1
00:00:01,044 --> 00:00:03,481
[dark music]

2
00:00:03,525 --> 00:00:06,093
- I like supernatural,
I like monsters...

3
00:00:06,136 --> 00:00:08,878
[suspenseful music]

4
00:00:08,921 --> 00:00:10,445
- "Alien" was the first movie

5
00:00:10,488 --> 00:00:13,230
that I legitimately thought
I had a disease afterward.

6
00:00:13,274 --> 00:00:16,016
- [screams]
- [screams]

7
00:00:16,059 --> 00:00:17,843
- [moaning]

8
00:00:17,887 --> 00:00:21,108
- John Carpenter's "The Thing"
is the greatest monster movie

9
00:00:21,151 --> 00:00:22,326
ever made.

10
00:00:23,545 --> 00:00:25,112
- [snarls]

11
00:00:25,155 --> 00:00:28,637
- The world of "A Quiet Place"
felt very real.

12
00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,074
Even an audience member,
what you're drawn in with

13
00:00:31,118 --> 00:00:32,380
is that you can't make
a sound.

14
00:00:32,423 --> 00:00:34,686
♪

15
00:00:34,730 --> 00:00:36,297
- [roars]

16
00:00:38,212 --> 00:00:41,302
- I don't think of King Kong
as a monster

17
00:00:41,345 --> 00:00:42,999
because you love him.

18
00:00:43,043 --> 00:00:44,740
The real monsters are
those bastards shooting him.

19
00:00:44,783 --> 00:00:47,047
- [roars]

20
00:00:47,090 --> 00:00:50,267
- It's a complete metaphor
for the tribulations

21
00:00:50,311 --> 00:00:54,489
of the black male
in American white society.

22
00:00:54,532 --> 00:00:56,882
- [laughing]

23
00:00:56,926 --> 00:00:58,623
- Monsters are a different
thing to different people.

24
00:00:58,667 --> 00:01:01,104
- [breathing heavily]

25
00:01:01,148 --> 00:01:04,673
- Some people are afraid
of that huge ugly monster,

26
00:01:04,716 --> 00:01:06,805
and some people are afraid
of the existential monster.

27
00:01:06,849 --> 00:01:08,503
- [laughs]
- [screams]

28
00:01:08,546 --> 00:01:12,115
- But if you can't kill it,
well, there's no real story.

29
00:01:12,159 --> 00:01:13,508
- [roars]

30
00:01:13,551 --> 00:01:14,770
- [screeches]
- Oh!

31
00:01:14,813 --> 00:01:16,119
- [roars]

32
00:01:16,163 --> 00:01:18,426
♪

33
00:01:18,469 --> 00:01:20,297
- [screams]

34
00:01:20,341 --> 00:01:23,257
[scary music]

35
00:01:23,300 --> 00:01:30,220
♪

36
00:01:31,047 --> 00:01:33,745
- [screaming]

37
00:01:47,237 --> 00:01:49,370
♪

38
00:01:49,413 --> 00:01:50,980
narrator: Horror is a big tent

39
00:01:51,023 --> 00:01:53,025
with room for a circus
full of attractions.

40
00:01:53,069 --> 00:01:54,766
- Aah!
[gunshot]

41
00:01:54,810 --> 00:01:57,595
narrator:
Outrageous slashers...

42
00:01:57,639 --> 00:01:59,336
Apocalyptic comedies...

43
00:01:59,380 --> 00:02:01,121
[roaring and gunshots]

44
00:02:01,164 --> 00:02:03,297
Cringe inducing body horror...

45
00:02:03,340 --> 00:02:04,472
♪

46
00:02:04,515 --> 00:02:07,170
- [roars]

47
00:02:07,214 --> 00:02:09,607
narrator: But many of us
first came to the genre

48
00:02:09,651 --> 00:02:11,348
for the monsters.

49
00:02:11,392 --> 00:02:14,177
- Aah!
[kids screaming]

50
00:02:14,221 --> 00:02:17,180
- When you're a kid,
you want monsters,

51
00:02:17,224 --> 00:02:19,443
and the more monsters
the better,

52
00:02:19,487 --> 00:02:21,097
and if they've got zippers
up their back,

53
00:02:21,141 --> 00:02:22,707
that doesn't matter

54
00:02:22,751 --> 00:02:23,969
as long as they're--
as long as they're monsters.

55
00:02:24,013 --> 00:02:27,234
- [roaring]

56
00:02:27,277 --> 00:02:29,410
- Later you get
a little bit more discerning,

57
00:02:29,453 --> 00:02:31,716
and you start to realize maybe
the less you see the monster,

58
00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:32,978
the scarier he might be.

59
00:02:36,156 --> 00:02:39,202
narrator: There may be
no better example

60
00:02:39,246 --> 00:02:41,900
of the power of
slowly revealing a monster

61
00:02:41,944 --> 00:02:44,381
than Ridley Scott's "Alien."

62
00:02:44,425 --> 00:02:50,300
[dramatic music]

63
00:02:50,344 --> 00:02:53,477
- "Alien" was the first movie
I saw

64
00:02:53,521 --> 00:02:57,089
that I legitimately thought
I had a disease afterwards.

65
00:02:57,133 --> 00:03:01,485
It made me so incredibly
anxious and uncomfortable.

66
00:03:01,529 --> 00:03:05,228
- [hissing]

67
00:03:05,272 --> 00:03:08,231
- It was all about the mouth
inside the mouth.

68
00:03:08,275 --> 00:03:12,453
That shiny slick chrome dome

69
00:03:12,496 --> 00:03:16,239
with the mouth that comes out.

70
00:03:16,283 --> 00:03:18,720
Krikik!
Chhhk!

71
00:03:18,763 --> 00:03:21,026
Pfft!
Ugh.

72
00:03:22,376 --> 00:03:24,595
- Get out of the room!

73
00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,382
narrator: "Alien" grew out
of a film called "Dark Star"

74
00:03:28,425 --> 00:03:32,124
made by two promising
USC film students,

75
00:03:32,168 --> 00:03:34,388
John Carpenter
and Dan O'Bannon.

76
00:03:34,431 --> 00:03:37,347
O'Bannon took
his comedic premise,

77
00:03:37,391 --> 00:03:40,524
bedraggled astronauts
doing battle with a monster

78
00:03:40,568 --> 00:03:42,787
in a beaten up spaceship,

79
00:03:42,831 --> 00:03:44,833
and turned it into one of
the scariest screenplays

80
00:03:44,876 --> 00:03:46,138
of all time.

81
00:03:46,182 --> 00:03:48,750
- [screeching]

82
00:03:51,143 --> 00:03:52,841
narrator:
"Alien" tells the story

83
00:03:52,884 --> 00:03:54,973
of a commercial starship crew

84
00:03:55,017 --> 00:03:57,019
diverted from their mission

85
00:03:57,062 --> 00:03:59,630
by a mysterious order
from their employers

86
00:03:59,674 --> 00:04:01,937
known only as The Company.

87
00:04:01,980 --> 00:04:06,724
- Seems she has intercepted a
transmission of unknown origin.

88
00:04:06,768 --> 00:04:08,030
She got us up to check it out.

89
00:04:08,073 --> 00:04:09,597
- A transmission?
Out here?

90
00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:11,163
- Yeah.

91
00:04:11,207 --> 00:04:13,340
narrator: The film's main
characters

92
00:04:13,383 --> 00:04:15,951
are beleaguered
Captain Dallas,

93
00:04:15,994 --> 00:04:19,215
no nonsense Warrant Officer
Ripley,

94
00:04:19,259 --> 00:04:23,306
and Ash, the science officer
with a hidden agenda.

95
00:04:23,350 --> 00:04:26,178
- They come upon these eggs
on a planet,

96
00:04:26,222 --> 00:04:31,140
and while exploring,
one of them is infected.

97
00:04:31,183 --> 00:04:33,534
- [screaming]

98
00:04:33,577 --> 00:04:35,187
- The creature,

99
00:04:35,231 --> 00:04:37,015
which would come to be known
as a facehugger,

100
00:04:37,059 --> 00:04:38,843
you know, has attached itself
to his face,

101
00:04:38,887 --> 00:04:40,889
nobody knows what's going on,

102
00:04:40,932 --> 00:04:42,804
and then of course,
all hell breaks loose.

103
00:04:42,847 --> 00:04:44,719
[high pitched tone]
- Good God.

104
00:04:44,762 --> 00:04:47,678
[sizzling]

105
00:04:49,332 --> 00:04:52,509
- The crap's gonna eat through
the hull.

106
00:04:52,553 --> 00:04:54,163
- The performances
in that movie are phenomenal.

107
00:04:54,206 --> 00:04:57,862
I mean, the famous
chestburster scene,

108
00:04:57,906 --> 00:05:01,997
it is--I think the reason
it's so potent

109
00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,782
is because of the lead up to it
feels so natural,

110
00:05:04,826 --> 00:05:07,437
making it feel so familiar
to you.

111
00:05:07,481 --> 00:05:10,875
- The food ain't that bad, man.[laughs]

112
00:05:11,659 --> 00:05:13,922
- You've been in a restaurant,
you've been in a diner,

113
00:05:13,965 --> 00:05:15,837
you've seen somebody,
maybe someone started choking,

114
00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,535
or someone has a heart attack.

115
00:05:18,579 --> 00:05:21,886
That panic, it taps into that,
and then it takes it into,

116
00:05:21,930 --> 00:05:23,235
"What if a thing burst out
of the..."

117
00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:24,454
[laughs]

118
00:05:24,498 --> 00:05:27,762
- [screams]
- [screams]

119
00:05:27,805 --> 00:05:29,981
- It takes it to
this other level,

120
00:05:30,025 --> 00:05:31,809
which is, um, so brilliant.

121
00:05:33,420 --> 00:05:34,638
- [screeches]
- Aah!

122
00:05:34,682 --> 00:05:36,814
Oh!
[moans]

123
00:05:36,858 --> 00:05:39,687
Oh, God!

124
00:05:39,730 --> 00:05:42,167
- It's obviously this kind
of perverse

125
00:05:42,211 --> 00:05:44,996
gender reversed
birth scene, right?

126
00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:46,520
- [squeals]

127
00:05:46,563 --> 00:05:51,307
♪

128
00:05:51,351 --> 00:05:53,091
narrator: The crew learns
the hard way that,

129
00:05:53,135 --> 00:05:55,311
an insect,
the monster undergoes

130
00:05:55,355 --> 00:05:57,879
a dramatic metamorphosis,

131
00:05:57,922 --> 00:06:00,969
and to their bosses,
it's a valuable commodity.

132
00:06:01,012 --> 00:06:04,886
- [screaming]

133
00:06:04,929 --> 00:06:07,410
- They have no way

134
00:06:07,454 --> 00:06:09,020
of understanding
what they're up against.

135
00:06:09,064 --> 00:06:11,022
The corporation is hiding it
from them.

136
00:06:11,066 --> 00:06:13,634
The only person on the crew
who understands

137
00:06:13,677 --> 00:06:15,897
is the--the robot,
the AI guy, you know,

138
00:06:15,940 --> 00:06:17,899
whose lying the whole time.

139
00:06:17,942 --> 00:06:21,903
- The company views
its employees

140
00:06:21,946 --> 00:06:24,209
as expendable, but...

141
00:06:24,253 --> 00:06:28,126
the creature,
which is not even a person

142
00:06:28,170 --> 00:06:29,693
or being of any kind,

143
00:06:29,737 --> 00:06:33,218
is more valuable
than the people

144
00:06:33,262 --> 00:06:35,133
that they have employed.

145
00:06:35,177 --> 00:06:38,267
- There is an explanation
for this, you know?

146
00:06:38,310 --> 00:06:40,312
- [mutters]

147
00:06:40,356 --> 00:06:42,924
narrator: "Alien's" dark view
of labor relations

148
00:06:42,967 --> 00:06:45,361
was a challenge
to the status quo,

149
00:06:45,405 --> 00:06:48,320
as was the film's disturbing
production design

150
00:06:48,364 --> 00:06:52,586
which powerfully associated
sex with death.

151
00:06:52,629 --> 00:06:55,458
H.R. Giger's
biomechanical designs

152
00:06:55,502 --> 00:06:58,896
played on the audience's
deepest sexual anxieties.

153
00:07:01,508 --> 00:07:03,553
- There's this Freudian
term "Overdetermination."

154
00:07:03,597 --> 00:07:05,076
An object in a dream

155
00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,036
may have 15, 20,
1,000 different meanings.

156
00:07:08,079 --> 00:07:10,952
"Alien" is probably
the--the greatest example

157
00:07:10,995 --> 00:07:12,432
of a movie
that's overdetermined

158
00:07:12,475 --> 00:07:13,563
in every possible direction,

159
00:07:13,607 --> 00:07:15,565
because you have
this space ship

160
00:07:15,609 --> 00:07:17,175
that is basically shaped like

161
00:07:17,219 --> 00:07:19,308
the lower half
of a woman's body

162
00:07:19,351 --> 00:07:20,875
with this vast vaginal
opening in it,

163
00:07:20,918 --> 00:07:24,226
and inside this vaginal
opening are these eggs

164
00:07:24,269 --> 00:07:26,881
that pop open and reveal
these marauding penises

165
00:07:26,924 --> 00:07:29,057
that impregnate people
through their mouths

166
00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:31,146
and make them burst open

167
00:07:31,189 --> 00:07:33,627
and give birth to further
marauding penises.

168
00:07:33,670 --> 00:07:35,933
This is the essence
of overdetermination.

169
00:07:35,977 --> 00:07:38,501
There's--
How do you pick this apart?

170
00:07:38,545 --> 00:07:40,416
narrator:
The film's sexual politics,

171
00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:42,331
subversive for its time,

172
00:07:42,374 --> 00:07:44,855
are embodied in the figure
of Ripley,

173
00:07:44,899 --> 00:07:48,511
played by "Alien's" breakout
star, Sigourney Weaver.

174
00:07:48,555 --> 00:07:50,992
- "Alien," 1979,

175
00:07:51,035 --> 00:07:54,386
had a female hero.
An unexpected female hero.

176
00:07:54,430 --> 00:07:57,172
- Who gets to go into the vent?
- I do.

177
00:07:57,215 --> 00:07:58,869
- No.

178
00:07:58,913 --> 00:08:01,045
- Ridley Scott sets up
the movie

179
00:08:01,089 --> 00:08:04,527
where Dallas is the hero
until Dallas is killed.

180
00:08:04,571 --> 00:08:07,269
- Wait, the other way!
[beeping]

181
00:08:08,923 --> 00:08:11,142
[static]
- Dallas?

182
00:08:11,186 --> 00:08:13,405
- So that movie
completely flips

183
00:08:13,449 --> 00:08:16,887
in a way most movies couldn't
even have imagined back then.

184
00:08:16,931 --> 00:08:20,935
Ripley becomes the iconic hero.

185
00:08:20,978 --> 00:08:23,981
[fan thumping]

186
00:08:24,025 --> 00:08:26,288
narrator: By the end,

187
00:08:26,331 --> 00:08:28,290
only Ripley is able to escape
the doomed spaceship.

188
00:08:28,333 --> 00:08:30,118
[explosion]

189
00:08:30,161 --> 00:08:33,469
But the greatest test of
her heroism is yet to come.

190
00:08:33,513 --> 00:08:36,124
- I think it is one of
the most terrifying scenes

191
00:08:36,167 --> 00:08:39,388
in any movie
is that last part of "Alien."

192
00:08:39,431 --> 00:08:41,129
♪

193
00:08:41,172 --> 00:08:44,698
- When she's alone
in the--in the escape pod,

194
00:08:44,741 --> 00:08:47,265
she's gonna go to sleep,
it's gonna be fine,

195
00:08:47,309 --> 00:08:49,006
and then she realizes
the alien's in there,

196
00:08:49,050 --> 00:08:50,442
and that it's in the wall.

197
00:08:50,486 --> 00:08:52,488
- Aah!

198
00:08:52,532 --> 00:08:54,011
- It's like getting in your car

199
00:08:54,055 --> 00:08:57,101
and realizing there's
a big python in the backseat,

200
00:08:57,145 --> 00:08:58,581
and you turn around,

201
00:08:58,625 --> 00:09:00,757
and the thing just starts
to kinda uncoil,

202
00:09:00,801 --> 00:09:02,890
and at some point,
it's gonna realize

203
00:09:02,933 --> 00:09:06,894
I'm in--in the car with it.
[laughs]

204
00:09:06,937 --> 00:09:08,591
And this
is not gonna be good.

205
00:09:08,635 --> 00:09:09,766
What do I do?

206
00:09:09,810 --> 00:09:13,988
- [heavy breathing]

207
00:09:14,031 --> 00:09:15,946
- You know, it's just one
of those wonderful, like,

208
00:09:15,990 --> 00:09:20,429
so well-conceived moments
of horrific suspense.

209
00:09:20,472 --> 00:09:22,649
- [screams]

210
00:09:27,654 --> 00:09:29,699
- And what a beautifully
paced film.

211
00:09:29,743 --> 00:09:32,702
It was so slow
and patient and quiet

212
00:09:32,746 --> 00:09:34,704
and still,

213
00:09:34,748 --> 00:09:38,969
and uh, always that--
that trembling horror

214
00:09:39,013 --> 00:09:41,015
beneath the surface.

215
00:09:41,058 --> 00:09:43,147
♪

216
00:09:43,191 --> 00:09:45,497
narrator: One alien
trapped on one spaceship

217
00:09:45,541 --> 00:09:46,586
is frightening enough...

218
00:09:49,023 --> 00:09:51,199
- But what if
a horde of alien monsters

219
00:09:51,242 --> 00:09:54,115
overran Earth?

220
00:09:59,076 --> 00:10:02,427
[humming]
[zapping]

221
00:10:02,471 --> 00:10:04,386
- [screams]

222
00:10:04,429 --> 00:10:06,649
narrator: Monsters from outer
space invading planet Earth.

223
00:10:06,693 --> 00:10:09,739
- [roars]

224
00:10:09,783 --> 00:10:11,523
narrator: They've been
a staple of horror movies

225
00:10:11,567 --> 00:10:12,786
since the 1950s.

226
00:10:12,829 --> 00:10:15,745
- [screaming]

227
00:10:15,789 --> 00:10:18,835
narrator: And just when you
think it's all been done...

228
00:10:18,879 --> 00:10:20,794
someone comes along

229
00:10:20,837 --> 00:10:23,623
and breathes new life
into the genre.

230
00:10:26,364 --> 00:10:28,192
narrator:
Someone like John Krasinski

231
00:10:28,236 --> 00:10:30,368
with his wildly
successful film,

232
00:10:30,412 --> 00:10:32,327
"A Quiet Place."

233
00:10:32,370 --> 00:10:37,506
- [screaming]

234
00:10:37,549 --> 00:10:39,551
- The plot of "A Quiet Place"

235
00:10:39,595 --> 00:10:43,730
is that a new
invasive predatory species

236
00:10:43,773 --> 00:10:46,080
has attacked the human race.

237
00:10:46,123 --> 00:10:47,777
[uneasy violin music]

238
00:10:47,821 --> 00:10:50,345
- [growls]

239
00:10:50,388 --> 00:10:53,609
- And these new creatures
hunt us

240
00:10:53,653 --> 00:10:56,830
and have exterminated,
probably most of us

241
00:10:56,873 --> 00:10:59,615
and they have done it
through sound.

242
00:10:59,659 --> 00:11:01,356
[tense music]

243
00:11:01,399 --> 00:11:05,273
♪

244
00:11:05,316 --> 00:11:07,057
So the only way humans
are going to survive

245
00:11:07,101 --> 00:11:09,669
is if they stay quiet,

246
00:11:09,712 --> 00:11:12,628
and we follow a family
which is trying to survive

247
00:11:12,672 --> 00:11:15,413
on the fringes of the planet,

248
00:11:15,457 --> 00:11:18,765
trying to carve out
an existence in a farmhouse

249
00:11:18,808 --> 00:11:21,463
in a world where
we are no longer

250
00:11:21,506 --> 00:11:22,594
the top of the food chain.

251
00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:26,033
[beeping tune]

252
00:11:26,076 --> 00:11:28,644
- [snarls]

253
00:11:28,688 --> 00:11:30,994
- You're immediately thrown
into this world

254
00:11:31,038 --> 00:11:33,214
where you got John Krasinski,
Emily Blunt, and their family

255
00:11:33,257 --> 00:11:36,347
who are just--
They've got a ritual now.

256
00:11:36,391 --> 00:11:39,002
Like, they have a ritual
to their day to day life,

257
00:11:39,046 --> 00:11:41,004
and I think the movie
does it so brilliantly

258
00:11:41,048 --> 00:11:44,312
showing you they only
have to step on

259
00:11:44,355 --> 00:11:47,445
these parts of the road,
they can't step on that.

260
00:11:47,489 --> 00:11:49,056
♪

261
00:11:49,099 --> 00:11:50,840
- It's such an immersive film,

262
00:11:50,884 --> 00:11:52,842
that what--
even as an audience member,

263
00:11:52,886 --> 00:11:55,279
what you're drawn in with is
that you can't make a sound.

264
00:11:55,323 --> 00:11:57,934
[tense music]

265
00:11:57,978 --> 00:11:59,370
- [grunts]

266
00:12:02,896 --> 00:12:04,854
- Even the people
eating popcorn next to you

267
00:12:04,898 --> 00:12:07,509
are making you jump.

268
00:12:07,552 --> 00:12:12,340
♪

269
00:12:12,383 --> 00:12:15,256
- What I admire so much
about "A Quiet Place"

270
00:12:15,299 --> 00:12:17,562
is that everything that happens

271
00:12:17,606 --> 00:12:21,001
and the whole--the whole setup
of the movie is--is organic.

272
00:12:22,219 --> 00:12:23,307
- [screeches]

273
00:12:27,529 --> 00:12:29,531
- The idea of sound

274
00:12:29,574 --> 00:12:31,402
being the enemy really.

275
00:12:31,446 --> 00:12:34,971
So having a deaf character
in the movie is genius

276
00:12:35,015 --> 00:12:38,018
because conflict
is immediately established.

277
00:12:38,061 --> 00:12:42,457
[no sound]

278
00:12:42,500 --> 00:12:43,980
narrator:
For much of the film,

279
00:12:44,024 --> 00:12:46,069
the monsters
are only seen at a distance.

280
00:12:46,113 --> 00:12:47,810
- [roar]

281
00:12:50,204 --> 00:12:52,510
narrator: They're mysterious
and unstoppable.

282
00:12:52,554 --> 00:12:53,990
♪

283
00:12:54,034 --> 00:12:57,211
- [snarling and roaring]

284
00:12:57,254 --> 00:12:59,169
- When you can't see
them clearly,

285
00:12:59,213 --> 00:13:00,910
your imagination goes to work.

286
00:13:00,954 --> 00:13:02,390
What must they be like?

287
00:13:02,433 --> 00:13:04,000
How revolting are they?

288
00:13:05,872 --> 00:13:07,787
- [snarling]

289
00:13:07,830 --> 00:13:10,224
- "A Quiet Place" creature,
at the end of the day,

290
00:13:10,267 --> 00:13:12,008
was an extremely fast,
you know,

291
00:13:12,052 --> 00:13:15,969
a blur of--
of just limbs going by.

292
00:13:16,012 --> 00:13:19,363
So we looked at all sorts
of creature forms,

293
00:13:19,407 --> 00:13:22,976
proportions, to try and find
the right one for John.

294
00:13:23,019 --> 00:13:25,630
I saw those elements
that he happened to like,

295
00:13:25,674 --> 00:13:28,633
these long attenuated
front legs

296
00:13:28,677 --> 00:13:32,637
and kinda like that hyena
low squat with the hind legs.

297
00:13:32,681 --> 00:13:34,726
- [snarls]

298
00:13:34,770 --> 00:13:36,903
narrator: To survive,
the film's heroes

299
00:13:36,946 --> 00:13:39,731
have to find
the monsters' hidden weakness.

300
00:13:39,775 --> 00:13:42,952
- There needs to be
an Achilles' heel.

301
00:13:42,996 --> 00:13:47,174
If you can't kill it, then
well, there's no real story.

302
00:13:47,217 --> 00:13:49,132
The Achilles' heel
of this creature

303
00:13:49,176 --> 00:13:50,699
was the fact that it was
a giant ear.

304
00:13:50,742 --> 00:13:53,745
[loud ticking]

305
00:13:53,789 --> 00:13:57,706
[timer ticking]

306
00:13:57,749 --> 00:13:59,403
[rings]

307
00:13:59,447 --> 00:14:01,928
- [snarls]

308
00:14:01,971 --> 00:14:05,888
- Having this Achilles' heel
allowed there to be a way

309
00:14:05,932 --> 00:14:10,762
to have a narrative arc
that we have this discovery,

310
00:14:10,806 --> 00:14:14,723
and we have a weapon now
to hopefully take them down.

311
00:14:14,766 --> 00:14:17,030
[feedback tones]

312
00:14:17,073 --> 00:14:19,554
- [snarls]

313
00:14:25,908 --> 00:14:28,868
- And there's such
an emotional charge at the end

314
00:14:28,911 --> 00:14:31,044
when Emily Blunt
and her daughter

315
00:14:31,087 --> 00:14:33,089
discover how to take
these things out.

316
00:14:33,133 --> 00:14:35,352
I saw the movie
at South by Southwest

317
00:14:35,396 --> 00:14:38,834
and when she cocks
that shotgun,

318
00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:42,490
the entire audience
lost their minds

319
00:14:42,533 --> 00:14:46,668
because what Krasinski
did so well

320
00:14:46,711 --> 00:14:49,671
is just take you on
a very strong emotional journey

321
00:14:49,714 --> 00:14:51,934
and made it a great
creature feature as well.

322
00:14:51,978 --> 00:14:55,720
narrator: "A Quiet Place" had
a message about humanity

323
00:14:55,764 --> 00:14:58,071
that is now more relevant
than ever.

324
00:14:58,114 --> 00:15:01,291
- What will save us in the end
from destroying ourselves

325
00:15:01,335 --> 00:15:04,033
is our ability to adapt.

326
00:15:04,077 --> 00:15:08,559
Most species cannot do that.
We can adapt to a new paradigm

327
00:15:08,603 --> 00:15:10,953
especially when survival
is on the line.

328
00:15:10,997 --> 00:15:13,260
- [snarls]

329
00:15:13,303 --> 00:15:14,826
narrator: The aliens
in "A Quiet Place"

330
00:15:14,870 --> 00:15:16,741
were forces
of unstoppable evil.

331
00:15:18,961 --> 00:15:22,356
But one of the most famous
monsters of all time

332
00:15:22,399 --> 00:15:26,273
is neither good nor evil--
he's simply Kong.

333
00:15:26,316 --> 00:15:27,535
- [roars]

334
00:15:31,582 --> 00:15:34,063
- He was a king
in the world he knew,

335
00:15:34,107 --> 00:15:36,587
but he comes to you now
a captive.

336
00:15:36,631 --> 00:15:38,372
Ladies and gentlemen,

337
00:15:38,415 --> 00:15:42,811
I give you, Kong,
the eighth wonder of the world!

338
00:15:43,594 --> 00:15:44,247
- [roars]

339
00:15:44,291 --> 00:15:46,467
- [screams]

340
00:15:46,510 --> 00:15:49,470
narrator: From his star making
first appearance in 1933...

341
00:15:52,299 --> 00:15:54,344
To his latest incarnation

342
00:15:54,388 --> 00:15:56,129
as an enormous
hairy superhero...

343
00:15:56,172 --> 00:15:58,609
- [roars]

344
00:15:58,653 --> 00:16:00,524
King Kong has captured
the imagination

345
00:16:00,568 --> 00:16:02,135
of every monster lover.

346
00:16:02,178 --> 00:16:05,051
[crowd screaming]

347
00:16:06,530 --> 00:16:08,663
What explains
his enduring appeal,

348
00:16:08,706 --> 00:16:12,667
and why, despite
its dated special effects,

349
00:16:12,710 --> 00:16:15,235
is the original "King Kong"

350
00:16:15,278 --> 00:16:17,541
still considered one of
the greatest monster movies

351
00:16:17,585 --> 00:16:19,717
of all time?

352
00:16:19,761 --> 00:16:24,157
- The original 1933 Kong is--
it's the Beatles.

353
00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,202
You know?
It's Elvis Presley, it's...

354
00:16:26,246 --> 00:16:27,899
This is what this is.

355
00:16:27,943 --> 00:16:30,467
This is the best version
of this thing.

356
00:16:30,511 --> 00:16:32,121
narrator: The story is simple.

357
00:16:32,165 --> 00:16:34,254
A movie producer takes
a film crew

358
00:16:34,297 --> 00:16:36,560
to an uncharted
tropical island

359
00:16:36,604 --> 00:16:38,910
and discovers
the ultimate special effect.

360
00:16:38,954 --> 00:16:40,869
[suspenseful music]

361
00:16:40,912 --> 00:16:42,523
- [screaming]

362
00:16:42,566 --> 00:16:44,612
The towering
ape-like monster

363
00:16:44,655 --> 00:16:46,483
the natives call Kong.

364
00:16:46,527 --> 00:16:48,659
- [roars]

365
00:16:48,703 --> 00:16:50,357
- We came here
to get a moving picture,

366
00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:51,575
and we found something
worth more

367
00:16:51,619 --> 00:16:53,229
than all the movies
in the world.

368
00:16:53,273 --> 00:16:55,536
narrator: He captures Kong
and takes him to New York

369
00:16:55,579 --> 00:16:57,973
intending to exploit him
for profit.

370
00:16:58,017 --> 00:17:01,063
Kong escapes but is undone

371
00:17:01,107 --> 00:17:04,327
by his affection
for a dazzling starlet.

372
00:17:04,371 --> 00:17:08,679
In the early 1930s, no one had
ever seen anything like it.

373
00:17:08,723 --> 00:17:11,465
"King Kong" was a smash.

374
00:17:13,249 --> 00:17:15,121
- Even though
it was made in 1933,

375
00:17:15,164 --> 00:17:17,558
the effects,

376
00:17:17,601 --> 00:17:19,473
the stop-motion animation
of the King Kong character

377
00:17:19,516 --> 00:17:22,693
by Willis O'Brien is just
really incredibly entertaining.

378
00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:25,435
You know,
he fights a giant snake.

379
00:17:25,479 --> 00:17:27,655
He fights an Allosaurus.

380
00:17:27,698 --> 00:17:30,049
He fights pterodactyl.

381
00:17:30,092 --> 00:17:31,659
There's all kinds
of great shots

382
00:17:31,702 --> 00:17:33,487
of people being crushed
by King Kong's foot.

383
00:17:33,530 --> 00:17:34,749
He's eating people.

384
00:17:34,792 --> 00:17:36,664
- Aah!

385
00:17:36,707 --> 00:17:38,927
- He's destroying things.

386
00:17:38,970 --> 00:17:41,016
So it's really a movie
that really delivered.

387
00:17:47,849 --> 00:17:50,808
- There was something dark
about it.

388
00:17:50,852 --> 00:17:53,637
The black and white
just makes it otherworldly,

389
00:17:53,681 --> 00:17:56,945
and it's the weird sexual edge
of it

390
00:17:56,988 --> 00:18:00,209
with Kong and,
you know, Ann Darrow.

391
00:18:00,253 --> 00:18:02,255
None of the other movies
ever came near it.

392
00:18:02,298 --> 00:18:04,779
- [screaming]

393
00:18:04,822 --> 00:18:07,347
- When you look at
the white woman in peril,

394
00:18:07,390 --> 00:18:09,305
which was such a big deal

395
00:18:09,349 --> 00:18:12,091
back in the era
when "King Kong" was made,

396
00:18:12,134 --> 00:18:16,138
this idea black male energy
as a menace

397
00:18:16,182 --> 00:18:18,880
and as a menace specifically
to white women,

398
00:18:18,923 --> 00:18:21,143
and "King Kong,"

399
00:18:21,187 --> 00:18:25,147
it seems kind of obvious that
there are racial undercurrents.

400
00:18:25,191 --> 00:18:26,627
- [screams]

401
00:18:26,670 --> 00:18:28,977
♪

402
00:18:29,020 --> 00:18:30,935
[crowd screaming]

403
00:18:30,979 --> 00:18:33,068
- It's complete metaphor

404
00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:35,549
for the tribulations
of the black male

405
00:18:35,592 --> 00:18:38,029
in American white society.

406
00:18:38,073 --> 00:18:41,120
- [speaking German]

407
00:18:49,867 --> 00:18:51,130
- Ah!

408
00:18:51,173 --> 00:18:52,696
[laughs]

409
00:18:52,740 --> 00:18:55,046
- I know a lot of people
watched "Inglourious Basterds"

410
00:18:55,090 --> 00:18:57,005
and after that card game,

411
00:18:57,048 --> 00:18:59,181
people went back,
and they rewatched the film

412
00:18:59,225 --> 00:19:00,835
in a way
that they never had before.

413
00:19:00,878 --> 00:19:02,489
- I'm sure there's quitea few subtextual writers

414
00:19:02,532 --> 00:19:04,578
who've written about itbefore "Basterds."

415
00:19:04,621 --> 00:19:05,622
- I'm not saying that you were
the first one

416
00:19:05,666 --> 00:19:07,755
to write about it.
- Yeah, yeah.

417
00:19:07,798 --> 00:19:09,409
- But you were the first one to
put in a pop culture movie...

418
00:19:09,452 --> 00:19:10,671
- Put it in a pop culture...
- That has nothing to do

419
00:19:10,714 --> 00:19:12,151
with King Kong
or subtextual slavery.

420
00:19:12,194 --> 00:19:13,456
- Yeah, yeah.

421
00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:14,805
- You're just watching
this war movie,

422
00:19:14,849 --> 00:19:16,024
and suddenly you get
this nugget of information

423
00:19:16,067 --> 00:19:17,156
that really stuck with
a lot of people.

424
00:19:17,199 --> 00:19:18,592
[horrific musical sting]

425
00:19:18,635 --> 00:19:20,550
narrator: Kong of 1933

426
00:19:20,594 --> 00:19:23,901
was created
using stop-motion animation.

427
00:19:23,945 --> 00:19:26,295
Small figurines
were fabricated, posed,

428
00:19:26,339 --> 00:19:28,558
and photographed one frame
at a time,

429
00:19:28,602 --> 00:19:31,953
by cinematic pioneer
Willis O'Brien.

430
00:19:31,996 --> 00:19:35,783
- The true auteur
of "King Kong"

431
00:19:35,826 --> 00:19:37,480
is Willis O'Brien.

432
00:19:37,524 --> 00:19:39,526
Because if you look at

433
00:19:39,569 --> 00:19:41,919
the original posters
of "King Kong,"

434
00:19:41,963 --> 00:19:44,748
Kong is far more a monster

435
00:19:44,792 --> 00:19:46,489
and like, he has teeth,
that like--

436
00:19:46,533 --> 00:19:48,230
almost like
a saber-toothed tiger.

437
00:19:48,274 --> 00:19:50,101
- Yeah, canine teeth, yeah.
- The canine, rrr!

438
00:19:50,145 --> 00:19:53,931
Willis got rid of all
of the monstrous touches,

439
00:19:53,975 --> 00:19:55,890
and the whole idea

440
00:19:55,933 --> 00:20:00,286
was to make him
as human as possible,

441
00:20:00,329 --> 00:20:03,419
and so we respond to Kong,

442
00:20:03,463 --> 00:20:05,508
not as monster,
but as a true character.

443
00:20:05,552 --> 00:20:08,250
That is why

444
00:20:08,294 --> 00:20:11,862
that movie not--not justa movie about a giant monkey.

445
00:20:11,906 --> 00:20:16,389
It's a character that hassurvived since the '30s

446
00:20:16,432 --> 00:20:18,913
as a pop cultural icon.

447
00:20:18,956 --> 00:20:21,872
- [roaring]

448
00:20:25,441 --> 00:20:28,139
- [screaming]

449
00:20:28,183 --> 00:20:30,272
narrator:
"King Kong" was so iconic

450
00:20:30,316 --> 00:20:32,274
that no one dared
to remake it

451
00:20:32,318 --> 00:20:34,755
until maverick producer
Dino De Laurentiis

452
00:20:34,798 --> 00:20:37,105
mounted a production
in the mid-1970s.

453
00:20:37,148 --> 00:20:38,976
[dark music]

454
00:20:39,020 --> 00:20:41,588
- My relationship
with King Kong is--

455
00:20:41,631 --> 00:20:45,461
started really with--
with the '70s "King Kong"

456
00:20:45,505 --> 00:20:49,117
with Jeff Bridges
and Jessica Lange.

457
00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,685
That was amazing to me
as a kid.

458
00:20:51,728 --> 00:20:54,078
- "King Kong" is mostly played
by Rick Baker

459
00:20:54,122 --> 00:20:55,863
who is an incredible makeup
artist.

460
00:20:55,906 --> 00:20:57,430
One of the great guys

461
00:20:57,473 --> 00:20:58,822
and built this incredible
ape suit

462
00:20:58,866 --> 00:21:00,476
and really played
the character of Kong.

463
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,871
- He wore the mask, and
of course, the eyes were his

464
00:21:03,914 --> 00:21:06,830
with contact lenses, and
I think that was really key.

465
00:21:06,874 --> 00:21:09,355
You know, everything else,
the facial movements,

466
00:21:09,398 --> 00:21:12,445
all of that was done
via animatronics.

467
00:21:12,488 --> 00:21:15,143
[crowd screaming]

468
00:21:18,277 --> 00:21:21,758
narrator: In 2005,
director Peter Jackson

469
00:21:21,802 --> 00:21:24,021
released a lavish remake
of "King Kong"

470
00:21:24,065 --> 00:21:25,936
using photorealistic
digital effects.

471
00:21:25,980 --> 00:21:28,025
- [growling]

472
00:21:28,069 --> 00:21:29,940
- I had the time of my life

473
00:21:29,984 --> 00:21:32,813
working on
Peter Jackson's "King Kong."

474
00:21:32,856 --> 00:21:35,729
[grand music]

475
00:21:35,772 --> 00:21:39,472
It was his, like, love letter
to this old masterpiece.

476
00:21:39,515 --> 00:21:41,691
narrator: Jackson's Kong
was in a way

477
00:21:41,735 --> 00:21:43,911
played by another man
in a suit--

478
00:21:43,954 --> 00:21:47,915
a motion capture suit worn
by actor Andy Serkis.

479
00:21:47,958 --> 00:21:51,527
Serkis's performance
was painted over by a computer

480
00:21:51,571 --> 00:21:54,617
then placed
in digital environments.

481
00:21:54,661 --> 00:21:56,576
The technology had changed,

482
00:21:56,619 --> 00:21:59,361
but the story followed
the same tragic arc.

483
00:21:59,405 --> 00:22:01,363
- [roars]

484
00:22:01,407 --> 00:22:03,234
[dramatic music]

485
00:22:03,278 --> 00:22:05,715
- I don't think of King Kong
as a monster

486
00:22:05,759 --> 00:22:07,717
because you love him.

487
00:22:07,761 --> 00:22:10,372
♪

488
00:22:10,416 --> 00:22:12,026
- [roars]

489
00:22:12,069 --> 00:22:14,550
- He's--he's got--he's got
a sweetness to him.

490
00:22:14,594 --> 00:22:16,378
You kind of root for him,

491
00:22:16,422 --> 00:22:20,643
and the real monsters are
those bastards shooting him.

492
00:22:20,687 --> 00:22:23,951
- Well, gentlemen,
the airplanes got him.

493
00:22:23,994 --> 00:22:26,127
[somber music]

494
00:22:26,170 --> 00:22:28,651
- Oh, no.It wasn't the airplanes.

495
00:22:28,695 --> 00:22:31,872
It was beauty killed the beast.

496
00:22:31,915 --> 00:22:33,352
♪

497
00:22:33,395 --> 00:22:35,397
- Fly, fly!
Three...

498
00:22:35,441 --> 00:22:38,095
- But no monster with good
box office truly dies.

499
00:22:38,139 --> 00:22:42,099
- [roaring]

500
00:22:43,144 --> 00:22:44,754
[both screaming]

501
00:22:44,798 --> 00:22:47,714
- [roars]

502
00:22:47,757 --> 00:22:50,586
- "Kong on Skull Island."
Like, I watched it,

503
00:22:50,630 --> 00:22:52,196
and I thought, "These fight
scenes when he's fight--

504
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:53,894
are so spectacular..."

505
00:22:59,378 --> 00:23:01,858
"But I feel like I don't care

506
00:23:01,902 --> 00:23:02,946
that I'm watching it
at the same time."

507
00:23:06,036 --> 00:23:08,038
Like, it looks incredible,

508
00:23:08,082 --> 00:23:10,737
but I think it just looks
so incredible

509
00:23:10,780 --> 00:23:13,914
that it's, you know,
it's kinda like...

510
00:23:13,957 --> 00:23:15,611
sometimes you see
an old black and white photo

511
00:23:15,655 --> 00:23:17,091
that's out of focus,

512
00:23:17,134 --> 00:23:18,309
and there's just
something about it.

513
00:23:18,353 --> 00:23:20,964
- Each remake of it comes out

514
00:23:21,008 --> 00:23:24,141
and within ten years
it is made obsolete.

515
00:23:24,185 --> 00:23:26,230
[suspenseful music]

516
00:23:26,274 --> 00:23:28,581
Because all their special
effects have moved on,

517
00:23:28,624 --> 00:23:30,365
and now
it's a whole different thing.

518
00:23:30,409 --> 00:23:33,716
But the original "King Kong"
always will be a go-to

519
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,327
to both film fans,
children seeing the movie,

520
00:23:36,371 --> 00:23:37,851
anything.

521
00:23:37,894 --> 00:23:42,246
- [roaring]

522
00:23:42,290 --> 00:23:44,901
narrator: It took decades
for other giant creatures

523
00:23:44,945 --> 00:23:47,861
to challenge King Kong's place
on the monster throne.

524
00:23:50,298 --> 00:23:52,822
When they came,
they came in droves.

525
00:23:52,866 --> 00:23:56,304
- [roaring]

526
00:24:02,919 --> 00:24:05,269
narrator: The Japanese have
a word for them...

527
00:24:05,313 --> 00:24:07,968
[crowd screaming]
- [roars]

528
00:24:08,011 --> 00:24:10,231
narrator: Kaiju.

529
00:24:10,274 --> 00:24:11,972
Giant monsters.

530
00:24:12,015 --> 00:24:15,105
[dramatic music]

531
00:24:15,149 --> 00:24:18,935
Oversized and unstoppable,
the spawn of the atomic age

532
00:24:18,979 --> 00:24:21,982
have rampaged across movie
screens for nearly 70 years.

533
00:24:26,116 --> 00:24:30,686
- You know the atomic bomb
brought World War II to an end,

534
00:24:30,730 --> 00:24:32,993
but on one level, it didn't.

535
00:24:36,736 --> 00:24:39,869
It was just the beginning
of new anxieties

536
00:24:39,913 --> 00:24:42,176
and new fears

537
00:24:42,219 --> 00:24:44,787
and the prospect of an even
more terrifying war to come.

538
00:24:44,831 --> 00:24:48,530
This was where
the very new and original

539
00:24:48,574 --> 00:24:51,794
kinds of, uh, fright films
of the 1950s

540
00:24:51,838 --> 00:24:54,231
came from--atomic anxieties.

541
00:24:55,755 --> 00:24:58,409
- Five, four, three,

542
00:24:58,453 --> 00:25:00,673
two, one.

543
00:25:00,716 --> 00:25:07,593
♪

544
00:25:09,116 --> 00:25:11,074
narrator:
To Japanese audiences,

545
00:25:11,118 --> 00:25:14,513
the nightmarish imagery
of Ishiro Honda's "Godzilla"

546
00:25:14,556 --> 00:25:16,906
was a jarring reminder
of a national trauma.

547
00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:21,432
It was made
just after nine years

548
00:25:21,476 --> 00:25:24,305
after atomic bombs leveled
the cities of Hiroshima

549
00:25:24,348 --> 00:25:25,698
and Nagasaki.

550
00:25:25,741 --> 00:25:27,569
- [roars]

551
00:25:27,613 --> 00:25:30,572
♪

552
00:25:30,616 --> 00:25:32,269
[crowd screaming]

553
00:25:32,313 --> 00:25:33,706
narrator: The film begins

554
00:25:33,749 --> 00:25:35,316
when an H-bomb test
rouses Godzilla...

555
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,014
- [roars]
- [screams]

556
00:25:38,058 --> 00:25:39,973
narrator:
A radioactive monster

557
00:25:40,016 --> 00:25:42,584
addicted to mass destruction.

558
00:25:42,628 --> 00:25:45,282
Haunted scientist,
Dr. Serizawa,

559
00:25:45,326 --> 00:25:48,024
has invented a device
that could stop the monster

560
00:25:48,068 --> 00:25:49,939
but he's afraid his invention

561
00:25:49,983 --> 00:25:51,767
will be turned into
another super weapon.

562
00:25:51,811 --> 00:25:53,943
- [speaking Japanese]

563
00:26:00,820 --> 00:26:02,212
- It was a very somber film,

564
00:26:02,256 --> 00:26:03,605
and there was nothing campy

565
00:26:03,649 --> 00:26:05,389
about that
very first Godzilla film.

566
00:26:05,433 --> 00:26:08,523
It's a very
disturbing film, even today.

567
00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:12,005
narrator: In the end, Serizawa
kills the monster and himself

568
00:26:12,048 --> 00:26:14,703
taking his lethal invention
to his grave.

569
00:26:14,747 --> 00:26:17,793
- [speaking Japanese]

570
00:26:18,968 --> 00:26:22,493
- This was a movie that really
caught the zeitgeist of Japan,

571
00:26:22,537 --> 00:26:24,234
postwar Japan,

572
00:26:24,278 --> 00:26:27,063
and it's interesting that none
of the other Godzilla pictures

573
00:26:27,107 --> 00:26:28,804
are as serious
as the first one.

574
00:26:28,848 --> 00:26:31,894
- [roaring]

575
00:26:31,938 --> 00:26:35,594
- They're all kind of stepping
on tanks, you know, basic.

576
00:26:37,508 --> 00:26:39,598
narrator: "Godzilla's"
enormous popularity

577
00:26:39,641 --> 00:26:42,383
at the box office brought
the monster back to life

578
00:26:42,426 --> 00:26:43,993
for a series of entertaining

579
00:26:44,037 --> 00:26:46,517
but increasingly
outlandish sequels.

580
00:26:52,175 --> 00:26:54,047
- With sequel after sequel

581
00:26:54,090 --> 00:26:56,440
and reappearance
after reappearance,

582
00:26:56,484 --> 00:26:58,660
uh, Godzilla ultimately became

583
00:26:58,704 --> 00:27:01,315
a kind of a creature of--
of fun.

584
00:27:01,358 --> 00:27:04,492
- [roaring]
- [roaring]

585
00:27:04,884 --> 00:27:06,625
- Only then to be, uh,

586
00:27:06,668 --> 00:27:08,627
resurrected as
a terrifying monster again.

587
00:27:15,068 --> 00:27:17,548
So it's like there's
a pendulum swing

588
00:27:17,592 --> 00:27:19,768
with--with monsters.

589
00:27:19,812 --> 00:27:22,510
narrator: Godzilla used
the figure of the monster

590
00:27:22,553 --> 00:27:25,078
as a stand-in
for manmade disaster.

591
00:27:25,121 --> 00:27:26,732
♪

592
00:27:26,775 --> 00:27:30,518
[crowd screaming]

593
00:27:30,561 --> 00:27:32,781
The same can be said
of "Cloverfield."

594
00:27:32,825 --> 00:27:36,132
- [roars]

595
00:27:36,176 --> 00:27:38,352
- "Cloverfield" is probably one
of my favorite monster movies

596
00:27:38,395 --> 00:27:39,396
of recent memory.

597
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,268
[group screaming]

598
00:27:41,311 --> 00:27:44,706
Take "Godzilla" but filter it
through a found footage movie

599
00:27:44,750 --> 00:27:47,840
and make it feel very grounded
and feel very real.

600
00:27:47,883 --> 00:27:49,711
[crowd screaming]

601
00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:51,713
narrator: "Cloverfield"
tells the story

602
00:27:51,757 --> 00:27:53,584
of a group of friends
trying to survive

603
00:27:53,628 --> 00:27:56,196
a giant monster attack
on New York City.

604
00:27:56,239 --> 00:27:59,155
[crowd screaming]

605
00:28:02,115 --> 00:28:05,640
The shaky handheld footage
is unmistakably similar

606
00:28:05,684 --> 00:28:08,251
to the videos shot during
the terrorist attacks

607
00:28:08,295 --> 00:28:10,558
of September 11th, 2001.

608
00:28:10,601 --> 00:28:13,604
[crowd screaming]

609
00:28:13,648 --> 00:28:17,260
The Cloverfield monster
was an all CGI creation

610
00:28:17,304 --> 00:28:19,741
conceived by
producer J.J. Abrams

611
00:28:19,785 --> 00:28:22,135
and designed by
producer Neville Page.

612
00:28:22,178 --> 00:28:25,051
- J.J. didn't really specify
at the beginning anything

613
00:28:25,094 --> 00:28:28,619
other than he wanted it
to be large and terrifying.

614
00:28:33,015 --> 00:28:38,238
It's a newborn,
and this infant is horrified

615
00:28:38,281 --> 00:28:41,415
and afraid of this new world
that's going on around him,

616
00:28:41,458 --> 00:28:44,418
and that gave us motivation
to crash into buildings.

617
00:28:44,461 --> 00:28:46,159
As it's turning around,
it's clumsy.

618
00:28:46,202 --> 00:28:49,336
It's just starting to develop
its ability to walk.

619
00:28:49,379 --> 00:28:51,599
- They just hit!
They hit it with--

620
00:28:51,642 --> 00:28:54,167
Oh, my God!

621
00:28:54,210 --> 00:28:56,299
narrator: Tapping into
the memories of the chaos

622
00:28:56,343 --> 00:28:57,997
of the 9/11 attacks

623
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,390
grounded "Cloverfield"
in real life horror.

624
00:29:00,434 --> 00:29:02,523
- Oh my God.

625
00:29:04,568 --> 00:29:06,614
narrator: And it gave
audiences a safe way

626
00:29:06,657 --> 00:29:09,399
to deal with national trauma.

627
00:29:09,443 --> 00:29:10,705
- As a film maker,
as a storyteller,

628
00:29:10,749 --> 00:29:12,402
writer, or whatever it is,

629
00:29:13,229 --> 00:29:15,928
you will be fed
with the emotions

630
00:29:15,971 --> 00:29:18,495
of the world you live in
at the time,

631
00:29:18,539 --> 00:29:20,802
and it will come out somehow
creatively.

632
00:29:20,846 --> 00:29:22,412
Definitely the horror movies
in general

633
00:29:22,456 --> 00:29:25,372
and possibly also monsters
more specifically

634
00:29:25,415 --> 00:29:27,766
are a product of their world.

635
00:29:33,032 --> 00:29:34,294
narrator:
In the paranoid world

636
00:29:34,337 --> 00:29:36,078
of John Carpenter's
"The Thing,"

637
00:29:36,122 --> 00:29:38,907
anyone can be a monster
in disguise.

638
00:29:38,951 --> 00:29:40,604
- Aah!

639
00:29:40,648 --> 00:29:41,867
[horrific musical sting]

640
00:29:46,306 --> 00:29:49,178
narrator:
In the early days of movies,

641
00:29:49,222 --> 00:29:52,703
monsters were distorted
versions of humans,

642
00:29:52,747 --> 00:29:55,968
actors concealed
under incredible makeup.

643
00:29:57,404 --> 00:29:59,362
narrator: By the 1950s,

644
00:29:59,406 --> 00:30:02,452
the state of the art was
the full body monster suit

645
00:30:02,496 --> 00:30:05,673
as well as the giant creatures
made out of papier-mâché.

646
00:30:05,716 --> 00:30:07,370
♪

647
00:30:07,414 --> 00:30:08,676
[horrific musical sting]

648
00:30:08,719 --> 00:30:10,591
[both screaming]

649
00:30:10,634 --> 00:30:15,204
In the 1980s, there was
another seismic shift.

650
00:30:15,248 --> 00:30:17,772
New materials
let special effects artists

651
00:30:17,816 --> 00:30:21,123
upgrade the rubber monster
suits with robotic parts

652
00:30:21,167 --> 00:30:23,386
leading to amazing creations

653
00:30:23,430 --> 00:30:25,519
like Stan Winston's
"Pumpkinhead."

654
00:30:29,610 --> 00:30:32,787
And the queen mother
in James Cameron's "Aliens."

655
00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:36,182
♪

656
00:30:36,225 --> 00:30:37,792
The era's crowning achievement

657
00:30:37,836 --> 00:30:40,012
was John Carpenter's
"The Thing"...

658
00:30:40,055 --> 00:30:43,580
- [snarling]

659
00:30:43,624 --> 00:30:45,191
narrator: What many consider

660
00:30:45,234 --> 00:30:48,107
the greatest monster movie
of all time.

661
00:30:48,150 --> 00:30:51,545
12 men stationed in
an Antarctica weather base

662
00:30:51,588 --> 00:30:54,069
find themselves under siege

663
00:30:54,113 --> 00:30:56,245
by a shapeshifting monster.

664
00:30:56,289 --> 00:31:00,206
It infiltrates the base
disguised as a friendly Husky,

665
00:31:00,249 --> 00:31:02,904
but this is a very bad dog.

666
00:31:02,948 --> 00:31:05,907
[dogs barking]

667
00:31:05,951 --> 00:31:07,822
[scary music]

668
00:31:07,866 --> 00:31:10,738
- The creature effects
were so mind blowing

669
00:31:10,781 --> 00:31:12,958
and so outrageous

670
00:31:13,001 --> 00:31:16,396
because there were no rules
to the monster.

671
00:31:16,439 --> 00:31:19,225
[dogs barking]

672
00:31:19,790 --> 00:31:22,576
- So the first time that
the dog goes into the kennel

673
00:31:22,619 --> 00:31:25,927
and splits open and just starts
turning into the--

674
00:31:25,971 --> 00:31:28,277
I didn't even know where
to look or what to think.

675
00:31:28,321 --> 00:31:31,672
- [roars]

676
00:31:31,715 --> 00:31:34,631
narrator: Special effects
wizard Rob Bottin

677
00:31:34,675 --> 00:31:37,069
created an
ever-changing monster.

678
00:31:37,112 --> 00:31:38,897
[skeleton crackling]

679
00:31:38,940 --> 00:31:42,465
An alien shape-shifter
that absorbed bits and pieces

680
00:31:42,509 --> 00:31:43,945
of life forms
from around the galaxy

681
00:31:43,989 --> 00:31:46,861
and can imitate
anything it touches.

682
00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:48,558
- [bellows]

683
00:31:48,602 --> 00:31:50,082
- What's great about that film

684
00:31:50,125 --> 00:31:51,257
and the creature designs
in "The Thing"

685
00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:53,912
is the fact that

686
00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:56,218
it's trying to evolve
in a very short period of time,

687
00:31:56,262 --> 00:31:58,829
and each version,
it's a bit of a mess.

688
00:31:58,873 --> 00:32:01,789
- [roaring]

689
00:32:03,138 --> 00:32:05,010
[chirping]

690
00:32:06,011 --> 00:32:08,230
[screeching]

691
00:32:08,274 --> 00:32:11,320
- And that's also what lends
itself to be so horrifying

692
00:32:11,364 --> 00:32:14,062
because if it came out as
a fully resolved creature,

693
00:32:14,106 --> 00:32:16,673
I don't think that would've
been anywhere near as scary

694
00:32:16,717 --> 00:32:19,459
as these mutations that
you felt the pain of it,

695
00:32:19,502 --> 00:32:21,417
even an alien,

696
00:32:21,461 --> 00:32:23,028
that it's assimilating
these people.

697
00:32:23,071 --> 00:32:25,900
You felt the pain that it's not
quite figured out how to be,

698
00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:27,641
uh, fully resolved.

699
00:32:30,035 --> 00:32:32,124
- [gagging]

700
00:32:32,167 --> 00:32:33,908
narrator:
Trapped in a nightmare,

701
00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:36,606
the men are consumed
by fear and paranoia.

702
00:32:36,650 --> 00:32:39,348
[overlapping yelling]

703
00:32:39,392 --> 00:32:40,610
narrator: Any one of them

704
00:32:40,654 --> 00:32:42,525
could be
the monster in disguise.

705
00:32:42,569 --> 00:32:45,441
- It all kinda deals with
the fear of conformity

706
00:32:45,485 --> 00:32:47,530
but also trusting people.

707
00:32:47,574 --> 00:32:49,663
I think that's a thing
that a lot of people fear,

708
00:32:49,706 --> 00:32:51,056
you know?

709
00:32:51,099 --> 00:32:53,058
- Trust is a tough thing
to come by these days.

710
00:32:53,101 --> 00:32:56,235
- "The Thing," for a film

711
00:32:56,278 --> 00:32:59,064
that has some of the best
monster effects of all time,

712
00:32:59,107 --> 00:33:00,804
even by today's standards,

713
00:33:00,848 --> 00:33:03,024
still the most tense scene

714
00:33:03,068 --> 00:33:04,721
revolves around them
giving a blood test.

715
00:33:04,765 --> 00:33:08,421
- You see, when a man bleeds,

716
00:33:08,464 --> 00:33:10,771
it's just tissue.

717
00:33:10,814 --> 00:33:12,642
[tense music]

718
00:33:12,686 --> 00:33:14,166
But blood
from one of you things

719
00:33:14,209 --> 00:33:16,037
won't obey when it's attacked.

720
00:33:16,081 --> 00:33:20,128
- Because you haven't seen,
like, a massive, um,

721
00:33:20,172 --> 00:33:21,608
shapeshifting monster
in your lifetime,

722
00:33:21,651 --> 00:33:23,566
but everybody's cut
their thumb.

723
00:33:23,610 --> 00:33:25,177
Everybody knows
what that feels like.

724
00:33:25,220 --> 00:33:30,225
♪

725
00:33:30,269 --> 00:33:33,272
- They're seeing
who's the monster,

726
00:33:33,315 --> 00:33:37,015
and that's a beautiful
analogy of, you know, life,

727
00:33:37,058 --> 00:33:38,973
like, you know,
the banality of evil.

728
00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:41,280
You could--the monster
could be sitting right here.

729
00:33:41,323 --> 00:33:43,934
Ted Bundy
looked like a normal guy.

730
00:33:43,978 --> 00:33:46,067
- Palmer now.

731
00:33:46,111 --> 00:33:48,635
- The climax is in such
a great shock

732
00:33:48,678 --> 00:33:50,898
where they're holding
the Petri dish.

733
00:33:50,941 --> 00:33:52,421
It wasn't until I watched it
for the third time

734
00:33:52,465 --> 00:33:54,075
that I realized,

735
00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:55,598
"Oh, this is like a fake hand
that he's holding,"

736
00:33:55,642 --> 00:33:58,427
and it's a fake hand because
a monster is gonna go whaaaa

737
00:33:58,471 --> 00:33:59,733
out of the Petri dish.

738
00:33:59,776 --> 00:34:01,952
- We'll do you last.

739
00:34:01,996 --> 00:34:03,737
- [screeches]

740
00:34:03,780 --> 00:34:06,870
♪

741
00:34:06,914 --> 00:34:09,569
- I've always been a big
proponent of special effects

742
00:34:09,612 --> 00:34:12,050
that are practical,
that happen on the set.

743
00:34:15,923 --> 00:34:20,449
In "The Thing" the chest
that splits open

744
00:34:20,493 --> 00:34:23,148
really sort of
amazed everybody

745
00:34:23,191 --> 00:34:25,106
standing around.

746
00:34:25,150 --> 00:34:26,586
- Clear.
- Clear.

747
00:34:26,629 --> 00:34:29,980
- [bellowing]
- [screaming]

748
00:34:30,851 --> 00:34:33,897
- As a result,  you get a reaction I think,

749
00:34:33,941 --> 00:34:36,074
from the--from the characters
and the actors

750
00:34:36,117 --> 00:34:38,119
that is a lot more significant

751
00:34:38,163 --> 00:34:40,034
than if they were just looking
at a green object.

752
00:34:40,078 --> 00:34:42,776
[dramatic music]

753
00:34:42,819 --> 00:34:44,647
narrator: For an aggressively
violent film,

754
00:34:44,691 --> 00:34:47,563
"The Thing" ends on a note
of quiet paranoia--

755
00:34:47,607 --> 00:34:49,783
two men about to die,

756
00:34:49,826 --> 00:34:52,786
neither one sure
if the other is the monster.

757
00:34:52,829 --> 00:34:55,180
- Won't last long though.

758
00:34:55,223 --> 00:34:57,921
- Neither will we.

759
00:34:57,965 --> 00:35:00,924
narrator: "The Thing"
is now considered a classic,

760
00:35:00,968 --> 00:35:04,450
but the film's horrific
imagery did not go over well

761
00:35:04,493 --> 00:35:06,234
in 1982.

762
00:35:06,278 --> 00:35:08,932
- Well, "The Thing" had
the unfortunate bad luck

763
00:35:08,976 --> 00:35:11,935
to come right after "E.T.,"

764
00:35:11,979 --> 00:35:14,329
and people were looking
for lovable aliens,

765
00:35:14,373 --> 00:35:17,463
and they certainly didn't
get any in "The Thing."

766
00:35:20,988 --> 00:35:23,991
I just remember how
devastated everybody was

767
00:35:24,034 --> 00:35:26,472
that the picture didn't--
not only didn't it open,

768
00:35:26,515 --> 00:35:28,822
it got bad reviews.

769
00:35:28,865 --> 00:35:30,519
People were saying, you know,

770
00:35:30,563 --> 00:35:32,695
"This is--this is
practically pornography,

771
00:35:32,739 --> 00:35:34,219
this is so violent."

772
00:35:34,262 --> 00:35:36,046
Honestly, it's stood
the test of time

773
00:35:36,090 --> 00:35:38,005
and now, you know, people have
a chance to appreciate it.

774
00:35:38,048 --> 00:35:40,877
- Aah!

775
00:35:40,921 --> 00:35:43,489
narrator: Today
the ever-improving quality

776
00:35:43,532 --> 00:35:45,578
of digital effects
makes it possible

777
00:35:45,621 --> 00:35:48,015
to bring even stranger
monsters to the screen...

778
00:35:48,058 --> 00:35:49,756
- [cries]

779
00:35:49,799 --> 00:35:51,888
narrator: Drawn from the
darkest parts of our psyches.

780
00:35:51,932 --> 00:35:53,194
- [roars]

781
00:35:57,242 --> 00:35:59,026
- Stop following me!

782
00:35:59,069 --> 00:36:01,463
- I'm gonna--I'm gonna get you outta here.

783
00:36:06,990 --> 00:36:10,342
narrator: Two recent films,
"It Chapter Two..."

784
00:36:10,385 --> 00:36:13,388
- [screams]
- [screams]

785
00:36:13,432 --> 00:36:17,523
narrator: And "Scary Stories
to Tell in the Dark..."

786
00:36:17,566 --> 00:36:20,221
Are the state of the art
of modern monster movies.

787
00:36:20,265 --> 00:36:22,223
- [screams]

788
00:36:22,267 --> 00:36:23,964
narrator: Both tell
supernatural stories

789
00:36:24,007 --> 00:36:26,096
about human fear,

790
00:36:26,140 --> 00:36:29,230
and both blend practical
effects with computer graphics

791
00:36:29,274 --> 00:36:31,014
to push creature design
to the limit.

792
00:36:31,058 --> 00:36:34,235
- [shrieks]

793
00:36:34,279 --> 00:36:37,020
- I know it's kind of in vogue
to sort of crap on CG

794
00:36:37,064 --> 00:36:38,587
and just go to practical,

795
00:36:38,631 --> 00:36:40,241
but not all practical effects
look great, you know?

796
00:36:40,285 --> 00:36:42,548
So it is finding the balance
between the two,

797
00:36:42,591 --> 00:36:44,332
but when you solely rely
on one or the other,

798
00:36:44,376 --> 00:36:46,160
I do think they kind of
need each other.

799
00:36:46,204 --> 00:36:48,902
narrator: Adapted from
the popular children's books,

800
00:36:48,945 --> 00:36:51,818
"Scary Stories to Tell
in the Dark"

801
00:36:51,861 --> 00:36:55,430
follows a group of teenagers
who break into a haunted house

802
00:36:55,474 --> 00:36:57,650
and discover a book
that seems to write itself.

803
00:36:57,693 --> 00:37:00,348
- Oh, my God.

804
00:37:00,392 --> 00:37:02,176
narrator:
Over the next five days,

805
00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:04,265
the unlucky teens fall victim

806
00:37:04,309 --> 00:37:07,442
to a rogues' gallery
of monsters.

807
00:37:07,486 --> 00:37:10,793
- It has all these
amazing creatures

808
00:37:10,837 --> 00:37:14,275
that Stephen Gammell drew
for the books,

809
00:37:14,319 --> 00:37:17,322
and we just really made sure

810
00:37:17,365 --> 00:37:20,238
that what we put in the movie
was that.

811
00:37:20,281 --> 00:37:22,109
- [screams]
- [screams]

812
00:37:22,152 --> 00:37:24,851
- We didn't want
to reinvent the wheel here.

813
00:37:24,894 --> 00:37:26,896
narrator: One of the most
innovative monsters

814
00:37:26,940 --> 00:37:30,552
in the film
is the Jangly Man...

815
00:37:30,596 --> 00:37:34,295
a creature that assembles
and reassembles itself.

816
00:37:34,339 --> 00:37:38,343
♪

817
00:37:38,386 --> 00:37:41,171
- The Jangly Man was really
tough because we had to, like,

818
00:37:41,215 --> 00:37:43,652
he was gonna be so twisty
and body parts

819
00:37:43,696 --> 00:37:45,611
and coming together
and doing all this and that.

820
00:37:45,654 --> 00:37:48,570
So the combination
of real effects,

821
00:37:48,614 --> 00:37:50,877
an amazing contortionist,

822
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,271
and some digital enhancements.

823
00:37:53,314 --> 00:37:54,881
- [snarls]

824
00:37:54,924 --> 00:37:58,276
- To create what we were hoping
for--an iconic face

825
00:37:58,319 --> 00:38:01,583
and design,
then make that come alive,

826
00:38:01,627 --> 00:38:03,455
and there was a lot
of challenges to that.

827
00:38:03,498 --> 00:38:05,021
- [screams]

828
00:38:05,065 --> 00:38:07,241
narrator: The monsters
in "Scary Stories"

829
00:38:07,285 --> 00:38:10,766
are all grotesque embodiments
of teenage anxiety.

830
00:38:10,810 --> 00:38:12,507
- Aah, aah!

831
00:38:12,551 --> 00:38:13,726
narrator:
From being suffocated

832
00:38:13,769 --> 00:38:14,814
by a mother's love...

833
00:38:14,857 --> 00:38:17,120
- [heavy breathing]

834
00:38:17,164 --> 00:38:18,687
narrator: To being disfigured

835
00:38:18,731 --> 00:38:20,515
by the world's
angriest pimple.

836
00:38:20,559 --> 00:38:22,343
- [moans]

837
00:38:24,302 --> 00:38:26,347
[screaming]

838
00:38:26,391 --> 00:38:28,567
narrator: Confronting
the fears of youth

839
00:38:28,610 --> 00:38:31,787
is also the central theme
of "It Chapter Two,"

840
00:38:31,831 --> 00:38:35,530
the sequel to Andy
Muschietti's 2017 adaptation

841
00:38:35,574 --> 00:38:37,271
of Stephen King's "It."

842
00:38:37,315 --> 00:38:38,925
- [screeches]

843
00:38:38,968 --> 00:38:40,883
- [screams]
- Give me fat boy.

844
00:38:40,927 --> 00:38:43,364
[screams]

845
00:38:43,408 --> 00:38:46,498
narrator: The now adult
members of the Losers Club

846
00:38:46,541 --> 00:38:48,674
return to the town
of Derry, Maine

847
00:38:48,717 --> 00:38:51,459
to do final battle against
their childhood nemesis.

848
00:38:51,503 --> 00:38:54,897
- Your dirty little secret...

849
00:38:54,941 --> 00:38:56,856
narrator:
Pennywise the clown.

850
00:38:56,899 --> 00:38:59,859
- One-nuh...

851
00:38:59,902 --> 00:39:02,383
narrator: Bill Skarsgard
once again

852
00:39:02,427 --> 00:39:04,646
plays the demonic
shapeshifter Pennywise.

853
00:39:04,690 --> 00:39:06,909
- You're supposed to say three.

854
00:39:06,953 --> 00:39:09,085
narrator:
With the help of CGI,

855
00:39:09,129 --> 00:39:12,175
his body constantly
twists and morphs

856
00:39:12,219 --> 00:39:16,049
into terrible new shapes
that match his victims' fears.

857
00:39:16,092 --> 00:39:17,485
- [screams]

858
00:39:17,529 --> 00:39:19,661
- I go practical
as much as--as I can,

859
00:39:19,705 --> 00:39:21,359
but there's a limit,

860
00:39:21,750 --> 00:39:23,230
and like, a lot of people
complain about CG,

861
00:39:23,273 --> 00:39:25,101
but CG can be great

862
00:39:25,145 --> 00:39:28,235
if you bring
an original design

863
00:39:28,278 --> 00:39:30,759
and it's, like,
executed properly.

864
00:39:30,803 --> 00:39:32,979
- [grunting]

865
00:39:33,022 --> 00:39:34,502
- I tend to draw a lot.

866
00:39:36,591 --> 00:39:40,073
All the creatures that appear
in my movies, I sketch first.

867
00:39:40,116 --> 00:39:42,162
- [groaning]

868
00:39:42,205 --> 00:39:45,295
narrator: One creature effect
calls back to a famous monster

869
00:39:45,339 --> 00:39:46,688
of the movies.

870
00:39:46,732 --> 00:39:48,037
- I love horror movies.

871
00:39:48,081 --> 00:39:50,083
I love--I grew up
loving monster movies

872
00:39:50,126 --> 00:39:52,259
and loving those kind of--
those kind of films,

873
00:39:52,302 --> 00:39:54,217
and I was like,
well, if you have a, you know,

874
00:39:54,261 --> 00:39:56,394
head that turns into a spider,

875
00:39:56,437 --> 00:39:57,438
I mean, that's from
"The Thing."

876
00:39:57,482 --> 00:39:59,571
- [snarls]

877
00:39:59,614 --> 00:40:01,529
- And Andy was like,
"Yeah, yeah, I know, yeah."

878
00:40:01,573 --> 00:40:02,922
And we talked about it,
and I was like,

879
00:40:02,965 --> 00:40:06,273
I should say...
- You gotta be [...] kidding.

880
00:40:06,316 --> 00:40:09,363
- And I remember we watched it
on my phone,

881
00:40:09,407 --> 00:40:11,234
you know, to make sure
we got the line right,

882
00:40:11,278 --> 00:40:13,280
and I said it
in the right cadence.

883
00:40:13,323 --> 00:40:15,630
You gotta be
[...] kidding.

884
00:40:15,674 --> 00:40:19,417
- [laughing]

885
00:40:20,505 --> 00:40:22,245
[screaming]
- [roars]

886
00:40:22,289 --> 00:40:24,073
- You're a weak old woman.

887
00:40:24,117 --> 00:40:25,640
narrator:
At the epic conclusion

888
00:40:25,684 --> 00:40:27,512
of "It Chapter Two,"

889
00:40:27,555 --> 00:40:30,776
the Losers Club finds
the monster's Achilles' heel,

890
00:40:30,819 --> 00:40:33,518
and they turn their own fears
against him.

891
00:40:33,561 --> 00:40:35,998
[all chanting]

892
00:40:36,042 --> 00:40:37,913
- That's what both
"It" movies are.

893
00:40:37,957 --> 00:40:41,090
It's about people
living in fear

894
00:40:41,134 --> 00:40:45,312
and what the horrible things
we do as--as human beings.

895
00:40:45,355 --> 00:40:47,967
Pennywise is

896
00:40:48,010 --> 00:40:50,186
the representation of fear.

897
00:40:50,230 --> 00:40:52,014
[horrific musical sting]

898
00:40:52,058 --> 00:40:54,016
- [cries]

899
00:40:54,060 --> 00:40:55,757
- [laughs]

900
00:40:55,801 --> 00:40:57,498
- That's why we make movies.

901
00:40:57,542 --> 00:40:59,500
We want to people to see
these movies

902
00:40:59,544 --> 00:41:02,198
and try to understand

903
00:41:02,242 --> 00:41:05,637
that that's the worst thing
we can do, live in fear.

904
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,508
- [snarls]
- [screams]

905
00:41:07,552 --> 00:41:08,988
- [snarls]

906
00:41:09,031 --> 00:41:10,076
- [screams]

907
00:41:10,119 --> 00:41:12,121
- [grunts]

908
00:41:12,165 --> 00:41:14,210
narrator: The monsters of the
movies are from outer space...

909
00:41:14,254 --> 00:41:16,169
- [snarls]

910
00:41:16,212 --> 00:41:17,953
- [snarls]

911
00:41:17,997 --> 00:41:20,347
narrator:
The creations of magic...

912
00:41:20,390 --> 00:41:22,654
or the products
of science gone wrong...

913
00:41:22,697 --> 00:41:25,352
[thunder rolls]

914
00:41:25,395 --> 00:41:29,530
But whatever they look like
and wherever they're from,

915
00:41:29,574 --> 00:41:32,577
at heart they are
all walking, crawling,

916
00:41:32,620 --> 00:41:35,797
or slithering representations
of our very human fears...

917
00:41:35,841 --> 00:41:37,712
- [roars]

918
00:41:37,756 --> 00:41:40,715
narrator: The fears
we must face and defeat

919
00:41:40,759 --> 00:41:42,543
less they consume us all.

920
00:41:42,587 --> 00:41:44,110
- [roars]
- [roars]

921
00:41:44,153 --> 00:41:45,459
- [snarls]
- [screams]

922
00:41:45,503 --> 00:41:47,461
[horrific musical sting]

923
00:41:47,505 --> 00:41:50,420
[eerie music]

924
00:41:50,464 --> 00:41:57,384
♪


