1 00:00:01,044 --> 00:00:03,704 [tense music] 2 00:00:03,742 --> 00:00:06,312 male narrator: What's the most disturbing genre in movies? 3 00:00:06,354 --> 00:00:07,534 [shrieking] 4 00:00:07,572 --> 00:00:08,402 [metal and teeth scraping] 5 00:00:08,443 --> 00:00:10,053 ♪ 6 00:00:10,097 --> 00:00:13,577 For many, the answer is body horror. 7 00:00:13,622 --> 00:00:14,582 ♪ 8 00:00:14,623 --> 00:00:17,023 - [screams] 9 00:00:17,060 --> 00:00:18,980 - Sort of queasy to think 10 00:00:19,019 --> 00:00:21,849 we're walking packages of flesh 11 00:00:21,891 --> 00:00:24,631 just waiting for a virus to corrupt us. 12 00:00:24,676 --> 00:00:26,896 [screaming] 13 00:00:26,939 --> 00:00:29,549 - When the body is the host of something from within, 14 00:00:29,594 --> 00:00:31,214 how horrifying is that? 15 00:00:31,248 --> 00:00:33,558 [growling and screaming] 16 00:00:33,598 --> 00:00:35,728 - All these deep, repressed things that people 17 00:00:35,774 --> 00:00:37,864 don't wanna think about, and what if they all came out? 18 00:00:37,907 --> 00:00:38,997 ♪ 19 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:40,079 - [whimpering] 20 00:00:40,127 --> 00:00:44,867 - We'll tear your soul apart. 21 00:00:44,914 --> 00:00:46,224 - Oh, "Hellraiser"'s incredible. 22 00:00:46,263 --> 00:00:47,873 [bestial snarl] 23 00:00:47,917 --> 00:00:50,527 It's sort of wonderfully delicious. 24 00:00:50,572 --> 00:00:52,232 [dramatic musical sting] 25 00:00:52,269 --> 00:00:54,049 - It is all about the terror of being alive, 26 00:00:54,097 --> 00:00:55,317 and the terror of having a body, 27 00:00:55,359 --> 00:00:56,449 and the terror of other people, 28 00:00:56,491 --> 00:00:57,361 and the terror of the natural 29 00:00:57,405 --> 00:00:58,355 and supernatural world. 30 00:00:58,406 --> 00:00:59,926 ♪ 31 00:00:59,972 --> 00:01:03,412 - I am a human being! 32 00:01:03,454 --> 00:01:04,894 [monkey snarls] 33 00:01:04,934 --> 00:01:06,634 - That is at the core of body horror-- 34 00:01:06,675 --> 00:01:08,845 what makes the human being a human being? 35 00:01:08,894 --> 00:01:10,554 - [screams] 36 00:01:10,592 --> 00:01:12,812 - Is it this or is it something else? 37 00:01:12,855 --> 00:01:15,245 ♪ 38 00:01:15,292 --> 00:01:16,992 [explosion] - [screaming] 39 00:01:17,033 --> 00:01:19,993 [eerie music] 40 00:01:20,036 --> 00:01:26,956 ♪ 41 00:01:27,696 --> 00:01:29,256 - [screams] 42 00:01:45,322 --> 00:01:47,892 narrator: We all have bodies. 43 00:01:47,933 --> 00:01:50,113 Some are young and strong. 44 00:01:50,153 --> 00:01:51,333 [artery hisses] 45 00:01:51,372 --> 00:01:54,982 Others are crumbling prisons. 46 00:01:55,027 --> 00:01:58,337 It doesn't take much to go from one state to the other. 47 00:01:58,379 --> 00:02:01,159 ♪ 48 00:02:01,208 --> 00:02:02,508 A little time... 49 00:02:02,557 --> 00:02:03,687 - [groans] 50 00:02:03,732 --> 00:02:05,042 narrator: Disease... 51 00:02:05,081 --> 00:02:06,341 - [screams] 52 00:02:06,387 --> 00:02:07,737 narrator: And misfortune... 53 00:02:07,779 --> 00:02:09,999 - [screaming] [boiling water hissing] 54 00:02:10,042 --> 00:02:12,962 narrator: And you could be living body horror. 55 00:02:13,002 --> 00:02:15,872 - [moaning growl] 56 00:02:15,918 --> 00:02:19,048 narrator: But for some people, there is a special thrill 57 00:02:19,095 --> 00:02:22,185 in exploring the terrors of the flesh 58 00:02:22,229 --> 00:02:24,619 and the extremes of sensation. 59 00:02:24,666 --> 00:02:26,706 People like Clive Barker, 60 00:02:26,755 --> 00:02:28,755 writer-director of the ground-breaking 61 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,370 psychosexual horror classic, 62 00:02:32,413 --> 00:02:33,893 "Hellraiser." 63 00:02:33,936 --> 00:02:36,236 [eerie dissonance] 64 00:02:36,286 --> 00:02:38,416 - We have such sights 65 00:02:38,462 --> 00:02:40,202 to show you. 66 00:02:40,247 --> 00:02:42,207 - [gasps] 67 00:02:42,249 --> 00:02:43,899 narrator: "Hellraiser" begins 68 00:02:43,946 --> 00:02:46,816 as thrill-seeking bad boy Frank opens up a portal 69 00:02:46,862 --> 00:02:49,872 to a dimension of pleasure and pain. 70 00:02:49,908 --> 00:02:52,388 [eerie dramatic music] 71 00:02:52,433 --> 00:02:54,223 ♪ 72 00:02:54,261 --> 00:02:56,351 After Frank's apparent death, 73 00:02:56,393 --> 00:02:59,883 his brother Larry, edgy second wife Julia, 74 00:02:59,918 --> 00:03:02,358 and Larry's daughter Kirsty move into the family home. 75 00:03:02,399 --> 00:03:04,309 ♪ 76 00:03:04,358 --> 00:03:07,668 But bits of Frank are still in the floorboards. 77 00:03:07,709 --> 00:03:09,709 A dash of blood gives him a way 78 00:03:09,754 --> 00:03:11,894 to escape the hell dimension. 79 00:03:11,930 --> 00:03:14,890 [dramatic music] 80 00:03:14,933 --> 00:03:18,503 ♪ 81 00:03:18,546 --> 00:03:20,976 - One of the things I love about that film, 82 00:03:21,026 --> 00:03:24,416 the transformation from nothingness 83 00:03:24,465 --> 00:03:26,765 to this man forming. 84 00:03:26,815 --> 00:03:29,165 ♪ 85 00:03:29,209 --> 00:03:31,689 Little by little, you start to see more of the body, 86 00:03:31,733 --> 00:03:33,043 and initially it's some really wonderful 87 00:03:33,082 --> 00:03:35,132 sort of puppetry work. 88 00:03:35,171 --> 00:03:37,131 And then it turns into a real actor 89 00:03:37,173 --> 00:03:38,963 with this sort of sinewy, bloody muscles. 90 00:03:39,001 --> 00:03:40,611 - [yelps] 91 00:03:40,655 --> 00:03:42,215 ♪ 92 00:03:42,265 --> 00:03:43,265 [yelps] 93 00:03:43,310 --> 00:03:45,440 - Julia? - [gasps] 94 00:03:45,486 --> 00:03:47,096 narrator: Frank's return reanimates 95 00:03:47,139 --> 00:03:48,969 his secret affair with Julia. 96 00:03:49,011 --> 00:03:51,411 - You'll do it? 97 00:03:51,448 --> 00:03:52,928 - Yes. 98 00:03:54,408 --> 00:03:56,238 I will. 99 00:03:56,279 --> 00:03:59,109 narrator: She begins luring men into the attic... 100 00:03:59,151 --> 00:04:00,541 - [grunts] [bone crunches] 101 00:04:00,588 --> 00:04:02,288 narrator: To feed Frank their flesh. 102 00:04:02,329 --> 00:04:04,419 [dark music] 103 00:04:04,461 --> 00:04:06,681 - The wonderful thing about "Hellraiser" is that in fact, 104 00:04:06,724 --> 00:04:08,074 though it's a horror film, 105 00:04:08,117 --> 00:04:10,247 it's really a very sick love story. 106 00:04:10,293 --> 00:04:13,693 Julia is so in love 107 00:04:13,731 --> 00:04:15,731 with Frank, but she can't leave him. 108 00:04:15,777 --> 00:04:17,037 We know what that's like. 109 00:04:17,082 --> 00:04:18,612 You get in a relationship with someone, 110 00:04:18,649 --> 00:04:20,129 you know it's unhealthy, but you just can't get out. 111 00:04:20,172 --> 00:04:21,572 You won't leave. 112 00:04:21,609 --> 00:04:23,789 [blow lands] She is so addicted 113 00:04:23,828 --> 00:04:26,658 to this diseased love affair 114 00:04:26,701 --> 00:04:29,011 that she would be willing to go out and kill people 115 00:04:29,051 --> 00:04:30,881 to help bring him back to life. 116 00:04:30,922 --> 00:04:33,062 - I'm going to live and you're going to help me, yes? 117 00:04:33,098 --> 00:04:34,748 - Yes. 118 00:04:34,796 --> 00:04:36,486 ♪ 119 00:04:36,537 --> 00:04:38,537 narrator: In the ultimate case of identity theft, 120 00:04:38,582 --> 00:04:41,852 Frank kills his brother and puts on his skin. 121 00:04:41,890 --> 00:04:44,370 [dramatic musical sting] 122 00:04:44,414 --> 00:04:46,294 But his plans are disrupted 123 00:04:46,329 --> 00:04:49,329 by his resourceful young niece. 124 00:04:49,376 --> 00:04:51,506 - Give me that. 125 00:04:51,552 --> 00:04:54,772 ♪ 126 00:04:54,816 --> 00:04:58,986 - I think Kirsty is a very normal girl 127 00:04:59,037 --> 00:05:02,947 and doesn't expect that the trajectory of her life 128 00:05:02,998 --> 00:05:05,308 will end up having to negotiate 129 00:05:05,348 --> 00:05:06,918 with demons from hell 130 00:05:06,958 --> 00:05:08,658 for her own soul. [chuckles] 131 00:05:08,699 --> 00:05:11,699 narrator: Kirsty opens Frank's puzzle box... 132 00:05:11,746 --> 00:05:13,136 [box zaps] 133 00:05:13,182 --> 00:05:14,622 Accidentally summoning 134 00:05:14,662 --> 00:05:17,802 Hellraiser's breakout stars, 135 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:20,539 the Cenobites, 136 00:05:20,581 --> 00:05:24,981 transdimensional lords of pleasure and pain. 137 00:05:25,020 --> 00:05:27,680 - They are the perfect combination 138 00:05:27,718 --> 00:05:30,628 of carnal and something otherworldly 139 00:05:30,678 --> 00:05:32,848 that is literally stitched together. 140 00:05:32,897 --> 00:05:34,287 ♪ 141 00:05:34,334 --> 00:05:35,904 [teeth chattering] 142 00:05:35,944 --> 00:05:37,694 - There's a great image from "Hellraiser" 143 00:05:37,728 --> 00:05:39,208 that it's always just stuck with me, 144 00:05:39,251 --> 00:05:40,991 which is the Chatterer, 145 00:05:41,036 --> 00:05:44,736 and he's sticking his fingers down Kirsty's throat. 146 00:05:44,779 --> 00:05:47,999 - [screams] 147 00:05:48,043 --> 00:05:50,003 - And that, to me, just sums up "Hellraiser." 148 00:05:50,045 --> 00:05:52,435 It's invasive. It just pushes the limits. 149 00:05:52,482 --> 00:05:54,662 - [yelping] 150 00:05:54,702 --> 00:05:57,492 narrator: "Hellraiser"'s sadomasochistic imagery 151 00:05:57,531 --> 00:05:59,841 was highly unusual for its time. 152 00:05:59,881 --> 00:06:02,411 The unique look of the Cenobites, 153 00:06:02,449 --> 00:06:05,669 tight, black leather and extreme body modifications, 154 00:06:05,713 --> 00:06:09,153 was inspired by the S&M culture. 155 00:06:09,194 --> 00:06:12,024 Clive Barker took their darkly erotic style 156 00:06:12,067 --> 00:06:13,627 into the mainstream. 157 00:06:13,677 --> 00:06:15,547 - Clive Barker is kind of the master 158 00:06:15,592 --> 00:06:18,162 of sexuality in horror. 159 00:06:18,203 --> 00:06:19,813 [dissonant notes] 160 00:06:19,857 --> 00:06:22,287 Clive is, quite famously, gay, and, you know, 161 00:06:22,338 --> 00:06:26,208 a lot of his material comes from that perspective, 162 00:06:26,255 --> 00:06:29,425 but it's not about a sexual preference, 163 00:06:29,476 --> 00:06:31,256 it's about gender issues, 164 00:06:31,303 --> 00:06:35,963 it's about the threat of what one's gender represents. 165 00:06:36,004 --> 00:06:38,054 [dramatic music] 166 00:06:38,093 --> 00:06:40,443 - He's showing us parts of ourselves 167 00:06:40,487 --> 00:06:42,177 that we didn't even know existed, 168 00:06:42,227 --> 00:06:45,877 and because he doesn't make moral judgement, 169 00:06:45,927 --> 00:06:47,967 everything is fair game. 170 00:06:48,016 --> 00:06:51,236 [tense music] 171 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:53,060 narrator: With the help of the Cenobites, 172 00:06:53,108 --> 00:06:56,548 Kirsty has her bloody revenge on Frank. 173 00:06:56,590 --> 00:06:59,590 - [screams] 174 00:06:59,636 --> 00:07:03,856 - The Cenobites are impartial. 175 00:07:03,901 --> 00:07:07,341 I don't think Clive wrote them as bad or evil. 176 00:07:07,383 --> 00:07:09,303 They give people what they ask for. 177 00:07:09,341 --> 00:07:10,821 - [whimpering] - Explorers 178 00:07:10,865 --> 00:07:13,075 in the further regions of experience, 179 00:07:13,128 --> 00:07:15,168 demons to some, 180 00:07:15,217 --> 00:07:17,477 angels to others. 181 00:07:17,524 --> 00:07:18,924 - So in "Hellraiser," 182 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,010 what is the monster? What is the menace? 183 00:07:21,049 --> 00:07:23,529 I think that the menace is really obsession, 184 00:07:23,573 --> 00:07:25,623 you know, much more than the demons. 185 00:07:25,662 --> 00:07:26,842 ♪ 186 00:07:26,881 --> 00:07:28,541 You go with the demons 187 00:07:28,578 --> 00:07:30,748 when you can't rise above your own obsessions, 188 00:07:30,798 --> 00:07:32,408 your own fixation on the puzzle box, 189 00:07:32,452 --> 00:07:34,372 when you've turned away from your life 190 00:07:34,410 --> 00:07:37,330 and into that unhealthy fixation. 191 00:07:37,369 --> 00:07:39,369 - [rasping] Not leaving us so soon, are you? 192 00:07:39,415 --> 00:07:41,675 [hook screeching] 193 00:07:41,722 --> 00:07:43,382 narrator: Clive Barker blazed the trail 194 00:07:43,419 --> 00:07:45,679 for sexually transgressive monsters. 195 00:07:45,726 --> 00:07:48,286 [women screaming] 196 00:07:48,337 --> 00:07:49,897 But when it comes to body horror-- 197 00:07:49,947 --> 00:07:51,377 [guttural sputtering] 198 00:07:51,427 --> 00:07:53,467 One name stands above them all: 199 00:07:53,516 --> 00:07:54,816 - [screams] 200 00:07:54,865 --> 00:07:55,945 narrator: Cronenberg. 201 00:07:55,997 --> 00:07:57,297 [bone snaps] - [screams] 202 00:07:57,346 --> 00:07:59,256 [dramatic music] 203 00:08:03,265 --> 00:08:05,615 - [breathing heavily, snarling] 204 00:08:05,659 --> 00:08:08,009 [tense music] 205 00:08:08,052 --> 00:08:10,882 narrator: Say the words "body horror" and odds are 206 00:08:10,925 --> 00:08:12,535 you'll immediately think of a film 207 00:08:12,579 --> 00:08:14,059 by David Cronenberg. 208 00:08:14,102 --> 00:08:16,322 [yelling, screaming] 209 00:08:16,365 --> 00:08:17,625 [pulsating music] 210 00:08:17,671 --> 00:08:19,501 - [screams] 211 00:08:19,542 --> 00:08:21,722 narrator: The films Cronenberg made in Canada 212 00:08:21,762 --> 00:08:26,292 in the 1970s and '80s probed our deepest anxieties 213 00:08:26,331 --> 00:08:28,551 about the fragility of human bodies 214 00:08:28,595 --> 00:08:30,205 and human minds. 215 00:08:30,248 --> 00:08:31,248 [glass shatters] 216 00:08:31,293 --> 00:08:33,953 [water splashing] 217 00:08:33,991 --> 00:08:37,261 [tense music] - [gasps] 218 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:40,429 narrator: Cronenberg was never solely out to shock. 219 00:08:40,476 --> 00:08:42,516 - [gasping] 220 00:08:42,565 --> 00:08:44,045 narrator: His early films 221 00:08:44,088 --> 00:08:46,568 were pointed commentaries on society, 222 00:08:46,613 --> 00:08:50,013 never sharper than in his film, "Videodrome." 223 00:08:50,051 --> 00:08:52,361 - [gasps] [static hisses] 224 00:08:52,401 --> 00:08:54,141 - You wanna try a few things? 225 00:08:55,186 --> 00:08:56,576 narrator: James Woods and Debbie Harry 226 00:08:56,623 --> 00:08:59,673 play Max and Nicki, amoral hedonists 227 00:08:59,713 --> 00:09:02,593 who become victims of their dark desires. 228 00:09:02,629 --> 00:09:04,629 ♪ 229 00:09:04,674 --> 00:09:08,984 - The plot of "Videodrome," a TV station programmer 230 00:09:09,026 --> 00:09:11,986 wants something with a little more pizazz 231 00:09:12,029 --> 00:09:16,599 and finds this bizarre show that shows torture. 232 00:09:16,643 --> 00:09:19,173 [eerie music] 233 00:09:19,210 --> 00:09:20,690 - There's no plot. 234 00:09:20,734 --> 00:09:23,744 It just goes on like that for an hour. 235 00:09:23,780 --> 00:09:27,350 Torture, murder, mutilation. 236 00:09:27,392 --> 00:09:29,612 - For perverts only. - It's absolutely brilliant. 237 00:09:29,656 --> 00:09:32,436 I mean, look, there's almost no production cost. 238 00:09:32,484 --> 00:09:33,754 You can't take your eyes off it. 239 00:09:33,790 --> 00:09:35,530 It's incredibly realistic. 240 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:37,615 Where do they get actors that can do this? 241 00:09:37,664 --> 00:09:39,234 [dramatic musical sting] 242 00:09:39,274 --> 00:09:41,024 - He's fascinated with it 243 00:09:41,058 --> 00:09:42,668 and he starts trying to track it down. 244 00:09:42,712 --> 00:09:44,282 Where are these videotapes coming from? 245 00:09:44,322 --> 00:09:46,542 [ominous music] 246 00:09:46,586 --> 00:09:48,806 narrator: Max learns that "Videodrome" tapes 247 00:09:48,849 --> 00:09:51,069 contain a hidden signal that triggers 248 00:09:51,112 --> 00:09:52,722 vivid hallucinations. 249 00:09:52,766 --> 00:09:54,636 ♪ 250 00:09:54,681 --> 00:09:56,771 It's all part of a right-wing conspiracy 251 00:09:56,813 --> 00:09:59,253 to clamp down on lax morality. 252 00:09:59,294 --> 00:10:00,514 - Please. 253 00:10:00,556 --> 00:10:02,466 - You're getting fed this message 254 00:10:02,514 --> 00:10:06,434 through watching videos that are broadcast 255 00:10:06,475 --> 00:10:08,425 from a secret place somewhere on Earth. 256 00:10:08,477 --> 00:10:10,037 - Murder. 257 00:10:10,087 --> 00:10:13,527 - [whimpering] [static buzzing] 258 00:10:13,569 --> 00:10:14,659 - We've all kind of have a thing 259 00:10:14,701 --> 00:10:16,441 of watching something that-- 260 00:10:16,485 --> 00:10:18,045 that we probably shouldn't be watching, 261 00:10:18,095 --> 00:10:20,655 and we're kind of tantalized by it in some way, 262 00:10:20,707 --> 00:10:24,837 but we don't know why, or-- we shouldn't be watching this. 263 00:10:24,885 --> 00:10:29,055 - [screaming] [flail snapping] 264 00:10:29,106 --> 00:10:31,936 - God, I can't believe it. - I'll turn it off. 265 00:10:31,979 --> 00:10:34,759 - No, no, no, it's okay. I can take it. 266 00:10:34,808 --> 00:10:36,638 [ominous notes] 267 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,899 - It definitely starts a disintegration of the mind 268 00:10:39,943 --> 00:10:41,213 as well as the body. 269 00:10:41,249 --> 00:10:42,819 ♪ 270 00:10:42,859 --> 00:10:46,519 - The TV starts, like, reaching into him, 271 00:10:46,558 --> 00:10:48,648 and he's got a-- I mean, let's call it. 272 00:10:48,691 --> 00:10:49,691 It's a chest vagina. 273 00:10:49,736 --> 00:10:52,516 ♪ 274 00:10:52,564 --> 00:10:54,394 The videotape goes into him 275 00:10:54,436 --> 00:10:57,046 or it goes into the TV-- there's a lot of both. 276 00:10:57,091 --> 00:10:58,921 - Oh, my God! [gasps] 277 00:10:58,962 --> 00:11:02,362 - It all feels very personal, you know? 278 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,710 James Woods pulling the gun, 279 00:11:04,751 --> 00:11:08,361 that image of him just pulling the gun out of his stomach. 280 00:11:08,406 --> 00:11:10,226 ♪ 281 00:11:10,278 --> 00:11:13,458 [gunfire and screaming] 282 00:11:13,498 --> 00:11:16,888 - Yes, you shoot flesh pellets from a flesh gun 283 00:11:16,937 --> 00:11:18,417 that's attached to the end of your arm, 284 00:11:18,460 --> 00:11:20,330 but is that really happening 285 00:11:20,375 --> 00:11:23,415 or is that because of what you've been fed 286 00:11:23,465 --> 00:11:25,505 through watching television? 287 00:11:25,554 --> 00:11:28,344 - Death to "Videodrome"! Long live the new flesh! 288 00:11:28,383 --> 00:11:29,733 [feedback screeches] 289 00:11:29,776 --> 00:11:31,726 [tense music] 290 00:11:31,778 --> 00:11:33,648 ♪ 291 00:11:33,693 --> 00:11:35,653 - What are you waiting for, lover? 292 00:11:35,695 --> 00:11:38,175 - It's got all these crazy metaphors in it about, like, 293 00:11:38,219 --> 00:11:40,609 intimacy, and sexual weirdness, 294 00:11:40,656 --> 00:11:42,046 and exposing that part of yourself to other people, 295 00:11:42,092 --> 00:11:44,752 and also how you're influenced by the media 296 00:11:44,791 --> 00:11:46,361 and, like, what have you decided 297 00:11:46,401 --> 00:11:48,661 and what has the media decided for you, 298 00:11:48,708 --> 00:11:51,318 which I still think is stuff that's if not as relevant, 299 00:11:51,362 --> 00:11:53,632 more relevant now. 300 00:11:53,669 --> 00:11:55,369 - Long live the new flesh. 301 00:11:55,410 --> 00:11:56,980 [explosion] 302 00:11:57,020 --> 00:11:59,410 - My films tend to be very body-conscious, 303 00:11:59,457 --> 00:12:04,157 and the body, and what is, and what it does, 304 00:12:04,201 --> 00:12:06,551 and what it can do tends to be very central in my films. 305 00:12:06,595 --> 00:12:08,285 To a certain extent, 306 00:12:08,336 --> 00:12:10,376 it's your own body that's the monster. 307 00:12:10,425 --> 00:12:12,635 [tense musical sting] 308 00:12:12,688 --> 00:12:15,738 - He had lost his mother to cancer 309 00:12:15,778 --> 00:12:18,478 and was experienced 310 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,920 with seeing the decline of the human body from within, 311 00:12:21,958 --> 00:12:23,658 a revolt from within, 312 00:12:23,699 --> 00:12:27,359 and so much of his work is about a body in revolt, 313 00:12:27,398 --> 00:12:30,448 and changing, and turning septic, 314 00:12:30,488 --> 00:12:32,228 and almost evil. 315 00:12:32,273 --> 00:12:34,413 [ominous music] 316 00:12:34,449 --> 00:12:37,189 narrator: Cronenberg's first American studio film 317 00:12:37,234 --> 00:12:39,894 was his acclaimed remake of "The Fly." 318 00:12:39,933 --> 00:12:42,073 [dissonant music] 319 00:12:42,109 --> 00:12:45,069 - I'm working on something that'll change the world 320 00:12:45,112 --> 00:12:46,982 and human life as we know it. 321 00:12:47,027 --> 00:12:48,897 narrator: Seth Brundle, 322 00:12:48,942 --> 00:12:51,342 memorably played by Jeff Goldblum, 323 00:12:51,379 --> 00:12:55,209 has invented a teleportation device. 324 00:12:55,252 --> 00:12:58,472 Unfortunately, when Seth tests it out, 325 00:12:58,516 --> 00:13:01,426 his genetic pattern mixes with the DNA of a housefly. 326 00:13:01,476 --> 00:13:03,696 [ominous music] 327 00:13:03,739 --> 00:13:05,479 ♪ 328 00:13:05,523 --> 00:13:06,833 [guttural sputtering] 329 00:13:06,873 --> 00:13:07,793 ♪ 330 00:13:07,830 --> 00:13:09,790 - [screams] 331 00:13:09,832 --> 00:13:11,182 narrator: Seth slowly transforms 332 00:13:11,225 --> 00:13:13,525 into a hybrid of man and insect, 333 00:13:13,575 --> 00:13:15,355 much to the horror of his lover, 334 00:13:15,403 --> 00:13:17,583 played by Geena Davis. 335 00:13:17,622 --> 00:13:21,452 - He's turning into a fly, she loves him madly, 336 00:13:21,496 --> 00:13:24,626 is seeing this change, can do nothing to stop it, 337 00:13:24,673 --> 00:13:26,763 and neither can he. He doesn't want to stop it. 338 00:13:26,806 --> 00:13:30,976 He thinks he's being enhanced, and in the beginning, he is. 339 00:13:31,027 --> 00:13:32,587 - It's purified me, it's cleansed me, 340 00:13:32,637 --> 00:13:33,987 and I'll tell you, I think it's gonna allow me 341 00:13:34,030 --> 00:13:36,640 to realize the personal potential 342 00:13:36,685 --> 00:13:38,595 I've been neglecting all these years. 343 00:13:38,643 --> 00:13:41,123 [bone snaps] - [screams] 344 00:13:41,168 --> 00:13:43,128 [dramatic notes] 345 00:13:43,170 --> 00:13:46,260 - But then he's being destroyed from within, 346 00:13:46,303 --> 00:13:50,443 and their love has to pass this metamorphosis, 347 00:13:50,481 --> 00:13:52,141 and it's not possible. 348 00:13:52,179 --> 00:13:54,009 - What will happen? - [panting] 349 00:13:54,050 --> 00:13:55,230 Well, I think it's showing itself 350 00:13:55,269 --> 00:13:56,969 as a bizarre form of cancer. 351 00:13:57,010 --> 00:13:59,490 - The film was always looked upon as an AIDS metaphor. 352 00:13:59,534 --> 00:14:02,104 It was made during the height of the AIDS epidemic, 353 00:14:02,145 --> 00:14:05,665 but Cronenberg himself said he sort of saw it more 354 00:14:05,714 --> 00:14:08,764 as a metaphor for the aging process 355 00:14:08,804 --> 00:14:11,024 and how that gets fast-forwarded 356 00:14:11,067 --> 00:14:12,897 in this character. 357 00:14:12,939 --> 00:14:15,589 [soft dramatic music] 358 00:14:15,637 --> 00:14:18,117 - Body horror is a meditation 359 00:14:18,161 --> 00:14:22,121 on the transitory nature of the human form, 360 00:14:22,165 --> 00:14:25,385 and, you know, we all get old, we all decay. 361 00:14:25,429 --> 00:14:28,959 That's true horror to people. 362 00:14:28,998 --> 00:14:34,258 [both screaming] 363 00:14:34,308 --> 00:14:36,528 - Geena Davis' character isreally what that movie's about. 364 00:14:36,571 --> 00:14:38,921 She was trying to stay in there with him 365 00:14:38,965 --> 00:14:40,915 as long as she possibly could. 366 00:14:40,967 --> 00:14:42,967 - [whimpering] 367 00:14:43,012 --> 00:14:46,062 God, no, no! 368 00:14:46,102 --> 00:14:47,582 - But ultimately, 369 00:14:47,625 --> 00:14:48,885 she was the one who had to pull the trigger. 370 00:14:48,931 --> 00:14:51,461 - [breathing heavily] 371 00:14:51,499 --> 00:14:54,679 [wheezing] 372 00:14:54,719 --> 00:15:00,199 - I think that "The Fly" says as much about love 373 00:15:00,247 --> 00:15:01,897 as any film I've ever seen. 374 00:15:01,944 --> 00:15:04,904 ♪ 375 00:15:04,947 --> 00:15:06,507 - [cries] 376 00:15:06,557 --> 00:15:08,207 narrator: But there's even more to body horror 377 00:15:08,255 --> 00:15:10,385 than decaying flesh and physical abnormality. 378 00:15:10,431 --> 00:15:12,961 ♪ 379 00:15:12,999 --> 00:15:15,999 It also describes the reality of being dehumanized 380 00:15:16,045 --> 00:15:18,435 because you're desirable. 381 00:15:18,482 --> 00:15:20,222 - [gags] 382 00:15:20,267 --> 00:15:23,617 narrator: Pretty faces, though, can mask deadly minds. 383 00:15:23,661 --> 00:15:25,971 [tense music] 384 00:15:30,886 --> 00:15:33,756 narrator: When we think of body horror, 385 00:15:33,802 --> 00:15:35,982 we usually think of disease and deformity. 386 00:15:36,022 --> 00:15:38,422 [tense music] 387 00:15:38,459 --> 00:15:39,979 But being attractive 388 00:15:40,026 --> 00:15:42,676 can also open up a world of body horror, 389 00:15:42,724 --> 00:15:44,904 especially for women. 390 00:15:44,944 --> 00:15:46,954 - [screams] - [gagging] 391 00:15:46,989 --> 00:15:49,639 [soft tense music] 392 00:15:49,687 --> 00:15:51,987 - Walking around in a female body is terrifying. 393 00:15:52,038 --> 00:15:53,868 You're a target, 394 00:15:53,909 --> 00:15:55,739 you're an object, and I think 395 00:15:55,780 --> 00:15:57,170 that is part of the reason why 396 00:15:57,217 --> 00:15:59,437 we put up all these walls is to, you know, 397 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:00,740 obviously, protect that. 398 00:16:00,785 --> 00:16:04,005 - [gasps, screams] 399 00:16:04,050 --> 00:16:06,660 narrator: Beauty can make you the target of predatory men. 400 00:16:06,704 --> 00:16:08,624 - [gags] 401 00:16:08,663 --> 00:16:10,233 narrator: Just as a perfect surface 402 00:16:10,273 --> 00:16:14,713 can mask something twisted underneath. 403 00:16:14,756 --> 00:16:19,976 In horror, both things can be true at the same time, 404 00:16:20,022 --> 00:16:22,202 as we see in the films "Audition"... 405 00:16:22,242 --> 00:16:24,292 - [gagging and screaming] 406 00:16:24,331 --> 00:16:25,721 ♪ 407 00:16:25,767 --> 00:16:27,157 narrator: And "Under the Skin." 408 00:16:27,203 --> 00:16:30,033 ♪ 409 00:16:30,076 --> 00:16:32,856 "Under the Skin" follows an alien succubus 410 00:16:32,904 --> 00:16:36,134 whose mission is to collect men for use as a food source 411 00:16:36,169 --> 00:16:38,039 for her people. 412 00:16:38,084 --> 00:16:43,874 ♪ 413 00:16:43,915 --> 00:16:45,215 [mechanical thunk] 414 00:16:45,265 --> 00:16:48,875 ♪ 415 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,530 The Collector knows humans are easily manipulated 416 00:16:51,575 --> 00:16:55,185 by appearances, which mean nothing to it. 417 00:16:55,231 --> 00:16:58,191 - Do you think I'm pretty?- Aye, I think you're gorgeous. 418 00:16:58,234 --> 00:17:00,854 - Do you? - Aye, definitely. 419 00:17:00,889 --> 00:17:02,889 - Good. 420 00:17:02,934 --> 00:17:04,764 narrator: So when the Collector picks up a man 421 00:17:04,806 --> 00:17:06,976 suffering from neurofibromatosis, 422 00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:09,766 the Elephant Man's disease, 423 00:17:09,811 --> 00:17:12,421 she can effortlessly capture him. 424 00:17:12,466 --> 00:17:19,336 ♪ 425 00:17:19,386 --> 00:17:21,256 narrator: But for the first time, 426 00:17:21,301 --> 00:17:23,781 she feels sympathy for her prey. 427 00:17:23,825 --> 00:17:26,215 - We all love the assassin 428 00:17:26,262 --> 00:17:28,832 who struggles with carrying out their task 429 00:17:28,873 --> 00:17:30,573 because they've fallen in love with their target, 430 00:17:30,614 --> 00:17:33,404 and that's essentially what happens 431 00:17:33,443 --> 00:17:35,103 in "Under the Skin," 432 00:17:35,141 --> 00:17:39,451 is that she slowly becomes enamored of humanity 433 00:17:39,493 --> 00:17:41,803 and the complexities of being human. 434 00:17:41,843 --> 00:17:47,813 ♪ 435 00:17:47,849 --> 00:17:49,719 One of the most beautiful moments 436 00:17:49,764 --> 00:17:51,644 in "Under the Skin," for me, 437 00:17:51,679 --> 00:17:54,809 was when Scarlett Johansson pauses 438 00:17:54,856 --> 00:17:58,856 and stares at the fly trapped in the spider's web 439 00:17:58,903 --> 00:18:03,563 and then decides to let one of her victims go. 440 00:18:03,604 --> 00:18:05,484 [door latch clicks] 441 00:18:05,519 --> 00:18:09,219 And that is the cascade that everything falls apart 442 00:18:09,262 --> 00:18:11,702 and leads to her demise. 443 00:18:11,742 --> 00:18:13,832 narrator: The Collector abandons her mission 444 00:18:13,875 --> 00:18:16,565 and attempts to enjoy her human body, 445 00:18:16,617 --> 00:18:18,267 but she's doomed to fail. 446 00:18:18,314 --> 00:18:19,494 - [chokes] 447 00:18:19,533 --> 00:18:21,143 ♪ 448 00:18:21,187 --> 00:18:24,447 - She tries to engage in consensual sex, 449 00:18:24,494 --> 00:18:26,634 and it tears her suit. 450 00:18:26,670 --> 00:18:31,200 ♪ 451 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:34,160 And the fact that his penis, his human penis, 452 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,250 tore her human skin suit because it's, like-- 453 00:18:37,290 --> 00:18:39,900 she's not there for penetration, 454 00:18:39,944 --> 00:18:43,304 was a fascinating kindof, like, wake-up call for her. 455 00:18:43,339 --> 00:18:49,519 ♪ 456 00:18:50,868 --> 00:18:52,438 It's not your body, 457 00:18:52,479 --> 00:18:54,219 and you've convinced yourself that it's your body, 458 00:18:54,263 --> 00:18:57,703 so it absolutely is Cronenbergian in that aspect. 459 00:18:57,745 --> 00:18:59,355 [tense music] 460 00:18:59,399 --> 00:19:00,439 narrator: Because the Collector 461 00:19:00,487 --> 00:19:02,047 is in the body of a woman, 462 00:19:02,097 --> 00:19:05,137 she becomes the target of a violent man 463 00:19:05,187 --> 00:19:09,497 who first wants to rape her then wants to murder her. 464 00:19:09,539 --> 00:19:11,499 [gasoline splattering] 465 00:19:11,541 --> 00:19:13,981 [tense music] 466 00:19:14,022 --> 00:19:15,502 ♪ 467 00:19:15,545 --> 00:19:17,235 - We experience through horror 468 00:19:17,286 --> 00:19:21,986 what we tend to gloss over and pretend isn't there. 469 00:19:22,030 --> 00:19:24,120 The horror of what our own bodies can do, 470 00:19:24,163 --> 00:19:26,643 the horror of what other people can do, 471 00:19:26,687 --> 00:19:28,597 the sexism that we deal with every day 472 00:19:28,645 --> 00:19:30,385 is just what we deal with every day. 473 00:19:30,430 --> 00:19:31,910 It's how you react to it, 474 00:19:31,953 --> 00:19:33,783 it's whether you let it bother you or not, 475 00:19:33,824 --> 00:19:36,004 and most of the time, you let it roll off your back, 476 00:19:36,044 --> 00:19:40,314 and we're all very used to how we're treated in general. 477 00:19:40,353 --> 00:19:43,883 ♪ 478 00:19:43,921 --> 00:19:45,531 [wet squelching] 479 00:19:45,575 --> 00:19:47,525 narrator: But in some body horror films... 480 00:19:47,577 --> 00:19:49,227 [loud wet squelching, piano keys playing] 481 00:19:49,275 --> 00:19:50,745 Women are the punishers. 482 00:19:50,798 --> 00:19:52,838 - [gagging] 483 00:19:52,887 --> 00:19:56,327 narrator: They turn the tables on men who've objectified them 484 00:19:56,369 --> 00:19:58,589 and abused their power for sex. 485 00:19:58,632 --> 00:20:01,502 [flesh sizzles] - [screams] 486 00:20:01,548 --> 00:20:03,588 narrator: That's what happens in Takashi Miike's 487 00:20:03,637 --> 00:20:05,767 profoundly disturbing film... 488 00:20:05,813 --> 00:20:09,383 - [moans] 489 00:20:09,425 --> 00:20:11,425 narrator: "Audition." 490 00:20:11,471 --> 00:20:14,341 - "Audition" is--is horrifying. 491 00:20:14,387 --> 00:20:18,127 ♪ 492 00:20:18,173 --> 00:20:21,223 It starts out almost a social comedy 493 00:20:21,263 --> 00:20:23,223 about a lonely guy, 494 00:20:23,265 --> 00:20:26,435 and you're very sympathetic to the guy. 495 00:20:26,486 --> 00:20:29,446 - This man is a widower and he is being encouraged 496 00:20:29,489 --> 00:20:31,009 by his son to get back out there 497 00:20:31,055 --> 00:20:32,745 and give it a go in the dating field. 498 00:20:32,796 --> 00:20:36,276 - [speaking Japanese] 499 00:20:36,322 --> 00:20:38,672 - And they do 500 00:20:38,715 --> 00:20:41,105 just the absolutely despicable thing 501 00:20:41,152 --> 00:20:44,372 of auditioning women to be his girlfriend. 502 00:20:44,417 --> 00:20:46,677 narrator: With the producer's help, 503 00:20:46,723 --> 00:20:50,863 the widower stages a fake casting call for a film, 504 00:20:50,901 --> 00:20:53,641 but he's really casting for his ideal woman: 505 00:20:53,687 --> 00:20:57,257 physically perfect and perfectly submissive. 506 00:20:57,299 --> 00:21:01,349 He thinks he finds her in shy, serene Asami. 507 00:21:01,390 --> 00:21:03,830 - And this woman, you know, becomes enamored of him. 508 00:21:03,871 --> 00:21:05,701 She falls in love with him 509 00:21:05,742 --> 00:21:09,662 and realizes the premise withwhich she has come to know him. 510 00:21:18,929 --> 00:21:21,239 - And being unstable, as the woman is, 511 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,720 and being existing within a horror film, 512 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,850 her response to that is to 513 00:21:25,893 --> 00:21:30,113 get very specific and really innovative revenge 514 00:21:30,158 --> 00:21:31,858 on the man who deceived her. 515 00:21:31,899 --> 00:21:37,339 ♪ 516 00:21:37,383 --> 00:21:39,693 [tense musical sting] - [groans] 517 00:21:39,733 --> 00:21:41,393 narrator: Every shot in "Audition" 518 00:21:41,430 --> 00:21:44,520 is meticulously framed and beautifully lit. 519 00:21:44,564 --> 00:21:49,354 The film's perfection hypnotizes you, 520 00:21:49,395 --> 00:21:51,435 which makes the moment Asami goes to work 521 00:21:51,484 --> 00:21:54,444 with her needles and wire all the more jarring. 522 00:21:54,487 --> 00:21:57,097 - [whimpering softly] 523 00:21:57,141 --> 00:22:00,281 [groaning] 524 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:03,499 - Suddenly, this demon is unleashed. 525 00:22:03,539 --> 00:22:06,719 - [speaking Japanese] 526 00:22:08,892 --> 00:22:10,292 [dramatic musical sting] 527 00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:11,979 - The wire cutting in "Audition" is amazing. 528 00:22:12,026 --> 00:22:15,156 - [groaning and gasping] 529 00:22:15,203 --> 00:22:18,083 [eerie music] 530 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,079 ♪ 531 00:22:20,121 --> 00:22:21,911 - What--what is it? [speaks Japanese] 532 00:22:28,259 --> 00:22:31,089 [tense music] 533 00:22:31,132 --> 00:22:33,482 ♪ 534 00:22:33,526 --> 00:22:35,746 - That's--that's such an upsetting film. 535 00:22:35,789 --> 00:22:37,569 [ominous music] 536 00:22:37,617 --> 00:22:39,177 narrator: The otherwise decent man 537 00:22:39,227 --> 00:22:41,267 abuses his power one time, 538 00:22:41,316 --> 00:22:42,876 but he pays for all the times 539 00:22:42,926 --> 00:22:45,276 it's been done to the woman in the past. 540 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:46,540 [clanking] 541 00:22:46,582 --> 00:22:48,852 And that's the point. 542 00:22:48,889 --> 00:22:52,199 You only need to do it once for it to be wrong. 543 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,110 - The reaction to this man doing a bad thing 544 00:22:54,155 --> 00:22:55,415 is disproportionate, 545 00:22:55,461 --> 00:22:57,511 but in the context of a horror film, 546 00:22:57,550 --> 00:22:59,120 this is exactly what he had 547 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:00,290 coming to him. [chuckles] 548 00:23:00,335 --> 00:23:03,555 ♪ 549 00:23:03,599 --> 00:23:06,599 narrator: Body horror films tear off our masks 550 00:23:06,646 --> 00:23:09,166 and expose us for who we really are. 551 00:23:09,213 --> 00:23:10,613 - [screaming] 552 00:23:10,650 --> 00:23:12,740 narrator: And sometimes, what's inside us 553 00:23:12,782 --> 00:23:14,352 isn't pretty. 554 00:23:19,310 --> 00:23:22,010 [sinister music] 555 00:23:22,052 --> 00:23:24,492 narrator: Body horror movies have always fascinated me. 556 00:23:24,533 --> 00:23:27,143 [both screaming] 557 00:23:27,188 --> 00:23:29,358 So much so that my first film deals 558 00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:32,758 with a highly-infectious skin-eating disease 559 00:23:32,802 --> 00:23:35,412 and how it tears apart a group of friends. 560 00:23:35,457 --> 00:23:38,157 [ominous music] - [faintly] Oh, my God. 561 00:23:38,199 --> 00:23:40,679 ♪ 562 00:23:40,723 --> 00:23:43,473 - I love how "Cabin Fever" draws inspiration 563 00:23:43,509 --> 00:23:47,859 from a lot of classic horrorand gore films from "Evil Dead" 564 00:23:47,904 --> 00:23:51,344 to the body horror films of David Cronenberg, 565 00:23:51,386 --> 00:23:54,556 early Wes Craven and George Romero. 566 00:23:54,607 --> 00:23:57,517 [dramatic music] 567 00:23:57,566 --> 00:23:59,386 - Better close the door, Marcy. 568 00:23:59,438 --> 00:24:03,138 You don't want to infect everyone. 569 00:24:03,180 --> 00:24:05,140 ♪ 570 00:24:05,182 --> 00:24:06,842 The thing about "Cabin Fever" 571 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,140 is we didn't know what it was gonna be. 572 00:24:09,186 --> 00:24:10,706 I had never read a script like that. 573 00:24:10,753 --> 00:24:12,323 I think at the time, 574 00:24:12,363 --> 00:24:15,323 the scripts that were going outfor people our age 575 00:24:15,366 --> 00:24:17,496 didn't have that level of gore. 576 00:24:17,543 --> 00:24:19,853 ♪ 577 00:24:19,893 --> 00:24:22,163 They didn't have that grittiness 578 00:24:22,199 --> 00:24:24,249 and realness to them, 579 00:24:24,288 --> 00:24:26,548 and they weren't pushing the envelope so far. 580 00:24:26,595 --> 00:24:29,505 - The guy had bowled people's organs. 581 00:24:29,555 --> 00:24:31,765 Arms, legs, everything. 582 00:24:31,818 --> 00:24:35,688 - And I thought, "This is gonna be really incredible 583 00:24:35,735 --> 00:24:37,645 or it's gonna blow up in our faces." 584 00:24:37,693 --> 00:24:40,523 [tense music] 585 00:24:40,566 --> 00:24:42,086 - [screams] - Whoo! 586 00:24:42,132 --> 00:24:44,132 No more [no audio] finals! 587 00:24:44,178 --> 00:24:47,308 - "Cabin Fever" is about five friends 588 00:24:47,355 --> 00:24:52,095 who embark on a vacation in the woods, in a cabin, 589 00:24:52,142 --> 00:24:56,972 and they each come down with a flesh-eating bacteria. 590 00:24:57,017 --> 00:24:58,367 [dramatic musical sting] 591 00:24:58,409 --> 00:24:59,929 - [wet coughing] 592 00:24:59,976 --> 00:25:01,496 - Oh, God. Here. 593 00:25:01,543 --> 00:25:04,073 - The paranoia sort of sets in, 594 00:25:04,111 --> 00:25:06,901 and they start turning on each other. 595 00:25:06,940 --> 00:25:10,330 - Okay, we can eat alone, we can sleep alone, whatever. 596 00:25:10,378 --> 00:25:13,728 We have to talk to each other, we have to work together. 597 00:25:13,773 --> 00:25:19,263 ♪ 598 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:22,650 - The tone is just so odd, and it's mostly, you know, 599 00:25:22,695 --> 00:25:25,785 about the saturation level of the violence, and the gore, 600 00:25:25,828 --> 00:25:27,398 and the--its intensity, you know? 601 00:25:27,438 --> 00:25:29,178 Everything is just so intense that you're, like-- 602 00:25:29,223 --> 00:25:31,013 you jump and then you laugh 603 00:25:31,051 --> 00:25:33,051 because it's so ridiculous that this is happening. 604 00:25:33,096 --> 00:25:36,136 - [screaming] 605 00:25:36,186 --> 00:25:37,446 - This guy's lit on fire, 606 00:25:37,492 --> 00:25:38,972 this dog is suddenly attacking, 607 00:25:39,015 --> 00:25:39,965 it's, like, it's just, oh, my God, 608 00:25:40,016 --> 00:25:41,666 it just keeps coming at you 609 00:25:41,714 --> 00:25:44,194 and that's sort of--that's the fun of watching the movie. 610 00:25:44,238 --> 00:25:46,328 - Paul, that guy asked for our help. 611 00:25:46,370 --> 00:25:49,460 We lit him on fire. 612 00:25:49,504 --> 00:25:53,994 - My character, Paul, is a horribly selfish person. 613 00:25:54,030 --> 00:25:56,510 Party's over, Winston. [thump] 614 00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:58,725 He's just worried about himself, and that's the karma. 615 00:25:58,774 --> 00:26:00,474 It comes back to bite him in the ass, 616 00:26:00,515 --> 00:26:02,075 and then to bite them all in the ass. 617 00:26:02,125 --> 00:26:03,945 [horn blasts] 618 00:26:03,997 --> 00:26:06,517 ♪ 619 00:26:06,565 --> 00:26:08,565 The makeup effects were done by KNB, 620 00:26:08,610 --> 00:26:11,130 and they were back in LA, but the person on set 621 00:26:11,178 --> 00:26:13,308 was this amazing makeup artist named Garrett Immel, 622 00:26:13,354 --> 00:26:16,444 and it was really his ability to improvise with what we had. 623 00:26:16,487 --> 00:26:19,447 [tense music] 624 00:26:19,490 --> 00:26:21,230 And when Garrett did the workon Jordan's face, for instance, 625 00:26:21,275 --> 00:26:24,535 this sort of legendary skull look, I mean, it was-- 626 00:26:24,583 --> 00:26:25,933 it was incredible. 627 00:26:25,975 --> 00:26:27,585 [dramatic musical sting] 628 00:26:27,629 --> 00:26:30,409 - I had never done prosthetic makeup work before. 629 00:26:30,458 --> 00:26:31,418 [dramatic musical sting] 630 00:26:31,459 --> 00:26:33,899 It's incredible artistry, 631 00:26:33,940 --> 00:26:36,200 so applying it was, I would say, 632 00:26:36,246 --> 00:26:38,066 two to four hours. 633 00:26:38,118 --> 00:26:40,248 And then it's a slow process to take off, 634 00:26:40,294 --> 00:26:42,564 because they have to re-use the appliances, 635 00:26:42,601 --> 00:26:44,521 and if you just tear it off your face, 636 00:26:44,559 --> 00:26:46,429 you'll tear your skin off, and then, in fact, 637 00:26:46,474 --> 00:26:50,094 it really--your face would looklike mine did in "Cabin Fever." 638 00:26:50,130 --> 00:26:52,830 But it was devastating to see myself that way. 639 00:26:52,872 --> 00:26:54,922 - We all had to be sort of forewarned, 640 00:26:54,961 --> 00:26:58,141 because, you know, we didn't want Jordan to feel too bad. 641 00:26:58,181 --> 00:26:59,711 You know, how ugly she looked? 642 00:26:59,748 --> 00:27:01,138 'Cause it was like, your immediate reaction 643 00:27:01,184 --> 00:27:02,274 when she walked out of the trailer was like, 644 00:27:02,316 --> 00:27:03,266 "Oh, my God!" 645 00:27:03,317 --> 00:27:08,277 ♪ 646 00:27:08,322 --> 00:27:09,852 [dramatic musical sting] 647 00:27:09,889 --> 00:27:12,409 - You're there with your best friend, 648 00:27:12,456 --> 00:27:14,626 but then you have to kill your best friend 649 00:27:14,676 --> 00:27:17,066 because of this thing that's inside them. 650 00:27:17,113 --> 00:27:20,383 And that's what the disease became in "Cabin Fever." 651 00:27:20,421 --> 00:27:22,251 You're with your best friend, 652 00:27:22,292 --> 00:27:25,862 but you gotta isolate them, or you've gotta kill them, 653 00:27:25,905 --> 00:27:28,905 because whatever is inside them could get inside you. 654 00:27:28,951 --> 00:27:31,741 And suddenly, you're not seen as human anymore, 655 00:27:31,780 --> 00:27:33,870 and I think that there'ssomething very real about that. 656 00:27:33,913 --> 00:27:36,003 You know, when lepers have leprosy, 657 00:27:36,045 --> 00:27:37,995 what do we do? We isolate them. 658 00:27:38,047 --> 00:27:39,917 When SARS happened, 659 00:27:39,962 --> 00:27:41,182 when there's disease you don't understand, 660 00:27:41,224 --> 00:27:42,794 tent 'em off. 661 00:27:42,835 --> 00:27:44,575 People wanna get out? Too bad. 662 00:27:44,619 --> 00:27:47,749 Epidemic, population control. Can't let it get out. 663 00:27:47,796 --> 00:27:51,366 There's something really, really scary about that. 664 00:27:51,408 --> 00:27:52,848 - Grim? 665 00:27:52,888 --> 00:27:54,798 [ominous music] 666 00:27:54,847 --> 00:27:57,107 - I would say it begins as a body horror film, 667 00:27:57,153 --> 00:28:00,033 but then the real villain is people's cruelty, you know? 668 00:28:00,069 --> 00:28:02,719 And people not willing to help somebody who has a disease. 669 00:28:02,768 --> 00:28:03,898 - [muffled] Don't [no audio] come near me! 670 00:28:03,943 --> 00:28:05,603 - Jeff! - Stop, stop! 671 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:06,900 I don't want to get sick! 672 00:28:06,946 --> 00:28:08,296 I don't want any of us getting sick! 673 00:28:08,338 --> 00:28:10,428 - Horror films usually-- usually leave you 674 00:28:10,471 --> 00:28:12,731 with a sense of dread about the world, 675 00:28:12,778 --> 00:28:15,688 and that's--I think that's healthy to explore. 676 00:28:15,737 --> 00:28:17,217 - [gasps] 677 00:28:17,260 --> 00:28:19,570 - The more the movie can make you feel 678 00:28:19,610 --> 00:28:21,350 that reaction of, like, 679 00:28:21,395 --> 00:28:24,005 "Oh, that's horrible, I don't want that in my life," 680 00:28:24,050 --> 00:28:25,620 good because that's what, 681 00:28:25,660 --> 00:28:27,010 you know,we shouldn't want those things. 682 00:28:27,053 --> 00:28:29,363 We shouldn't want-- like, violence is awful, 683 00:28:29,403 --> 00:28:31,713 and if we can confront it in a way that is, like-- 684 00:28:31,753 --> 00:28:34,763 makes you want to look away, that is healthy, you know? 685 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,720 That's a good exercise of your imagination. 686 00:28:36,758 --> 00:28:38,538 - [screams] 687 00:28:38,586 --> 00:28:41,066 narrator: Paranoia was the menace of "Cabin Fever"... 688 00:28:41,110 --> 00:28:43,200 - Showtime, Billy! 689 00:28:43,243 --> 00:28:44,553 narrator: But sometimes, 690 00:28:44,592 --> 00:28:46,162 they really are out to get you. 691 00:28:46,202 --> 00:28:48,732 [cloth ripping] - What are you doing? 692 00:28:48,770 --> 00:28:50,290 narrator: Especially if you're part 693 00:28:50,337 --> 00:28:53,167 of the twisted world of "Society." 694 00:28:58,649 --> 00:29:01,349 [cheers and applause] 695 00:29:01,391 --> 00:29:03,961 narrator: F. Scott Fitzgerald once famously said, 696 00:29:04,003 --> 00:29:05,403 "The rich are different." 697 00:29:05,439 --> 00:29:09,049 [excited clamoring] 698 00:29:09,095 --> 00:29:10,785 narrator: In the film "Society," 699 00:29:10,836 --> 00:29:14,316 the rich are literally another species... 700 00:29:14,361 --> 00:29:16,321 - Wanna play? [cackles] 701 00:29:16,363 --> 00:29:18,893 narrator: Parasitic lifeforms that feed on the poor. 702 00:29:18,931 --> 00:29:22,061 [evil laughter] 703 00:29:22,108 --> 00:29:24,458 ♪ 704 00:29:24,501 --> 00:29:27,771 - Brian Yuzna's "Society" is one of my all-time favorite 705 00:29:27,809 --> 00:29:29,679 body horror movies. 706 00:29:29,724 --> 00:29:32,384 The makeup effects by Screaming Mad George 707 00:29:32,422 --> 00:29:34,082 in that film are unmatched. 708 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,120 [laughter] - [moans frightfully] 709 00:29:36,165 --> 00:29:37,505 - "Society" is, like, 710 00:29:37,558 --> 00:29:42,168 where '80s teen movie meets Cronenberg. 711 00:29:42,215 --> 00:29:45,995 You've got a family with an older sister 712 00:29:46,045 --> 00:29:48,045 who's getting ready to have her debutante sort of thing, 713 00:29:48,090 --> 00:29:50,480 and the younger brother who just doesn't feel like 714 00:29:50,527 --> 00:29:51,487 he fits into the family. 715 00:29:51,528 --> 00:29:52,878 Can't figure out why. 716 00:29:52,921 --> 00:29:54,661 - They don't approve of me, okay? 717 00:29:54,705 --> 00:29:56,835 They don't accept my friends. 718 00:29:56,882 --> 00:29:59,102 [ominous music] 719 00:29:59,145 --> 00:30:01,405 - And then it becomes more and more clear that 720 00:30:01,451 --> 00:30:03,451 he's not actually part of the family. 721 00:30:03,497 --> 00:30:05,887 The parents and the sister are really the family, 722 00:30:05,934 --> 00:30:08,244 and they are part of this thing called "Society" 723 00:30:08,284 --> 00:30:09,594 that they're always worried about, 724 00:30:09,633 --> 00:30:11,113 like, "What will Society think?" 725 00:30:11,157 --> 00:30:13,287 "Bill, be careful, you have to fit into Society." 726 00:30:13,333 --> 00:30:16,643 - You know, you'll make such a great contribution to Society. 727 00:30:16,684 --> 00:30:19,254 [soft dramatic music] 728 00:30:19,295 --> 00:30:21,115 - I'd never seen a horror movie 729 00:30:21,167 --> 00:30:22,907 that had a mythology 730 00:30:22,951 --> 00:30:25,431 that was based on class. 731 00:30:25,475 --> 00:30:27,605 - You're a different race from us, 732 00:30:27,651 --> 00:30:31,741 a different species, a different class. 733 00:30:31,786 --> 00:30:36,266 - The idea was how can you havefun with class exploitation? 734 00:30:36,312 --> 00:30:39,322 narrator: The film's paranoid teen hero, Billy, 735 00:30:39,359 --> 00:30:41,669 learns that he and his friends are pawns 736 00:30:41,709 --> 00:30:43,579 in a sinister conspiracy... 737 00:30:43,624 --> 00:30:45,544 [dramatic musical sting] 738 00:30:45,582 --> 00:30:47,062 narrator: A conspiracy that the wealthiest people 739 00:30:47,106 --> 00:30:49,406 in Beverly Hills all seem to be a part of. 740 00:30:49,456 --> 00:30:51,846 [ominous music] 741 00:30:51,893 --> 00:30:55,243 - Definitely has the formatof a high school hijinks movie. 742 00:30:55,288 --> 00:30:59,468 The difference is is it quickly gets a little disturbing 743 00:30:59,509 --> 00:31:02,079 when Billy listens to the tape 744 00:31:02,121 --> 00:31:06,911 of his parents and sister goingto her coming out party. 745 00:31:06,952 --> 00:31:09,612 - On the schedule, first we dine, then copulation. 746 00:31:09,650 --> 00:31:11,390 With someone your own age first, 747 00:31:11,434 --> 00:31:13,224 then with your mother and me. 748 00:31:13,262 --> 00:31:14,662 - All of a sudden, it's taken 749 00:31:14,698 --> 00:31:18,178 the high school hijinks to another place. 750 00:31:18,224 --> 00:31:20,494 - That thing what I think it is? 751 00:31:20,530 --> 00:31:21,920 - That's a really disgusting thing 752 00:31:21,967 --> 00:31:23,187 to bring into Mom and Dad's bedroom. 753 00:31:23,229 --> 00:31:25,139 - [stutters] 754 00:31:25,187 --> 00:31:28,227 - Generally, it's accepted thathorror movies deal with taboos, 755 00:31:28,277 --> 00:31:31,447 and one of the main taboos that we have is incest. 756 00:31:31,498 --> 00:31:33,628 ♪ 757 00:31:33,674 --> 00:31:36,424 It's so pervasive, that taboo, 758 00:31:36,459 --> 00:31:39,069 that we don't hardly talk about it much. 759 00:31:39,114 --> 00:31:41,554 I think it's the basis of a lot of horror movies 760 00:31:41,595 --> 00:31:44,075 implicitly, not explicitly. 761 00:31:44,119 --> 00:31:47,949 In "Society," we make it more explicit... 762 00:31:47,993 --> 00:31:49,523 - If you have any edible fantasies 763 00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:52,079 you'd like to indulge in, Billy, now's the time. 764 00:31:52,127 --> 00:31:53,257 [laughs] 765 00:31:53,302 --> 00:31:57,002 - That discomfort about sex, 766 00:31:57,045 --> 00:32:00,135 which is really important in horror movies-- 767 00:32:00,179 --> 00:32:03,009 I always feel like horror and sex and death 768 00:32:03,051 --> 00:32:04,971 are just so intertwined. 769 00:32:05,010 --> 00:32:06,010 [dramatic music] 770 00:32:06,054 --> 00:32:08,494 - Mom? Dad? 771 00:32:08,535 --> 00:32:10,835 I'd like to have a little chat with you. 772 00:32:10,885 --> 00:32:12,965 ♪ 773 00:32:13,018 --> 00:32:14,448 narrator: It turns out, 774 00:32:14,497 --> 00:32:16,327 Billy was adopted for the sole reason 775 00:32:16,369 --> 00:32:18,889 of broadening Society's inbred gene pool. 776 00:32:18,937 --> 00:32:20,107 [laughter] 777 00:32:20,155 --> 00:32:22,545 - I do love the--[sniffs] 778 00:32:22,592 --> 00:32:25,072 smell of the hunt... 779 00:32:25,117 --> 00:32:28,247 and the taste of the Shunt. [all cheer] 780 00:32:28,294 --> 00:32:29,644 - Let go of me! 781 00:32:29,686 --> 00:32:31,596 ♪ 782 00:32:31,645 --> 00:32:35,165 narrator: He'll be sacrificed at an event called the Shunt, 783 00:32:35,214 --> 00:32:38,174 where Society shows its true face 784 00:32:38,217 --> 00:32:41,307 and all of its other body parts. 785 00:32:41,350 --> 00:32:43,530 [all shouting] 786 00:32:43,570 --> 00:32:45,050 [laughter] 787 00:32:45,093 --> 00:32:46,833 narrator: It's one of the strangest 788 00:32:46,877 --> 00:32:50,657 and most disturbing sequences ever put on film. 789 00:32:50,707 --> 00:32:53,007 ♪ 790 00:32:53,058 --> 00:32:56,888 - They get together and their bodies merge. 791 00:32:56,931 --> 00:32:58,371 Their clothes come off, 792 00:32:58,411 --> 00:33:00,941 they start moving to this amorphous blob, 793 00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:04,899 and they eat poor people, and they bathe in their blood, 794 00:33:04,939 --> 00:33:09,339 and you see all of it in graphic detail. 795 00:33:09,378 --> 00:33:14,038 ♪ 796 00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:17,129 - It's the first time I had a chance to direct. 797 00:33:17,169 --> 00:33:20,649 I said, "Wow, what haven't I seen that I'd like to see?" 798 00:33:20,694 --> 00:33:22,524 I imagined a couple people in a room 799 00:33:22,565 --> 00:33:25,825 and their bodies kind of melding together. 800 00:33:25,873 --> 00:33:28,533 [laughter, slurping] 801 00:33:28,571 --> 00:33:31,881 The whole idea of a big orgiastic ending-- 802 00:33:31,922 --> 00:33:34,882 I saw "The Ten Commandments" when I was a kid, 803 00:33:34,925 --> 00:33:37,665 and it really affected me, 804 00:33:37,711 --> 00:33:39,841 because, first of all, it's very magical. 805 00:33:39,887 --> 00:33:41,577 It's like a horror movie. 806 00:33:41,628 --> 00:33:43,198 [tense music] 807 00:33:43,238 --> 00:33:45,198 The sea turns into blood... 808 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,850 [staff clatters] 809 00:33:46,894 --> 00:33:50,124 There's sticks that turn into serpents, 810 00:33:50,158 --> 00:33:54,028 there's a green mist that kills kids, 811 00:33:54,075 --> 00:33:56,945 but at the end, there's this huge orgy 812 00:33:56,991 --> 00:34:01,391 when they're worshipping the golden calf. 813 00:34:01,430 --> 00:34:03,560 That certainly influenced me. 814 00:34:03,606 --> 00:34:05,166 - The rich have always sucked off 815 00:34:05,217 --> 00:34:07,177 low-class [no audio] like you. 816 00:34:07,219 --> 00:34:08,869 ♪ 817 00:34:08,916 --> 00:34:11,046 - Obviously, it's, like, all a metaphor 818 00:34:11,092 --> 00:34:14,882 about propriety and fitting in and also capitalism 819 00:34:14,922 --> 00:34:18,062 and having the upper class act as though 820 00:34:18,099 --> 00:34:21,619 they've got access to much finer things, when really, 821 00:34:21,668 --> 00:34:25,758 they have access to much more upsetting and debased things. 822 00:34:25,802 --> 00:34:27,542 ♪ 823 00:34:27,587 --> 00:34:30,197 narrator: Physical monstrosity is often equated 824 00:34:30,242 --> 00:34:31,292 with moral deformity. 825 00:34:31,330 --> 00:34:32,330 - [screaming] 826 00:34:33,941 --> 00:34:35,421 narrator: But sometimes, 827 00:34:35,464 --> 00:34:38,694 the "normal" people are the monsters, 828 00:34:38,728 --> 00:34:43,298 and the so-called "freaks" are too good for this world. 829 00:34:47,389 --> 00:34:49,219 - [whimpering] 830 00:34:49,261 --> 00:34:50,871 narrator: Body horror films play 831 00:34:50,914 --> 00:34:52,964 on a dark part of human psychology. 832 00:34:53,003 --> 00:34:55,533 - [frightened yelling] 833 00:34:55,571 --> 00:34:57,441 narrator: Our discomfort with any physical difference 834 00:34:57,486 --> 00:34:58,746 from the norm. 835 00:34:58,792 --> 00:35:01,322 [ominous music] 836 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:02,360 narrator: They have their roots 837 00:35:02,404 --> 00:35:03,934 in the carnival sideshows 838 00:35:03,971 --> 00:35:06,761 of the 19th and early 20th centuries, 839 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,630 where people with birth defects, 840 00:35:08,671 --> 00:35:11,591 so-called "freaks," were put on display 841 00:35:11,631 --> 00:35:15,111 for the general public's amusement. 842 00:35:15,156 --> 00:35:18,116 Tod Browning, the director of "Dracula," 843 00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:21,079 worked those carnivals as a young man. 844 00:35:21,119 --> 00:35:22,899 [laughter] 845 00:35:22,946 --> 00:35:24,466 narrator: He turned his fascination 846 00:35:24,513 --> 00:35:26,173 with the performers into one of the most 847 00:35:26,211 --> 00:35:29,211 infamous horror films of all time: 848 00:35:29,257 --> 00:35:30,687 "Freaks." 849 00:35:30,737 --> 00:35:33,087 - [chanting]Gooble, gobble, gooble, gobble. 850 00:35:33,131 --> 00:35:35,261 - [chanting] We accept her, we accept her. 851 00:35:35,307 --> 00:35:37,697 - [chanting]Gooble, gobble, gooble, gobble! 852 00:35:37,744 --> 00:35:40,664 - "Freaks" is a one-of-a-kind. It's a unique movie. 853 00:35:40,703 --> 00:35:43,143 How it got made, 854 00:35:43,184 --> 00:35:46,674 under the aegis of MGM in the 1930s, 855 00:35:46,709 --> 00:35:48,539 I will never understand. 856 00:35:48,581 --> 00:35:50,411 - Tomorrow night's the big night, eh, Daisy? 857 00:35:50,452 --> 00:35:52,372 - Yes. Your sister's getting married. 858 00:35:52,411 --> 00:35:56,851 - Because MGM was the [indistinct] of movie studios, 859 00:35:56,893 --> 00:36:01,683 so for that studio to turn out this fascinating, 860 00:36:01,724 --> 00:36:04,554 and yet, sometimes repellant film, 861 00:36:04,597 --> 00:36:06,897 is just a marvel. 862 00:36:08,035 --> 00:36:11,905 - "Freaks" didn't rely on special effects makeups, 863 00:36:11,952 --> 00:36:15,132 it used disabled and deformed human beings 864 00:36:15,173 --> 00:36:17,873 from real circuses and sideshows across the country 865 00:36:17,914 --> 00:36:19,484 to be its main players. 866 00:36:19,525 --> 00:36:21,435 - It reverses the tradition. 867 00:36:21,483 --> 00:36:24,793 It has the freaks, or the people we care about, 868 00:36:24,834 --> 00:36:27,584 and the beautiful people, the beautiful trapeze artists, 869 00:36:27,620 --> 00:36:29,930 and the strongmen, the physical specimens, 870 00:36:29,970 --> 00:36:31,230 are the monsters. 871 00:36:31,276 --> 00:36:34,626 - Well, here's something for your eye! 872 00:36:34,670 --> 00:36:37,460 - [laughs] 873 00:36:37,499 --> 00:36:39,979 narrator: The film spins the tale of a trapeze artist 874 00:36:40,023 --> 00:36:42,203 who marries a dwarf for his money 875 00:36:42,243 --> 00:36:44,333 then plots to murder him. 876 00:36:44,376 --> 00:36:46,726 [dramatic musical sting] 877 00:36:46,769 --> 00:36:48,209 When she's found out, 878 00:36:48,249 --> 00:36:50,119 the freaks take revenge. 879 00:36:50,164 --> 00:36:52,694 ♪ 880 00:36:52,732 --> 00:36:55,872 - The thing about that movie that's so difficult 881 00:36:55,909 --> 00:37:01,179 is it generates such sympathy for the freaks. 882 00:37:01,219 --> 00:37:03,999 And then the movie does this strange turn... 883 00:37:04,047 --> 00:37:06,177 [shouting] 884 00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:07,794 Which is when they, all the freaks, 885 00:37:07,834 --> 00:37:09,444 come to mutilate her, 886 00:37:09,488 --> 00:37:11,448 there's images you don't forget. 887 00:37:11,490 --> 00:37:15,970 ♪ 888 00:37:16,016 --> 00:37:17,446 - [shouts] 889 00:37:17,496 --> 00:37:18,796 - [screams] [thunder booms] 890 00:37:18,845 --> 00:37:19,885 - [screams] 891 00:37:19,933 --> 00:37:22,153 [squawking] 892 00:37:22,196 --> 00:37:23,886 narrator: "Freaks" was attacked by critics 893 00:37:23,937 --> 00:37:25,457 and shunned by audiences. 894 00:37:25,504 --> 00:37:27,114 - [screams] 895 00:37:27,157 --> 00:37:28,457 narrator: For decades, 896 00:37:28,507 --> 00:37:30,287 it was banned in many countries. 897 00:37:30,335 --> 00:37:32,895 Today, it's considered a significant part 898 00:37:32,946 --> 00:37:34,156 of film history. 899 00:37:34,208 --> 00:37:35,948 [tense musical crescendo] 900 00:37:35,992 --> 00:37:37,782 - [screaming] 901 00:37:37,820 --> 00:37:39,690 - [indistinct] 902 00:37:39,735 --> 00:37:42,295 narrator: In 1980, producer Mel Brooks 903 00:37:42,347 --> 00:37:45,867 hired the young David Lynch to direct "The Elephant Man," 904 00:37:45,915 --> 00:37:48,395 a very different take on physical deformity. 905 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,310 [dramatic carnival music] 906 00:37:51,356 --> 00:37:55,266 [laughter] 907 00:37:55,316 --> 00:37:57,926 Nominated for eight Academy Awards, 908 00:37:57,971 --> 00:37:59,971 "The Elephant Man" tells the true story 909 00:38:00,016 --> 00:38:01,236 of John Merrick, 910 00:38:01,279 --> 00:38:03,539 who goes from carnival exhibition 911 00:38:03,585 --> 00:38:06,145 to friend of the English aristocracy. 912 00:38:06,196 --> 00:38:08,366 - Because naturally, 913 00:38:08,416 --> 00:38:11,806 some people do find my appearance disturbing. 914 00:38:11,854 --> 00:38:14,344 - "The Elephant Man" is probably the antithesis 915 00:38:14,379 --> 00:38:16,209 of Tod Browning's "Freaks" 916 00:38:16,250 --> 00:38:18,510 in that it is so sympathetic 917 00:38:18,557 --> 00:38:21,517 and it's from the point of view of someone 918 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,040 who was born as a monster, 919 00:38:24,084 --> 00:38:27,224 even though his heart was that of an angel. 920 00:38:28,523 --> 00:38:31,443 This is a man who's so deformed, so grotesque, 921 00:38:31,483 --> 00:38:33,053 that he has to wear a mask 922 00:38:33,093 --> 00:38:34,883 so that he doesn't frighten everybody 923 00:38:34,921 --> 00:38:37,621 he comes in confrontation with. 924 00:38:37,663 --> 00:38:39,803 [all exclaiming] 925 00:38:39,839 --> 00:38:42,669 And is put on display in circuses 926 00:38:42,711 --> 00:38:45,191 because he's a freak. 927 00:38:45,235 --> 00:38:48,795 - Elephant...Man. 928 00:38:48,848 --> 00:38:50,678 [audience murmuring] 929 00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,369 narrator: Lynch employs a naturalistic style 930 00:38:53,418 --> 00:38:55,678 that reflects the brutal realities of life 931 00:38:55,724 --> 00:38:57,514 in Victorian England. 932 00:38:57,552 --> 00:38:59,642 [all clamoring] 933 00:38:59,685 --> 00:39:01,725 But combines it with dreamlike touches 934 00:39:01,774 --> 00:39:03,564 that are uniquely his own. 935 00:39:03,602 --> 00:39:06,522 [distorted howling] 936 00:39:06,561 --> 00:39:09,741 ♪ 937 00:39:09,782 --> 00:39:11,482 - That film, in black and white, 938 00:39:11,523 --> 00:39:13,223 just shimmers. 939 00:39:13,263 --> 00:39:17,183 The use of light and dark chiaroscuro shots-- 940 00:39:17,224 --> 00:39:19,404 it's ironic that you can say it's a thing of beauty, 941 00:39:19,444 --> 00:39:20,794 even though it deals with 942 00:39:20,836 --> 00:39:22,836 someone who is anything but beautiful. 943 00:39:22,882 --> 00:39:26,762 But the power of that film is the very deft way 944 00:39:26,799 --> 00:39:31,459 that Lynch first reveals the look of John Marrick 945 00:39:31,499 --> 00:39:34,499 and then gradually lets you see him a little longer, 946 00:39:34,546 --> 00:39:37,026 and you begin to understand 947 00:39:37,070 --> 00:39:39,160 that it's not what's on the outside, 948 00:39:39,202 --> 00:39:41,552 but what's on the inside that really does count, 949 00:39:41,596 --> 00:39:45,246 corny as that may sound, but that's the entire premise. 950 00:39:45,295 --> 00:39:49,165 - I am not an animal! 951 00:39:51,214 --> 00:39:56,444 I am a human being! 952 00:39:56,481 --> 00:39:58,571 - The tagline of the movie on the poster, 953 00:39:58,613 --> 00:40:00,753 "I'm not an animal, I'm a human being," 954 00:40:00,789 --> 00:40:02,569 that is at the core of body horror-- 955 00:40:02,617 --> 00:40:05,577 what makes a human being a human being. 956 00:40:05,620 --> 00:40:07,450 Is it--is it this? 957 00:40:07,492 --> 00:40:10,842 Or is it something else? Is it something below? 958 00:40:10,886 --> 00:40:15,626 - My life is full 'cause I know that I am loved. 959 00:40:15,674 --> 00:40:17,764 - If you watch that film on an emotional level, 960 00:40:17,806 --> 00:40:18,936 I want to be John Merrick. 961 00:40:18,981 --> 00:40:21,771 He's a pure goodness, you know? 962 00:40:21,810 --> 00:40:23,460 He's a loving creature 963 00:40:23,508 --> 00:40:27,028 who's not been destroyed by all the darkness he's seen. 964 00:40:27,076 --> 00:40:28,766 What more could we wish for ourselves? 965 00:40:28,817 --> 00:40:30,557 - She's very pretty, your mother. 966 00:40:30,602 --> 00:40:33,262 - Oh, yes. 967 00:40:33,300 --> 00:40:34,690 - A friend of mine told me 968 00:40:34,736 --> 00:40:36,166 he saw "Elephant Man" in the theater, 969 00:40:36,216 --> 00:40:37,906 and there was a scene where the Elephant Man's 970 00:40:37,957 --> 00:40:40,347 talking to the singer woman, 971 00:40:40,394 --> 00:40:42,834 and it's a very sweet, gentle scene, 972 00:40:42,875 --> 00:40:44,825 and she's kind of looking at him like he's a human, 973 00:40:44,877 --> 00:40:46,487 and she saying, "It's so nice to meet you." 974 00:40:46,531 --> 00:40:48,491 And there's this quiet moment. 975 00:40:48,533 --> 00:40:50,233 And a guy in the theater went, 976 00:40:50,273 --> 00:40:53,583 "Kill her, Elephant Man!" [chuckles] 977 00:40:53,625 --> 00:40:56,055 Like, he's like, "It's a monster movie, right? 978 00:40:56,105 --> 00:40:58,365 When's Elephant Man gonna startkilling people?" 979 00:40:58,412 --> 00:40:59,632 [laughing] 980 00:40:59,674 --> 00:41:01,074 [tense music] 981 00:41:01,110 --> 00:41:02,500 - [screams] 982 00:41:02,547 --> 00:41:05,197 narrator: Sometimes disgusting, 983 00:41:05,245 --> 00:41:06,855 often disturbing-- 984 00:41:06,899 --> 00:41:08,289 - [whimpers] 985 00:41:08,335 --> 00:41:09,415 narrator: But always powerful... 986 00:41:09,467 --> 00:41:10,507 - [growling] [phone rings] 987 00:41:10,555 --> 00:41:12,205 narrator: Body horror films 988 00:41:12,252 --> 00:41:14,042 make us question our prejudices 989 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:15,780 against physical difference... 990 00:41:15,821 --> 00:41:18,481 - You filth! 991 00:41:18,519 --> 00:41:20,829 narrator: Our attitudes about sex and gender... 992 00:41:20,869 --> 00:41:23,479 [wire sawing] 993 00:41:23,524 --> 00:41:25,444 [screaming] 994 00:41:25,483 --> 00:41:27,923 narrator: Our fear of disease and contamination... 995 00:41:27,963 --> 00:41:29,013 - [shouts] 996 00:41:29,051 --> 00:41:30,791 ♪ 997 00:41:30,836 --> 00:41:31,966 narrator: And how much our appearance 998 00:41:32,011 --> 00:41:34,191 determines who we are. 999 00:41:34,230 --> 00:41:36,020 - [screaming] 1000 00:41:36,058 --> 00:41:37,968 narrator: They confront us with the beauty 1001 00:41:38,017 --> 00:41:41,847 and horror of being human. 1002 00:41:41,890 --> 00:41:44,590 - [screaming]