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Man: I hope you have something interesting to show me.
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I have a few odds and ends here
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that might be of some interest.
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Dastmalchian: You know, every horror fan
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has their own little secret movie...
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Man #2: I want to make some films here.
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Really weird films, and you two can be in them.
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...that only they know about...
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...that they are dying for you to get to know as well.
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Die, you zombie bastards!
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Wait, you'll fuck me when I'm dead?
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Zimmerman: Hidden gems exist because there's such
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a proliferation of horror,
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and there's so many modes of distribution
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that a movie could come out in a wide release
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and still not get valued or seen.
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It's in many ways about exposure and rediscovery,
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or a film that in some ways was ahead of its time.
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"The House of the Devil" is a movie
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that basically predicted the horror wave
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that was going to come in like four or five years.
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There are probably plenty of movies like that
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that were out of step with what was so popular.
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So, now they're being rediscovered,
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or five years later, they're being rediscovered.
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Let's go, Ernie. This place is dead.
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Yeah, where's all the weirdos?
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Man: There are no weirdos here!
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Gingold: One film that was made by a studio that I love
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that never got the release it deserved
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is called "Freaked" by Alex Winter,
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which is this absolutely insane horror-comedy
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where he plays this very spoiled movie star
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who winds up being trapped in a compound by this guy...
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I am Elijah C. Skuggs, proud proprietor
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of Skuggs' Fabulous Freakland and Mutant Emporium.
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...who turns people into very bizarre freaks.
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And you have all kinds of weird characters.
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It's like Mr. T plays the bearded lady.How are you doing?
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And Bobcat Goldthwait voices this sockhead character.
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It's the end of the world. The apocalypse!
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And, unfortunately, after it was finished,
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there was a studio regime change.
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The new regime did not get it.
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Gentlemen, all those in favor.
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Good. It's unanimous.
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I knew I couldn't trust you, corporate greaseball.
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I think it opened in one theater in New York for a week.
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The work that Tom Stern and I were doing
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at that time was aggressive.
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We had a show on MTV called "The Idiot Box"
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that I also starred in.
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It was aggressively violent.
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Freeze! You're dead, punk!
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Ow! My legs!
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Winter: So, with "Freaked," we really were focused
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on creating something that had the most amount
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of physical effects possible...
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Giant Rasta eyeballs, just like Rick said!
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...largely out of necessity.
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It's a great makeup effects showcase.
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It was one of those films from the '90s
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where they got several makeup effects crews
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to handle all the work.
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You had Steve Johnson,
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Alterian Studios.
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Screaming Mad George contributes a lot
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of really bizarre stuff to this movie.
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You got a problem, mister?
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Winter: So, it was this idea of taking
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what really ought to have been an animated movie
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and making it live action.
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We're gonna take something that shouldn't exist
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in the physical world...
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...and we're gonna figure out a way to make it exist
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in the physical world.
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Shit.
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And that was the mission.
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It was extremely ambitious
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and just about killed both of us.
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But it was a great deal of fun.
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Now, that's entertainment.
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Due: I've given some thought to what a rare gem
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in horror might be, and it's tough.
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There are a lot of obscure movies out there
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that a lot of people love.
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But I think one movie a lot of horror fans
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probably missed because it came out in the 1970s --
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and because it was literally in movie jail --
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it was at the Museum of Modern Art, and it was locked up
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and you could only see it one person at a time
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or something like that --
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Is "Ganja & Hess" by Bill Gunn.
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It was meant to be kind of a "Blacula" ripoff.
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Announcer: "Blacula," Dracula's soul brother.
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Due: But Bill Gunn decided to go his own way with it,
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and he used blood as a metaphor for addiction.
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Gunn: The idea of desire is very much a part of it.
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After all the Myrthians thought they had a desire for blood,
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not a need for it, but it was a need.
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And it was sort of a meditation on class differences.
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Why do you live in a house this fine, alone?
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That's not a polite question.
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They're the only ones worth asking.
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And the little racial stuff in there,
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but also a love story...
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I want you to live forever.
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The way you're acting, you'd think I was gonna live forever.
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No, I mean, I really want you to live forever.
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...with some gorgeous fantasy imagery set in Africa.
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It's not paced like a contemporary horror movie.
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It really is a bit more of sort of a visual meditation,
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almost like a poem.
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But it has also some pretty shocking stuff in there.
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And a lot of horror fans have not seen "Ganja & Hess."
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There it is.
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Carolyn: "The Stone Tape" is written by Nigel Kneale,
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who's a very, very influential British screenwriter.
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He's always been very good at bringing science into horror.
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Sayenga: A group of researchers
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are looking for a new way to record sound.
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So they move into this very old manner in England,
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and they discover that there's a room
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that the workers won't renovate because they say it's hunted.
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What they find out is that these ancient walls
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have actually recorded the sounds
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that have accrued over the years,
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usually of some terrifically horrible event.
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It must act like a recording, fixed
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in the floor and the walls.
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Right in the substance of them a trace of what happened in there,
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and we pick it up.
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We act as detectors, decoders, amplifiers.
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A recording?
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It would have to be in the stones.
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Carolyn: That idea of the stones themselves, of the material
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of the walls themselves storing events is something
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that has been adopted into proper parapsychology,
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what nowadays is referred to as the stone tape theory.
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It's a mass of data
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waiting for a correct interpretation.
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No one's ever managed it before. I think we might.
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The team is led by an egomaniac misogynist,
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and there is a woman...
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Oh, my Jilly. You're a very female one.
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...who is the smartest person in the room, played by Jane Asher,
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but nobody takes her seriously.
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She's lightly psychic.
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Sayenga: So essentially,
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her boss uses this woman as a conduit to try
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to listen to this room to find out what's going on,
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basically, because they want to monetize it.
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It's going to be hours, all hours.
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Television without the TV set, no box,
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not even a visor in front of the eyes.
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The deeper they probe, the more they discover
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that the initial trauma goes much deeper
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and much farther back...
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Man: Those walls are lot older than the rest of the house.
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In fact, they must have been knocked down and rebuilt
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and generally messed around a lot in the last thousand years.
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What?
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Oh, yes, the foundations might be Saxon.
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Saxon?
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...into something truly evil.
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There was something about an exorcism once.
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Exorcism?
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Sayenga: Something very far in our past where you don't want to go.
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How far are you trying to go back?
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A long way.
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Thompson: It's really spooky,
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and the fact that it's shot on tape kind of works in his favor.
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There's something about the quality of that tape stock
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in the cameras they use back then.
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It gives it, like, a weird kind of "you are there"
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quality to it.
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I almost feels like a documentary from hell.
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She's gone.
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Kneale is talking about the embrace
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of technology driven by greed...
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If you want to be millionaires,
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it's a crash program. Find the medium.
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Everything else follows.
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...before you've actually explored the technology
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and seen side effects.
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Do you know what he's done?
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He's wiped the tape.
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It's in the computer!
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Sayenga: Which of course,
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we're currently seeing with social media
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and artificial intelligence.
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Thompson: We've had a lot of "Exorcist" knockoffs over the years
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since 1973,
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and if you thought that that had been exhausted beyond salvaging,
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there is one real gem in the bunch,
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but, unfortunately, very few people have actually seen it
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and that is "The Blackcoat's Daughter".
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And it's one of those movies that I love to recommend,
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but the problem is you can't describe it too much
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without spoiling it.
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So I urge you to just check it out,
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try to avoid reading about it as much as possible
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because it's very twisty.
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It's really haunting, beautiful, very sad film.
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It takes place at a boarding school in the middle of winter,
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and most of the girls are going home for winter break,
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except one girl, Rose, who is going to stay behind
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because she wants to meet up with a guy.
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And then another girl, Katherine,
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she is waiting for her parents to pick her up,
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but they never come.
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Meanwhile, there's a character, Joan, who's at rest stops.
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Man: Hey, can we give you a lift somewhere?
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You've got to be freezing.
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I'm parked right over there. My wife's waiting in the car.
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See? Right there.
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And she hitches a ride with this couple.
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And you slowly start to discover
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how these two stories are connected.
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Zimmerman: And it has a strange structure,
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and it has a twist that I think a lot of people
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have a hard time getting on board with,
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which in some ways, I understand,
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but in a lot of ways,
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I think if you just lend yourself to it
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and you meet a movie halfway,
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you come away with a really great experience.
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Because I don't know if we've ever seen a movie
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where the ultimate goal of the main character
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is to be rejoined with their demonic possessor.
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Demon: You will stay here with me.
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Thompson: What if the person who was possessed loved it
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and that if they were no longer possessed...
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Don't go.
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...what would they do to get that back?
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Wexler: It talks about grieving and dealing with death
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through demonic tropes, which I appreciate.
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I love when you can embrace horror tropes...
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Get your hands off me, cunt.
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...and talk about something really serious and really human.
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Thompson: It was directed by Osgood Perkins,
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who is the son of Anthony Perkins.
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He's a really visually gifted director,
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and this just has some images in it
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that will just stick in your head.
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Oz Perkins, in general, is a hidden gem director.
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I think it's not just "The Blackcoat's Daughter".
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I think it's "Gretel & Hansel",
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and I think it's especially
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"I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House",
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which I love a lot.
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It feels very influenced by Shirley Jackson, and Ruth Wilson
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essentially plays a ghost alone in a home,
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sort of starting to realize her predicament.
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And that's another, like, Sunday afternoon
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with a tea kind of movie,
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'cause it's cozy,
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but it's downbeat and not full of scares,
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but when it builds you up to what is going to frighten you,
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it works in a really big way,
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and it's so difficult for a movie to do that.
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It's so difficult for a slow burn to achieve that explosion.
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But "I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in House"
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feels completely forgotten at this point.
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Walter: My recurring dream sent to me as a warning,
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a warning against the terror
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that's waiting for me in this house.
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It's later on. We're having drinks.
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You break those glasses of yours.
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Then, the room goes dark.
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That's where my dream becomes a nightmare.
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It's started.
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Man:
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Why should I want to kill you?
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And this machine only affects microbes and insects.
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It has no effect on humans.
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Sergeant.
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There are dead people trying to kill me.
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Woman: They're coming here.
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They're waiting at the edge of the city.
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They're waiting for you and they'll take you one by one,
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and no one will hear you scream!
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Here are three movies,
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if you're having a party,
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put these movies on with no sound
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and just let them play.
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"Planet of Vampires"...
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..."2001"...
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...and a movie
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that's often mentioned in the same breath as "2001",
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"War of the Gargantuas".
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But just to have on at a party with no sound,
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you're not going to go wrong.
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Man: "War of the Gargantuas",
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those scenes at night
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and they're being chased by a spotlight,
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they're beautiful.
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Dougherty: "War of the Gargantuas" messed me up
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in all the best ways as a kid.
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"Gargantuas" wasn't shown on cable as often
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as other kaiju movies were or as often
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as other American giant monster movies were shown.
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It was sort of a very rare treat.
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But when it came on,
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I thought it was going to be like "Mighty Joe Young"
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or any of the other ones,
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which had a certain kid appeal to them.
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But that movie wasn't pulling any punches.
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There's a key scene
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where the Gargantuas are sort of fighting
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over a certain character.
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And things don't go well.
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It just gave me nightmares
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because their design is vaguely human, you know,
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sort of like Kong,
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but they're in this sort of uncanny valley.
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The visual look of those mid-'60s
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Toho films -- "War of the Gargantuas", "Monster Zero" --
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It's just gorgeous. The backdrop paintings.
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The obvious model work.
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There's just something really visually arresting about it.
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A lot of really famous people love that movie.
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Brad Pitt loves it.
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At the end of it,
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the good Gargantua had to sacrifice himself
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to defeat the bad Gargantua.
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Tim Burton loves it.
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It's kind of a struggle between two Gargantuas.
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They're like, "Yeah. Of course. It's great.
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It's 'War of the Gargantuas'."
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How do you like the land of the Northern Lights?
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"Rare Exports" is my favorite Christmas movie.
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It's a great double feature with "Gremlins"
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because it is a great Christmas horror movie
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that somehow manages to be scary but fun at the same time.
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It all takes place in Finland,
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and there's this excavation going on in this huge mound
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nearby.
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Leading up to Christmas,
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everyone starts to see this kind of weird Santa Claus type of guy
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hanging around and being real creepy.
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Rodrigues: And what you realize is that what we know is
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Santa Claus
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are actually the elves.
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They're protecting their master.
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And what they are digging out of that excavation site
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is what Santa Claus truly is,
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which is -- Santa Claus is Krampus
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and he is this big demonic thing that will steal children.
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Salisbury: It's told through the eyes of this little kid.
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You know, and he treats it like a kid does.
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The sense of the danger is there,
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but the sense of exploration is also there,
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and then trying to convince people
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that he knows what he knows.
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This is another one of these isolation spaces
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of being trapped in this wonderland
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that anything else would be beautiful,
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but you're looking at it, and you're going, "Well,
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where do you run?
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Where do you hide? You leave footprints.
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These things can sniff you out."
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It's a classic Christmas movie.
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I think anyone who likes that kind of, like,
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weird kind of Christmas horror stuff should watch it.
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It's Christmas time. So let's act like it.
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Holy blood! Blood! Holy blood!
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"Santa Sangre" is definitely one
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of those classic cult movies that you go,
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"What did I just watch?"
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It is so weird.
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Kill her. Kill her.
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Did you hear her?
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She wants me to kill you with my hands.
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I love the fact that it takes place in Mexico City...
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...in this circus of freaks.
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And already, Mexico City is full of freaks.
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I mean, look at me, right? That's where we all came from.
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Guerrero: You start in the setting that is so weird
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and definitely not an okay place for a child,
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and you meet your lead characters
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that are two little kids,
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this little boy that is put in a situation
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with what is the most dysfunctional,
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abusive father-mother relationship out there.
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It's really scary.
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Get up, you bastard!
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This movie was not afraid to cross every type of boundary
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there is out there.
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Woman:
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Guerrero: You get to see how this boy, now a man, will do anything
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his crazy mother will tell him.
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This girl has defied you with her lust.
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No, Mommy, it's not true. It's only a game.
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Guerrero: That to me,
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just talked so much about abusive relationships.
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Just talked so much about childhood trauma.
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Now you're a man. Just like me.
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So it's a movie that's artsy, that's weird,
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that's gory and just incredibly memorable for it.
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It's weird.
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Forgive me.
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Please forgive me.
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Zimmerman: "The Untamed is an incredible film from Mexico
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by Amat Escalante
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that feels directly in conversation with "Possession"
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and sort of the ecstasy of beastly cosmic alien sex.
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Bonilla: A married woman, Alejanda, is having a lot of issues
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within her marriage.
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And she comes across, through a friend,
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this creature who can only give pleasure.
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Then she starts to become obsessed with this pleasure.
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Because everything in her life is falling apart.
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She's dealing with a spouse who's abusive,
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but also cheating on her with her brother.
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Very telenovela here.
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But there's a lot of pain in her life.
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A lot of dissatisfaction,
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and she's dealing with a lot of machismo or sexism
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within her community through traditional gender roles
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and traditional views.
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Zimmerman: It really marries these tones of
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really heavy domestic drama...
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...and small town life, and, you know,
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families and couples who have a lot of interpersonal conflict.
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And then this alien
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that has taken up residence in an isolated farmhouse
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that gives people kind of sexual pleasure beyond measure.
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So as she becomes more attached to the creature,
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she starts to rebel against these social norms that have,
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like, restrained her, especially in a small village.
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But also the creature that supposedly only
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gives pleasure starts to kill and to hurt.
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It's one of kind.
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It'd take an army if mice to do that.
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-Maybe it's a rat. -A rat?
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Bart: In some countries, they serve it as a delicacy,
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like chocolate covered bees or caviar.
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A filthy rat on fine china.
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Woman: You never left your house!
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You must do this alone.
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Man: And where would you go?
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Woman: Free.
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Shh.
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Hill: "Trollhunter" is another great found footage film.
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Thomas!
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People have been able to take that found footage structure
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and keep it fresh and keep it exciting.
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And it really works well as humor.
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Andre Overdal knows tone like nobody's business.
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He knows how to create a world and a reality that
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from the first frame all the way to the last, you believe.
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So, in "Trollhunter", five,
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10 minutes into the film, you get lost.
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You just are sure that this is something
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that could be found footage.
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You absolutely believe it.
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It's so well executed.
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It gets these nosy documentary folks
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who want to follow behind this guy who is dead serious,
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who is telling them from the jump, "This is serious business.
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You could die," and they're laughing at it
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and they think and he's nuts.
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And then they're stuck on it when they really get to see it.
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And then it's not only, you know, this one kind of troll.
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It's an entire troll, you know, classification.
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Not like smaller trolls like we would see,
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but these massive, huge beasts of folklore and legend.
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The way that we see them portrayed in the film
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is this great combination of what we would imagine
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a charming illustration of, like,
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a fantasy-esque troll would be
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and the worst possible reality of what that could be.
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They are huge, drooling, disgusting messes.
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This film does an amazing job making
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these creatures seem real.
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Man: You've seen things that have yet to happen.
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You had a premonition.
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You saw into the future.
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Sher: Before he made his famous gore-fests,
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Lucio Fulci was an amazingly accomplished filmmaker
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in many genres,
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and he made some really, really fabulous thrillers.
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One of the very best is "The Psychic",
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where Jennifer O'Neill plays a wealthy woman
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whose diplomat husband is away for the weekend.
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She's living in this kind of gorgeous villa,
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and she starts having visions of a mysterious room
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that she's never seen before
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where she believes some kind of murder has taken place.
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And she becomes obsessed with finding out what are
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these visions about and solving this murder
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that she believes that she's seen.
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Darling, why don't you forget this ugly story?
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I can't.
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But the fact that it isn't a Fulci gore-fest
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I think is what's kind of kept it under the radar.
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It isn't "Zombie".
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It isn't "Gates of Hell".
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You know, it isn't "House by the Cemetery".
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Not much blood in this movie.
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It's not particularly violent,
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really, but it has a very sort of Edgar Allan Poe
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kind of feel to it.
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It involves someone being walled up alive.
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Say no more than that.
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Man: So you came here today for the first time.
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And the first thing
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you do is grab the pickaxe,
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smash in the first wall you come to,
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and find a skeleton.
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I know it sounds ridiculous to you.
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But I'm telling the truth.
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I love "The Psychic" because it is so lush.
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The costumes are luxurious.
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The set design is beautiful.
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And it has this very kind of sophisticated feel
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for a murder mystery.
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But then Jennifer Neill's visions
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are very trippy and '70s.
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And I love that juxtaposition of kind of timeless sophistication
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with very, very '70s stylistic conventions.
523
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It's one that really kind of sticks with you.
524
00:29:53,660 --> 00:29:56,140
And, of course, it has this little watch theme.
525
00:29:56,180 --> 00:29:57,700
Listen.
526
00:30:07,060 --> 00:30:09,020
There's a central musical motif in it
527
00:30:09,060 --> 00:30:10,980
that later became used in "Kill Bill: Volume 1".
528
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:14,980
Aah!
529
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,720
If nothing else, everybody knows that piece of music.
530
00:30:16,770 --> 00:30:18,250
So -- But go see the movie that it came from, really.
531
00:30:18,290 --> 00:30:19,200
It's worth it.
532
00:30:23,430 --> 00:30:25,910
How do you spell that word, "psychotic"?
533
00:30:25,990 --> 00:30:28,340
You might have to spell it M-U-R-D-E-R, murder,
534
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,520
if you don't get someone over there quickly.
535
00:30:30,690 --> 00:30:32,130
Berger: Peter Collinson
536
00:30:32,260 --> 00:30:34,310
was a director who the last thing
537
00:30:34,350 --> 00:30:36,180
you expected him to do was going to be something
538
00:30:36,350 --> 00:30:37,660
in the horror genre.
539
00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:39,310
He did "The Italian Job"...
540
00:30:39,350 --> 00:30:41,570
Well, look happy, you stupid bastards.
541
00:30:41,750 --> 00:30:45,400
...which is a lightweight kind of fun, pop British
542
00:30:45,450 --> 00:30:47,750
comic heist movie.
543
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,500
And he suddenly took a really interesting sort of left turn
544
00:30:51,630 --> 00:30:53,540
with some people from Hammer
545
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,200
who had tried to form their own company,
546
00:30:56,370 --> 00:30:59,240
and he made a movie with Susan George called "Fright".
547
00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:04,680
It is probably the very first time
548
00:31:04,730 --> 00:31:11,340
I remember seeing a movie about a killer stalking a babysitter.
549
00:31:11,470 --> 00:31:19,610
This was, like, 1971, and it is crap-spurt scary movie.
550
00:31:21,740 --> 00:31:23,440
No two ways about it.
551
00:31:23,490 --> 00:31:27,400
Critically destroyed when it came out, of course.
552
00:31:27,580 --> 00:31:29,530
Back then, you thought you had to be entertained
553
00:31:29,710 --> 00:31:32,230
in the conventional way,
554
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:39,070
and no one was prepared for the sheer downbeat moral obfuscation
555
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,420
that Peter Collinson wanted to throw on his audience,
556
00:31:42,550 --> 00:31:44,640
even in a pop horror movie.
557
00:31:46,730 --> 00:31:47,730
The first half of that movie
558
00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:50,990
exploits everything you can imagine
559
00:31:51,170 --> 00:31:54,120
that, you know, has been retread again in very clever ways with,
560
00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:56,470
of course,
561
00:31:56,650 --> 00:32:01,350
"Halloween" and 100 other films in the ten years after that.
562
00:32:01,390 --> 00:32:04,270
But this movie really got it down.
563
00:32:04,350 --> 00:32:06,790
Please.
564
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,050
There are some very, very disturbing things.
565
00:32:09,230 --> 00:32:11,100
You try moving again, you try,
566
00:32:11,140 --> 00:32:13,930
and I'll be forced to attack.
567
00:32:13,970 --> 00:32:15,890
I'll kill you and I'll cut you!
568
00:32:15,930 --> 00:32:17,800
And it attacks relationships.
569
00:32:17,890 --> 00:32:18,980
She's absolutely bloody impossible sometimes.
570
00:32:19,020 --> 00:32:20,500
I can't tell you.
571
00:32:20,630 --> 00:32:22,590
You're just annoyed with yourself,
572
00:32:22,670 --> 00:32:23,500
'cause you know you wanted it, so you're taking it out on me.
573
00:32:23,550 --> 00:32:25,370
I said get out.
574
00:32:25,550 --> 00:32:29,250
It attacks the idea of family.
575
00:32:29,380 --> 00:32:32,860
Why do you hate me?! Why, why why?!
576
00:32:33,030 --> 00:32:35,380
And it has a perverse sympathetic concern
577
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:39,080
for the people who are the assailants.
578
00:32:39,260 --> 00:32:44,310
Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
579
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,220
...as well as the victims
580
00:32:46,260 --> 00:32:50,270
and how easy they can switch modes.
581
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,660
You try it and I'll kill these two!
582
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,530
Are you listening?! Both of them!
583
00:32:56,580 --> 00:32:57,840
He means it.
584
00:32:58,010 --> 00:33:01,020
Very clever film, really scary,
585
00:33:01,190 --> 00:33:04,930
and not an easy one to get over.
586
00:33:12,380 --> 00:33:14,470
Hi. I'm Emily.
587
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,290
I'm Jessica.
588
00:33:17,340 --> 00:33:18,640
Zimmerman: "Let's Scare Jessica to Death".
589
00:33:18,730 --> 00:33:20,560
That's a hidden gem in my mind,
590
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:21,780
because so many people knew the title.
591
00:33:21,860 --> 00:33:23,950
The title was instantly iconic,
592
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,910
but it languished in VHS for so long.
593
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,830
It didn't make a DVD debut until the mid 2000s.
594
00:33:29,870 --> 00:33:32,220
So we have a movie that I think people knew existed
595
00:33:32,310 --> 00:33:33,660
but never actually saw.
596
00:33:33,750 --> 00:33:37,710
Woman: Dreams or nightmares?
597
00:33:37,750 --> 00:33:40,620
Madness or sanity?
598
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,760
-I don't know which is which.
599
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,670
It's creepy.
600
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,070
It's unusual.
601
00:33:51,940 --> 00:33:53,070
Very effective movie.
602
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,290
Woman: You want to die. You want to die.
603
00:33:57,470 --> 00:33:59,340
It is one of the most essential horror films
604
00:33:59,470 --> 00:34:01,210
of the '70s,
605
00:34:01,380 --> 00:34:02,950
and maybe the preeminent example of a kind of
606
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,430
gauzy psychological horror subgenre,
607
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,260
these films that are defined by being isolated
608
00:34:08,350 --> 00:34:10,170
and paranoid and scary,
609
00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:11,040
and maybe there's something supernatural going on,
610
00:34:11,090 --> 00:34:12,390
but maybe there isn't.
611
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,700
He was lying right here.
612
00:34:14,740 --> 00:34:17,830
And the best of those movies ride the perfect line between.
613
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,580
-Where you folks going? -Other side of Brookfield.
614
00:34:20,620 --> 00:34:22,710
It's a farm on Cove Road called the Old Bishop Place.
615
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,320
Do you know it?
616
00:34:26,930 --> 00:34:28,320
Yes, I do.
617
00:34:29,110 --> 00:34:31,110
Niles: It's about this, I guess they're a hippie couple,
618
00:34:31,150 --> 00:34:32,980
and their friend.
619
00:34:33,020 --> 00:34:34,500
They drive around in a hearse.
620
00:34:34,550 --> 00:34:37,330
It's cheaper than the station wagon.
621
00:34:37,460 --> 00:34:39,900
And really annoy everybody in this small town.
622
00:34:39,940 --> 00:34:42,380
-Damn hippies. -Creeps.
623
00:34:42,510 --> 00:34:44,420
Man: Good riddance.
624
00:34:44,470 --> 00:34:45,770
A lot of the themes of "Let's Scare Jessica to Death"
625
00:34:45,900 --> 00:34:47,520
are kind of the death of the hippie movement.
626
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,390
Hey, watch it.
627
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,870
Zimmerman: Or at least mourning what it promised.
628
00:34:53,910 --> 00:34:57,440
Woman: Jessica, why have you come here?
629
00:34:57,570 --> 00:35:01,010
The character, Jessica, just had a nervous breakdown.
630
00:35:01,140 --> 00:35:03,230
So she's trying to get her head back together.
631
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,230
Jessica: For the first time in months, I'm free.
632
00:35:05,270 --> 00:35:08,750
Forget the doctors. Forget that place.
633
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,060
I'm okay now. We'll start over.
634
00:35:12,190 --> 00:35:14,890
They find a drifter, a woman named Emily.
635
00:35:15,020 --> 00:35:17,760
I just found this place, and I thought it was abandoned,
636
00:35:17,850 --> 00:35:20,110
so I just sort of moved in.
637
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,380
Zimmerman: And over the course of this,
638
00:35:22,550 --> 00:35:25,550
Jessica is growing more paranoid,
639
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,600
more concerned that Emily is not who she says she is.
640
00:35:30,690 --> 00:35:32,300
Because there is the local legend of a woman named Abigail
641
00:35:32,470 --> 00:35:34,130
who drowned in the lake the day before her wedding.
642
00:35:34,210 --> 00:35:36,040
Looking at the picture,
643
00:35:36,090 --> 00:35:38,000
looks so much like you.
644
00:35:38,170 --> 00:35:40,050
My Lord, it does.
645
00:35:40,180 --> 00:35:43,920
Don't worry. I won't go away.
646
00:35:44,050 --> 00:35:46,270
And the townspeople say Abigail still roams the hills.
647
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,790
The legend is that she's still alive.
648
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,580
Some say she's a vampire.
649
00:35:50,620 --> 00:35:52,580
It's kind of a ghost.
650
00:35:52,670 --> 00:35:54,840
Woman: ...alive. I'm still alive.
651
00:35:54,970 --> 00:35:57,190
Kind of a vampire.
652
00:36:01,070 --> 00:36:03,680
Zimmerman: And it leads to this really incredible ambiguous ending of
653
00:36:03,810 --> 00:36:09,810
was Emily haunting things or was Jessica truly losing it?
654
00:36:09,990 --> 00:36:14,860
And she's left terrified, upset, stranded in a boat on the lake.
655
00:36:14,910 --> 00:36:17,210
It's what I like to call sad horror, which I love.
656
00:36:17,260 --> 00:36:18,870
Like, it's maybe my favorite genre.
657
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,390
It just kind of leaves you melancholy.
658
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:21,650
Leaves you a little haunted.
659
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,530
Boo! I bet that scared ya, didn't it?
660
00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:32,750
One of my favorite hidden gems is 1992's "Ghostwatch".
661
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,930
This is a faux documentary
662
00:36:36,060 --> 00:36:41,020
that purports to be investigating a haunted house
663
00:36:41,060 --> 00:36:42,060
on the outskirts of London.
664
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,590
Man: So welcome live
665
00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:46,760
this Halloween night to the first ever TV "Ghostwatch".
666
00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:49,460
That's the house where it might all happen tonight,
667
00:36:49,510 --> 00:36:51,470
or it might not. We shall see.
668
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,510
It's one of the scariest films I've ever seen,
669
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,250
and every time I watch it, it scares me.
670
00:36:57,300 --> 00:36:59,210
-I don't know what's going on.
671
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,260
Don't leave me, Mum!
672
00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:06,870
The BBC had been hyping "Ghostwatch" for months
673
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,350
before it came out,
674
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,010
claiming that they were going to send in some
675
00:37:11,140 --> 00:37:13,570
of their actual on air talent
676
00:37:13,620 --> 00:37:16,270
to a haunted house on Halloween night.
677
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,320
It all began in here on December 28, 1991.
678
00:37:20,410 --> 00:37:22,410
What audiences didn't realize is that
679
00:37:22,540 --> 00:37:24,800
the entire special was actually a film directed
680
00:37:24,930 --> 00:37:26,760
by Leslie Manning,
681
00:37:26,890 --> 00:37:29,420
and it starred all of these BBC broadcasters.
682
00:37:31,590 --> 00:37:35,900
The program you're about to watch is a unique live investigation of the supernatural.
683
00:37:36,030 --> 00:37:38,900
Geoghegen: So here you've got the BBC's Michael Parkinson,
684
00:37:38,990 --> 00:37:42,390
someone that audiences implicitly trust,
685
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,210
and he is sitting there talking to all of Britain,
686
00:37:45,350 --> 00:37:48,170
explaining to them that this Halloween night,
687
00:37:48,350 --> 00:37:50,700
they will be heading into this haunted house
688
00:37:50,790 --> 00:37:53,700
to try to figure out the mystery of a ghost
689
00:37:53,790 --> 00:37:56,700
that is attacking this mother and her two daughters.
690
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,140
It starts out as a bit of a lark.
691
00:37:58,270 --> 00:37:59,840
You're watching and
692
00:37:59,970 --> 00:38:01,010
it's funny and the BBC talent interacting,
693
00:38:01,060 --> 00:38:02,580
and everyone's excited.
694
00:38:02,710 --> 00:38:04,060
Here, we have the thrill seekers.
695
00:38:04,190 --> 00:38:05,800
Pillars of the community
696
00:38:05,930 --> 00:38:08,020
all waiting to see if the ghost is going to arrive.
697
00:38:08,150 --> 00:38:09,590
Welcome to Fright Night.
698
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,630
But then it really skillfully
699
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,030
and slowly creates an atmosphere of dread.
700
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,290
I had this overwhelming sense of evil. Spiritual decay
701
00:38:18,380 --> 00:38:20,080
is the only way I can describe it as.
702
00:38:20,210 --> 00:38:22,950
-Who are you talking to? -Pipes.
703
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,860
Audiences start to notice a figure
704
00:38:25,990 --> 00:38:28,080
that appears in the background of the footage
705
00:38:28,210 --> 00:38:29,170
that they're watching.
706
00:38:29,350 --> 00:38:31,260
I don't have a cat.
707
00:38:31,390 --> 00:38:34,390
It turns out to be a ghost with the nickname Pipes.
708
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:38,010
He is the ultimate ghost. I love him.
709
00:38:38,140 --> 00:38:40,270
Pipes! Pipes! He got in!
710
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,320
Bonilla: As they're doing this investigation,
711
00:38:42,450 --> 00:38:45,580
they're trying to figure out, is it a fraud or is it real?
712
00:38:45,710 --> 00:38:46,880
These are disturbed detention stickers.
713
00:38:46,930 --> 00:38:48,670
Rubbish.
714
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,060
And it continues to be this debate
715
00:38:51,150 --> 00:38:53,500
where you have skeptics that are saying it's a bunch of garbage,
716
00:38:53,670 --> 00:38:57,460
but it also feels like it's a commentary on our media
717
00:38:57,590 --> 00:39:00,120
because of how easy a story can be spun
718
00:39:00,250 --> 00:39:01,380
to be believed or disbelieved.
719
00:39:01,510 --> 00:39:03,860
-Did you say that? -No, I didn't.
720
00:39:03,990 --> 00:39:06,470
Woman: In the end, they all made us look even more like idiots.
721
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,860
And as it goes on, it gets crazier and crazier.
722
00:39:09,990 --> 00:39:12,130
In Derby,
723
00:39:12,260 --> 00:39:14,130
someone was ringing to say that her clock had stopped.
724
00:39:14,300 --> 00:39:15,910
Get to bed. To your right.
725
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,480
Mr. Naro from Cheltenham
726
00:39:17,650 --> 00:39:19,660
says his son is making glasses break.
727
00:39:19,790 --> 00:39:20,790
I'm gonna go and get help, alright?
728
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:22,830
Oh, dear God.
729
00:39:24,270 --> 00:39:25,840
Equipment starts to malfunction.
730
00:39:25,970 --> 00:39:27,840
There's a haunted quality to the BBC set
731
00:39:27,970 --> 00:39:29,710
that starts to break down.
732
00:39:36,190 --> 00:39:38,550
People went nuts.
733
00:39:38,590 --> 00:39:40,290
It was what you wanted, wasn't it?
734
00:39:40,420 --> 00:39:42,900
We just gave you what you wanted.
735
00:39:43,030 --> 00:39:44,250
People lost their minds.
736
00:39:44,330 --> 00:39:46,510
They were calling the BBC.
737
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,080
They fielded thousands and thousands of complaint calls.
738
00:39:49,250 --> 00:39:52,080
A young man in Britain had committed suicide
739
00:39:52,210 --> 00:39:54,040
after watching it,
740
00:39:54,210 --> 00:39:56,080
claiming that "Ghostwatch" had proven
741
00:39:56,210 --> 00:39:57,610
that there was an after life,
742
00:39:57,690 --> 00:39:59,350
and he had nothing more to live for.
743
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,440
After the BBC was made aware of this tragedy,
744
00:40:01,570 --> 00:40:03,610
they put the lid on "Ghostwatch".
745
00:40:03,700 --> 00:40:05,400
It was never aired again.
746
00:40:05,490 --> 00:40:07,490
The BBC had washed their hands of it,
747
00:40:07,660 --> 00:40:10,140
but horror audiences had not.
748
00:40:10,270 --> 00:40:12,580
And it became this thing of legend.
749
00:40:12,710 --> 00:40:15,840
"Ghostwatch" is, to me, one of just the ultimate hidden gems,
750
00:40:15,970 --> 00:40:19,110
and it's the type of film that as soon as you see it,
751
00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:21,890
you want other people to see it. It's so creepy.
752
00:40:22,020 --> 00:40:24,110
It's so well made,
753
00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:26,590
and the haunting past that it actually has in
754
00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:29,470
both the real world and over the course of the production,
755
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,690
it just adds to how creepy it is.
756
00:40:33,690 --> 00:40:35,430
Man: Have we lost the link completely?
757
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:36,340
Boo!
758
00:40:51,490 --> 00:40:56,060
Hey, he's got a hand under there!
759
00:40:56,190 --> 00:40:58,190
Man: The only perversions that can be comfortably condemned
760
00:40:58,360 --> 00:40:58,890
are the perversions of others.
761
00:41:03,110 --> 00:41:06,550
Man: There is no ghost!
762
00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:09,900
-I said drop the knife!
763
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,510
Man: The monsters are heading for the city center.
764
00:41:24,090 --> 00:41:25,480
Who are you?!
765
00:41:42,450 --> 00:41:44,930
I saw it like it was real. It wasn't a hallucination.
766
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,290
Woman: It's not real, Jessica.
767
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,170
Man: Right, do you think Mr. Pipes has come to hurt you?
768
00:42:01,340 --> 00:42:02,780
I think he's come to hurt everybody.
769
00:42:02,910 --> 00:42:04,650
I think he wants to do nasty things.
770
00:42:04,780 --> 00:42:06,560
-Pammy?
771
00:42:12,050 --> 00:42:16,180
So what are the essential horror film scores?
772
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,010
-You always hear the story
773
00:42:18,180 --> 00:42:19,840
that John Williams just played a couple notes.
774
00:42:20,010 --> 00:42:22,010
That's all it took.
775
00:42:22,190 --> 00:42:24,450
He's taken the most direct route with these kind of minimalist
776
00:42:24,620 --> 00:42:27,980
electronic scores.
777
00:42:28,150 --> 00:42:30,760
There's no way you can listen to that film score
778
00:42:30,930 --> 00:42:33,460
and not feel the violence behind it.
779
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,770
Hey. I'm okay. Ah!
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