 00:33:02,565 --> 00:33:04,108 - Freeze! 724 00:33:06,319 --> 00:33:08,029 - Well, this is why the sequel doesn't suck 725 00:33:08,071 --> 00:33:10,573 is because the ending makes sense. 726 00:33:10,615 --> 00:33:13,284 Typically in good sequels, the rules of that movie 727 00:33:13,326 --> 00:33:15,787 then change what happened in the first movie. 728 00:33:18,081 --> 00:33:20,416 Here in "Psycho 2" you find out that Norman's mother 729 00:33:20,458 --> 00:33:21,876 really wasn't his mother. 730 00:33:21,876 --> 00:33:23,294 - So... 731 00:33:23,336 --> 00:33:24,629 are you really my mother? 732 00:33:24,671 --> 00:33:26,339 - That his real mother is still around. 733 00:33:26,381 --> 00:33:29,842 - The woman you thought was your mother was my sister. 734 00:33:29,884 --> 00:33:32,887 - And that she's the one that's been killing everybody, 735 00:33:32,929 --> 00:33:35,557 punishing them for what they did to Norman, 736 00:33:35,598 --> 00:33:38,434 putting him away. 737 00:33:38,476 --> 00:33:41,271 And he whacks her over the head with a shovel. 738 00:33:41,312 --> 00:33:43,273 And then he's back to being Norman Bates again. 739 00:33:45,650 --> 00:33:47,318 He carries her up the stairs 740 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,070 and you hear that creepy voice again. 741 00:33:49,112 --> 00:33:51,573 - I'm not sleepy. 742 00:33:51,614 --> 00:33:53,741 Put me in my chair. 743 00:33:53,783 --> 00:33:55,410 - Yes, Mother. 744 00:33:55,451 --> 00:33:57,203 - So the arc of the movie 745 00:33:57,245 --> 00:34:00,957 is really Norman losing his mind 746 00:34:00,999 --> 00:34:02,834 a second time 747 00:34:02,875 --> 00:34:04,544 and the irony is, 748 00:34:04,586 --> 00:34:08,965 he ends up at the end of the movie as crazy as a loon 749 00:34:09,007 --> 00:34:10,842 and nobody knows it. 750 00:34:10,883 --> 00:34:12,594 It's a tragedy, in a way. 751 00:34:12,635 --> 00:34:15,179 - Don't let them take me back to the institution. 752 00:34:15,221 --> 00:34:18,224 - Anthony Perkins is even be-- as great as he is in "Psycho," 753 00:34:18,266 --> 00:34:20,602 I think he's even better in "Psycho 2." 754 00:34:20,643 --> 00:34:23,187 I think it's one of the great lead performances 755 00:34:23,229 --> 00:34:25,106 in any horror film ever made. 756 00:34:25,148 --> 00:34:29,777 - You can't make me... 757 00:34:29,819 --> 00:34:32,113 kill her. 758 00:34:32,155 --> 00:34:35,199 - You don't know the effect that a film's gonna have. 759 00:34:35,241 --> 00:34:37,327 I went to a dinner, oh, I don't know, 760 00:34:37,368 --> 00:34:39,871 seven or eight years ago with all the big horror directors 761 00:34:39,912 --> 00:34:44,125 and they voted "Psycho 2" the best horror sequel ever. 762 00:34:47,128 --> 00:34:50,798 ♪ ♪ 763 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,385 - What do you call a sequel that ups the ante 764 00:34:54,427 --> 00:34:56,054 on everything in the original 765 00:34:56,095 --> 00:34:58,014 then gleefully tears it apart? 766 00:34:58,056 --> 00:35:01,184 ♪ ♪ 767 00:35:01,225 --> 00:35:03,978 "Gremlins 2: The New Batch." 768 00:35:07,190 --> 00:35:08,775 - In 1984, the horror comedy "Gremlins" 769 00:35:12,111 --> 00:35:14,656 was set loose on the world. 770 00:35:14,697 --> 00:35:18,242 It was a critical and financial success. 771 00:35:18,284 --> 00:35:21,412 Warner Brothers wanted a sequel. 772 00:35:21,454 --> 00:35:24,082 Director Joe Dante did not. 773 00:35:24,123 --> 00:35:26,084 - When I was offered the opportunity 774 00:35:26,125 --> 00:35:28,503 to make a sequel to "Gremlins 1," I said no. 775 00:35:28,544 --> 00:35:29,962 I'm sorry, I'm tired. 776 00:35:30,004 --> 00:35:31,464 I just did this "Gremlins" movie. 777 00:35:31,506 --> 00:35:32,590 We had to make it up on the fly. 778 00:35:32,632 --> 00:35:33,883 We had to invent the technology. 779 00:35:33,925 --> 00:35:35,468 I'm exhausted, I'm sick of Gremlins 780 00:35:35,510 --> 00:35:37,011 I don't want to have anything to do with it, good luck. 781 00:35:37,053 --> 00:35:39,430 - Six years later, they made Dante 782 00:35:39,472 --> 00:35:41,599 an offer he could not refuse. 783 00:35:41,641 --> 00:35:43,309 - They said, "We really want this picture 784 00:35:43,351 --> 00:35:45,311 and we want it enough to let you do whatever you want." 785 00:35:45,353 --> 00:35:47,814 So I have never gotten an offer like that before or since, 786 00:35:47,855 --> 00:35:49,482 and I said "Okay." 787 00:35:51,859 --> 00:35:54,028 - Dante and screenwriter Charles Haas 788 00:35:54,070 --> 00:35:56,489 turn "Gremlins 2" into a monster movie 789 00:35:56,531 --> 00:35:58,700 imbued with the establishment-baiting spirit 790 00:35:58,741 --> 00:36:01,786 of classic Warner Brother's cartoons. 791 00:36:01,828 --> 00:36:03,663 - You might as well just start the movie. 792 00:36:03,705 --> 00:36:06,958 - Roll 'em. 793 00:36:06,999 --> 00:36:09,293 - "Gremlins 2" seems like, 794 00:36:09,335 --> 00:36:12,380 in the most glorious way possible, 795 00:36:12,422 --> 00:36:16,300 um, a filmmaker biting the hand that feeds him. 796 00:36:16,342 --> 00:36:18,594 Most sequels continue 797 00:36:18,636 --> 00:36:21,848 the story by expanding on the original premise. 798 00:36:21,889 --> 00:36:25,768 "Gremlins 2" took the premise and shredded it. 799 00:36:25,810 --> 00:36:27,645 Are you a fan of "Gremlins 2: The New Batch"? 800 00:36:27,687 --> 00:36:30,064 - I think Joe Dante became a director 801 00:36:30,106 --> 00:36:32,024 so he could do "Gremlins 2." 802 00:36:32,066 --> 00:36:34,026 ♪ ♪ 803 00:36:34,068 --> 00:36:37,321 There always is a little bit of a "Mad Magazine" parody 804 00:36:37,363 --> 00:36:39,115 of his own movie running in the margin 805 00:36:39,157 --> 00:36:42,910 of a Joe Dante film. 806 00:36:42,952 --> 00:36:47,290 And with "Gremlins 2,” he was able to do a "Mad Magazine" 807 00:36:47,331 --> 00:36:50,710 takeoff on the first "Gremlins" for the entire movie, 808 00:36:50,752 --> 00:36:52,754 for the length of the movie. 809 00:36:52,795 --> 00:36:54,338 - "Gremlins 2" trades the small town setting 810 00:36:54,380 --> 00:36:56,132 of the first film 811 00:36:56,174 --> 00:36:59,343 for a Manhattan office tower where returning stars 812 00:36:59,385 --> 00:37:03,014 Phoebe Cates and Zach Galligan once again become entangled 813 00:37:03,055 --> 00:37:06,267 with the loveable Mogwai, Gizmo. 814 00:37:06,309 --> 00:37:08,603 - Cute, isn't it? 815 00:37:08,644 --> 00:37:13,941 - Inevitably, Gizmo gets wet... 816 00:37:15,985 --> 00:37:18,821 Spawning a legion of evil gremlins who run riot 817 00:37:18,863 --> 00:37:22,325 through a building that's a microcosm of American society 818 00:37:22,366 --> 00:37:23,910 in the early 1990s. 819 00:37:23,951 --> 00:37:26,662 - Now this week we have our special salute 820 00:37:26,704 --> 00:37:30,416 to luncheon meat. 821 00:37:30,458 --> 00:37:32,960 - Cultural satire goes hand in hand 822 00:37:33,002 --> 00:37:36,297 with the satire of the movie itself. 823 00:37:36,339 --> 00:37:37,882 - "Gremlins 2" is sort of a movie about how there didn't 824 00:37:37,924 --> 00:37:39,717 need to be a sequel to "Gremlins." 825 00:37:39,759 --> 00:37:41,969 I didn't expect that there would ever be a sequel to "Gremlins" 826 00:37:42,011 --> 00:37:44,138 and much less that I would be making it. 827 00:37:44,180 --> 00:37:47,016 Uh, so I decided to make a movie about sequels 828 00:37:47,058 --> 00:37:49,644 and what are they worth. 829 00:37:49,685 --> 00:37:52,855 - When they start goofing on every aspect 830 00:37:52,897 --> 00:37:56,400 of the original premise, in the movie, in the sequel, 831 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,028 that was hysterical 832 00:37:59,070 --> 00:38:00,780 about, like, "Hey, don't eat after midnight."” 833 00:38:00,822 --> 00:38:02,782 - Well, what if they're eating in an airplane 834 00:38:02,824 --> 00:38:04,158 and they cross a time zone? 835 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:05,451 I mean, it's always midnight somewhere. 836 00:38:07,370 --> 00:38:09,747 - Well, once Phoebe Cates started parodying 837 00:38:09,789 --> 00:38:11,666 the Santa Claus story-- - That's grea-- 838 00:38:11,707 --> 00:38:14,794 The--the Phoebe Cates parodying the Santa Claus monologue. 839 00:38:14,836 --> 00:38:16,546 - Something terrible happened to me 840 00:38:16,587 --> 00:38:18,130 on year on Lincoln's birthday. 841 00:38:18,172 --> 00:38:20,049 - I didn't know you were allowed to do that. 842 00:38:20,091 --> 00:38:22,510 I was like, "Are you allowed to make fun of your own movie?" 843 00:38:22,552 --> 00:38:24,095 - This man with this beard-- - Honey, um... 844 00:38:24,136 --> 00:38:25,721 - And a hat, looked just like Abe Lincoln-- 845 00:38:25,763 --> 00:38:27,932 - Honey, I really don't-- - Except for the raincoat. 846 00:38:27,974 --> 00:38:29,976 - It made fun of the first movie. 847 00:38:30,017 --> 00:38:32,937 It made fun of the concept of sequels. 848 00:38:32,979 --> 00:38:34,438 - This is worst than the first one. 849 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,190 - We just show these movies, madam. 850 00:38:36,232 --> 00:38:37,984 We don't make them. 851 00:38:38,025 --> 00:38:39,902 - It made fun of capitalism. 852 00:38:39,944 --> 00:38:41,696 - I look at him, you know what I see? 853 00:38:41,737 --> 00:38:44,907 Dolls with suction cups staring out car windows. 854 00:38:44,949 --> 00:38:48,661 - Joe Dante just seemingly took everything he loved 855 00:38:48,703 --> 00:38:51,372 and then used it to make fun of everything he hated. 856 00:38:51,414 --> 00:38:53,666 - All the great horror movies are in black and white. 857 00:38:53,708 --> 00:38:56,794 Mr. Clamp only likes color. 858 00:38:56,836 --> 00:39:00,089 - It's got so many clever and original ideas. 859 00:39:00,131 --> 00:39:02,800 Including having a film critic 860 00:39:02,842 --> 00:39:06,137 give the first film a bad review again 861 00:39:06,178 --> 00:39:09,891 in the second film before I'm killed by the Gremlins. 862 00:39:09,932 --> 00:39:13,185 Whoa, wait a minute. I was just kidding, ow. 863 00:39:13,227 --> 00:39:15,021 A ten, it's a-- 864 00:39:22,153 --> 00:39:24,113 - I'm sure some people in the audience are watching 865 00:39:24,155 --> 00:39:26,324 that movie with their popcorn in their hand thinking, 866 00:39:26,365 --> 00:39:28,326 "What is happening?" 867 00:39:28,367 --> 00:39:31,746 - "Gremlins" 2 also topped the first film by bringing in 868 00:39:31,787 --> 00:39:34,749 special effects maven Rick Baker to create a diverse 869 00:39:34,790 --> 00:39:36,375 new group of monsters. 870 00:39:36,417 --> 00:39:38,294 - It's eating my vegetable medley. 871 00:39:40,338 --> 00:39:42,465 - Mutant products of gremlins running amok 872 00:39:42,506 --> 00:39:44,425 in the genetics lab. 873 00:39:44,467 --> 00:39:46,802 - There is a phenomenal Key and Peele sketch 874 00:39:46,844 --> 00:39:48,679 about the pitching of "Gremlins 2" 875 00:39:48,721 --> 00:39:50,640 that's so funny. 876 00:39:50,681 --> 00:39:52,099 - What if we did this? 877 00:39:52,141 --> 00:39:56,145 Everybody here gets to design they own Gremlin. 878 00:39:56,187 --> 00:40:00,024 - They weren't just like cute and fluffy and then green. 879 00:40:00,066 --> 00:40:03,819 These were mutated Gremlins. 880 00:40:03,861 --> 00:40:07,823 So you get spider Gremlins, flying Gremlins. 881 00:40:09,909 --> 00:40:11,619 You got talking Gremlins. 882 00:40:11,661 --> 00:40:14,163 - Mind if I have a brief word with you? 883 00:40:14,205 --> 00:40:16,707 - You got my favorite, you got the bougie Gremlins 884 00:40:16,749 --> 00:40:18,876 with big red lips, 885 00:40:18,918 --> 00:40:21,796 super incredible dress and wig. 886 00:40:21,837 --> 00:40:24,757 And of course the flashing Gremlin with the sick glasses. 887 00:40:27,051 --> 00:40:31,305 - You got ever single Gremlin you could want in the movie. 888 00:40:31,347 --> 00:40:33,849 - The madness builds until the spectacular finale 889 00:40:33,891 --> 00:40:37,478 when the heroes manage to prevent a Gremlin apocalypse. 890 00:40:41,148 --> 00:40:44,151 - I'm melting! I'm melting. 891 00:40:44,193 --> 00:40:46,821 - "Gremlins 2" just gets better every time you see it. 892 00:40:46,862 --> 00:40:49,407 - "Gremlins 2," I think, 893 00:40:49,448 --> 00:40:52,535 might possibly be the best sequel of all time. 894 00:40:52,576 --> 00:40:55,079 - Probably "Gremlins 2" is my most personal movie. 895 00:40:55,121 --> 00:40:58,416 Not in that it's personal to me, except that it's 896 00:40:58,457 --> 00:41:00,459 my most unfiltered movie. 897 00:41:00,501 --> 00:41:01,752 I had nobody looking over my shoulder, 898 00:41:01,794 --> 00:41:04,380 telling me what to do, 899 00:41:04,422 --> 00:41:06,048 and there's a lot of me in it. 900 00:41:06,090 --> 00:41:08,217 - And to this day, there's never been a "Gremlins 3." 901 00:41:08,259 --> 00:41:11,637 'Cause it feels like "Gremlins 2" scorched the earth. 902 00:41:14,932 --> 00:41:18,019 - Horror sequels give us a way to return to the worlds 903 00:41:18,060 --> 00:41:21,856 that fascinated and frightened us the first time around. 904 00:41:21,897 --> 00:41:26,110 We get to see our favorite characters back in action. 905 00:41:26,152 --> 00:41:29,572 And we get more of everything. 906 00:41:29,613 --> 00:41:31,699 More monsters. More scares. 907 00:41:33,701 --> 00:41:36,787 - Bigger and crazier kills. 908 00:41:36,829 --> 00:41:40,458 The best sequels give us what we want-- 909 00:41:40,499 --> 00:41:42,585 make the old seem new again. 910 00:41:42,626 --> 00:41:44,920 ♪ ♪