1 00:00:41,650 --> 00:00:43,960 There are so many elements 2 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,440 that make the perfect horror moment. 3 00:00:46,481 --> 00:00:48,271 I mean, you really have to get drawn in 4 00:00:48,309 --> 00:00:51,529 by the effectively creepy atmosphere, 5 00:00:51,573 --> 00:00:54,973 the camera setups, the lighting. 6 00:00:55,011 --> 00:00:57,711 Even silence sometimes plays its own character, 7 00:00:57,753 --> 00:00:59,363 where you're straining to listen 8 00:00:59,407 --> 00:01:01,017 and you're really getting sucked into the moment. 9 00:01:01,061 --> 00:01:02,801 And then, whether it's a jump scare... 10 00:01:04,455 --> 00:01:06,975 Or something that's almost inaudible and eerie... 11 00:01:07,023 --> 00:01:08,853 And creepy and suspenseful, 12 00:01:08,894 --> 00:01:11,114 I mean, those are the moments that really shake you 13 00:01:11,158 --> 00:01:13,118 to your core and stay with you 14 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,990 after the film is finished and you're left in awe 15 00:01:16,032 --> 00:01:18,342 and terror of what you just witnessed. 16 00:01:22,865 --> 00:01:27,435 "Annihilation" is kind of a Lovecraft-ian movie 17 00:01:27,478 --> 00:01:29,438 about something called the shimmer, 18 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,400 which is this interdimensional force 19 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:36,140 that's taking over an area on Earth, and it's spreading. 20 00:01:36,183 --> 00:01:37,713 So they send in a group of scientists, 21 00:01:37,749 --> 00:01:40,229 who happen to be women, led by Natalie Portman. 22 00:01:40,274 --> 00:01:41,674 And the shimmer does strange things. 23 00:01:41,710 --> 00:01:44,630 Once you walk into it... 24 00:01:44,669 --> 00:01:47,979 The shimmer is a prism, but it refracts everything. 25 00:01:48,020 --> 00:01:51,680 So the DNA of every living thing in the environment 26 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,160 is refracted onto everything else. 27 00:01:54,201 --> 00:01:55,991 So it's making a big DNA soup, 28 00:01:56,027 --> 00:01:59,287 and everything gets merged together. 29 00:01:59,336 --> 00:02:02,506 This movie clearly has a lot to say 30 00:02:02,557 --> 00:02:04,207 about kind of self-reflection 31 00:02:04,254 --> 00:02:07,044 and how we see ourselves separate 32 00:02:07,083 --> 00:02:08,743 from the world around us. 33 00:02:08,780 --> 00:02:11,740 But everything is forgotten about, 34 00:02:11,783 --> 00:02:13,133 all that heady stuff, 35 00:02:13,176 --> 00:02:15,346 as soon as that damn mutant bear shows up. 36 00:02:16,875 --> 00:02:18,825 What happened? I heard a noise. 37 00:02:18,877 --> 00:02:21,227 They see this thing, this massive thing 38 00:02:21,271 --> 00:02:23,801 come out of the darkness and eat one of the characters. 39 00:02:23,839 --> 00:02:26,489 Aah! 40 00:02:30,541 --> 00:02:32,501 And after that, one of the characters 41 00:02:32,543 --> 00:02:35,893 completely gets paranoid and goes kind of crazy. 42 00:02:35,938 --> 00:02:38,108 Ties the other three women up, 43 00:02:38,158 --> 00:02:39,458 determined that she's gonna 44 00:02:39,507 --> 00:02:40,987 try to control the environment. 45 00:02:41,030 --> 00:02:42,510 She needs to find her friend. 46 00:02:42,553 --> 00:02:45,513 And then she starts hearing cries of her friend. 47 00:02:45,555 --> 00:02:48,595 Help me! Help me! 48 00:02:48,646 --> 00:02:51,256 And the woman who's got the gun trained on them 49 00:02:51,301 --> 00:02:53,171 goes off to see what's going on, 50 00:02:53,216 --> 00:02:54,956 and you just hear the bear roar. 51 00:02:56,350 --> 00:02:58,090 And you're like, bear's back. 52 00:02:58,134 --> 00:02:59,534 And as an audience member, 53 00:02:59,570 --> 00:03:03,310 you can see that they cannot turn around 54 00:03:03,357 --> 00:03:04,657 to what is coming. 55 00:03:04,706 --> 00:03:06,966 And all you hear is... 56 00:03:07,012 --> 00:03:09,842 Like, heavy breathing, and you see the shadow, 57 00:03:09,885 --> 00:03:11,365 the silhouette of a bear. 58 00:03:14,019 --> 00:03:16,459 But what you're not prepared for 59 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:19,500 is how fucked up that bear is. 60 00:03:19,547 --> 00:03:21,637 And it makes this weird kind of scream. 61 00:03:25,683 --> 00:03:28,513 And you realize that when the mutant bear ate her friend, 62 00:03:28,556 --> 00:03:32,516 it kind of got a version of the friend's voice. 63 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,910 Hey! 64 00:03:35,954 --> 00:03:38,914 Uh-uh. I'm done. That's it. I'm going to bed. 65 00:03:38,957 --> 00:03:40,737 I can't... I can't. Mm-mm. 66 00:03:40,785 --> 00:03:42,915 Take off my lashes, and I'll see you tomorrow. 67 00:03:42,961 --> 00:03:44,881 And it was actually shot pretty dark, 68 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,840 because I've seen some pictures of what the bear looks like 69 00:03:46,878 --> 00:03:48,788 with a little more light on it, 70 00:03:48,837 --> 00:03:51,797 and, actually, her face is actually part of it. 71 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,320 Almost like her face was growing out of it. 72 00:03:54,364 --> 00:03:56,064 Immediately they're like... 73 00:03:56,105 --> 00:03:58,445 Don't react. 74 00:03:58,499 --> 00:04:00,589 'Cause they know if they react at all, 75 00:04:00,631 --> 00:04:03,371 they're gonna be dead immediately. 76 00:04:06,594 --> 00:04:08,424 That is a perfect movie moment, 77 00:04:08,465 --> 00:04:11,205 because you know that they're helpless, 78 00:04:11,251 --> 00:04:13,781 and how are they gonna get out of this situation? 79 00:04:16,038 --> 00:04:18,298 The one girl comes in and blows it away, 80 00:04:18,345 --> 00:04:21,435 and then it winds up tearing her apart. 81 00:04:23,654 --> 00:04:26,004 And they don't cut the camera, man. 82 00:04:26,048 --> 00:04:28,438 Usually we would say as filmmakers, 83 00:04:28,485 --> 00:04:30,525 the best way to impact an audience 84 00:04:30,574 --> 00:04:32,054 is to cut away quick. 85 00:04:32,097 --> 00:04:34,267 Just show a little bit and cut away quick. 86 00:04:34,317 --> 00:04:36,447 Let the audience imagine it. 87 00:04:36,493 --> 00:04:38,103 Oh, hell, no. 88 00:04:38,147 --> 00:04:39,667 You're gonna watch this girl die. 89 00:04:46,111 --> 00:04:48,641 Not only that, you're gonna see how her whole face... 90 00:04:50,159 --> 00:04:52,379 Gets just ripped from her face. 91 00:04:52,422 --> 00:04:55,512 No. 92 00:04:55,556 --> 00:04:57,776 That scene is not long, 93 00:04:57,819 --> 00:04:59,559 and it's really good. 94 00:04:59,603 --> 00:05:02,433 It's a perfect example of an iconic moment. 95 00:05:02,476 --> 00:05:04,476 It has stuck with me ever since theaters. 96 00:05:04,521 --> 00:05:07,521 Imagine dying frightened and in pain 97 00:05:07,568 --> 00:05:12,218 and having that as the only part of you which survives. 98 00:05:12,268 --> 00:05:14,008 I wouldn't like that at all. 99 00:05:21,625 --> 00:05:25,365 - Cujo. His name's Cujo. - Cujo? 100 00:05:25,412 --> 00:05:28,372 "Cujo" is, once again, Stephen King 101 00:05:28,415 --> 00:05:33,065 exploring what if something that you see every day 102 00:05:33,115 --> 00:05:35,675 in your life suddenly turned evil? 103 00:05:35,726 --> 00:05:37,766 "Cujo" really gets under my skin. 104 00:05:37,815 --> 00:05:42,335 You've got this beautiful, sweet, loveable dog 105 00:05:42,385 --> 00:05:44,735 that's just doing what dogs are supposed to do... 106 00:05:44,779 --> 00:05:46,259 chase a rabbit. 107 00:05:46,302 --> 00:05:47,652 That's what a dog does. It chases a rabbit. 108 00:05:49,957 --> 00:05:52,397 To get bit by a bat... 109 00:05:52,439 --> 00:05:54,089 And get rabies, 110 00:05:54,136 --> 00:05:58,746 and then to turn like that, it's heartbreaking. 111 00:05:58,793 --> 00:06:01,063 Stephen King knows what scares us, 112 00:06:01,099 --> 00:06:02,579 and what scares us is the thing 113 00:06:02,623 --> 00:06:04,843 that sits next to us every day 114 00:06:04,886 --> 00:06:07,446 and we forget to look at it 115 00:06:07,497 --> 00:06:09,587 as the threat that it actually is. 116 00:06:09,630 --> 00:06:11,070 Cujo! 117 00:06:12,937 --> 00:06:15,417 Cujo! 118 00:06:15,462 --> 00:06:17,552 Okay, strap in. 119 00:06:17,594 --> 00:06:20,684 The second half of "Cujo" revolves around this woman 120 00:06:20,728 --> 00:06:22,858 and her son in this car that doesn't work. 121 00:06:22,904 --> 00:06:25,124 Oh, my goodness... 122 00:06:25,167 --> 00:06:27,387 Her son and her go up to fix her car, 123 00:06:27,430 --> 00:06:29,690 at the local mechanic, Joe Camber, 124 00:06:29,737 --> 00:06:31,777 who is already dead. 125 00:06:31,826 --> 00:06:33,866 Cujo the rabid dog has killed him. 126 00:06:33,915 --> 00:06:35,525 No, no, no! 127 00:06:35,569 --> 00:06:37,349 So the Pinto pulls up. 128 00:06:37,397 --> 00:06:39,527 There's, like, that POV shot of, like, Cujo in the barn. 129 00:06:39,573 --> 00:06:42,013 We know he's there. 130 00:06:42,053 --> 00:06:46,453 And we see how far the car is away from other structures 131 00:06:46,493 --> 00:06:48,503 of safety... The house and the barn. 132 00:06:48,538 --> 00:06:51,148 Then they cut to this tracking shot behind Dee Wallace, 133 00:06:51,193 --> 00:06:53,203 and now we get this 360, 134 00:06:53,238 --> 00:06:55,148 and we really see, like, it's just in the middle 135 00:06:55,197 --> 00:06:56,937 of this large space, 136 00:06:56,981 --> 00:06:58,901 and it ends with, like, the barn 137 00:06:58,940 --> 00:07:00,550 behind Dee Wallace, right? 138 00:07:00,594 --> 00:07:02,474 And she's gotten out of the car. 139 00:07:02,509 --> 00:07:04,209 She starts to unbuckle Tad. 140 00:07:04,249 --> 00:07:05,899 The seat belt is jammed. 141 00:07:05,947 --> 00:07:08,247 And we have this tracking shot go up to her. 142 00:07:08,297 --> 00:07:09,557 Damn this car. 143 00:07:09,603 --> 00:07:11,823 You pull while I push. 144 00:07:11,866 --> 00:07:15,086 And we think, you know, where Cujo's coming up. 145 00:07:15,130 --> 00:07:17,480 Oh, I can't get it. Pull. 146 00:07:20,091 --> 00:07:23,271 They first look at Cujo with shock. 147 00:07:23,312 --> 00:07:24,792 She's rolling up the window. 148 00:07:30,362 --> 00:07:32,802 Cujo runs around. She's in there. 149 00:07:34,715 --> 00:07:35,885 And then he goes away. 150 00:07:37,805 --> 00:07:40,105 And then there's, like, the greatest line in the world. 151 00:07:40,155 --> 00:07:42,635 "How did the monster get out of my closet?" 152 00:07:42,679 --> 00:07:45,729 How did the monster get out of my closet? 153 00:07:45,769 --> 00:07:47,159 Oh, you're like, "Ugh." 154 00:07:47,205 --> 00:07:48,945 And then she just says, "It's just a doggy." 155 00:07:48,990 --> 00:07:50,430 And bam! 156 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:51,860 Cujo crashing the windshield, 157 00:07:51,906 --> 00:07:53,296 and there's this amazing reaction shot 158 00:07:53,342 --> 00:07:54,522 of him just like, "Ah!" 159 00:07:56,737 --> 00:07:57,997 And now it's set up. 160 00:07:58,042 --> 00:08:00,442 This incredible scenario is set up 161 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,830 where they're trapped and the car doesn't work. 162 00:08:02,873 --> 00:08:04,443 Damn you! Come on! 163 00:08:04,484 --> 00:08:06,624 And her husband's away. 164 00:08:06,660 --> 00:08:09,230 You're running out of water. And Joe Camber is dead. 165 00:08:09,271 --> 00:08:10,361 No, no! 166 00:08:10,402 --> 00:08:11,882 And the dog is not gonna stop. 167 00:08:13,231 --> 00:08:14,931 And you're in a Pinto. 168 00:08:14,972 --> 00:08:17,112 What are you gonna do? 169 00:08:22,502 --> 00:08:25,852 The premise of "The Fly" is scientist Jeff Goldblum 170 00:08:25,896 --> 00:08:28,546 is experimenting in a telepod 171 00:08:28,595 --> 00:08:31,285 to transport from one telepod to another. 172 00:08:31,336 --> 00:08:33,856 A fly gets inside, 173 00:08:33,904 --> 00:08:36,564 and during the transition, 174 00:08:36,602 --> 00:08:40,522 their DNA becomes mixed. 175 00:08:40,563 --> 00:08:43,783 So Goldblum's character gradually starts 176 00:08:43,827 --> 00:08:46,307 to become more and more part-fly. 177 00:08:46,351 --> 00:08:48,621 You know, I just don't think I've ever given me 178 00:08:48,658 --> 00:08:49,788 a chance to be me. 179 00:08:49,833 --> 00:08:51,533 Do you normally take coffee 180 00:08:51,574 --> 00:08:53,454 with your sugar? - What? 181 00:08:53,489 --> 00:08:55,399 There's a lot to be said about casting in "The Fly." 182 00:08:55,447 --> 00:08:58,277 Jeff Goldblum is a charismatic leading man... 183 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,100 I've come here to say one magic word to you. 184 00:09:00,148 --> 00:09:01,578 Yeah? 185 00:09:01,628 --> 00:09:03,238 Cheeseburger. 186 00:09:03,281 --> 00:09:06,111 Who is, like, sweet and maybe a little bit of a rake, 187 00:09:06,154 --> 00:09:09,944 but it's happening to somebody who we maybe like. 188 00:09:11,899 --> 00:09:13,859 The arm wrestling scene in "The Fly" 189 00:09:13,901 --> 00:09:16,081 is completely unexpected. 190 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,860 That particular scene is a revenge fantasy 191 00:09:19,907 --> 00:09:21,427 for every science nerd 192 00:09:21,473 --> 00:09:24,133 that's been beaned with a dodgeball in PE, 193 00:09:24,172 --> 00:09:26,782 where Jeff Goldblum goes into this bar 194 00:09:26,827 --> 00:09:28,477 and throws down a challenge. 195 00:09:28,524 --> 00:09:30,664 I got 100 bucks says I can beat either one of you. 196 00:09:30,700 --> 00:09:33,140 And I get to take the lady home for the night if I win. 197 00:09:33,181 --> 00:09:34,841 Says who? 198 00:09:34,878 --> 00:09:36,488 I don't think it ages very well, 199 00:09:36,532 --> 00:09:39,062 because Seth implies that she's a prostitute. 200 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:42,150 Do I look like a hooker to you? 201 00:09:42,190 --> 00:09:45,540 It's hand-to-hand, arm wrestling on the table. 202 00:09:45,585 --> 00:09:46,755 Pushing, pushing, pushing. 203 00:09:49,327 --> 00:09:51,367 The close-up of him gripping the hand, 204 00:09:51,415 --> 00:09:54,115 and that kind of insect, milky goo 205 00:09:54,158 --> 00:09:55,988 is coming out of his fingertips, 206 00:09:56,030 --> 00:10:00,210 and you know he's just sticking to that guy's arm. 207 00:10:00,251 --> 00:10:02,121 You don't know how far 208 00:10:02,166 --> 00:10:03,856 Cronenberg is going to take you, 209 00:10:03,907 --> 00:10:06,647 but it's farther than you expect. 210 00:10:08,564 --> 00:10:10,964 And it's just a quick moment, and it's unexpected, 211 00:10:11,001 --> 00:10:12,661 and it's almost a jump scare in its own way. 212 00:10:12,699 --> 00:10:14,789 And you just can't unsee it. 213 00:10:14,831 --> 00:10:17,491 You just want to go back and see, how was that done? 214 00:10:17,529 --> 00:10:21,619 The great sound effect, a fantastic prosthetic effect. 215 00:10:21,664 --> 00:10:23,494 And even when you know it's coming, 216 00:10:23,535 --> 00:10:25,575 it's like the tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick 217 00:10:25,625 --> 00:10:27,365 of a roller coaster. 218 00:10:27,409 --> 00:10:29,189 And you're like, "Oh, God. Oh, no. Oh, no. 219 00:10:29,237 --> 00:10:30,327 Ah!" 220 00:10:30,368 --> 00:10:32,108 And that, to me, is just... 221 00:10:32,153 --> 00:10:35,723 that's like pure delicious, like, truffles of horror... 222 00:10:35,765 --> 00:10:37,505 those little nuggets that you can go back to 223 00:10:37,549 --> 00:10:39,159 again and again and again. 224 00:10:46,384 --> 00:10:49,214 "The Wicker Man" is a very unique film. 225 00:10:49,257 --> 00:10:50,777 The premise of the movie 226 00:10:50,824 --> 00:10:53,444 is that a police officer is coming to this island 227 00:10:53,478 --> 00:10:57,738 called Summerisle to investigate a missing girl. 228 00:10:57,787 --> 00:10:59,697 And he comes to find out that the island is basically... 229 00:10:59,746 --> 00:11:01,356 just pagans are living there, 230 00:11:01,399 --> 00:11:03,309 and they live by kind of a different code 231 00:11:03,358 --> 00:11:05,188 than what he's used to in the mainland. 232 00:11:05,229 --> 00:11:07,229 Will you tell us what it is, please, 233 00:11:07,275 --> 00:11:09,705 - that the maypole represents? - Phallic symbol. 234 00:11:09,756 --> 00:11:13,186 The phallic symbol, that is correct. 235 00:11:13,237 --> 00:11:15,407 And he's a very religious person. 236 00:11:15,457 --> 00:11:16,807 Edward Woodward described his character 237 00:11:16,850 --> 00:11:18,030 as a religious zealot. 238 00:11:18,068 --> 00:11:20,288 - They are naked. - Naturally. 239 00:11:20,331 --> 00:11:21,811 It's much too dangerous to jump through the fire 240 00:11:21,855 --> 00:11:23,195 with your clothes on. 241 00:11:23,247 --> 00:11:24,987 The final scene of the movie 242 00:11:25,032 --> 00:11:27,162 is really just the zenith of "Wicker Man." 243 00:11:27,208 --> 00:11:29,248 It is where everything comes together. 244 00:11:32,779 --> 00:11:34,429 If at this point in the documentary 245 00:11:34,476 --> 00:11:35,426 you haven't seen "The Wicker Man"... 246 00:11:35,477 --> 00:11:36,477 Goodbye. 247 00:11:36,521 --> 00:11:37,871 Go and watch the original 248 00:11:37,914 --> 00:11:39,664 'cause I don't really want to ruin the ending, 249 00:11:39,699 --> 00:11:41,569 but I have to talk about it. 250 00:11:43,006 --> 00:11:45,566 This year, at the procession's end, 251 00:11:45,617 --> 00:11:47,747 a holy sacrifice will be offered up 252 00:11:47,794 --> 00:11:49,674 to quicken the growth of our crops. 253 00:11:49,709 --> 00:11:51,189 As it becomes clear, 254 00:11:51,232 --> 00:11:54,502 each year they do a pagan virgin sacrifice. 255 00:11:54,539 --> 00:11:57,149 A little child is not nearly as effective 256 00:11:57,194 --> 00:11:59,334 as the right kind of adult. 257 00:11:59,370 --> 00:12:01,550 What do you mean... 258 00:12:01,590 --> 00:12:03,420 "right kind of adult"? 259 00:12:07,248 --> 00:12:08,768 One of the twists of "The Wicker Man" 260 00:12:08,815 --> 00:12:10,765 is that Edward Woodward is the virgin. 261 00:12:10,817 --> 00:12:12,427 It's nothing personal, 262 00:12:12,470 --> 00:12:15,520 just that I don't believe in it... 263 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:16,910 before marriage. 264 00:12:16,953 --> 00:12:18,743 And he is gonna become the sacrifice. 265 00:12:18,781 --> 00:12:20,611 Oh, God! 266 00:12:20,652 --> 00:12:23,312 Oh, Jesus Christ! 267 00:12:23,351 --> 00:12:26,141 Our hero is gonna end the film being burned alive 268 00:12:26,180 --> 00:12:28,440 within the wicker man. 269 00:12:28,486 --> 00:12:32,316 What's really memorable about the ending to me 270 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:35,580 is the people of Summerisle see the ending as a triumph. 271 00:12:38,627 --> 00:12:40,317 Because they have succeeded, 272 00:12:40,368 --> 00:12:42,458 they're having their ritual, 273 00:12:42,500 --> 00:12:45,500 and a virgin is being sacrificed to the gods. 274 00:12:45,547 --> 00:12:48,327 So, as Edward Woodward is being burned alive, 275 00:12:48,376 --> 00:12:51,156 everybody else around him is joyous 276 00:12:51,205 --> 00:12:54,155 and happy and triumphant. 277 00:12:54,208 --> 00:12:56,168 The movie brings up a lot of interesting questions 278 00:12:56,210 --> 00:12:58,690 about religious fervor... 279 00:12:58,734 --> 00:13:01,484 if we think that we are so righteous 280 00:13:01,519 --> 00:13:04,479 in what we're doing that nothing can touch us, 281 00:13:04,522 --> 00:13:08,052 It's an extremely emotional movie for people 282 00:13:08,091 --> 00:13:10,271 because of the way it ends 283 00:13:10,311 --> 00:13:12,971 and that you're asked to take sides 284 00:13:13,009 --> 00:13:16,359 with different groups of people who you sometimes decide 285 00:13:16,404 --> 00:13:19,714 that maybe that's not who you want to be on that side at all. 286 00:13:19,755 --> 00:13:22,625 The film feels like it exists by some miracle, 287 00:13:22,671 --> 00:13:24,671 that it probably shouldn't have existed. 288 00:13:24,716 --> 00:13:27,106 It's even something about the end shot of the movie 289 00:13:27,154 --> 00:13:29,594 that feels like one of those... 290 00:13:29,634 --> 00:13:31,164 there was only one take of it. 291 00:13:31,201 --> 00:13:33,941 It's when the head finally crumbles 292 00:13:33,987 --> 00:13:35,507 and the sun is right behind it 293 00:13:35,553 --> 00:13:37,033 and the camera zooms into the sun. 294 00:13:37,077 --> 00:13:38,857 And you're thinking, 295 00:13:38,905 --> 00:13:41,385 "There was only one take of that shot, and they got it." 296 00:13:52,701 --> 00:13:55,011 "Nosferatu" was made 297 00:13:55,051 --> 00:13:59,401 by a group of mostly gay and Jewish intellectuals 298 00:13:59,447 --> 00:14:00,877 about the pandemic 299 00:14:00,927 --> 00:14:02,747 that they had just been through in Europe 300 00:14:02,798 --> 00:14:04,838 and the mood of the country at that time. 301 00:14:04,887 --> 00:14:06,407 It's about many, many things. 302 00:14:06,454 --> 00:14:08,244 It has many, many layers of meaning. 303 00:14:08,282 --> 00:14:11,372 But, of course, it wouldn't be watched today 304 00:14:11,415 --> 00:14:13,895 if it weren't for the performance of Max Schreck 305 00:14:13,940 --> 00:14:16,380 as Count Orlok. 306 00:14:16,420 --> 00:14:18,250 He comes close to being an insect. 307 00:14:18,292 --> 00:14:19,902 He moves like an insect. 308 00:14:19,946 --> 00:14:22,076 The way Orlok walks, 309 00:14:22,122 --> 00:14:26,042 the way Orlok looks at other people. 310 00:14:26,082 --> 00:14:29,132 There's no world in which the beautiful girl 311 00:14:29,172 --> 00:14:32,092 is going to fall in love with that particular Dracula. 312 00:14:32,132 --> 00:14:35,052 This Dracula is a predator and a stalker. 313 00:14:36,876 --> 00:14:39,966 Just the most graphic representation of evil 314 00:14:40,009 --> 00:14:43,839 that had been created up until that time. 315 00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:47,503 "Nosferatu's" influence on horror cinema 316 00:14:47,538 --> 00:14:49,238 is undeniable. 317 00:14:49,279 --> 00:14:51,929 There are scares that are so iconic, 318 00:14:51,978 --> 00:14:53,588 not to mention that people at that time 319 00:14:53,631 --> 00:14:54,811 were still scared 320 00:14:54,850 --> 00:14:56,770 of actual moving pictures in general. 321 00:14:56,808 --> 00:14:58,808 Just the fact that there was a movie 322 00:14:58,854 --> 00:14:59,994 was terrifying. 323 00:15:02,423 --> 00:15:05,773 And so we'd get our very first kind of tension scares... 324 00:15:07,515 --> 00:15:09,075 Where you know something's about to happen, 325 00:15:09,125 --> 00:15:11,605 and you don't know what it is... 326 00:15:11,649 --> 00:15:13,999 and our very first jump scares. 327 00:15:15,653 --> 00:15:18,183 But most iconic is the shadow of the count 328 00:15:18,221 --> 00:15:20,441 climbing up the wall. 329 00:15:20,484 --> 00:15:22,314 Part of it is the starkness... 330 00:15:22,356 --> 00:15:24,966 the perfect lines between shadow and light 331 00:15:25,011 --> 00:15:27,841 that draw the audience's eye 332 00:15:27,883 --> 00:15:30,233 and get the audience to start asking the question 333 00:15:30,277 --> 00:15:32,277 about what is the relationship between darkness and light 334 00:15:32,322 --> 00:15:33,632 and humanity. 335 00:15:35,717 --> 00:15:38,717 There are images that just shock you in that movie. 336 00:15:38,763 --> 00:15:40,333 The way he hovers over other people, 337 00:15:40,374 --> 00:15:42,164 the way he looks at the camera... 338 00:15:42,202 --> 00:15:44,552 all of these things just chill you to the bone. 339 00:15:49,513 --> 00:15:51,523 I had this dream the other night. 340 00:15:53,865 --> 00:15:57,165 It was our house but not. 341 00:15:57,217 --> 00:15:59,477 It was backwards. 342 00:16:01,047 --> 00:16:03,347 So "The Night House" is a ghost story. 343 00:16:03,397 --> 00:16:07,047 Rebecca Hall plays a woman whose husband has died. 344 00:16:07,096 --> 00:16:09,226 So that is the husband. 345 00:16:09,272 --> 00:16:10,802 He's committed suicide, 346 00:16:10,839 --> 00:16:12,799 and she doesn't really quite know why. 347 00:16:12,841 --> 00:16:14,761 And she's very tormented by it. 348 00:16:14,799 --> 00:16:16,239 She thinks her husband might have been cheating on her 349 00:16:16,279 --> 00:16:17,799 because he was meeting these other women 350 00:16:17,846 --> 00:16:19,016 who looked like her. 351 00:16:22,894 --> 00:16:24,294 Not only is there something 352 00:16:24,331 --> 00:16:26,591 possibly supernatural here going on... 353 00:16:28,726 --> 00:16:30,686 But it's compounded by what you're discovering 354 00:16:30,728 --> 00:16:32,508 about a person you thought you knew, 355 00:16:32,556 --> 00:16:36,036 which is really emotionally distressing. 356 00:16:36,082 --> 00:16:38,822 "The Night House" will make you think you're seeing 357 00:16:38,867 --> 00:16:40,037 one thing happening. 358 00:16:40,086 --> 00:16:41,166 Hey! 359 00:16:43,567 --> 00:16:46,437 But nothing is as it appears. 360 00:16:46,483 --> 00:16:47,833 I didn't sleep with him. 361 00:16:47,876 --> 00:16:50,616 Honestly, I barely knew him. 362 00:16:50,661 --> 00:16:52,791 But then she finds across the lake, 363 00:16:52,837 --> 00:16:54,357 there's another house that's just like hers 364 00:16:54,404 --> 00:16:57,064 under construction... Like a doppelganger house. 365 00:17:00,497 --> 00:17:03,017 There's something that feels really occult about it, 366 00:17:03,065 --> 00:17:05,065 about this other home that is in reverse. 367 00:17:07,461 --> 00:17:09,071 And dark things are happening there. 368 00:17:14,468 --> 00:17:17,118 And she figures out that under the floorboards... 369 00:17:17,165 --> 00:17:19,425 are all these bodies. 370 00:17:19,473 --> 00:17:21,783 They're, like, not skeletons in the closet anymore. 371 00:17:21,823 --> 00:17:24,873 They are literal skeletons in a house 372 00:17:24,913 --> 00:17:27,833 that was built to resemble the house that you lived in. 373 00:17:27,872 --> 00:17:30,442 Like, this is, like, something that could've been you 374 00:17:30,484 --> 00:17:32,234 if any number of things would've been different. 375 00:17:32,268 --> 00:17:33,618 As it turns out, 376 00:17:33,661 --> 00:17:35,321 her whole life she's been hunted by this demon 377 00:17:35,358 --> 00:17:37,188 that has sort of locked on to her. 378 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:40,100 And her husband has been trying to thwart it 379 00:17:40,146 --> 00:17:41,276 by finding women who look like her 380 00:17:41,321 --> 00:17:42,711 and killing them 381 00:17:42,757 --> 00:17:44,847 as sacrifice to this demon thing. 382 00:17:44,889 --> 00:17:46,979 I think there's something really special 383 00:17:47,022 --> 00:17:49,242 about actors like Rebecca Hall 384 00:17:49,285 --> 00:17:51,235 who take on a film like this 385 00:17:51,287 --> 00:17:52,897 where they know they're gonna have to go 386 00:17:52,941 --> 00:17:54,731 into the dark places. 387 00:17:54,769 --> 00:17:56,809 She commits to a character, 388 00:17:56,858 --> 00:17:59,508 delivers a performance that breaks your heart, 389 00:17:59,556 --> 00:18:01,856 scares the shit out of you... 390 00:18:01,906 --> 00:18:03,946 and rips your guts out. 391 00:18:10,611 --> 00:18:12,311 "Aliens" is a fascinating follow-up 392 00:18:12,352 --> 00:18:14,792 to 1979's "Alien." 393 00:18:14,832 --> 00:18:16,752 Ripley becomes an even greater hero 394 00:18:16,791 --> 00:18:18,841 in this storyline because we see her, 395 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,190 not only saving herself once again, 396 00:18:21,230 --> 00:18:23,190 but being willing to go back and make sure 397 00:18:23,232 --> 00:18:25,152 that nobody else has to go through it again. 398 00:18:25,191 --> 00:18:29,061 And particularly when she finds Newt, 399 00:18:29,108 --> 00:18:33,418 we get to see Ripley evolve into mother mode. 400 00:18:33,460 --> 00:18:35,070 Uh-oh. 401 00:18:35,114 --> 00:18:36,724 I made a clean spot here. 402 00:18:36,767 --> 00:18:38,417 Guess I'll have to do the whole thing. 403 00:18:38,465 --> 00:18:40,075 One of the best scene of "Aliens" 404 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:41,469 is the infirmary scene. 405 00:18:41,511 --> 00:18:43,911 Ripley and Newt are in the infirmary, 406 00:18:43,948 --> 00:18:45,078 and they're sleeping, 407 00:18:45,124 --> 00:18:46,864 and they're trying to get some rest, 408 00:18:46,908 --> 00:18:49,038 and they think they're safe, but all of a sudden, 409 00:18:49,084 --> 00:18:51,614 Ripley hears something. 410 00:18:51,652 --> 00:18:53,182 How scary something can be 411 00:18:53,219 --> 00:18:57,139 usually depends on who is under threat. 412 00:18:57,179 --> 00:18:59,269 Usually the more helpless and younger they are, 413 00:18:59,312 --> 00:19:00,532 the scarier it gets, 414 00:19:00,574 --> 00:19:02,624 and that's why horror movies with kids 415 00:19:02,663 --> 00:19:03,973 can be terrifying. 416 00:19:04,012 --> 00:19:05,452 Wake up. 417 00:19:05,492 --> 00:19:06,622 - What? - Be quiet. 418 00:19:06,667 --> 00:19:08,757 Then there's this amazing shot 419 00:19:08,799 --> 00:19:11,539 where the whole camera booms up 420 00:19:11,585 --> 00:19:13,145 to the top of the bunk bed 421 00:19:13,195 --> 00:19:15,495 as Ripley's hand reaches up 422 00:19:15,545 --> 00:19:18,025 in a very facehugger-like way. 423 00:19:18,069 --> 00:19:20,249 And only after we see her hand moving around a bit 424 00:19:20,289 --> 00:19:21,989 does her head pop up. 425 00:19:23,466 --> 00:19:25,426 And then immediately this thing lunges at her. 426 00:19:25,468 --> 00:19:28,208 It's a really cool shot and a really beautiful jump scare. 427 00:19:29,777 --> 00:19:32,997 Ripley and Newt immediately go into smart mode 428 00:19:33,041 --> 00:19:34,911 of, we are trapped in the infirmary 429 00:19:34,956 --> 00:19:37,476 with a facehugger... what do we need to do?" 430 00:19:37,524 --> 00:19:40,314 First thing that she tries to do is bang on the glass. 431 00:19:40,353 --> 00:19:41,793 But it's soundproof. - Hey! 432 00:19:44,357 --> 00:19:46,357 So then she turns to the security cameras. 433 00:19:46,402 --> 00:19:47,882 Hicks! 434 00:19:47,925 --> 00:19:49,925 No one sees her because some asshole 435 00:19:49,971 --> 00:19:51,971 on the other side turns them off. 436 00:19:52,016 --> 00:19:54,316 Paul Reiser is the true bad guy of the movie. 437 00:19:54,367 --> 00:19:55,717 What's human and what's not 438 00:19:55,759 --> 00:19:58,329 has always been the driving theme of horror. 439 00:19:58,371 --> 00:20:00,501 And that moment when Paul Reiser 440 00:20:00,547 --> 00:20:03,327 turns that screen off, that's the most inhuman thing 441 00:20:03,376 --> 00:20:04,726 you can see in the whole movie, 442 00:20:04,768 --> 00:20:06,068 like, because who would do something like that? 443 00:20:06,117 --> 00:20:09,507 - Help us! - Break the glass! 444 00:20:09,556 --> 00:20:11,816 So then she's taking a chair... 445 00:20:11,862 --> 00:20:13,392 trying to break the glass. 446 00:20:15,910 --> 00:20:18,260 And then you see her processing 447 00:20:18,304 --> 00:20:21,264 the environment and the horror in real time, 448 00:20:21,307 --> 00:20:23,607 and making smart, informed decisions 449 00:20:23,657 --> 00:20:25,397 about how to best deal with it, 450 00:20:25,441 --> 00:20:27,971 as she looks around... - Stay here. 451 00:20:28,009 --> 00:20:33,799 Grabs a lighter, and sticks it under the sprinkler system. 452 00:20:35,190 --> 00:20:36,280 Man, Ripley was it. 453 00:20:39,325 --> 00:20:40,935 It was so freakish because you'd never seen 454 00:20:40,978 --> 00:20:42,718 those things moving. 455 00:20:42,763 --> 00:20:44,463 The first movie, you've seen it leap 456 00:20:44,504 --> 00:20:45,984 from the egg, and that's it. 457 00:20:48,682 --> 00:20:51,252 So it was quite a shocker to see them walking 458 00:20:51,293 --> 00:20:53,563 like this thing on the floor. 459 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,080 James Cameron did all these tricks. 460 00:20:56,124 --> 00:20:57,734 Like, they had one that was just a puppet 461 00:20:57,778 --> 00:20:59,998 that you can see rolling really fast on the floor. 462 00:21:00,041 --> 00:21:02,091 Then he had the puppets that wouldn't do anything, 463 00:21:02,130 --> 00:21:03,960 but with a bunch of reverse photography, 464 00:21:04,001 --> 00:21:07,271 he managed to make them jump and grab the neck. 465 00:21:07,309 --> 00:21:10,139 It's a beautiful scene to watch frame by frame... 466 00:21:10,181 --> 00:21:12,881 to see how they changed from the puppet 467 00:21:12,923 --> 00:21:14,533 to the reverse photography 468 00:21:14,577 --> 00:21:16,407 for all the leaps at camera. 469 00:21:17,841 --> 00:21:21,541 Because it's Newt and Ripley 470 00:21:21,584 --> 00:21:23,374 versus their first threat together, 471 00:21:23,412 --> 00:21:26,852 it has a level of emotion 472 00:21:26,894 --> 00:21:30,034 the movie didn't necessarily need earlier 473 00:21:30,071 --> 00:21:33,941 but needed to evolve into at this point of the story. 474 00:21:33,988 --> 00:21:35,688 And, of course, that sets up the confrontation 475 00:21:35,729 --> 00:21:37,429 with the alien queen, 476 00:21:37,470 --> 00:21:41,210 where you have one mother queen versus another mother queen 477 00:21:41,256 --> 00:21:44,036 who are battling wits and savvy 478 00:21:44,085 --> 00:21:45,905 over the lives of their children, 479 00:21:45,956 --> 00:21:48,256 adopted or biological. 480 00:21:48,307 --> 00:21:50,657 Get away from her, you bitch. 481 00:21:57,228 --> 00:22:01,058 Mum! 482 00:22:01,102 --> 00:22:03,152 I had the dream again. 483 00:22:03,191 --> 00:22:05,851 "The Babadook"... 484 00:22:05,889 --> 00:22:07,199 Mummy! 485 00:22:07,238 --> 00:22:08,718 Just the human part of the story 486 00:22:08,762 --> 00:22:10,812 is a single mother with a horrific struggle... 487 00:22:10,851 --> 00:22:12,641 Mummy! Mummy! 488 00:22:12,679 --> 00:22:15,159 To try to raise a very troubled child. 489 00:22:15,203 --> 00:22:17,513 Why can't you just be normal? 490 00:22:19,294 --> 00:22:21,344 You don't want to say that ever to a child, 491 00:22:21,383 --> 00:22:23,783 but that's what sometimes parents are thinking. 492 00:22:23,820 --> 00:22:25,650 And when you understand that her husband died 493 00:22:25,692 --> 00:22:27,432 the day her son was born... 494 00:22:27,476 --> 00:22:30,386 - My dad's in the cemetery. - Oh, that's... 495 00:22:30,436 --> 00:22:32,176 He got killed driving Mum 496 00:22:32,220 --> 00:22:34,350 to the hospital to have me. - Samuel. 497 00:22:34,396 --> 00:22:35,916 It makes perfect sense 498 00:22:35,963 --> 00:22:38,793 that she can't celebrate this child's birthday. 499 00:22:38,835 --> 00:22:40,965 She's still locked in her grief. 500 00:22:41,011 --> 00:22:44,281 He is locked in her grief with her. 501 00:22:44,319 --> 00:22:46,929 I can't stand being around your son. 502 00:22:46,974 --> 00:22:48,764 I can't believe you just said that. 503 00:22:48,802 --> 00:22:51,282 You can't stand being around him yourself. 504 00:22:51,326 --> 00:22:55,106 That by itself could be enough of a horror story 505 00:22:55,156 --> 00:22:57,806 just as a drama to keep you on the edge of your seat. 506 00:22:57,854 --> 00:23:00,814 But then you have this creature. 507 00:23:00,857 --> 00:23:02,247 So you've got this book. 508 00:23:02,293 --> 00:23:04,033 It's a children's picture pop-up book 509 00:23:04,078 --> 00:23:05,948 about the monster. 510 00:23:05,993 --> 00:23:09,693 "A rumbling sound, then three sharp knocks. 511 00:23:09,736 --> 00:23:11,956 That's when you'll know he's around." 512 00:23:11,999 --> 00:23:13,959 And that's scary, because as a viewer, 513 00:23:14,001 --> 00:23:15,441 it takes you back to when you were a kid 514 00:23:15,481 --> 00:23:17,351 reading scary books. 515 00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:19,006 And you can't get rid of the book. 516 00:23:24,925 --> 00:23:27,055 The style of the way the movie is filmed 517 00:23:27,101 --> 00:23:30,411 is like a children's horror book. 518 00:23:34,587 --> 00:23:36,017 The sound design... 519 00:23:36,066 --> 00:23:39,286 that little chittering sound this creature makes, 520 00:23:39,330 --> 00:23:41,990 even before you can see it, it's scary. 521 00:23:42,029 --> 00:23:45,729 Babadook. 522 00:23:49,253 --> 00:23:53,523 The first time we see that creature really animate, 523 00:23:53,562 --> 00:23:56,442 it's beautiful, but it's frickin' horrifying. 524 00:23:56,478 --> 00:23:57,998 And the appearance, 525 00:23:58,045 --> 00:24:00,605 it's kind of like that tall man 526 00:24:00,656 --> 00:24:02,876 in "It Follows." 527 00:24:02,919 --> 00:24:05,399 It's taller than you expect it to be. 528 00:24:05,444 --> 00:24:06,924 I mean, it is kind of stylish 529 00:24:06,967 --> 00:24:08,747 wearing that top hat and everything, 530 00:24:08,795 --> 00:24:10,745 and it's not gonna leave them alone. 531 00:24:10,797 --> 00:24:13,887 I'll make sure nothing gets in tonight. 532 00:24:13,930 --> 00:24:15,800 All right, Samuel? 533 00:24:15,845 --> 00:24:17,755 Nothing! 534 00:24:17,804 --> 00:24:20,594 The Babadook is haunting her, 535 00:24:20,633 --> 00:24:23,113 but it's also kind of this extension 536 00:24:23,157 --> 00:24:24,807 of her own mania... 537 00:24:27,074 --> 00:24:29,864 That she wants to protect her kid from. 538 00:24:32,906 --> 00:24:35,296 Unless the film is about a deranged parent, 539 00:24:35,343 --> 00:24:37,393 unless we're watching "The Stepfather," 540 00:24:37,432 --> 00:24:39,522 unless we're watching "Mommie Dearest," 541 00:24:39,565 --> 00:24:42,785 generally, the parent is reliable. 542 00:24:42,829 --> 00:24:44,789 Even if they don't believe the kid, 543 00:24:44,831 --> 00:24:46,831 even if they don't understand the kid... 544 00:24:46,876 --> 00:24:48,046 Mum? 545 00:24:48,095 --> 00:24:49,915 And when the mom 546 00:24:49,966 --> 00:24:52,876 starts feeling like she could be unreliable 547 00:24:52,926 --> 00:24:54,836 or there's hints and glints of something else 548 00:24:54,884 --> 00:24:56,764 that could be going on... 549 00:24:56,799 --> 00:24:59,059 Police say the woman used a kitchen knife 550 00:24:59,106 --> 00:25:00,406 to stab her son. 551 00:25:00,455 --> 00:25:01,975 Neighbors say the boy 552 00:25:02,022 --> 00:25:03,892 was celebrating his birthday today. 553 00:25:03,937 --> 00:25:06,767 He had just turned seven. 554 00:25:06,809 --> 00:25:10,199 And we start to crawl into that weird, nuance-y 555 00:25:10,247 --> 00:25:12,117 dark space where you're like, 556 00:25:12,162 --> 00:25:15,432 "Who's really seeing reality right now?" 557 00:25:16,993 --> 00:25:18,913 "Who's really experiencing what right now?" 558 00:25:18,952 --> 00:25:20,082 Mum! 559 00:25:24,305 --> 00:25:26,955 Then you realize that these two people 560 00:25:27,003 --> 00:25:30,443 who love each other so much are up against something 561 00:25:30,485 --> 00:25:32,655 that is both outside of themselves 562 00:25:32,705 --> 00:25:34,655 and within themselves. 563 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:40,280 Come on in. 564 00:25:43,846 --> 00:25:46,236 - Got ya. - Oh, shit. 565 00:25:46,283 --> 00:25:48,373 "The Last House on the Left," strangely enough, 566 00:25:48,416 --> 00:25:51,546 has had a recent renaissance of interest. 567 00:25:51,593 --> 00:25:53,463 You guys let us the hell out of here, 568 00:25:53,508 --> 00:25:55,898 or I'm gonna start screaming. 569 00:25:55,945 --> 00:25:58,375 When it first came out, everyone pretty must agreed 570 00:25:58,426 --> 00:26:01,116 that it was just too brutal. 571 00:26:01,168 --> 00:26:02,738 We're gonna have a little fun. 572 00:26:02,778 --> 00:26:04,738 Wes Craven, when he made that movie, 573 00:26:04,780 --> 00:26:06,390 was a novice, 574 00:26:06,434 --> 00:26:09,054 but he was really angry about the state of the world, 575 00:26:09,089 --> 00:26:11,269 and this was his commentary on it. 576 00:26:13,267 --> 00:26:14,617 There's a point at which 577 00:26:14,660 --> 00:26:17,140 horror just becomes grotesquery, 578 00:26:17,184 --> 00:26:20,144 and I think that movie came very close to that. 579 00:26:20,187 --> 00:26:21,797 It's graphic rape 580 00:26:21,841 --> 00:26:23,671 by the meanest, most sadistic guys 581 00:26:23,712 --> 00:26:25,372 you've ever met in your life. 582 00:26:25,409 --> 00:26:27,189 Piss your pants. 583 00:26:27,237 --> 00:26:30,407 It's the first movie that I shut off halfway through 584 00:26:30,458 --> 00:26:32,368 'cause I couldn't finish in one sitting. 585 00:26:32,416 --> 00:26:34,506 It really upset when the character pees herself 586 00:26:34,549 --> 00:26:35,899 because she's so scared. 587 00:26:35,942 --> 00:26:37,552 That's what kind of did it for me. 588 00:26:37,596 --> 00:26:39,116 I was like, "I need to take a break from this movie, 589 00:26:39,162 --> 00:26:40,512 "because it's so upsetting and so distressing 590 00:26:40,555 --> 00:26:41,725 in the moment." 591 00:26:41,774 --> 00:26:44,394 It was a hard watch for me, 592 00:26:44,428 --> 00:26:48,218 but it evoked such a strong visceral response in me 593 00:26:48,258 --> 00:26:52,128 that I really appreciated that a movie can do that. 594 00:26:52,175 --> 00:26:54,525 I think what makes it work 595 00:26:54,569 --> 00:26:56,829 is that a lot of the movie is being told 596 00:26:56,876 --> 00:26:59,566 through the young women's point of view. 597 00:26:59,618 --> 00:27:02,398 So, when we get to the deaths of the two girls, 598 00:27:02,446 --> 00:27:05,276 it's awful because we feel for them. 599 00:27:05,319 --> 00:27:07,539 When that character is gutted, 600 00:27:07,582 --> 00:27:09,502 it's really awful because she's become 601 00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:12,200 a fully fleshed out person to us. 602 00:27:12,239 --> 00:27:15,809 And then it's compounded on the second death, 603 00:27:15,851 --> 00:27:18,381 which is even more tragic, when she just knows, 604 00:27:18,419 --> 00:27:20,379 "This is it. There's no hope for me." 605 00:27:22,815 --> 00:27:24,205 She goes out into the water, 606 00:27:24,251 --> 00:27:26,171 and she just lets them shoot her. 607 00:27:29,735 --> 00:27:32,555 She falls into the water, and it actually re-creates 608 00:27:32,607 --> 00:27:34,567 this famous painting of Ophelia. 609 00:27:36,263 --> 00:27:39,353 And it's such a tragic moment in the film. 610 00:27:56,457 --> 00:28:01,237 "Terrified" is a small Argentinian movie, 611 00:28:01,288 --> 00:28:05,898 and it's a very clever, spooky film 612 00:28:05,945 --> 00:28:08,765 of an event that takes place 613 00:28:08,817 --> 00:28:12,037 in a block of a neighborhood. 614 00:28:19,523 --> 00:28:22,743 It actually lives up to its title. 615 00:28:22,788 --> 00:28:24,048 I don't think anyone was prepared 616 00:28:24,093 --> 00:28:27,103 for just how scary that movie was gonna be. 617 00:28:27,140 --> 00:28:29,270 Aah! 618 00:28:29,316 --> 00:28:32,096 It also has an incredibly iconic opening sequence 619 00:28:32,145 --> 00:28:34,625 of the woman being thrown around her bathroom 620 00:28:34,669 --> 00:28:37,369 by a ghost. 621 00:28:37,411 --> 00:28:39,591 It's so much bloodier than you think it can be, 622 00:28:39,630 --> 00:28:41,330 and it won't stop. 623 00:28:41,371 --> 00:28:42,761 She's hitting the wall... 624 00:28:42,808 --> 00:28:44,368 hitting the wall... 625 00:28:44,418 --> 00:28:45,718 hitting the wall. 626 00:28:56,996 --> 00:28:58,946 It hits a level of absurdity 627 00:28:58,998 --> 00:29:00,608 but then goes back to really upsetting you. 628 00:29:02,653 --> 00:29:04,793 "Terrified" is kind of spectacular 629 00:29:04,830 --> 00:29:07,350 in how varied it freaks you out. 630 00:29:07,397 --> 00:29:08,827 The really big creepy scene in it... 631 00:29:08,877 --> 00:29:10,307 it's not a jump scare. 632 00:29:10,357 --> 00:29:11,917 It's more of a scene that makes you just go... 633 00:29:14,187 --> 00:29:16,537 In the film, we see a little boy 634 00:29:16,580 --> 00:29:18,840 struck and killed by a truck. 635 00:29:20,149 --> 00:29:23,329 His mother's distraught as they bury this poor child, 636 00:29:23,370 --> 00:29:25,550 but a few days later, 637 00:29:25,589 --> 00:29:27,979 he comes back. 638 00:29:28,027 --> 00:29:30,417 And it's just absolutely terrifying, 639 00:29:30,464 --> 00:29:32,474 because at first, the police are called, 640 00:29:32,509 --> 00:29:35,339 so you have the captain go there. 641 00:29:35,382 --> 00:29:36,862 And when you see the front of the house, 642 00:29:36,905 --> 00:29:41,815 it's covered with these bloody and muddy handprints 643 00:29:41,867 --> 00:29:44,477 and shoeprints on the wall, on the door. 644 00:29:44,521 --> 00:29:47,261 And as he opens the door, you see these muddy footprints, 645 00:29:47,307 --> 00:29:49,217 and you're thinking, "What is this?" 646 00:29:49,265 --> 00:29:52,175 And then you see the little boy sitting there, 647 00:29:52,225 --> 00:29:54,525 his rotting corpse sitting there 648 00:29:54,575 --> 00:29:58,795 with a glass of milk and some cookies and cereal. 649 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,360 And he's sitting there lifeless. 650 00:30:01,408 --> 00:30:04,848 His hands just completely wrecked 651 00:30:04,890 --> 00:30:08,460 from what appeared to be digging out of the grave. 652 00:30:08,502 --> 00:30:10,112 And the entire scene takes place 653 00:30:10,156 --> 00:30:11,636 in front of this dead kid, 654 00:30:11,679 --> 00:30:14,989 but it is framed with this deep Z-axis, 655 00:30:15,030 --> 00:30:16,730 so we're seeing them in the foreground, 656 00:30:16,771 --> 00:30:18,731 and we're looking back to this dead kid 657 00:30:18,773 --> 00:30:20,823 that they keep in the frame the entire time. 658 00:30:20,862 --> 00:30:23,652 It is a almost ten-minute scene, 659 00:30:23,691 --> 00:30:26,521 and you spend the entire ten minutes 660 00:30:26,563 --> 00:30:28,743 waiting for that dead kid to move, 661 00:30:28,783 --> 00:30:29,873 just waiting. 662 00:30:29,915 --> 00:30:32,125 And they get up in his face. 663 00:30:32,178 --> 00:30:33,568 And then they have a spoon, 664 00:30:33,614 --> 00:30:34,754 and they're seeing if he's still alive. 665 00:30:36,443 --> 00:30:38,103 And then they turn to talk to each other, 666 00:30:38,140 --> 00:30:40,880 and you as audience are just sitting there 667 00:30:40,926 --> 00:30:42,966 waiting for the dead kid to move. 668 00:30:43,015 --> 00:30:46,145 It's unnerving to the heaviest degree. 669 00:30:46,192 --> 00:30:47,932 It's just so unnerving. 670 00:30:47,976 --> 00:30:50,196 They decide, "Oh, well, I don't know. 671 00:30:50,239 --> 00:30:52,289 "It's weird. He's dead, clearly. 672 00:30:52,328 --> 00:30:54,068 We'll get somebody in here to take his body back." 673 00:30:54,113 --> 00:30:55,773 So they turn out the lights, 674 00:30:55,810 --> 00:30:57,590 and as soon as they turn out the lights, 675 00:30:57,638 --> 00:30:58,768 they hear something. 676 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,820 And the milk has spilled. 677 00:31:06,865 --> 00:31:09,775 And then they realize that he did move, 678 00:31:09,824 --> 00:31:12,004 and he spilt his milk, but we don't get to see it. 679 00:31:12,044 --> 00:31:13,704 They flip it back on, 680 00:31:13,741 --> 00:31:15,661 and he's sitting in the exact same position again, 681 00:31:15,699 --> 00:31:18,089 very much dead, now just with milk everywhere. 682 00:31:18,137 --> 00:31:19,877 And he's posed almost. 683 00:31:19,921 --> 00:31:21,661 There's a mannequin quality to him. 684 00:31:23,925 --> 00:31:25,705 Even recently I showed it to some friends 685 00:31:25,753 --> 00:31:27,233 who had never seen it. 686 00:31:30,323 --> 00:31:33,243 And that young boy ruined their week. 687 00:31:40,072 --> 00:31:42,602 I'm a messenger of God. 688 00:31:42,639 --> 00:31:45,769 You're doomed if you stay here. 689 00:31:45,816 --> 00:31:48,776 This place is cursed, cursed. 690 00:31:51,344 --> 00:31:53,004 "Friday the 13th" is, of course, 691 00:31:53,041 --> 00:31:54,481 a groundbreaking film. 692 00:31:54,521 --> 00:31:57,261 It kind of changed the face of horror. 693 00:31:57,306 --> 00:31:59,046 I know "Halloween" gets a lot of credit for it, 694 00:31:59,091 --> 00:32:00,661 and it certainly set the blueprint, 695 00:32:00,701 --> 00:32:02,401 but "Friday the 13th" kind of put it 696 00:32:02,442 --> 00:32:04,362 into a new sort of landscape. 697 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:05,920 Welcome to Camp Crystal Lake. 698 00:32:05,967 --> 00:32:07,267 You gonna last all summer? 699 00:32:07,316 --> 00:32:09,096 I don't know if I'm gonna last all week. 700 00:32:09,144 --> 00:32:10,674 Oh, shit. 701 00:32:10,711 --> 00:32:12,581 But is also upped the special effects. 702 00:32:12,626 --> 00:32:13,976 And Tom Savini came in, 703 00:32:14,019 --> 00:32:16,979 and he did an absolutely incredible job 704 00:32:17,022 --> 00:32:19,852 decimating the cast of that film. 705 00:32:23,811 --> 00:32:25,811 The first one was very much a mystery. 706 00:32:27,597 --> 00:32:29,987 It has horrible kills in it, but it's very much a mystery. 707 00:32:30,035 --> 00:32:31,505 Who's that? 708 00:32:33,038 --> 00:32:34,428 Oh, hi. 709 00:32:34,474 --> 00:32:36,394 What are you doing out in this mess? 710 00:32:36,432 --> 00:32:38,222 'Cause I had no idea when I was watching the movie 711 00:32:38,260 --> 00:32:39,870 who was killing them. 712 00:32:39,914 --> 00:32:41,394 Oh! 713 00:32:41,437 --> 00:32:42,607 But the funny thing is, the first one, 714 00:32:42,656 --> 00:32:45,176 the iconic killer is Mrs. Voorhees. 715 00:32:45,224 --> 00:32:48,714 Jason was my son, and today is his birthday. 716 00:32:48,749 --> 00:32:51,319 Which I thought was brilliant. 717 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,280 Aah! 718 00:32:55,103 --> 00:32:58,543 The last thing you know is you've seen Mrs. Voorhees 719 00:32:58,585 --> 00:33:00,145 reveal herself as the killer. 720 00:33:00,195 --> 00:33:02,365 Jason's actually dead. 721 00:33:02,415 --> 00:33:03,885 It never was Jason. 722 00:33:03,938 --> 00:33:05,588 It was Mrs. Voorhees the whole time, 723 00:33:05,635 --> 00:33:06,985 and she's psychotic. 724 00:33:07,028 --> 00:33:08,678 Don't let her live. 725 00:33:08,725 --> 00:33:10,635 I won't, Jason. 726 00:33:10,684 --> 00:33:11,954 I won't. 727 00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:16,039 And Alice, who's our final girl, 728 00:33:16,081 --> 00:33:20,871 beheads her in this extremely fun way. 729 00:33:29,442 --> 00:33:31,142 And then the next thing you know, 730 00:33:31,183 --> 00:33:35,843 Alice is floating in a canoe on the lake. 731 00:33:35,883 --> 00:33:39,233 And you're like, "Oh, I guess she got in the canoe. 732 00:33:39,278 --> 00:33:41,798 She's waiting for help maybe, or she seems really"... 733 00:33:41,845 --> 00:33:43,455 You're like, "I guess she's really relaxed 734 00:33:43,499 --> 00:33:45,109 now that she killed the killer." 735 00:33:50,115 --> 00:33:52,115 It's a nice, calm little scene. 736 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:53,680 And then... 737 00:33:55,468 --> 00:33:58,858 This deformed monster of a person 738 00:33:58,906 --> 00:34:02,076 jumps out of the water, and it's Jason. 739 00:34:04,346 --> 00:34:07,306 That was not in the script. That was my idea. 740 00:34:07,349 --> 00:34:10,609 The script ended when Adrienne King 741 00:34:10,657 --> 00:34:12,437 cuts off Betsy Palmer's head. 742 00:34:12,485 --> 00:34:13,825 But I had just seen "Carrie." 743 00:34:15,618 --> 00:34:17,658 When you're watching the movie, 744 00:34:17,706 --> 00:34:19,136 the music is swelling 745 00:34:19,187 --> 00:34:23,097 like the credits are gonna roll any second. 746 00:34:23,148 --> 00:34:24,238 That hand comes out of the ground... 747 00:34:25,976 --> 00:34:27,276 And scares the shit out of you, you know. 748 00:34:27,326 --> 00:34:28,716 I said, "We need a chair jumper 749 00:34:28,762 --> 00:34:30,202 "at the end of this movie. 750 00:34:30,242 --> 00:34:32,202 "Why can't Jason jump out of the water 751 00:34:32,244 --> 00:34:33,774 and grab her and pull her down?" 752 00:34:33,810 --> 00:34:35,160 And he said, "Well, he's dead." 753 00:34:35,203 --> 00:34:36,813 I said, "Make it a dream," 754 00:34:36,857 --> 00:34:40,117 'cause for some reason, people accept anything 755 00:34:40,165 --> 00:34:41,905 if you tell them it was a dream. 756 00:34:41,949 --> 00:34:44,649 No! No! 757 00:34:44,690 --> 00:34:46,910 - It's all right now. - Miss, it's all over. 758 00:34:46,954 --> 00:34:49,484 Or was it a dream? 759 00:34:49,522 --> 00:34:50,912 I don't know, right? 760 00:34:50,958 --> 00:34:53,568 The boy, is he dead, too? 761 00:34:53,612 --> 00:34:55,962 Ma'am, we didn't find any boy. 762 00:34:56,005 --> 00:34:57,745 Then he's still there. 763 00:34:57,791 --> 00:34:59,881 Like, maybe there'll be another movie. 764 00:34:59,923 --> 00:35:03,323 I told the others. They didn't believe me. 765 00:35:03,362 --> 00:35:05,232 You're all doomed. 766 00:35:05,277 --> 00:35:08,317 And you'll find out that Jason really is alive... 767 00:35:08,367 --> 00:35:10,147 Jason! 768 00:35:13,676 --> 00:35:14,806 Aah! 769 00:35:14,851 --> 00:35:16,511 And killing people. 770 00:35:37,918 --> 00:35:39,958 "Dawn of the Dead" holds a very, very 771 00:35:40,007 --> 00:35:42,177 near and dear place in my heart 772 00:35:42,227 --> 00:35:45,227 because that's the movie that kind of got me 773 00:35:45,273 --> 00:35:47,193 on my makeup-effects journey. 774 00:35:47,232 --> 00:35:49,232 The bodies of the dead 775 00:35:49,277 --> 00:35:51,977 will be delivered over to specially equipped squads 776 00:35:52,019 --> 00:35:53,459 of the National Guard. 777 00:35:53,499 --> 00:35:55,629 What's brilliant about what George did 778 00:35:55,675 --> 00:35:57,885 in the opening 20 minutes of that movie 779 00:35:57,938 --> 00:36:01,418 is he throws you into this chaos. 780 00:36:01,463 --> 00:36:03,943 You know we've got this building surrounded! 781 00:36:03,987 --> 00:36:06,207 There's a police SWAT team 782 00:36:06,251 --> 00:36:11,341 that are trying to infiltrate this low-income housing 783 00:36:11,386 --> 00:36:13,606 where the predominantly families of color 784 00:36:13,649 --> 00:36:15,349 didn't want to surrender their dead 785 00:36:15,390 --> 00:36:17,700 as they were supposed to according to the law. 786 00:36:17,740 --> 00:36:20,740 People in this project are your responsibility. 787 00:36:20,787 --> 00:36:22,477 This sounds very familiar, 788 00:36:22,528 --> 00:36:24,398 but this idea of low-income families 789 00:36:24,443 --> 00:36:25,623 and communities of color, 790 00:36:25,661 --> 00:36:27,841 they have a lot of reason to be suspicious 791 00:36:27,881 --> 00:36:29,011 about the government. 792 00:36:29,056 --> 00:36:30,706 And why are they gonna listen to them? 793 00:36:30,753 --> 00:36:32,103 And it speaks to just the brokenness 794 00:36:32,146 --> 00:36:33,446 of our institutions. 795 00:36:33,495 --> 00:36:35,055 Do you believe the dead are returning to life 796 00:36:35,105 --> 00:36:36,275 and attacking the living? 797 00:36:36,324 --> 00:36:38,414 I'm not so sure what to believe, Doctor. 798 00:36:38,457 --> 00:36:39,977 Come on, let's go! 799 00:36:40,023 --> 00:36:42,033 And then the door gets kicked open, 800 00:36:42,069 --> 00:36:43,379 and then there's a big shoot-out. 801 00:36:43,418 --> 00:36:45,768 So you're like, "If there are zombies attacking, 802 00:36:45,812 --> 00:36:47,472 why is this happening?" 803 00:36:47,509 --> 00:36:48,989 Look out! 804 00:36:51,470 --> 00:36:53,080 We should be able to work together 805 00:36:53,123 --> 00:36:55,523 for the greater good in the face of zombies, 806 00:36:55,561 --> 00:36:57,131 but, of course, that's not the case. 807 00:36:57,171 --> 00:36:59,431 It just exacerbates the issues that we already have. 808 00:37:01,262 --> 00:37:03,792 Come on, you little bastards. 809 00:37:03,830 --> 00:37:07,530 And then you have Wooley, who's going apeshit. 810 00:37:07,573 --> 00:37:08,533 Wooley! 811 00:37:08,574 --> 00:37:09,924 Hey, hey, hey! 812 00:37:09,966 --> 00:37:12,006 He's just shooting people. 813 00:37:12,055 --> 00:37:14,185 And then he kicks the door in, 814 00:37:14,232 --> 00:37:16,762 head explodes. 815 00:37:16,799 --> 00:37:18,759 Greatest head explosion ever. 816 00:37:20,325 --> 00:37:22,755 Once they deal with that moment, 817 00:37:22,805 --> 00:37:24,495 then you're like, "Okay, well, the threat's over. 818 00:37:24,546 --> 00:37:25,806 This crazy guy is done." 819 00:37:25,852 --> 00:37:27,462 And then they kick a door in... 820 00:37:27,506 --> 00:37:30,156 Not that room! 821 00:37:32,511 --> 00:37:34,301 And zombies come out. 822 00:37:36,384 --> 00:37:40,134 And you see the first zombie bite in the neck. 823 00:37:42,042 --> 00:37:44,352 I almost... blech. 824 00:37:48,657 --> 00:37:50,487 I don't remember if the bite at the beginning 825 00:37:50,529 --> 00:37:52,269 was in the screenplay. 826 00:37:52,313 --> 00:37:53,753 But I really wanted to see a zombie 827 00:37:53,793 --> 00:37:55,233 take a chunk out of somebody, 828 00:37:55,273 --> 00:37:57,753 And that was the first effect we did in the film. 829 00:37:57,797 --> 00:38:00,577 And it scared the crew. It scared the cast. 830 00:38:00,626 --> 00:38:03,276 It was like, "Oh, is that what this is gonna be? 831 00:38:03,324 --> 00:38:04,634 Is that is what this is gonna be like?" 832 00:38:04,673 --> 00:38:07,153 At that point in cinematic history, 833 00:38:07,197 --> 00:38:11,287 we had never seen teeth sinking into skin... 834 00:38:11,332 --> 00:38:13,602 krrr, pulling a chunk of skin away... blech... 835 00:38:13,639 --> 00:38:16,599 even though, if you look at it, it's all white, unpainted foam. 836 00:38:16,642 --> 00:38:18,342 Sorry, Tom. 837 00:38:20,646 --> 00:38:22,946 If somebody were to do that bite today, 838 00:38:22,996 --> 00:38:26,256 you wouldn't just bit a clean chunk out of somebody. 839 00:38:26,304 --> 00:38:30,004 There would be pieces of flesh that would stretch and snap. 840 00:38:30,046 --> 00:38:32,136 And we call it "chunks of flesh." 841 00:38:34,050 --> 00:38:36,490 And then it's not that that's enough. 842 00:38:36,531 --> 00:38:38,271 But then the arm. 843 00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:42,356 Stand clear! 844 00:38:42,407 --> 00:38:44,757 It changed who I was. 845 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,150 Like, I felt my DNA being unwound 846 00:38:47,194 --> 00:38:50,114 and then rewound into something different 847 00:38:50,153 --> 00:38:53,033 at that exact moment. 848 00:38:53,069 --> 00:38:56,029 The thing that I'm really sorry about... 849 00:38:56,072 --> 00:38:58,772 is the way the blood looks in "Dawn of the Dead." 850 00:38:58,814 --> 00:39:00,824 It looked great in the bottle, 851 00:39:00,860 --> 00:39:03,120 but it photographed, like, you know, melted crayons, 852 00:39:03,166 --> 00:39:05,946 like red paint... it was horrible. 853 00:39:05,995 --> 00:39:08,215 I wish they would go back and correct that blood. 854 00:39:10,304 --> 00:39:13,484 But from that zombie bite onward, 855 00:39:13,525 --> 00:39:17,565 you're watching the movie like this. 856 00:39:17,616 --> 00:39:19,266 And then the rest of the movie, 857 00:39:19,313 --> 00:39:21,663 you're like... 858 00:39:21,707 --> 00:39:23,747 "Please, don't do it. No more." 859 00:39:23,796 --> 00:39:25,966 It's like being tortured. 860 00:39:30,455 --> 00:39:35,065 This is the first 21st birthday present 861 00:39:35,111 --> 00:39:37,551 I'll ever have given. 862 00:39:37,592 --> 00:39:39,942 And it's the first I've ever asked for. 863 00:39:41,770 --> 00:39:44,030 So "Peeping Tom" is maybe the most notorious 864 00:39:44,077 --> 00:39:45,507 classic British horror film. 865 00:39:48,211 --> 00:39:51,001 It's a movie about this guy who was basically abused 866 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,830 by his father, 867 00:39:52,868 --> 00:39:54,738 who filmed everything he did and tried to traumatize him 868 00:39:54,783 --> 00:39:56,703 and just scare the crap out of him 869 00:39:56,742 --> 00:39:58,612 when he was trying to sleep. 870 00:40:00,789 --> 00:40:02,309 So he's basically been guinea-pigged 871 00:40:02,356 --> 00:40:03,576 into becoming a serial killer. 872 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,930 And so he winds up, as we find out, 873 00:40:08,971 --> 00:40:10,631 cornering women and filming their horrified reactions 874 00:40:10,669 --> 00:40:11,669 with something. 875 00:40:11,713 --> 00:40:14,673 No! 876 00:40:17,284 --> 00:40:18,724 Well, it's interesting. 877 00:40:18,764 --> 00:40:21,684 In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock makes "Psycho," 878 00:40:21,723 --> 00:40:23,123 one of his biggest hits, 879 00:40:23,159 --> 00:40:26,249 and probably becomes even more famous 880 00:40:26,293 --> 00:40:27,773 as a director and a personality 881 00:40:27,816 --> 00:40:29,596 than he even had been before. 882 00:40:32,081 --> 00:40:34,911 Meanwhile, Michael Powell makes "Peeping Tom" 883 00:40:34,954 --> 00:40:36,564 in 1960, 884 00:40:36,608 --> 00:40:39,698 and it's the end of his career in a way. 885 00:40:39,741 --> 00:40:41,871 Like, it got such vicious reviews. 886 00:40:41,917 --> 00:40:44,047 People called it pornographic 887 00:40:44,093 --> 00:40:46,623 and, you know, a crime against cinema. 888 00:40:46,661 --> 00:40:49,621 And it had exactly the opposite effect of "Psycho." 889 00:40:52,885 --> 00:40:55,795 At the time, people were wondering why 890 00:40:55,844 --> 00:40:59,074 Michael Powell, venerated British director 891 00:40:59,108 --> 00:41:02,678 of classics like "A Matter of Life and Death" 892 00:41:02,721 --> 00:41:04,901 and "The Red Shoes"... 893 00:41:04,940 --> 00:41:07,200 they're thinking, "Why is he making this trash? 894 00:41:07,247 --> 00:41:10,377 Why does he want to show us these appalling things?" 895 00:41:13,079 --> 00:41:15,429 I mean, imagine, like, if today, you know, 896 00:41:15,473 --> 00:41:17,483 I don't know, I guess if, like, Spielberg 897 00:41:17,518 --> 00:41:19,908 made, you know, an NC-17 sex movie. 898 00:41:19,955 --> 00:41:21,905 I mean, it's just... 899 00:41:21,957 --> 00:41:23,867 You would not see that coming. 900 00:41:27,006 --> 00:41:29,356 The final scene of "Peeping Tom" 901 00:41:29,399 --> 00:41:32,009 is one of the most twisted moments of cinema 902 00:41:32,054 --> 00:41:33,364 you will ever see, 903 00:41:33,403 --> 00:41:35,883 and it's something I will never forget. 904 00:41:40,541 --> 00:41:42,591 The shot that I always really remember, actually, 905 00:41:42,630 --> 00:41:45,020 is when Anna Massey realizes 906 00:41:45,067 --> 00:41:48,157 what Mark Lewis is up to 907 00:41:48,201 --> 00:41:51,641 and tries to sort of retreat out of his projection room, 908 00:41:51,683 --> 00:41:53,293 and there's that amazing shot of her 909 00:41:53,336 --> 00:41:55,076 kind of, like, behind the shelves, 910 00:41:55,121 --> 00:41:56,471 trying to escape 911 00:41:56,514 --> 00:41:58,394 before she runs into Carl Boehm again. 912 00:41:58,428 --> 00:41:59,868 Aah! 913 00:41:59,908 --> 00:42:01,738 Do you know what the most frightening thing 914 00:42:01,780 --> 00:42:02,960 in the world is? 915 00:42:04,739 --> 00:42:07,699 You get to see in that amazing moment 916 00:42:07,742 --> 00:42:09,482 what the victims have seen. 917 00:42:11,137 --> 00:42:14,577 And they felt the spike... 918 00:42:14,619 --> 00:42:17,189 touching their throat... 919 00:42:17,230 --> 00:42:20,450 and knew I was going to kill them. 920 00:42:20,494 --> 00:42:22,844 So they're seeing their own face 921 00:42:22,888 --> 00:42:25,758 at the point of death, and he's also recording that. 922 00:42:25,804 --> 00:42:29,114 So it's pretty fiendish. 923 00:42:29,155 --> 00:42:31,105 I remember thinking that that ending 924 00:42:31,157 --> 00:42:33,897 was more twisted than most of the serial killer movies 925 00:42:33,942 --> 00:42:36,252 we were seeing in the mid-2000s. 926 00:42:36,292 --> 00:42:38,772 "Saw" is cool. 927 00:42:38,817 --> 00:42:42,907 But he built a camera with a mirror with a knife 928 00:42:42,951 --> 00:42:45,481 so that he could literally watch people 929 00:42:45,519 --> 00:42:47,169 watching themselves die. 930 00:42:47,216 --> 00:42:49,436 How fucked up is that? 931 00:42:56,574 --> 00:42:58,104 It's a pretty fucked-up film. 932 00:42:58,140 --> 00:42:59,930 But it's amazing, you know? 933 00:42:59,968 --> 00:43:01,538 It is about cinema. 934 00:43:05,234 --> 00:43:06,764 I think there's a lot of filmmakers 935 00:43:06,801 --> 00:43:09,981 that, like Mark Lewis does in the film, 936 00:43:10,022 --> 00:43:13,372 they're turning the mirror on the audience. 937 00:43:13,416 --> 00:43:16,196 Come on, sonny, make us famous. 938 00:43:16,245 --> 00:43:18,765 So, obviously, it's kind of explicitly drawing a line 939 00:43:18,813 --> 00:43:23,173 between the idea of a director as voyeur 940 00:43:23,209 --> 00:43:25,299 and the audience member as voyeur. 941 00:43:28,431 --> 00:43:30,091 Why do we watch horror films? 942 00:43:30,129 --> 00:43:31,779 'Cause we want to see things 943 00:43:31,826 --> 00:43:34,656 that we shouldn't really be seeing. 944 00:43:34,699 --> 00:43:36,089 It's illicit, 945 00:43:36,135 --> 00:43:37,955 and there are thrills in the illicit 946 00:43:38,006 --> 00:43:41,836 of something you shouldn't be watching. 947 00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,750 And so I think that sort of, you know, continues 948 00:43:44,796 --> 00:43:48,016 a grand tradition of directors who sort of like forcing you 949 00:43:48,060 --> 00:43:50,800 to question why you enjoy horror movies. 950 00:43:57,417 --> 00:43:59,677 That was a little too much for people to deal with 951 00:43:59,724 --> 00:44:01,294 when the film came out, 952 00:44:01,334 --> 00:44:03,424 'cause it's like, you're not supposed to take cinema 953 00:44:03,466 --> 00:44:05,896 and kind of shove it back in people's faces like that.