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[Robert Englund]
America in the '60s and '70s
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was defined by chaos.
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[Reporter]
Senator John F. Kennedy
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is the 34th president
of the United States.
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The flare-ups between
whites and Negroes.
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[Englund] The escalating war
in Vietnam.
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Struggle with the communists.
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[ Englund] An oil crisis
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that resulted
in the rationing of gasoline.
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[reporter] The lines
are lengthening,
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supplies are dropping,
and reports--
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[Englund] Demands for
women's liberation.
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[reporter] Equal education and
job opportunities, equal pay.
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[Englund] A growing civil rights
movement
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and a general distrust
of institutions
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like organized religion and
government with a capital "G,"
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these defined the times.
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[reporter] Rioting in
a Negro section of Los Angeles.
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[Englund] Profound changes
to cultural norms
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created intense anxieties,
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leading many
to fear that society,
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as we knew it,
was falling apart.
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The largest generation
in history,
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the Baby Boomers,
were coming of age.
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And that youth quake
shook the world
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as millions of teens
and young adults
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took to the streets
protesting the war,
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demanding equal rights
for women...
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- Women!
- ...and joining the fight
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for civil rights.
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Struggle together
to go to jail together,
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to stand up for freedom...
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[Englund] This episode
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of Blumhouse's Compendium
of Horror
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looks at how films of the era
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reflected the real
and tangible change
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the Baby Boomers demanded
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and how a new generation
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of auteur directors
and their films...
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[Reporter] President Kennedy
has been shot in Dallas.
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...pushed the envelope
of what was acceptable.
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It has been established that
persons who have recently died
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have been returning to life.
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I think if I had to come up
with my Mount Rushmore
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of horror directors,
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you'd be like
John Carpenter,
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Wes Craven.
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Tobe Hoover definitely belongs.
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[chainsaw whirring]
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Definitely got to be Romero.
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[gasping]
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[Smith]
Night of the Living Dead
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is in my DNA and in the genetics
of my work, as well,
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because, you know, you've got
George Romero going like,
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"You know, we got two bucks,
and we got a field.
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Let's make a zombie movie."
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Boy, you used to really
be scared here.
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Johnny!
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You're still afraid.
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Stop it now. I mean it.
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They're coming to get you, Barbara.
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[Romero] I was scared
in my mom's basement,
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this one back part
of her basement.
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It was a damp and dark place,
and that's where I used to go
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to fire up an old projector
and watch old reels of film.
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One day, I found this old print
of this movie
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that I'd never
obviously heard of.
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I guess I was about seven.
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And it was
Night of the Living Dead.
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[thunder crashes]
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My mom found me like,
I don't know,
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end minutes
before the end of the movie
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and tried to, you know,
turn it off.
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But by that point,
I was fucked.
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Good Lord.
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It took me a long time
before I was cool
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to go back in the basement.
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And then I realized
what my dad did.
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I realized
the creativity of it all.
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To me, it was like it was
the first time
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I ever really kind of
had an understanding
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of what he did as an artist.
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And I think most good directors
that really have a grasp
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of the medium can do horror.
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And now that
they're becoming venerable
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in the eyes of the studio
and so forth,
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a lot of those people
are going into it.
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The idea that corpses
could come back to life
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as bodies without souls
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originated in 19th century
Haitian folklore.
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Stories of the dead
being reanimated
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usually involves some form
of religious ceremony,
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such as voodoo.
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These stories of the undead
walking the earth,
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along with a book
called I Am Legend,
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inspired director
George A. Romero
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to turn those concepts
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into the flesh eating,
slow-moving zombie
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that shocked audiences
in Night of the Living Dead.
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I had met George Romero.
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We were on a family vacation,
and we were in Italy.
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My Love for
Night of the Living Dead
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had sort of reached
its pinnacle.
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I'm happily typecast in a genre
that I've always loved.
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And I have an opportunity
to work on Day of the Dead.
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Day of the Dead was one
of the greatest experiences
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that I had ever had.
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I mean, talk about just being
plucked from a little kid
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in his basement, watching horror
movies, to standing next
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to one of the greatest horror
directors of our generation.
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And watching him film
a zombie movie and being in it.
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I was actually in it, too.
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I got decapitated.
My head came back to life.
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I mean, I could have retired
at 19, for fuck's sake.
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Aah!
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I remember George Romero
talking about movies
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and the roller coaster ride,
the adrenaline.
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You know, you have people that
may not want to ride
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a roller coaster for real,
but they'll go see a movie
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and they'll go on
the same journey.
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[Dickerson]
Night of the Living Dead
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is probably one of the few films
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that actually gave me nightmares.
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Saw it at a horror festival.
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It was a couple of years
after it came out.
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So it already had a reputation.
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It was heavy.
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It was that really crude
black-and-white photography
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which gave it an almost
semi documentary feel
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and made it feel more realistic.
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That's what really got to me.
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The Night of the Living Dead
made money
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and lots of it.
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Shot for just $114,000,
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the movie grossed
more than 12 million
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during its initial
release alone.
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To hype the movie,
a $50,000 insurance policy
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was offered to anyone
who died of a heart attack
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watching the film.
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A marketing stunt
that made seeing the movie
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an irresistible test of courage
for true horror fans.
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Night of the Living Dead was
groundbreaking for everything.
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They made a movie in a town
where movies weren't made.
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They bucked the system,
and they showed people images
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that made every
single person in 1968
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who saw those images uncomfortable
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at a molecular level.
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Horror films to that point
were cause and effect.
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Actions have consequences.
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Then here, these guys
come with this film
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that you could just be in the
wrong place at the wrong time,
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get bit, and the next thing you
know, whoever you trusted
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with your life and your heart
and your spirit was now
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turning on you and was
a creature that was going to
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not only kill you
and eat you...
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[sreams]
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...but turn you
into another one.
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[Smith] The notion of
the dead not dying,
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coming back and turning you
into a dead person,
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infecting you with more death.
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This zombie looks like
your fucking girlfriend
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or your husband who just died.
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And then they're going
to wake up,
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and they're going to
try to eat you,
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and then you're going
to fucking die,
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and then you're going
to become one.
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Relatively new notion.
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There are a lot of choices
that people have to make
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in the zombie
apocalypse mythology.
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I'm sorry, Mum.
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Do it!
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And when you realize
that surviving
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means having to do things
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that you couldn't imagine
that you would have to do,
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and what this kind of thing
does to a person,
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it just shows you
the drastic change
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that people can undergo
when dealing
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with these tremendous
outside circumstances.
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And the distrust,
man's distrust for other men.
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Obviously,
Night of the Living Dead
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is a very, you know, low budget,
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but it's about the beginning
of the breakdown of society.
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We have to look at
the different iterations
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that have been put on screen
of the, you know,
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post-apocalyptic living,
whether it's, you know,
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Mad Max, or 28 Days Later.
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George Romero had
a great handle on,
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you know, the decay of society.
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Ideas for the the zombie films
that I've done anyway,
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the idea always comes first.
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I have to know
what the movie's about
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because they're not
really movies about zombies.
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I mean, the zombies are almost
just minor annoyances, you know?
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It was an extremely
turbulent time,
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and the civil rights movement
was huge, and Vietnam was huge.
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And the film itself
is just chock full of messaging
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about all of that.
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But the messaging about it
that I personally took away
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was that times were changing.
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Night of the Living Dead
was released in the fall of '68
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when America was experiencing
profound tragedy and change
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in the area of civil rights.
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Just six months earlier,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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had been assassinated
in Memphis.
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The reaction in the streets
was swift and furious
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because equality seemed
more unattainable than ever.
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Horror films had always
put social tensions
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front and center,
and George Romero's choice
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to put a Black male lead
in his movie
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sent a loud and clear message.
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[Dickerson] To actually have
a Black protagonist
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in Night of the Living Dead
was pretty cool.
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It was pretty revolutionary.
We had never seen it before.
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And a heroic Black character.
I mean, he was the hero.
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He was the only one
that knew what was going on.
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The cellar is
the strongest place.
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You box yourself
in the cellar
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and those things get
in the house, you've had it.
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At least up here,
you have a fighting chance.
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You know,
usually in a horror film,
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the Black folks
are the first to go.
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There were a lot of instances
where George had said,
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"Look, I cast Duane Jones
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because he was
the most talented actor
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that he had met at the time.
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You know, was George
subliminally telling a story
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by putting a Black man
in the lead?
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Subsequently, all of George's
movies from that point on
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had an African-American lead
and a female lead, you know.
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So whether it was by accident
or subliminal,
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George definitely
was making a statement.
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Night of the Living Dead
definitely changed
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the horror genre
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because it kind of stretched
what's permissible.
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You didn't see so much
viscera in movies.
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You know,
it definitely unleashed
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what was possible visually.
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You know, you could now
see intestines being pulled out
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and being eaten up by a zombie.
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Now you could see
the possession of a child.
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The idea of the evil child,
the demon child,
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you know, that little girl,
she comes back
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after she'd been killed,
and she comes back
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and tries to eat her mother
in the basement.
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Oh, baby.
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So that made a lot
of things permissible.
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♪
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In the '60s, there was
a huge trend in the occult.
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You had people
leaving the church.
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Church membership was down.
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People were saying
they were atheists.
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You had a godless Catholic
in the White House.
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I mean, people hated
that JFK had been Catholic.
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That was like viewed
with such alarm across America
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that this invidious
pope worshiper
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was in the White House.
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Suddenly it seemed
like all religious faith
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was up for grabs in America.
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It wasn't the country we told
ourselves we thought it was.
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Hail Satan!
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[all] Hail Satan!
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We weren't just a country
of white Protestant men.
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There were women
who wanted rights.
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There were Black people
who wanted rights.
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There were Catholics, there were
Jews, there were Hindus.
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There were all these
other people out there.
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It was terrifying
to white people.
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And so Rosemary's Baby really
jumps in with all four feet
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right on that pressure point.
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Oh, that's nice. What is that?
That's the TV room?
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Well, only temporarily.
It's going to be a nursery.
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- Oh, you're pregnant?
- No, not yet.
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I hope to be
as soon as we're settled.
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Wonderful!
Well, you're young and healthy.
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You'll have lots of children.
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At their most basic,
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horror movies
have been allegories
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for the fight
between good and evil.
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Rosemary's Baby
was no exception,
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opening in theaters
in the summer of what turned out
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to be a pivotal year in history
and in the movies, 1968.
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Women were on the march,
rejecting marginalization
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and demanding
that their voices be heard.
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They were moving into
corporate offices, boardrooms,
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and into the political
center of power.
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Against that backdrop
of societal change,
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Rosemary's Baby was
a sophisticated horror film
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that reflected the paranoia
of the era
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and asked complex questions
about female autonomy,
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marital abuse,
and the role of women
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in a rapidly changing world.
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I've spoken pretty openly
about the fact
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that I am somebody
who can speak back to the screen
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when Rosemary's Baby
is playing.
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It's a cornerstone film for me
for so many reasons,
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but I just find it
that deeply entertaining.
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This is for you
from Roman and me.
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For me?
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It's just a little present
is all, for moving in.
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There's no reason--
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Real old.
It's over 300 years.
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And scary for a lot
of different reasons.
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It's lovely.
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You know, not just about sort of
the literal story,
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but for all of the subtext
I think underneath it.
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[door closes]
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In Rosemary's Baby,
director Roman Polanski
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used themes of religion
and the occult as a backdrop
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for questioning
the role of women in society.
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Rosemary's Baby kind of came
out of nowhere in '67.
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Before, movies were gothic stuff
from Hammer,
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vampires in Ancient Europe,
Victorian Times,
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old timey places.
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Universal Monsters.
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On TV was The Addams Family,
The Munsters,
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laugh track horror.
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We don't want any child
of ours going to school
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- and being stared at.
- [laughter]
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With Rosemary's Baby,
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you suddenly had
this contemporary horror story
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set in modern-day New York.
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He's an actor.
She's a homemaker.
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They're young kids in love,
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living in an identifiable, recognizable,
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modern-day setting.
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With Satan.
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This is no dream.
This is really happening!
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I have a memory of just feeling
like this movie is unreal.
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You know, I mean, Ruth Gordon.
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Are you kidding me?
This performance.
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Listen, I won't let you go
to no Dr. Hill,
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nobody ever heard of.
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The best is what you're going
to have, young lady.
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Where's your
telephone, huh?
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Just the vividness
of the filmmaking.
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The assuredness
of every passage, every shot.
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I still watch it with a sense
of awe. I really do.
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Dr. Hill prescribed
vitamin pills.
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No pills. Minnie Castevet
has a herbarium.
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I'm gonna have her make
a daily drink for you
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that will be fresher,
safer, and more vitamin-rich
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than any pills on the market.
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Rosemary's Baby is about
the complete lack of autonomy
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and control that a woman
and or women societally
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have over their bodies.
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I think just the general feeling
of powerlessness
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in Rosemary's Baby,
how no one would listen to her,
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how she was constantly
being gaslit,
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how she was listening
to these men,
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and as a result, literally
gave birth to the devil.
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I just remember that pervasive
feeling of like,
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"No one will listen to me,"
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being something that
really shook me emotionally.
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Has an under taste.
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A chalky under taste.
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00:18:17,748 --> 00:18:19,533
[man] I don't get it.
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00:18:20,403 --> 00:18:23,406
That's silly, honey.
There is no under taste.
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00:18:23,537 --> 00:18:25,626
I think Rosemary's Baby
is haunting
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because, one,
this is her husband,
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the person
she's supposed to trust
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more than anyone in the world,
who's supposed to love her.
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The dismissive pat on the head
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and extreme gaslighting
behavior on stark display
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in Rosemary's Baby were
all too familiar to women
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ignored by their bosses,
and even by their own husbands.
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Like all the best horror films,
Rosemary's Baby was
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a resonant, riveting echo
of its time and its portrayal
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of a vulnerable woman exploited
and betrayed by the men
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she trusted made
an indelible impression.
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A scene that I love in which
late in the game,
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Rosemary realizes,
"Oh, my God, something terrible
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is happening to me."
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And she goes to her
original gynecologist,
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played by Charles Grodin,
and begs for help.
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And maybe all of this
is coincidence.
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00:19:17,895 --> 00:19:19,070
But one thing is for sure.
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They have a coven,
and they want my baby.
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00:19:24,859 --> 00:19:26,817
Certainly seems that way.
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[Kusama] And he listens to her,
and he's really patient,
389
00:19:30,256 --> 00:19:31,561
and he says,
"Why don't you lie down?
390
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You must be exhausted.
I'm going to get you some help."
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And he leaves,
and you see her say,
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"Okay, little Andy or Jenny,
we're going to be okay.
393
00:19:40,004 --> 00:19:42,659
This nice man is
going to help us."
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00:19:42,790 --> 00:19:44,748
God bless Dr. Hill.
395
00:19:44,879 --> 00:19:47,577
And then she wakes up
from her nap.
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00:19:47,708 --> 00:19:50,624
And similar to
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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scene I love so much,
she is returned to her captors.
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And you realize that
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00:20:01,983 --> 00:20:05,204
whether Charles Grodin
was in on a scheme
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or just simply thinks any woman
with this story
401
00:20:08,772 --> 00:20:12,863
must be utterly insane, he has
done the absolute wrong thing.
402
00:20:12,994 --> 00:20:16,127
And that moment is like
the fulcrum of the whole movie.
403
00:20:16,258 --> 00:20:19,174
Somebody help me!
404
00:20:19,305 --> 00:20:21,655
I think it's a great allegory
for sort of
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00:20:21,785 --> 00:20:25,354
the "my body, my choice" fight
that has been happening forever.
406
00:20:25,485 --> 00:20:27,791
I think the most brilliant thing
about Rosemary's Baby
407
00:20:27,922 --> 00:20:29,489
and why it stood
the test of time
408
00:20:29,619 --> 00:20:31,882
is because we're still fighting
for control over our own bodies.
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00:20:32,013 --> 00:20:34,972
That is a fight that is sadly
still going on to this day.
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00:20:35,103 --> 00:20:37,584
[Hendrix] The early '60s were
when back-alley abortions
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were sort of the unmentioned
elephant in the room.
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00:20:40,021 --> 00:20:44,286
Reproduction was huge in
the '60s and in the '70s,
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and, in fact, you had a ton
of childbirth horror coming out,
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00:20:47,942 --> 00:20:50,684
and a lot of that finds its
roots with Rosemary's Baby.
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00:20:50,814 --> 00:20:52,686
I won't have
an abortion.
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00:20:52,816 --> 00:20:54,905
Nobody's telling you
to have an abortion.
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00:20:55,036 --> 00:20:57,256
Just go to see another
doctor, that's all.
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00:20:57,386 --> 00:20:59,954
[Kusama] Films like Carrie
or Rosemary's Baby
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are films often made by men
that are struggling with
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the notion of femininity
and femaleness,
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as both societally and then,
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for some of the filmmakers,
personally monstrous.
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Rosemary's Baby
was not only a reflection of
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America's reaction
to the women's movement,
425
00:21:23,543 --> 00:21:26,285
but a reflection on director
Roman Polanski himself.
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Polanski's subsequent
statutory rape charge
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and flight from America
sent many women back
428
00:21:34,858 --> 00:21:37,252
for a second look at the film
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about the takeover
of women's bodies.
430
00:21:40,429 --> 00:21:42,953
[Kusama] So there's something
really interesting to me
431
00:21:43,084 --> 00:21:47,306
about seeing those filmmakers
forcing themselves
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to be empathetic
with female characters
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00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,921
and a female point of view
and female experience.
434
00:21:54,051 --> 00:21:57,011
With women demanding
power in society
435
00:21:57,141 --> 00:22:01,015
and in their homes, horror films
continue to grapple with that
436
00:22:01,145 --> 00:22:04,801
shift by taking it
into the spiritual realm.
437
00:22:04,932 --> 00:22:08,457
The graphic depiction
of demonic possession
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unnerved a country
steeped in religious belief.
439
00:22:12,113 --> 00:22:16,465
The Exorcist was ahead
of the cultural curve
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00:22:16,596 --> 00:22:19,642
with its depiction of
God versus the devil
441
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in a spiritual fistfight
for the soul of a child.
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00:22:23,646 --> 00:22:26,997
And audiences, already
questioning the role of religion
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in modern society,
well, they were ready.
444
00:22:31,567 --> 00:22:34,353
For me, 'cause I was
an old Catholic kid,
445
00:22:34,483 --> 00:22:38,269
the devil will still always
be the absolute worst
446
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,924
because the devil
could be anybody,
447
00:22:41,055 --> 00:22:42,665
and the devil
is a supernatural force.
448
00:22:42,796 --> 00:22:45,015
Well, then let's
introduce ourselves.
449
00:22:45,146 --> 00:22:47,278
- I'm Damien Karras.
- And I'm the devil!
450
00:22:47,409 --> 00:22:49,716
Now kindly
undo these straps.
451
00:22:49,846 --> 00:22:51,195
If you're the devil,
why not make
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00:22:51,326 --> 00:22:52,632
the straps disappear?
453
00:22:52,762 --> 00:22:56,418
That's a much too vulgar
display of power, Karras.
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00:22:56,549 --> 00:22:59,943
I think I saw the original
Exorcist in a theater,
455
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which is still, to this day,
one of my favorite horror movies
456
00:23:03,164 --> 00:23:05,775
ever because of the approach
that they took.
457
00:23:09,997 --> 00:23:13,522
They were like, "This is real.
I'm Friedkin,
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00:23:13,653 --> 00:23:16,873
very intense filmmaker,
and I'm going to hire
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00:23:17,004 --> 00:23:19,746
like Ellen Burstyn as the
mother, who is a completely
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00:23:19,876 --> 00:23:21,400
believable actress,
461
00:23:21,530 --> 00:23:23,837
like Academy Award-winning
type actress.
462
00:23:23,967 --> 00:23:25,534
I'm gonna put her
in this horror film."
463
00:23:25,665 --> 00:23:27,928
As a Catholic, I wasn't allowed
to watch The Exorcist
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because it would possess me.
465
00:23:30,583 --> 00:23:34,935
So by the time I recovered
from Catholicism, I watched it,
466
00:23:35,065 --> 00:23:38,547
and I go, "Oh, yeah. I can see
how this messed up some people."
467
00:23:42,899 --> 00:23:44,074
The first time I saw it,
468
00:23:44,205 --> 00:23:45,293
I actually
went to see it in the theater.
469
00:23:45,424 --> 00:23:48,905
It's a super scary movie
to see in a theater.
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And one of the most
shocking moments in my life
471
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in a horror movie
is when she does the spider walk
472
00:23:53,344 --> 00:23:55,042
down the stairs.
473
00:23:55,172 --> 00:23:56,652
And I remember starting
to see it.
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And then the next thing I know,
I'm standing on my seat
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in the theater, like, crouched.
476
00:24:02,005 --> 00:24:04,573
Like, I don't know how I got
there or how fast it happened.
477
00:24:04,704 --> 00:24:07,881
But I remember my friend,
he's like, "Get down."
478
00:24:08,011 --> 00:24:09,665
And I was like, "Where--
Where am I? What happened?
479
00:24:09,796 --> 00:24:10,971
How long have I been out?"
480
00:24:11,101 --> 00:24:14,278
Which is like, I don't know if
that's flight--
481
00:24:14,409 --> 00:24:16,019
it's flight, I think.
482
00:24:16,150 --> 00:24:19,022
It's freeze.
I would have--
483
00:24:19,153 --> 00:24:20,937
The tiger would have eaten me.
484
00:24:21,068 --> 00:24:24,637
I was 10, eleven years old
when The Exorcist came out.
485
00:24:24,767 --> 00:24:28,554
Everything about The Exorcist
felt like it was happening
486
00:24:28,684 --> 00:24:31,165
in the house next door to me,
and that was terrifying.
487
00:24:31,295 --> 00:24:33,428
And that was what was terrifying
for most people.
488
00:24:33,559 --> 00:24:36,126
I mean, there were lines
around the block.
489
00:24:36,257 --> 00:24:39,869
Despite being banned
by most organized religions,
490
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,610
including the Catholic Church,
491
00:24:41,741 --> 00:24:45,527
The Exorcist was a commercial
and critical success,
492
00:24:45,658 --> 00:24:48,356
partly because it was
so subversive at a time
493
00:24:48,487 --> 00:24:52,186
when Americans were questioning
their own spiritual beliefs.
494
00:24:52,316 --> 00:24:55,929
The Exorcist won two Oscars
and placed horror films
495
00:24:56,059 --> 00:24:58,148
and horror fans
into the mainstream.
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00:24:58,279 --> 00:25:00,542
You know, walking backwards
down the stairs,
497
00:25:00,673 --> 00:25:02,718
making a kid's head turn around
and stuff like that.
498
00:25:07,070 --> 00:25:07,897
Vomiting pea soup.
499
00:25:08,855 --> 00:25:10,813
Ah!
500
00:25:10,944 --> 00:25:13,033
All of that shit
is pretty horrifying.
501
00:25:13,163 --> 00:25:15,209
But, you know,
I don't even think
502
00:25:15,339 --> 00:25:17,994
you have to be Catholic
to truly be unnerved.
503
00:25:18,125 --> 00:25:23,870
The taboos that were explored
in the early '70s,
504
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,220
no one ever would have
imagined a movie like
505
00:25:26,350 --> 00:25:29,963
The Exorcist,
that explored the violation
506
00:25:30,093 --> 00:25:32,661
of a 12-year-old girl
by this demon
507
00:25:32,792 --> 00:25:35,534
and everything that it did
for the Catholic Church.
508
00:25:35,664 --> 00:25:37,318
Well, we as Catholics,
we were told every week,
509
00:25:37,448 --> 00:25:38,798
"You're not allowed
to go see that movie."
510
00:25:38,928 --> 00:25:40,539
And I don't know
a single Catholic
511
00:25:40,669 --> 00:25:42,018
that didn't fucking eventually
go see that movie.
512
00:25:46,675 --> 00:25:48,982
[Ray] The Exorcist is
considered the scariest
513
00:25:49,112 --> 00:25:51,767
horror film ever made because it
strikes into the heart
514
00:25:51,898 --> 00:25:54,944
of a very religious country.
515
00:25:55,075 --> 00:25:57,251
You know, that's the last thing
we want to do is mess with
516
00:25:57,381 --> 00:25:59,383
the devil and have it show up
in our homes.
517
00:25:59,514 --> 00:26:01,864
That's why we put, you know,
the crucifix on the wall.
518
00:26:01,995 --> 00:26:04,084
That's why we go to church.
519
00:26:04,214 --> 00:26:07,000
And then when it just shows up
because a demon wants to have
520
00:26:07,130 --> 00:26:10,133
a good time, it's super scary.
521
00:26:10,264 --> 00:26:12,962
I feel The Exorcist
hit the nerve that it did
522
00:26:13,093 --> 00:26:16,749
because at that time, nobody had
seen anything like it.
523
00:26:16,879 --> 00:26:20,666
At that point, people found
a lot of comfort in religion.
524
00:26:22,058 --> 00:26:24,321
And now all of a sudden,
this movie comes out
525
00:26:24,452 --> 00:26:30,937
that's like-- people's beliefs
were being stirred in terms of,
526
00:26:31,067 --> 00:26:34,680
oh, why would a God let
something like that happen?
527
00:26:34,810 --> 00:26:37,813
And in such a dramatic
and horrific fashion.
528
00:26:42,296 --> 00:26:44,603
The 1960s
introduced America to
529
00:26:44,733 --> 00:26:48,650
the counterculture movement
and the hippies.
530
00:26:48,781 --> 00:26:51,827
America's youth wanted change,
and the hippie movement,
531
00:26:51,958 --> 00:26:54,613
well, they wanted it yesterday.
532
00:26:54,743 --> 00:26:57,703
Young people protested against
the Vietnam War.
533
00:26:57,833 --> 00:27:00,053
They rebelled
against commercialism.
534
00:27:00,183 --> 00:27:02,359
And they fought sexism
and racism.
535
00:27:02,490 --> 00:27:05,145
They pushed the needle
of progress so far
536
00:27:05,275 --> 00:27:08,104
that it made their
parents' generation squirm.
537
00:27:08,235 --> 00:27:10,063
[man] And what the hell's
the matter with you kids?
538
00:27:10,193 --> 00:27:12,500
But if the hippies saw
love and peace
539
00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:14,937
as the goals of their movement,
540
00:27:15,068 --> 00:27:19,159
older, more traditional
Americans saw chaos.
541
00:27:19,289 --> 00:27:22,945
And after Charles Manson
and his murderous family,
542
00:27:23,076 --> 00:27:25,600
even evil in the movement.
543
00:27:25,731 --> 00:27:28,342
The 1960s were
incredibly idealistic.
544
00:27:28,472 --> 00:27:31,258
There was the idea that
the world really could change
545
00:27:31,388 --> 00:27:32,825
because this new generation
of young people
546
00:27:32,955 --> 00:27:36,089
who thought so differently,
they were going to be in charge.
547
00:27:36,219 --> 00:27:38,352
And by the time
we get into the '70s,
548
00:27:38,482 --> 00:27:42,269
the system is fritzing wildly.
549
00:27:42,399 --> 00:27:44,053
They were rebelling
against the government.
550
00:27:44,184 --> 00:27:45,664
They were rebelling against war.
551
00:27:45,794 --> 00:27:47,317
They were rebelling
against racism.
552
00:27:47,448 --> 00:27:48,928
They were rebelling
against everything
553
00:27:49,058 --> 00:27:51,060
that we continue
to rebel against.
554
00:27:51,191 --> 00:27:53,410
There was an insanity
in the air.
555
00:27:57,545 --> 00:28:02,724
There were always serial killers
throughout time,
556
00:28:02,855 --> 00:28:05,988
from Jack the Ripper
and centuries before, I'm sure.
557
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,034
But it was somehow,
I don't know,
558
00:28:08,164 --> 00:28:10,123
it was in the air in the '70s,
559
00:28:10,253 --> 00:28:15,563
whether it was Son of Sam
or a chainsaw massacre
560
00:28:15,694 --> 00:28:17,260
or the Hillside Strangler.
561
00:28:17,391 --> 00:28:19,045
Like, it was out there.
562
00:28:19,175 --> 00:28:20,742
There were people out there.
563
00:28:20,873 --> 00:28:24,746
And The Hills Have Eyes
and I Spit on Your Grave
564
00:28:24,877 --> 00:28:28,228
perfectly bring the horror of
war and the chaos of war
565
00:28:28,358 --> 00:28:30,186
to your front door.
566
00:28:30,317 --> 00:28:33,102
And they show you
that there is no escaping
567
00:28:33,233 --> 00:28:36,976
from the unseen evil
in your neighbor.
568
00:28:37,106 --> 00:28:39,326
You know,
in the mid to late '70s,
569
00:28:39,456 --> 00:28:41,545
horror movies
were very punk rock.
570
00:28:41,676 --> 00:28:43,156
There was an edge to them.
571
00:28:43,286 --> 00:28:46,986
Most of them are made with
no money in that era whatsoever.
572
00:28:47,116 --> 00:28:48,552
You know,
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
573
00:28:48,683 --> 00:28:51,947
is like, it puts Clerks
to shame in terms of,
574
00:28:52,078 --> 00:28:53,949
like, use of minimal budget.
575
00:28:59,085 --> 00:29:01,435
Like Psycho before it,
576
00:29:01,565 --> 00:29:05,178
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
is believed to be based
577
00:29:05,308 --> 00:29:07,833
on the true crimes
of a serial killer.
578
00:29:07,963 --> 00:29:11,358
And the origin of Leatherface
could also be traced back
579
00:29:11,488 --> 00:29:16,276
to the violence inflicted by the
Butcher of Plainfield, Ed Gein.
580
00:29:16,406 --> 00:29:18,844
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
was cheap to make
581
00:29:18,974 --> 00:29:21,237
and grossed millions
in its first run.
582
00:29:21,368 --> 00:29:23,500
Low-budget indie films
took note.
583
00:29:23,631 --> 00:29:25,154
I love Texas Chainsaw Massacre
584
00:29:25,285 --> 00:29:27,069
because it is like,
we've got no money,
585
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:28,331
but we'll scare
the hell out of you.
586
00:29:28,462 --> 00:29:30,377
It is very proto Clerks for me.
587
00:29:30,507 --> 00:29:32,248
If they don't make that movie,
588
00:29:32,379 --> 00:29:34,294
I don't get inspired
to make mine, even though
589
00:29:34,424 --> 00:29:35,861
they're two completely
different subject matters.
590
00:29:35,991 --> 00:29:39,734
Oh, my God. The scariest movie
I've ever seen, hands down,
591
00:29:39,865 --> 00:29:41,954
is Tobe Hooper's
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
592
00:29:42,084 --> 00:29:44,739
[both screaming]
593
00:29:44,870 --> 00:29:50,049
I remember being shaken
to my core by that film.
594
00:29:50,179 --> 00:29:52,181
[screaming]
595
00:29:52,312 --> 00:29:53,922
And it's definitely
one of those movies
596
00:29:54,053 --> 00:29:59,885
you don't feel the artifice or
the seams of filmmaking,
597
00:30:00,015 --> 00:30:02,801
though it's an extremely
sophisticated movie.
598
00:30:02,931 --> 00:30:08,110
You feel sort of just like
plopped in real life
599
00:30:08,241 --> 00:30:11,157
in some horrible way.
600
00:30:11,287 --> 00:30:14,856
That movie really stuck with me
and stays with me,
601
00:30:14,987 --> 00:30:17,032
and I consider it one of the
greatest horror films ever made.
602
00:30:19,905 --> 00:30:22,516
Generated
by sensational coverage
603
00:30:22,646 --> 00:30:25,475
of anonymous serial killers
that seem to be lurking
604
00:30:25,606 --> 00:30:29,479
in every suburban neighborhood,
a polarized America was becoming
605
00:30:29,610 --> 00:30:32,526
increasingly frightened.
606
00:30:32,656 --> 00:30:37,270
That sense of dread
had movie fans primed for films
607
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,970
that brought the faceless,
senseless, evil killer to life.
608
00:30:45,017 --> 00:30:49,064
Tobe Hooper elevates the art
form in this incredible way
609
00:30:49,195 --> 00:30:51,327
and makes a movie so terrifying
610
00:30:51,458 --> 00:30:54,591
that any time I try
to make a horror movie,
611
00:30:54,722 --> 00:30:56,376
that's the movie
I was trying to make.
612
00:30:56,506 --> 00:30:58,987
When I tried to do Red State,
613
00:30:59,118 --> 00:31:02,077
that's me trying to do
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
614
00:31:02,208 --> 00:31:03,905
When I tried to make Tusk,
615
00:31:04,036 --> 00:31:06,342
I was trying to do
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
616
00:31:06,473 --> 00:31:08,301
That movie still lives
in my heart and soul.
617
00:31:08,431 --> 00:31:09,737
It's a movie I still
watch once a year.
618
00:31:09,868 --> 00:31:11,391
It still fucking works.
619
00:31:11,521 --> 00:31:16,135
The mastery of what Tobe did
was that he made it completely
620
00:31:16,265 --> 00:31:19,660
on what you thought
was happening.
621
00:31:19,790 --> 00:31:21,314
It was considered
the most violent film ever made.
622
00:31:21,444 --> 00:31:22,489
But there's no blood in it.
623
00:31:22,619 --> 00:31:25,535
- [chainsaw whirring]
- woman screams ]
624
00:31:25,666 --> 00:31:28,930
And then just the title alone,
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
625
00:31:29,061 --> 00:31:31,715
You know, you're expecting
to see massacre by chainsaw,
626
00:31:31,846 --> 00:31:32,978
but you don't see it.
627
00:31:33,108 --> 00:31:35,371
You know, so it's
a pretty subtle film.
628
00:31:35,502 --> 00:31:37,373
When I think of
Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
629
00:31:37,504 --> 00:31:41,421
I definitely identify
with the kids in the van.
630
00:31:41,551 --> 00:31:43,814
And I look at the world
out there
631
00:31:43,945 --> 00:31:45,991
that you're just driving
cross-country,
632
00:31:46,121 --> 00:31:49,298
minding your business, and there
is fear of everyone else.
633
00:31:49,429 --> 00:31:53,433
A genuine xenophobia
that I have experienced
634
00:31:53,563 --> 00:31:55,914
when I'm driving in any town
where I don't know people,
635
00:31:56,044 --> 00:31:57,916
but I don't know
what evil lurks there.
636
00:32:00,222 --> 00:32:04,357
The film was so successful
because it went to dark places
637
00:32:04,487 --> 00:32:07,229
that other films just
weren't gritty in capturing.
638
00:32:09,449 --> 00:32:11,320
There was a conspiracy of evil
639
00:32:11,451 --> 00:32:13,888
so that you could walk
into a spider's web
640
00:32:14,019 --> 00:32:16,499
where everyone agreed
that this was okay.
641
00:32:16,630 --> 00:32:17,805
You know,
not just Leatherface,
642
00:32:17,936 --> 00:32:20,547
but ma and pa and everybody
and the sheriff
643
00:32:20,677 --> 00:32:22,941
and whoever you run into
were part of it.
644
00:32:23,071 --> 00:32:24,464
What could be more terrifying
than that?
645
00:32:24,594 --> 00:32:27,467
[chainsaw whirring]
646
00:32:27,597 --> 00:32:31,079
I think Leatherface is scary
because he's made of flesh.
647
00:32:35,431 --> 00:32:38,173
That's dried skin that he's sewn
a face together to wear.
648
00:32:38,304 --> 00:32:39,696
It's really terrifying.
649
00:32:39,827 --> 00:32:42,699
It sort of predates
Hannibal Lecter in that regard,
650
00:32:42,830 --> 00:32:45,485
and we'd just never
seen that before.
651
00:32:45,615 --> 00:32:47,574
Leatherface is scary because
he's dumb and he just--
652
00:32:47,704 --> 00:32:49,619
he's told what to do
and he does it.
653
00:32:49,750 --> 00:32:52,361
So it's really-- he's a tool
for this family that
654
00:32:52,492 --> 00:32:53,710
makes him do terrible things.
655
00:32:56,452 --> 00:32:59,412
Clearly Leatherface
is kind of a tragic character.
656
00:32:59,542 --> 00:33:01,849
I mean, he's obviously
mentally disabled
657
00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:04,112
in some sort of capacity.
658
00:33:07,724 --> 00:33:09,596
You know, he's not having fun
either, you know.
659
00:33:09,726 --> 00:33:11,772
Like, he's being abused
just as much.
660
00:33:11,902 --> 00:33:14,557
You know, like his family are
the real evil ones
661
00:33:14,688 --> 00:33:15,994
because they're abusing Leatherface.
662
00:33:16,124 --> 00:33:18,474
And, you know, I don't think
Leatherface on his own
663
00:33:18,605 --> 00:33:20,868
would have necessarily
been a murderer.
664
00:33:20,999 --> 00:33:22,304
He's also pretty funny.
665
00:33:22,435 --> 00:33:23,740
I mean, like, there's that
sequence where they're
666
00:33:23,871 --> 00:33:28,223
getting ready for dinner,
and he changes his skin mask
667
00:33:28,354 --> 00:33:30,312
to be like the mother figure.
668
00:33:30,443 --> 00:33:31,444
You know, when he's
putting out dinner,
669
00:33:31,574 --> 00:33:33,228
he's got lipstick on
and everything.
670
00:33:33,359 --> 00:33:34,925
It's like there's a real sick,
671
00:33:35,056 --> 00:33:38,016
hilarious sense of humor
to that movie.
672
00:33:38,146 --> 00:33:41,149
Internationally,
the film was a success
673
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,457
despite being banned
in more than a dozen countries,
674
00:33:44,587 --> 00:33:48,591
including France,
Brazil, and Australia.
675
00:33:48,722 --> 00:33:53,422
Its success was a combination
of fear of the killer next door
676
00:33:53,553 --> 00:33:57,992
and the humor of an inside joke.
677
00:33:58,123 --> 00:34:00,473
Horror films were like
a relief valve
678
00:34:00,603 --> 00:34:03,432
for the tensions Americans
were feeling in 1974,
679
00:34:03,563 --> 00:34:06,044
when the film was released
as the U.S.
680
00:34:06,174 --> 00:34:09,656
was winding down
yet another war.
681
00:34:09,786 --> 00:34:11,397
I think that wave
of horror movies
682
00:34:11,527 --> 00:34:14,095
with Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
I Spit On Your Grave,
683
00:34:14,226 --> 00:34:16,576
and The Hills Have Eyes
all did follow the Vietnam War.
684
00:34:16,706 --> 00:34:19,579
I don't think you could
separate one from the other.
685
00:34:19,709 --> 00:34:25,759
Vietnam was such an ugly,
bloody, nonsensical, chaotic war
686
00:34:25,889 --> 00:34:27,369
that I think all of those films
687
00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:29,458
sort of lived
in the undertow of it.
688
00:34:29,589 --> 00:34:31,634
I mean, I think
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
689
00:34:31,765 --> 00:34:35,334
depicts a world
where we are witnessing
690
00:34:35,464 --> 00:34:38,554
what it means
to lose our humanity
691
00:34:38,685 --> 00:34:42,123
and to no longer see
other people's humanity.
692
00:34:42,254 --> 00:34:44,647
And to know that Tobe Hooper
was making that movie
693
00:34:44,778 --> 00:34:49,130
and probably metabolizing
a lot of feelings about Vietnam,
694
00:34:49,261 --> 00:34:51,654
about what it means
to be an American,
695
00:34:51,785 --> 00:34:56,094
a patriot, an artist, a weirdo,
696
00:34:56,224 --> 00:34:57,878
all of those things
end up in that movie.
697
00:34:59,532 --> 00:35:11,674
♪
698
00:35:11,805 --> 00:35:13,589
[Akana] The first time
I watched Carrie,
699
00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:17,115
my worst fears ever
were displayed on screen.
700
00:35:17,245 --> 00:35:19,769
You know, I think growing up
as a teenage girl,
701
00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:22,642
the absolute horror
of trying to fit in,
702
00:35:22,772 --> 00:35:25,819
of trying to belong amongst your
peers is already hard enough.
703
00:35:25,949 --> 00:35:28,474
But to then be sort of
like an outcast or a loser
704
00:35:28,604 --> 00:35:30,693
who's then horrifically
tricked into feeling
705
00:35:30,824 --> 00:35:32,434
like she finally belongs,
706
00:35:32,565 --> 00:35:35,133
only to be cruelly pranked
with pig's blood,
707
00:35:35,263 --> 00:35:38,832
that was not only horrifying,
like on a, you know,
708
00:35:38,962 --> 00:35:41,835
horror-genre level, but also
horrifying as a human being.
709
00:35:41,965 --> 00:35:46,840
Carrie is just a perfect
manifestation of how high school
710
00:35:46,970 --> 00:35:49,234
is a horror movie
in and of itself.
711
00:35:54,674 --> 00:35:57,198
It taps into this
very, very primal thing
712
00:35:57,329 --> 00:35:59,809
of being in high school
and how horrifying
713
00:35:59,940 --> 00:36:02,682
that can be,
how terrifying kids can be
714
00:36:02,812 --> 00:36:04,945
to other kids in high school.
715
00:36:06,686 --> 00:36:09,297
[laughter]
716
00:36:09,950 --> 00:36:11,604
I was a child when
I saw Carrie,
717
00:36:11,734 --> 00:36:14,128
probably not when it came out,
718
00:36:14,259 --> 00:36:16,609
but when I was old enough
to be allowed to see it,
719
00:36:16,739 --> 00:36:18,219
and I was afraid
to go to high school,
720
00:36:18,350 --> 00:36:22,528
and it definitely didn't
calm my fears at all.
721
00:36:27,315 --> 00:36:29,535
Carrie is cool 'cause
that was the first book
722
00:36:29,665 --> 00:36:32,233
that Stephen King ever wrote.
723
00:36:32,364 --> 00:36:35,497
And I think, like, he threw it
in the garbage, and his wife
724
00:36:35,628 --> 00:36:36,716
took it out of the garbage.
725
00:36:36,846 --> 00:36:38,631
Did you know that?
726
00:36:38,761 --> 00:36:40,633
Maybe not the whole book,
but like a chunk of it,
727
00:36:40,763 --> 00:36:42,678
and thought it was so bad,
he threw it in the garbage,
728
00:36:42,809 --> 00:36:45,464
and his wife, like,
took it out of the garbage
729
00:36:45,594 --> 00:36:46,813
and was like,
"No, no, no, dude."
730
00:36:46,943 --> 00:36:49,816
Carrie was rejected
by 30 publishers
731
00:36:49,946 --> 00:36:55,082
before it was released in 1974,
becoming a runaway bestseller
732
00:36:55,213 --> 00:36:59,260
and catching the attention
of director Brian De Palma.
733
00:36:59,391 --> 00:37:02,698
This story has resonated
with generations of women
734
00:37:02,829 --> 00:37:04,874
looking for ways
to harness their power
735
00:37:05,005 --> 00:37:07,703
when they felt they were
at their most powerless.
736
00:37:07,834 --> 00:37:09,966
Carrie was quintessential
to my generation,
737
00:37:10,097 --> 00:37:12,752
and I loved it because,
as opposed to Rosemary's Baby,
738
00:37:12,882 --> 00:37:15,276
where it's about a woman
who has no agency over her body,
739
00:37:15,407 --> 00:37:18,714
Carrie is all about this
girl who is
740
00:37:18,845 --> 00:37:20,934
coming into her own power
while she's getting
741
00:37:21,064 --> 00:37:22,588
supernatural powers
and how she's going to
742
00:37:22,718 --> 00:37:26,548
take agency off her identity
and take control over her body.
743
00:37:26,679 --> 00:37:29,203
But in the most
precarious time there is,
744
00:37:29,334 --> 00:37:30,639
which is when you're
going through puberty
745
00:37:30,770 --> 00:37:33,642
as a teenage girl.
746
00:37:33,773 --> 00:37:35,601
My favorite scene of that
that I feel like encapsulates
747
00:37:35,731 --> 00:37:37,994
the movie is when-- you know,
she's 16, she's 17,
748
00:37:38,125 --> 00:37:40,649
she's in the shower, she gets
her period for the first time.
749
00:37:40,780 --> 00:37:43,173
Isn't she a bit
old for her, uh...
750
00:37:43,304 --> 00:37:45,175
Her first period.
751
00:37:45,306 --> 00:37:47,352
And then she's mocked mercilessly.
752
00:37:47,482 --> 00:37:48,396
But I don't know why
that should surprise us.
753
00:37:48,527 --> 00:37:51,965
I mean, knowing
that mother of hers.
754
00:37:52,095 --> 00:37:54,620
And I thought the sort of
thematic structure
755
00:37:54,750 --> 00:37:57,275
of showcasing this is the moment
she becomes a woman,
756
00:37:57,405 --> 00:37:59,886
only to be completely
rejected by her peers
757
00:38:00,016 --> 00:38:02,454
and then have them
pretend to love her.
758
00:38:04,978 --> 00:38:07,328
And then dump blood on her.
759
00:38:11,941 --> 00:38:13,595
I was like,
"Wow, this is every
760
00:38:13,726 --> 00:38:15,989
teenage nightmare
brought to life."
761
00:38:16,119 --> 00:38:19,384
And the fact that she has powers
and then can take control
762
00:38:19,514 --> 00:38:21,777
and give those motherfuckers
what they had coming to them,
763
00:38:21,908 --> 00:38:24,040
I was like, "This is a villain
I'm rooting for now.
764
00:38:24,171 --> 00:38:26,173
I want her to murder
all of them."
765
00:38:26,304 --> 00:38:27,783
[electricity crackling]
766
00:38:31,047 --> 00:38:32,919
[Williamson] Carrie was sort of
the first time you had a movie
767
00:38:33,049 --> 00:38:37,140
where your protagonist was also
your antagonist, so to speak,
768
00:38:37,271 --> 00:38:40,318
and you sympathized with Carrie
as a young teenage girl
769
00:38:40,448 --> 00:38:41,580
trying to find her way
through the world.
770
00:38:41,710 --> 00:38:44,234
We're all sorry
about this incident, Cassie.
771
00:38:44,365 --> 00:38:46,672
It's Carrie!
772
00:38:46,802 --> 00:38:49,631
[glass shatters]
773
00:38:49,762 --> 00:38:52,025
But then you are also terrified
of her ability.
774
00:38:52,155 --> 00:38:53,679
Please sit and talk to me!
775
00:38:57,813 --> 00:39:00,338
[thunder crashes]
776
00:39:00,468 --> 00:39:04,254
And that movie is so special
because it's like a female
777
00:39:04,385 --> 00:39:06,692
lead character
who has super powers.
778
00:39:06,822 --> 00:39:10,478
[gasps]
779
00:39:10,609 --> 00:39:11,523
Ah!
780
00:39:13,612 --> 00:39:14,830
[gasps]
781
00:39:16,266 --> 00:39:18,094
[ Screams ]
782
00:39:18,530 --> 00:39:21,097
I guess someone who maybe got
bullied in high school
783
00:39:21,228 --> 00:39:22,969
like plays into our fantasies
of like,
784
00:39:23,099 --> 00:39:24,840
what if I could do that?
785
00:39:24,971 --> 00:39:27,365
Carrie came along
at a time when
786
00:39:27,495 --> 00:39:31,673
internalized misogyny
was ingrained in our culture.
787
00:39:31,804 --> 00:39:33,936
The scene where Carrie's
protector blames her
788
00:39:34,067 --> 00:39:35,982
for not fitting in reflects
789
00:39:36,112 --> 00:39:38,419
a brutal reality
for too many women,
790
00:39:38,550 --> 00:39:42,336
a world in which they're not
just preyed upon by men,
791
00:39:42,467 --> 00:39:44,991
but are pitted
against each other.
792
00:39:45,121 --> 00:39:49,822
The coach wants to help Carrie,
and you see her say, you know,
793
00:39:49,952 --> 00:39:51,998
"If you put on a little mascara
794
00:39:52,128 --> 00:39:54,000
and we get you
a beautiful dress,
795
00:39:54,130 --> 00:39:55,871
you know, you're just going
to be so beautiful."
796
00:39:56,002 --> 00:40:00,702
And that's a pretty girl.
Look at your eyes.
797
00:40:00,833 --> 00:40:03,966
Little mascara to
bring it out. Little.
798
00:40:04,097 --> 00:40:06,273
Your lips.
Try some lipstick.
799
00:40:06,404 --> 00:40:07,709
You have nice, pretty lips.
800
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,016
And in some respects,
a lot of what she's saying
801
00:40:10,146 --> 00:40:13,367
is uncomfortably
mirroring the world
802
00:40:13,498 --> 00:40:15,108
that Carrie's in
in the first place,
803
00:40:15,238 --> 00:40:16,631
where it's kind of all about,
804
00:40:16,762 --> 00:40:20,418
well, if you were just pretty,
it would all get simpler.
805
00:40:20,548 --> 00:40:23,943
And that is then met
by the fact that she, too,
806
00:40:24,073 --> 00:40:28,730
is, consciously or not,
brutally killed in that gym.
807
00:40:28,861 --> 00:40:30,689
Carrie!
808
00:40:31,951 --> 00:40:35,476
[electricity crackling]
809
00:40:35,607 --> 00:40:38,392
Oddly enough, the film says
that being a teenage girl
810
00:40:38,523 --> 00:40:40,742
is really fucking hard
811
00:40:40,873 --> 00:40:44,529
and that anyone who has
the sort of callousness
812
00:40:44,659 --> 00:40:48,010
to reject people or bully people
who otherwise don't deserve it
813
00:40:48,141 --> 00:40:49,838
should probably be killed.
814
00:40:49,969 --> 00:40:52,928
Carrie, for instance,
is a story
815
00:40:53,059 --> 00:40:54,887
about a young girl
with a secret,
816
00:40:55,017 --> 00:40:56,845
and it's a great source of shame
and guilt for her.
817
00:40:56,976 --> 00:40:59,021
And she can't let anybody know.
818
00:40:59,152 --> 00:41:01,502
And she lives in terror of her
classmates finding out about it.
819
00:41:01,633 --> 00:41:04,462
And, I mean, Stephen King
even gave us a religious mother
820
00:41:04,592 --> 00:41:06,899
who's trying
to pray it out of her.
821
00:41:07,029 --> 00:41:09,902
I mean, what better allegory
for being gay?
822
00:41:10,032 --> 00:41:13,514
You know, and also,
I think for me as a gay man,
823
00:41:13,645 --> 00:41:16,343
I always bonded
with the final girl
824
00:41:16,474 --> 00:41:18,606
because she's such a survivor.
825
00:41:18,737 --> 00:41:22,741
But she's also the one
who has to fight for her life.
826
00:41:22,871 --> 00:41:23,916
And what gay man
doesn't understand
827
00:41:24,046 --> 00:41:26,092
the daily struggle of survival?
828
00:41:26,222 --> 00:41:27,441
Certainly for me,
growing up a small town,
829
00:41:27,572 --> 00:41:29,095
it was all about survival.
830
00:41:29,225 --> 00:41:31,837
So I truly bonded
with the final girl
831
00:41:31,967 --> 00:41:33,621
of all these horror movies.
832
00:41:33,752 --> 00:41:36,624
That's why I think I fell
in love with Jamie Lee Curtis.
833
00:41:41,455 --> 00:41:44,458
[fanfare playing]
834
00:41:44,589 --> 00:41:47,156
[Curtis] I did a TV series for
a year called
835
00:41:47,287 --> 00:41:49,855
Operation Petticoat,
and then I was fired.
836
00:41:54,642 --> 00:41:57,036
I thought my life was over.
It was a disaster.
837
00:41:57,166 --> 00:41:58,428
I was devastated.
838
00:41:58,559 --> 00:42:02,520
My manager said,
839
00:42:02,650 --> 00:42:05,827
"There's this low-budget
horror film being made.
840
00:42:05,958 --> 00:42:07,960
I've put you up for it."
841
00:42:08,090 --> 00:42:10,049
They wanted to
meet me for Laurie,
842
00:42:10,179 --> 00:42:16,403
the quiet, intellectual,
virgin, brainiac babysitter.
843
00:42:16,534 --> 00:42:19,319
I auditioned three times.
844
00:42:19,449 --> 00:42:22,278
The auditions took place
in John's office.
845
00:42:22,409 --> 00:42:23,541
The third audition,
I did the scene
846
00:42:23,671 --> 00:42:25,499
where Laurie's on the phone
with her friends.
847
00:42:25,630 --> 00:42:27,980
Annie, was that you?
848
00:42:28,110 --> 00:42:29,590
Of course.
849
00:42:29,721 --> 00:42:31,157
Why didn't you say anything?
You scared me to death.
850
00:42:31,287 --> 00:42:32,680
[Curtis] And then she hangs up,
851
00:42:32,811 --> 00:42:33,768
and then she looks out
the window and sees Michael.
852
00:42:33,899 --> 00:42:35,465
And then she talks
to herself and says,
853
00:42:35,596 --> 00:42:39,121
you know, "Don't be ridiculous,
this is ridiculous" whatever.
854
00:42:39,252 --> 00:42:42,734
And then somehow I got it.
855
00:42:42,864 --> 00:42:45,911
[Carpenter] Jamie Lee Curtis,
she was perfect for the role.
856
00:42:46,041 --> 00:42:47,739
She was absolutely ready to go.
857
00:42:53,179 --> 00:42:56,182
She's really a fine actress.
And I'm really proud of her.
858
00:42:56,312 --> 00:42:59,054
All I knew was that it was
a part that my name was on
859
00:42:59,185 --> 00:43:02,144
every page and that I got
to actually not be me.
860
00:43:02,275 --> 00:43:03,493
So I got to actually create
a character.
861
00:43:03,624 --> 00:43:04,538
So I was thrilled about that.
862
00:43:04,669 --> 00:43:06,758
What about the boogeyman?
863
00:43:06,888 --> 00:43:07,846
There's no such thing.
864
00:43:07,976 --> 00:43:11,632
Halloween is an iconic film,
865
00:43:11,763 --> 00:43:13,721
hugely successful,
both at the box office
866
00:43:13,852 --> 00:43:18,378
and as an influence
on horror films to follow.
867
00:43:18,508 --> 00:43:23,818
The slasher movie often depicted
sexualized teenagers
868
00:43:23,949 --> 00:43:25,603
on the run from a faceless,
869
00:43:25,733 --> 00:43:31,565
deranged killer brandishing
a knife, chainsaw, or ax.
870
00:43:31,696 --> 00:43:35,047
But Halloween
deepened the mythology
871
00:43:35,177 --> 00:43:41,401
and planted its psychosexual
horrors directly in suburbia,
872
00:43:41,531 --> 00:43:44,578
exactly where much of America
was living.
873
00:43:44,709 --> 00:43:47,059
And as with all things
Hollywood,
874
00:43:47,189 --> 00:43:49,191
a wave of slasher movies
hoping to be
875
00:43:49,322 --> 00:43:52,455
the next Halloween
soon followed.
876
00:43:52,586 --> 00:43:57,286
But Halloween represented
something new at that point.
877
00:43:57,417 --> 00:43:59,288
Think about your average
horror movie, right?
878
00:43:59,419 --> 00:44:02,248
Not the high concept ones
were the devil's involved
879
00:44:02,378 --> 00:44:04,163
or special effects
and stuff like that.
880
00:44:04,293 --> 00:44:06,644
Something as simple as like,
881
00:44:06,774 --> 00:44:10,125
hey, this lady's babysitting
and her friends are
882
00:44:10,256 --> 00:44:13,346
babysitting, and a psycho
has come to town.
883
00:44:13,476 --> 00:44:15,348
And he's gonna peer
in their windows
884
00:44:15,478 --> 00:44:17,567
and then maybe go in and kill
them in interesting ways.
885
00:44:17,698 --> 00:44:20,658
[heavy breathing]
886
00:44:22,747 --> 00:44:25,271
That don't fucking
cost anything.
887
00:44:25,401 --> 00:44:27,055
We didn't have any money
for Halloween.
888
00:44:27,186 --> 00:44:29,144
We didn't have anything.
889
00:44:29,275 --> 00:44:31,625
So we had to decide
what to do about this mask.
890
00:44:31,756 --> 00:44:33,627
It was written
as a Halloween mask,
891
00:44:33,758 --> 00:44:36,108
but it was written
as a blank face.
892
00:44:36,238 --> 00:44:38,980
So Tommy Lee Wallace,
the art director,
893
00:44:39,111 --> 00:44:41,156
went up to
Bert Wheeler's Magic Shop
894
00:44:41,287 --> 00:44:43,985
on Hollywood Boulevard
and bought a mask.
895
00:44:44,116 --> 00:44:46,422
It was a Captain Kirk mask.
896
00:44:46,553 --> 00:44:48,860
Looked nothing
like Captain Kirk, okay?
897
00:44:48,990 --> 00:44:53,038
But spray painted it white
and fooled around with the hair,
898
00:44:53,168 --> 00:44:55,170
and that's the mask.
899
00:44:55,301 --> 00:44:58,173
[Curtis] Let's put him
in a white mask,
900
00:44:58,304 --> 00:45:03,526
which is human,
but it has zero human features
901
00:45:03,657 --> 00:45:08,314
so that it becomes the thing
you project your own fear on to.
902
00:45:08,444 --> 00:45:10,708
You've been told about him.
903
00:45:10,838 --> 00:45:14,276
He is the essence of evil.
He's pure evil.
904
00:45:14,407 --> 00:45:17,323
And now we know that,
and let's collide
905
00:45:17,453 --> 00:45:20,674
Laurie Strode and Michael Myers.
906
00:45:20,805 --> 00:45:26,158
And I think that's why
it was so good.
907
00:45:26,288 --> 00:45:29,074
It's an absence of
humanity in a human.
908
00:45:29,204 --> 00:45:32,730
That's the whole
essence of evil.
909
00:45:32,860 --> 00:45:35,167
You strip the humanity away
in the human being,
910
00:45:35,297 --> 00:45:37,212
and that's what you get,
is evil.
911
00:45:37,909 --> 00:45:42,087
John and Debra sat there
together and went,
912
00:45:42,217 --> 00:45:47,788
Okay, what's the most
ubiquitous image of Americana
913
00:45:47,919 --> 00:45:53,272
of a smalltown life
but a high school girl
914
00:45:53,402 --> 00:45:58,407
who's a virgin, who's smart,
who's a babysitter,
915
00:45:58,538 --> 00:46:07,242
and let's collide her with
the most evil creature
916
00:46:07,373 --> 00:46:09,505
we can come up with.
917
00:46:09,636 --> 00:46:11,159
Michael!
918
00:46:11,290 --> 00:46:14,554
A child who
murdered his sister.
919
00:46:14,684 --> 00:46:17,339
[man] Michael?
920
00:46:17,470 --> 00:46:19,994
It's even more terrifying
if the movie you're shooting
921
00:46:20,125 --> 00:46:21,474
looks like the real world.
922
00:46:21,604 --> 00:46:23,563
You know, when you looked
at the movies of the '50s,
923
00:46:23,693 --> 00:46:25,608
they were shot
on back lots and stuff.
924
00:46:25,739 --> 00:46:28,568
So there's a separation from
the material for the audience.
925
00:46:28,698 --> 00:46:29,699
When you're looking
at Halloween, you're like,
926
00:46:29,830 --> 00:46:31,266
"That looks like
my neighborhood.
927
00:46:31,397 --> 00:46:33,878
That looks like a house
that's down the street from me."
928
00:46:34,008 --> 00:46:36,271
So the more you can reflect
the real world,
929
00:46:36,402 --> 00:46:39,231
the more terrifying I think
you can make it for people.
930
00:46:39,361 --> 00:46:41,102
And I think
that's what Carpenter
931
00:46:41,233 --> 00:46:42,625
did best with Halloween.
932
00:46:42,756 --> 00:46:44,802
- Bye.
- Bye.
933
00:46:44,932 --> 00:46:48,240
There's a very simple
effect on Halloween
934
00:46:48,370 --> 00:46:51,591
where the camera will linger in
the distance and watch somebody.
935
00:46:54,202 --> 00:46:55,508
Fucking scary.
936
00:46:55,638 --> 00:46:57,336
And it's also like, well,
what's going to happen?
937
00:46:57,466 --> 00:46:59,294
Like, well, who is that?
What are they doing?
938
00:46:59,425 --> 00:47:01,166
Are they going to
move in there soon?
939
00:47:01,296 --> 00:47:02,384
You know?
940
00:47:02,515 --> 00:47:05,170
All of it is unnerving.
941
00:47:05,300 --> 00:47:07,825
Silence is very important
in horror.
942
00:47:08,434 --> 00:47:10,131
[sobbing softly]
943
00:47:10,262 --> 00:47:12,699
Be quiet before
the horror strikes you,
944
00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:14,222
and it will
be frightening.
945
00:47:14,353 --> 00:47:16,572
[screams]
946
00:47:16,703 --> 00:47:20,315
The music-- well, the theme
came from something my father
947
00:47:20,446 --> 00:47:22,578
taught me when I was younger,
when I was 13,
948
00:47:22,709 --> 00:47:25,668
this 5/4 time
on a pair of bongos.
949
00:47:25,799 --> 00:47:30,717
And I just picked up the time
and played around the piano.
950
00:47:30,848 --> 00:47:34,590
[ Halloween theme plays ]
951
00:47:34,721 --> 00:47:36,549
When you hear
"a low-budget film,"
952
00:47:36,679 --> 00:47:39,987
you don't have any money
for an orchestra or a composer.
953
00:47:40,118 --> 00:47:43,338
I had three days, so I did
the score for Halloween.
954
00:47:45,558 --> 00:47:47,995
[Curtis] John was very clear
what he wanted.
955
00:47:48,126 --> 00:47:51,477
He kept saying, "I want her
to be really vulnerable."
956
00:47:51,607 --> 00:47:54,567
Now, I was 19 and uneducated,
957
00:47:54,697 --> 00:47:57,526
so I actually thought the word
"vulnerable" meant "weak."
958
00:47:57,657 --> 00:48:00,399
I just like associated the word
"vulnerable" with "weak."
959
00:48:00,529 --> 00:48:04,229
And I was kind of like, "I don't
really want to be weak, John."
960
00:48:04,359 --> 00:48:08,102
When I saw the movie
for the first time in a theater
961
00:48:08,233 --> 00:48:09,625
after the movie had come out...
962
00:48:09,756 --> 00:48:11,889
Hello?
963
00:48:12,019 --> 00:48:15,022
...when Laurie gets the call
from her friend,
964
00:48:15,153 --> 00:48:16,937
she's being strangled,
she thinks she's playing a joke,
965
00:48:17,068 --> 00:48:20,245
she goes up
and checks on the kids,
966
00:48:20,375 --> 00:48:22,464
and then she leaves the house.
967
00:48:22,595 --> 00:48:25,380
And it's that wonderful
Steadicam shot going
968
00:48:25,511 --> 00:48:27,992
back and forth, either
the P.O.V. of Laurie
969
00:48:28,122 --> 00:48:32,387
or the shot on her as she's
walking across the windy street
970
00:48:32,518 --> 00:48:35,825
with the prop guy throwing
the only dry leaves
971
00:48:35,956 --> 00:48:38,350
we had kind of
next to the camera,
972
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:42,180
you know,
that beautiful sequence.
973
00:48:42,310 --> 00:48:44,399
It really builds
the tension because you,
974
00:48:44,530 --> 00:48:47,707
the audience knows
what's happened in the house.
975
00:48:47,837 --> 00:48:48,708
Laurie doesn't.
976
00:48:48,838 --> 00:48:50,710
And in the middle of that walk,
977
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,060
a woman in a crowded theater
in Hollywood
978
00:48:53,191 --> 00:48:58,326
stood up and screamed,
"Girl, don't go in there!
979
00:48:58,457 --> 00:49:00,807
There's a killer in there!"
980
00:49:00,938 --> 00:49:04,071
And the audience was screaming.
981
00:49:04,202 --> 00:49:08,467
And I realized in that moment
that's what John meant,
982
00:49:08,597 --> 00:49:12,036
that you cared about her and you
didn't want her to go in there.
983
00:49:12,166 --> 00:49:13,863
And that's all that
he wanted to create.
984
00:49:13,994 --> 00:49:15,256
[heavy breathing]
985
00:49:15,387 --> 00:49:18,303
[gasps]
986
00:49:18,999 --> 00:49:20,958
[Smith] Jamie Lee Curtis is
the ultimate final girl
987
00:49:21,088 --> 00:49:23,221
'cause she was the final girl
in a handful of
988
00:49:23,351 --> 00:49:25,223
Halloween movies
and Prom Night
989
00:49:25,353 --> 00:49:26,398
and fucking Terror Train.
990
00:49:26,528 --> 00:49:28,661
You know, that was her genre.
991
00:49:28,791 --> 00:49:32,578
She was our first horror
movie star of our generation.
992
00:49:32,708 --> 00:49:34,972
You know, I guess if
you consider
993
00:49:35,102 --> 00:49:37,844
the black-and-white era,
Fay Wray in King Kong
994
00:49:37,975 --> 00:49:40,934
to be the genre's star.
995
00:49:41,065 --> 00:49:43,632
And then later on,
Jamie Lee Curtis' mother,
996
00:49:43,763 --> 00:49:47,071
Janet Leigh, in Psycho,
as the lady in the shower.
997
00:49:49,116 --> 00:49:52,598
[Curtis] I think final girls
are unwitting heroines.
998
00:49:52,728 --> 00:49:56,341
They started out that day
being something else,
999
00:49:56,471 --> 00:49:59,039
and they end up a final girl.
1000
00:49:59,170 --> 00:50:02,347
All I know is that Laurie Strode
woke up that morning
1001
00:50:02,477 --> 00:50:04,697
worrying about her chem final,
1002
00:50:04,827 --> 00:50:08,309
worrying about the fact that
a boy didn't ask her to prom,
1003
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,617
worrying about, like,
teenage girl stuff.
1004
00:50:11,747 --> 00:50:16,448
And by the end of that night,
she became a warrior.
1005
00:50:16,578 --> 00:50:19,016
[heavy breathing]
1006
00:50:21,583 --> 00:50:23,368
[grunts]
1007
00:50:26,588 --> 00:50:28,677
[thuds]
1008
00:50:28,808 --> 00:50:30,462
[Curtis] She didn't intend
to be a warrior.
1009
00:50:30,592 --> 00:50:32,420
She didn't want to be a warrior.
1010
00:50:32,551 --> 00:50:34,640
She ended up a warrior.
1011
00:50:35,684 --> 00:50:39,775
[Smith] They personified evil
with this omniscient force
1012
00:50:39,906 --> 00:50:41,995
that could not be
fucking stopped.
1013
00:50:42,126 --> 00:50:43,562
You can throw bullets
at these fuckers,
1014
00:50:43,692 --> 00:50:46,782
man, throw off roofs and shit,
like, they can't be stopped.
1015
00:50:46,913 --> 00:50:48,958
Like death.
They're relentless.
1016
00:50:49,089 --> 00:50:50,656
Once you get into shit
like that,
1017
00:50:50,786 --> 00:50:52,223
you can start doing
slasher movies.
1018
00:50:54,051 --> 00:50:55,574
Was that the boogeyman?
1019
00:50:57,576 --> 00:51:00,057
As a matter of fact, it was.
1020
00:51:03,408 --> 00:51:15,811
♪
1021
00:51:15,942 --> 00:51:28,346
♪
1022
00:51:28,476 --> 00:51:40,575
♪
1023
00:51:40,706 --> 00:51:53,240
♪