1 00:00:01,065 --> 00:00:03,720 [tense music] 2 00:00:03,763 --> 00:00:06,331 male narrator: What's the most disturbing genre in movies? 3 00:00:06,375 --> 00:00:07,550 [shrieking] 4 00:00:07,593 --> 00:00:08,420 [metal and teeth scraping] 5 00:00:08,464 --> 00:00:10,074 ♪ 6 00:00:10,118 --> 00:00:13,599 For many, the answer is body horror. 7 00:00:13,643 --> 00:00:14,600 ♪ 8 00:00:14,644 --> 00:00:17,038 - [screams] 9 00:00:17,081 --> 00:00:18,996 - Sort of queasy to think 10 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:21,868 we're walking packages of flesh 11 00:00:21,912 --> 00:00:24,654 just waiting for a virus to corrupt us. 12 00:00:24,697 --> 00:00:26,917 [screaming] 13 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,572 - When the body is the host of something from within, 14 00:00:29,615 --> 00:00:31,226 how horrifying is that? 15 00:00:31,269 --> 00:00:33,576 [growling and screaming] 16 00:00:33,619 --> 00:00:35,752 - All these deep, repressed things that people 17 00:00:35,795 --> 00:00:37,884 don't wanna think about, and what if they all came out? 18 00:00:37,928 --> 00:00:39,016 ♪ 19 00:00:39,060 --> 00:00:40,104 - [whimpering] 20 00:00:40,148 --> 00:00:44,891 - We'll tear your soul apart. 21 00:00:44,935 --> 00:00:46,241 - Oh, "Hellraiser"'s incredible. 22 00:00:46,284 --> 00:00:47,894 [bestial snarl] 23 00:00:47,938 --> 00:00:50,549 It's sort of wonderfully delicious. 24 00:00:50,593 --> 00:00:52,247 [dramatic musical sting] 25 00:00:52,290 --> 00:00:54,075 - It is all about the terror of being alive, 26 00:00:54,118 --> 00:00:55,337 and the terror of having a body, 27 00:00:55,380 --> 00:00:56,468 and the terror of other people, 28 00:00:56,512 --> 00:00:57,382 and the terror of the natural 29 00:00:57,426 --> 00:00:58,383 and supernatural world. 30 00:00:58,427 --> 00:00:59,950 ♪ 31 00:00:59,993 --> 00:01:03,432 - I am a human being! 32 00:01:03,475 --> 00:01:04,911 [monkey snarls] 33 00:01:04,955 --> 00:01:06,652 - That is at the core of body horror-- 34 00:01:06,696 --> 00:01:08,872 what makes the human being a human being? 35 00:01:08,915 --> 00:01:10,569 - [screams] 36 00:01:10,613 --> 00:01:12,832 - Is it this or is it something else? 37 00:01:12,876 --> 00:01:15,270 ♪ 38 00:01:15,313 --> 00:01:17,010 [explosion] - [screaming] 39 00:01:17,054 --> 00:01:20,013 [eerie music] 40 00:01:20,057 --> 00:01:26,977 ♪ 41 00:01:27,717 --> 00:01:29,284 - [screams] 42 00:01:45,343 --> 00:01:47,911 narrator: We all have bodies. 43 00:01:47,954 --> 00:01:50,131 Some are young and strong. 44 00:01:50,174 --> 00:01:51,349 [artery hisses] 45 00:01:51,393 --> 00:01:55,005 Others are crumbling prisons. 46 00:01:55,048 --> 00:01:58,356 It doesn't take much to go from one state to the other. 47 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,185 ♪ 48 00:02:01,229 --> 00:02:02,534 A little time... 49 00:02:02,578 --> 00:02:03,709 - [groans] 50 00:02:03,753 --> 00:02:05,058 narrator: Disease... 51 00:02:05,102 --> 00:02:06,364 - [screams] 52 00:02:06,408 --> 00:02:07,757 narrator: And misfortune... 53 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,020 - [screaming] [boiling water hissing] 54 00:02:10,063 --> 00:02:12,979 narrator: And you could be living body horror. 55 00:02:13,023 --> 00:02:15,895 - [moaning growl] 56 00:02:15,939 --> 00:02:19,072 narrator: But for some people, there is a special thrill 57 00:02:19,116 --> 00:02:22,206 in exploring the terrors of the flesh 58 00:02:22,250 --> 00:02:24,643 and the extremes of sensation. 59 00:02:24,687 --> 00:02:26,732 People like Clive Barker, 60 00:02:26,776 --> 00:02:28,778 writer-director of the ground-breaking 61 00:02:28,821 --> 00:02:32,390 psychosexual horror classic, 62 00:02:32,434 --> 00:02:33,913 "Hellraiser." 63 00:02:33,957 --> 00:02:36,264 [eerie dissonance] 64 00:02:36,307 --> 00:02:38,440 - We have such sights 65 00:02:38,483 --> 00:02:40,224 to show you. 66 00:02:40,268 --> 00:02:42,226 - [gasps] 67 00:02:42,270 --> 00:02:43,923 narrator: "Hellraiser" begins 68 00:02:43,967 --> 00:02:46,839 as thrill-seeking bad boy Frank opens up a portal 69 00:02:46,883 --> 00:02:49,886 to a dimension of pleasure and pain. 70 00:02:49,929 --> 00:02:52,410 [eerie dramatic music] 71 00:02:52,454 --> 00:02:54,238 ♪ 72 00:02:54,282 --> 00:02:56,371 After Frank's apparent death, 73 00:02:56,414 --> 00:02:59,896 his brother Larry, edgy second wife Julia, 74 00:02:59,939 --> 00:03:02,377 and Larry's daughter Kirsty move into the family home. 75 00:03:02,420 --> 00:03:04,335 ♪ 76 00:03:04,379 --> 00:03:07,686 But bits of Frank are still in the floorboards. 77 00:03:07,730 --> 00:03:09,732 A dash of blood gives him a way 78 00:03:09,775 --> 00:03:11,908 to escape the hell dimension. 79 00:03:11,951 --> 00:03:14,911 [dramatic music] 80 00:03:14,954 --> 00:03:18,523 ♪ 81 00:03:18,567 --> 00:03:21,004 - One of the things I love about that film, 82 00:03:21,047 --> 00:03:24,442 the transformation from nothingness 83 00:03:24,486 --> 00:03:26,792 to this man forming. 84 00:03:26,836 --> 00:03:29,186 ♪ 85 00:03:29,230 --> 00:03:31,710 Little by little, you start to see more of the body, 86 00:03:31,754 --> 00:03:33,059 and initially it's some really wonderful 87 00:03:33,103 --> 00:03:35,148 sort of puppetry work. 88 00:03:35,192 --> 00:03:37,150 And then it turns into a real actor 89 00:03:37,194 --> 00:03:38,978 with this sort of sinewy, bloody muscles. 90 00:03:39,022 --> 00:03:40,632 - [yelps] 91 00:03:40,676 --> 00:03:42,243 ♪ 92 00:03:42,286 --> 00:03:43,287 [yelps] 93 00:03:43,331 --> 00:03:45,463 - Julia? - [gasps] 94 00:03:45,507 --> 00:03:47,117 narrator: Frank's return reanimates 95 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:48,988 his secret affair with Julia. 96 00:03:49,032 --> 00:03:51,426 - You'll do it? 97 00:03:51,469 --> 00:03:52,949 - Yes. 98 00:03:54,429 --> 00:03:56,257 I will. 99 00:03:56,300 --> 00:03:59,129 narrator: She begins luring men into the attic... 100 00:03:59,172 --> 00:04:00,565 - [grunts] [bone crunches] 101 00:04:00,609 --> 00:04:02,306 narrator: To feed Frank their flesh. 102 00:04:02,350 --> 00:04:04,439 [dark music] 103 00:04:04,482 --> 00:04:06,702 - The wonderful thing about "Hellraiser" is that in fact, 104 00:04:06,745 --> 00:04:08,094 though it's a horror film, 105 00:04:08,138 --> 00:04:10,271 it's really a very sick love story. 106 00:04:10,314 --> 00:04:13,709 Julia is so in love 107 00:04:13,752 --> 00:04:15,754 with Frank, but she can't leave him. 108 00:04:15,798 --> 00:04:17,060 We know what that's like. 109 00:04:17,103 --> 00:04:18,627 You get in a relationship with someone, 110 00:04:18,670 --> 00:04:20,150 you know it's unhealthy, but you just can't get out. 111 00:04:20,193 --> 00:04:21,586 You won't leave. 112 00:04:21,630 --> 00:04:23,806 [blow lands] She is so addicted 113 00:04:23,849 --> 00:04:26,678 to this diseased love affair 114 00:04:26,722 --> 00:04:29,028 that she would be willing to go out and kill people 115 00:04:29,072 --> 00:04:30,900 to help bring him back to life. 116 00:04:30,943 --> 00:04:33,076 - I'm going to live and you're going to help me, yes? 117 00:04:33,119 --> 00:04:34,773 - Yes. 118 00:04:34,817 --> 00:04:36,514 ♪ 119 00:04:36,558 --> 00:04:38,560 narrator: In the ultimate case of identity theft, 120 00:04:38,603 --> 00:04:41,867 Frank kills his brother and puts on his skin. 121 00:04:41,911 --> 00:04:44,392 [dramatic musical sting] 122 00:04:44,435 --> 00:04:46,307 But his plans are disrupted 123 00:04:46,350 --> 00:04:49,353 by his resourceful young niece. 124 00:04:49,397 --> 00:04:51,529 - Give me that. 125 00:04:51,573 --> 00:04:54,793 ♪ 126 00:04:54,837 --> 00:04:59,015 - I think Kirsty is a very normal girl 127 00:04:59,058 --> 00:05:02,975 and doesn't expect that the trajectory of her life 128 00:05:03,019 --> 00:05:05,326 will end up having to negotiate 129 00:05:05,369 --> 00:05:06,936 with demons from hell 130 00:05:06,979 --> 00:05:08,677 for her own soul. [chuckles] 131 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,723 narrator: Kirsty opens Frank's puzzle box... 132 00:05:11,767 --> 00:05:13,159 [box zaps] 133 00:05:13,203 --> 00:05:14,639 Accidentally summoning 134 00:05:14,683 --> 00:05:17,816 Hellraiser's breakout stars, 135 00:05:17,860 --> 00:05:20,558 the Cenobites, 136 00:05:20,602 --> 00:05:24,997 transdimensional lords of pleasure and pain. 137 00:05:25,041 --> 00:05:27,696 - They are the perfect combination 138 00:05:27,739 --> 00:05:30,655 of carnal and something otherworldly 139 00:05:30,699 --> 00:05:32,875 that is literally stitched together. 140 00:05:32,918 --> 00:05:34,311 ♪ 141 00:05:34,355 --> 00:05:35,921 [teeth chattering] 142 00:05:35,965 --> 00:05:37,706 - There's a great image from "Hellraiser" 143 00:05:37,749 --> 00:05:39,229 that it's always just stuck with me, 144 00:05:39,272 --> 00:05:41,013 which is the Chatterer, 145 00:05:41,057 --> 00:05:44,756 and he's sticking his fingers down Kirsty's throat. 146 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,020 - [screams] 147 00:05:48,064 --> 00:05:50,022 - And that, to me, just sums up "Hellraiser." 148 00:05:50,066 --> 00:05:52,460 It's invasive. It just pushes the limits. 149 00:05:52,503 --> 00:05:54,679 - [yelping] 150 00:05:54,723 --> 00:05:57,508 narrator: "Hellraiser"'s sadomasochistic imagery 151 00:05:57,552 --> 00:05:59,858 was highly unusual for its time. 152 00:05:59,902 --> 00:06:02,426 The unique look of the Cenobites, 153 00:06:02,470 --> 00:06:05,690 tight, black leather and extreme body modifications, 154 00:06:05,734 --> 00:06:09,172 was inspired by the S&M culture. 155 00:06:09,215 --> 00:06:12,044 Clive Barker took their darkly erotic style 156 00:06:12,088 --> 00:06:13,655 into the mainstream. 157 00:06:13,698 --> 00:06:15,570 - Clive Barker is kind of the master 158 00:06:15,613 --> 00:06:18,181 of sexuality in horror. 159 00:06:18,224 --> 00:06:19,835 [dissonant notes] 160 00:06:19,878 --> 00:06:22,315 Clive is, quite famously, gay, and, you know, 161 00:06:22,359 --> 00:06:26,232 a lot of his material comes from that perspective, 162 00:06:26,276 --> 00:06:29,453 but it's not about a sexual preference, 163 00:06:29,497 --> 00:06:31,281 it's about gender issues, 164 00:06:31,324 --> 00:06:35,981 it's about the threat of what one's gender represents. 165 00:06:36,025 --> 00:06:38,070 [dramatic music] 166 00:06:38,114 --> 00:06:40,464 - He's showing us parts of ourselves 167 00:06:40,508 --> 00:06:42,205 that we didn't even know existed, 168 00:06:42,248 --> 00:06:45,904 and because he doesn't make moral judgement, 169 00:06:45,948 --> 00:06:47,993 everything is fair game. 170 00:06:48,037 --> 00:06:51,257 [tense music] 171 00:06:51,301 --> 00:06:53,085 narrator: With the help of the Cenobites, 172 00:06:53,129 --> 00:06:56,567 Kirsty has her bloody revenge on Frank. 173 00:06:56,611 --> 00:06:59,614 - [screams] 174 00:06:59,657 --> 00:07:03,879 - The Cenobites are impartial. 175 00:07:03,922 --> 00:07:07,360 I don't think Clive wrote them as bad or evil. 176 00:07:07,404 --> 00:07:09,319 They give people what they ask for. 177 00:07:09,362 --> 00:07:10,842 - [whimpering] - Explorers 178 00:07:10,886 --> 00:07:13,105 in the further regions of experience, 179 00:07:13,149 --> 00:07:15,194 demons to some, 180 00:07:15,238 --> 00:07:17,501 angels to others. 181 00:07:17,545 --> 00:07:18,937 - So in "Hellraiser," 182 00:07:18,981 --> 00:07:21,026 what is the monster? What is the menace? 183 00:07:21,070 --> 00:07:23,551 I think that the menace is really obsession, 184 00:07:23,594 --> 00:07:25,640 you know, much more than the demons. 185 00:07:25,683 --> 00:07:26,858 ♪ 186 00:07:26,902 --> 00:07:28,556 You go with the demons 187 00:07:28,599 --> 00:07:30,775 when you can't rise above your own obsessions, 188 00:07:30,819 --> 00:07:32,429 your own fixation on the puzzle box, 189 00:07:32,473 --> 00:07:34,387 when you've turned away from your life 190 00:07:34,431 --> 00:07:37,347 and into that unhealthy fixation. 191 00:07:37,390 --> 00:07:39,392 - [rasping] Not leaving us so soon, are you? 192 00:07:39,436 --> 00:07:41,699 [hook screeching] 193 00:07:41,743 --> 00:07:43,396 narrator: Clive Barker blazed the trail 194 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,703 for sexually transgressive monsters. 195 00:07:45,747 --> 00:07:48,314 [women screaming] 196 00:07:48,358 --> 00:07:49,925 But when it comes to body horror-- 197 00:07:49,968 --> 00:07:51,404 [guttural sputtering] 198 00:07:51,448 --> 00:07:53,494 One name stands above them all: 199 00:07:53,537 --> 00:07:54,843 - [screams] 200 00:07:54,886 --> 00:07:55,974 narrator: Cronenberg. 201 00:07:56,018 --> 00:07:57,323 [bone snaps] - [screams] 202 00:07:57,367 --> 00:07:59,282 [dramatic music] 203 00:08:03,286 --> 00:08:05,636 - [breathing heavily, snarling] 204 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,030 [tense music] 205 00:08:08,073 --> 00:08:10,902 narrator: Say the words "body horror" and odds are 206 00:08:10,946 --> 00:08:12,556 you'll immediately think of a film 207 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,079 by David Cronenberg. 208 00:08:14,123 --> 00:08:16,342 [yelling, screaming] 209 00:08:16,386 --> 00:08:17,648 [pulsating music] 210 00:08:17,692 --> 00:08:19,520 - [screams] 211 00:08:19,563 --> 00:08:21,739 narrator: The films Cronenberg made in Canada 212 00:08:21,783 --> 00:08:26,309 in the 1970s and '80s probed our deepest anxieties 213 00:08:26,352 --> 00:08:28,572 about the fragility of human bodies 214 00:08:28,616 --> 00:08:30,226 and human minds. 215 00:08:30,269 --> 00:08:31,270 [glass shatters] 216 00:08:31,314 --> 00:08:33,969 [water splashing] 217 00:08:34,012 --> 00:08:37,276 [tense music] - [gasps] 218 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,453 narrator: Cronenberg was never solely out to shock. 219 00:08:40,497 --> 00:08:42,543 - [gasping] 220 00:08:42,586 --> 00:08:44,066 narrator: His early films 221 00:08:44,109 --> 00:08:46,590 were pointed commentaries on society, 222 00:08:46,634 --> 00:08:50,028 never sharper than in his film, "Videodrome." 223 00:08:50,072 --> 00:08:52,378 - [gasps] [static hisses] 224 00:08:52,422 --> 00:08:54,163 - You wanna try a few things? 225 00:08:55,207 --> 00:08:56,600 narrator: James Woods and Debbie Harry 226 00:08:56,644 --> 00:08:59,690 play Max and Nicki, amoral hedonists 227 00:08:59,734 --> 00:09:02,606 who become victims of their dark desires. 228 00:09:02,650 --> 00:09:04,652 ♪ 229 00:09:04,695 --> 00:09:09,004 - The plot of "Videodrome," a TV station programmer 230 00:09:09,047 --> 00:09:12,007 wants something with a little more pizazz 231 00:09:12,050 --> 00:09:16,620 and finds this bizarre show that shows torture. 232 00:09:16,664 --> 00:09:19,188 [eerie music] 233 00:09:19,231 --> 00:09:20,711 - There's no plot. 234 00:09:20,755 --> 00:09:23,758 It just goes on like that for an hour. 235 00:09:23,801 --> 00:09:27,370 Torture, murder, mutilation. 236 00:09:27,413 --> 00:09:29,633 - For perverts only. - It's absolutely brilliant. 237 00:09:29,677 --> 00:09:32,462 I mean, look, there's almost no production cost. 238 00:09:32,505 --> 00:09:33,768 You can't take your eyes off it. 239 00:09:33,811 --> 00:09:35,552 It's incredibly realistic. 240 00:09:35,596 --> 00:09:37,641 Where do they get actors that can do this? 241 00:09:37,685 --> 00:09:39,251 [dramatic musical sting] 242 00:09:39,295 --> 00:09:41,036 - He's fascinated with it 243 00:09:41,079 --> 00:09:42,690 and he starts trying to track it down. 244 00:09:42,733 --> 00:09:44,300 Where are these videotapes coming from? 245 00:09:44,343 --> 00:09:46,563 [ominous music] 246 00:09:46,607 --> 00:09:48,826 narrator: Max learns that "Videodrome" tapes 247 00:09:48,870 --> 00:09:51,089 contain a hidden signal that triggers 248 00:09:51,133 --> 00:09:52,743 vivid hallucinations. 249 00:09:52,787 --> 00:09:54,658 ♪ 250 00:09:54,702 --> 00:09:56,791 It's all part of a right-wing conspiracy 251 00:09:56,834 --> 00:09:59,271 to clamp down on lax morality. 252 00:09:59,315 --> 00:10:00,533 - Please. 253 00:10:00,577 --> 00:10:02,492 - You're getting fed this message 254 00:10:02,535 --> 00:10:06,452 through watching videos that are broadcast 255 00:10:06,496 --> 00:10:08,454 from a secret place somewhere on Earth. 256 00:10:08,498 --> 00:10:10,065 - Murder. 257 00:10:10,108 --> 00:10:13,546 - [whimpering] [static buzzing] 258 00:10:13,590 --> 00:10:14,678 - We've all kind of have a thing 259 00:10:14,722 --> 00:10:16,462 of watching something that-- 260 00:10:16,506 --> 00:10:18,073 that we probably shouldn't be watching, 261 00:10:18,116 --> 00:10:20,684 and we're kind of tantalized by it in some way, 262 00:10:20,728 --> 00:10:24,862 but we don't know why, or-- we shouldn't be watching this. 263 00:10:24,906 --> 00:10:29,084 - [screaming] [flail snapping] 264 00:10:29,127 --> 00:10:31,956 - God, I can't believe it. - I'll turn it off. 265 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,785 - No, no, no, it's okay. I can take it. 266 00:10:34,829 --> 00:10:36,657 [ominous notes] 267 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:39,921 - It definitely starts a disintegration of the mind 268 00:10:39,964 --> 00:10:41,226 as well as the body. 269 00:10:41,270 --> 00:10:42,837 ♪ 270 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,536 - The TV starts, like, reaching into him, 271 00:10:46,579 --> 00:10:48,669 and he's got a-- I mean, let's call it. 272 00:10:48,712 --> 00:10:49,713 It's a chest vagina. 273 00:10:49,757 --> 00:10:52,542 ♪ 274 00:10:52,585 --> 00:10:54,413 The videotape goes into him 275 00:10:54,457 --> 00:10:57,068 or it goes into the TV-- there's a lot of both. 276 00:10:57,112 --> 00:10:58,940 - Oh, my God! [gasps] 277 00:10:58,983 --> 00:11:02,378 - It all feels very personal, you know? 278 00:11:02,421 --> 00:11:04,728 James Woods pulling the gun, 279 00:11:04,772 --> 00:11:08,384 that image of him just pulling the gun out of his stomach. 280 00:11:08,427 --> 00:11:10,255 ♪ 281 00:11:10,299 --> 00:11:13,476 [gunfire and screaming] 282 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:16,914 - Yes, you shoot flesh pellets from a flesh gun 283 00:11:16,958 --> 00:11:18,437 that's attached to the end of your arm, 284 00:11:18,481 --> 00:11:20,352 but is that really happening 285 00:11:20,396 --> 00:11:23,442 or is that because of what you've been fed 286 00:11:23,486 --> 00:11:25,531 through watching television? 287 00:11:25,575 --> 00:11:28,360 - Death to "Videodrome"! Long live the new flesh! 288 00:11:28,404 --> 00:11:29,753 [feedback screeches] 289 00:11:29,797 --> 00:11:31,755 [tense music] 290 00:11:31,799 --> 00:11:33,670 ♪ 291 00:11:33,714 --> 00:11:35,672 - What are you waiting for, lover? 292 00:11:35,716 --> 00:11:38,196 - It's got all these crazy metaphors in it about, like, 293 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,633 intimacy, and sexual weirdness, 294 00:11:40,677 --> 00:11:42,070 and exposing that part of yourself to other people, 295 00:11:42,113 --> 00:11:44,768 and also how you're influenced by the media 296 00:11:44,812 --> 00:11:46,378 and, like, what have you decided 297 00:11:46,422 --> 00:11:48,685 and what has the media decided for you, 298 00:11:48,729 --> 00:11:51,340 which I still think is stuff that's if not as relevant, 299 00:11:51,383 --> 00:11:53,646 more relevant now. 300 00:11:53,690 --> 00:11:55,387 - Long live the new flesh. 301 00:11:55,431 --> 00:11:56,998 [explosion] 302 00:11:57,041 --> 00:11:59,435 - My films tend to be very body-conscious, 303 00:11:59,478 --> 00:12:04,179 and the body, and what is, and what it does, 304 00:12:04,222 --> 00:12:06,572 and what it can do tends to be very central in my films. 305 00:12:06,616 --> 00:12:08,313 To a certain extent, 306 00:12:08,357 --> 00:12:10,402 it's your own body that's the monster. 307 00:12:10,446 --> 00:12:12,665 [tense musical sting] 308 00:12:12,709 --> 00:12:15,756 - He had lost his mother to cancer 309 00:12:15,799 --> 00:12:18,497 and was experienced 310 00:12:18,541 --> 00:12:21,936 with seeing the decline of the human body from within, 311 00:12:21,979 --> 00:12:23,676 a revolt from within, 312 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,376 and so much of his work is about a body in revolt, 313 00:12:27,419 --> 00:12:30,466 and changing, and turning septic, 314 00:12:30,509 --> 00:12:32,250 and almost evil. 315 00:12:32,294 --> 00:12:34,426 [ominous music] 316 00:12:34,470 --> 00:12:37,212 narrator: Cronenberg's first American studio film 317 00:12:37,255 --> 00:12:39,910 was his acclaimed remake of "The Fly." 318 00:12:39,954 --> 00:12:42,086 [dissonant music] 319 00:12:42,130 --> 00:12:45,089 - I'm working on something that'll change the world 320 00:12:45,133 --> 00:12:47,004 and human life as we know it. 321 00:12:47,048 --> 00:12:48,919 narrator: Seth Brundle, 322 00:12:48,963 --> 00:12:51,356 memorably played by Jeff Goldblum, 323 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:55,230 has invented a teleportation device. 324 00:12:55,273 --> 00:12:58,494 Unfortunately, when Seth tests it out, 325 00:12:58,537 --> 00:13:01,453 his genetic pattern mixes with the DNA of a housefly. 326 00:13:01,497 --> 00:13:03,716 [ominous music] 327 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,501 ♪ 328 00:13:05,544 --> 00:13:06,850 [guttural sputtering] 329 00:13:06,894 --> 00:13:07,808 ♪ 330 00:13:07,851 --> 00:13:09,810 - [screams] 331 00:13:09,853 --> 00:13:11,202 narrator: Seth slowly transforms 332 00:13:11,246 --> 00:13:13,552 into a hybrid of man and insect, 333 00:13:13,596 --> 00:13:15,380 much to the horror of his lover, 334 00:13:15,424 --> 00:13:17,600 played by Geena Davis. 335 00:13:17,643 --> 00:13:21,473 - He's turning into a fly, she loves him madly, 336 00:13:21,517 --> 00:13:24,650 is seeing this change, can do nothing to stop it, 337 00:13:24,694 --> 00:13:26,783 and neither can he. He doesn't want to stop it. 338 00:13:26,827 --> 00:13:31,005 He thinks he's being enhanced, and in the beginning, he is. 339 00:13:31,048 --> 00:13:32,615 - It's purified me, it's cleansed me, 340 00:13:32,658 --> 00:13:34,008 and I'll tell you, I think it's gonna allow me 341 00:13:34,051 --> 00:13:36,662 to realize the personal potential 342 00:13:36,706 --> 00:13:38,621 I've been neglecting all these years. 343 00:13:38,664 --> 00:13:41,145 [bone snaps] - [screams] 344 00:13:41,189 --> 00:13:43,147 [dramatic notes] 345 00:13:43,191 --> 00:13:46,281 - But then he's being destroyed from within, 346 00:13:46,324 --> 00:13:50,459 and their love has to pass this metamorphosis, 347 00:13:50,502 --> 00:13:52,156 and it's not possible. 348 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,028 - What will happen? - [panting] 349 00:13:54,071 --> 00:13:55,246 Well, I think it's showing itself 350 00:13:55,290 --> 00:13:56,987 as a bizarre form of cancer. 351 00:13:57,031 --> 00:13:59,511 - The film was always looked upon as an AIDS metaphor. 352 00:13:59,555 --> 00:14:02,123 It was made during the height of the AIDS epidemic, 353 00:14:02,166 --> 00:14:05,691 but Cronenberg himself said he sort of saw it more 354 00:14:05,735 --> 00:14:08,781 as a metaphor for the aging process 355 00:14:08,825 --> 00:14:11,045 and how that gets fast-forwarded 356 00:14:11,088 --> 00:14:12,916 in this character. 357 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,614 [soft dramatic music] 358 00:14:15,658 --> 00:14:18,139 - Body horror is a meditation 359 00:14:18,182 --> 00:14:22,143 on the transitory nature of the human form, 360 00:14:22,186 --> 00:14:25,407 and, you know, we all get old, we all decay. 361 00:14:25,450 --> 00:14:28,976 That's true horror to people. 362 00:14:29,019 --> 00:14:34,285 [both screaming] 363 00:14:34,329 --> 00:14:36,548 - Geena Davis' character isreally what that movie's about. 364 00:14:36,592 --> 00:14:38,942 She was trying to stay in there with him 365 00:14:38,986 --> 00:14:40,944 as long as she possibly could. 366 00:14:40,988 --> 00:14:42,990 - [whimpering] 367 00:14:43,033 --> 00:14:46,080 God, no, no! 368 00:14:46,123 --> 00:14:47,603 - But ultimately, 369 00:14:47,646 --> 00:14:48,909 she was the one who had to pull the trigger. 370 00:14:48,952 --> 00:14:51,476 - [breathing heavily] 371 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,697 [wheezing] 372 00:14:54,740 --> 00:15:00,224 - I think that "The Fly" says as much about love 373 00:15:00,268 --> 00:15:01,922 as any film I've ever seen. 374 00:15:01,965 --> 00:15:04,925 ♪ 375 00:15:04,968 --> 00:15:06,535 - [cries] 376 00:15:06,578 --> 00:15:08,232 narrator: But there's even more to body horror 377 00:15:08,276 --> 00:15:10,408 than decaying flesh and physical abnormality. 378 00:15:10,452 --> 00:15:12,976 ♪ 379 00:15:13,020 --> 00:15:16,023 It also describes the reality of being dehumanized 380 00:15:16,066 --> 00:15:18,460 because you're desirable. 381 00:15:18,503 --> 00:15:20,244 - [gags] 382 00:15:20,288 --> 00:15:23,639 narrator: Pretty faces, though, can mask deadly minds. 383 00:15:23,682 --> 00:15:25,989 [tense music] 384 00:15:30,907 --> 00:15:33,779 narrator: When we think of body horror, 385 00:15:33,823 --> 00:15:35,999 we usually think of disease and deformity. 386 00:15:36,043 --> 00:15:38,436 [tense music] 387 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,003 But being attractive 388 00:15:40,047 --> 00:15:42,701 can also open up a world of body horror, 389 00:15:42,745 --> 00:15:44,921 especially for women. 390 00:15:44,965 --> 00:15:46,967 - [screams] - [gagging] 391 00:15:47,010 --> 00:15:49,665 [soft tense music] 392 00:15:49,708 --> 00:15:52,015 - Walking around in a female body is terrifying. 393 00:15:52,059 --> 00:15:53,886 You're a target, 394 00:15:53,930 --> 00:15:55,758 you're an object, and I think 395 00:15:55,801 --> 00:15:57,194 that is part of the reason why 396 00:15:57,238 --> 00:15:59,457 we put up all these walls is to, you know, 397 00:15:59,501 --> 00:16:00,763 obviously, protect that. 398 00:16:00,806 --> 00:16:04,027 - [gasps, screams] 399 00:16:04,071 --> 00:16:06,682 narrator: Beauty can make you the target of predatory men. 400 00:16:06,725 --> 00:16:08,640 - [gags] 401 00:16:08,684 --> 00:16:10,251 narrator: Just as a perfect surface 402 00:16:10,294 --> 00:16:14,733 can mask something twisted underneath. 403 00:16:14,777 --> 00:16:20,000 In horror, both things can be true at the same time, 404 00:16:20,043 --> 00:16:22,219 as we see in the films "Audition"... 405 00:16:22,263 --> 00:16:24,308 - [gagging and screaming] 406 00:16:24,352 --> 00:16:25,744 ♪ 407 00:16:25,788 --> 00:16:27,181 narrator: And "Under the Skin." 408 00:16:27,224 --> 00:16:30,053 ♪ 409 00:16:30,097 --> 00:16:32,882 "Under the Skin" follows an alien succubus 410 00:16:32,925 --> 00:16:36,146 whose mission is to collect men for use as a food source 411 00:16:36,190 --> 00:16:38,061 for her people. 412 00:16:38,105 --> 00:16:43,893 ♪ 413 00:16:43,936 --> 00:16:45,242 [mechanical thunk] 414 00:16:45,286 --> 00:16:48,898 ♪ 415 00:16:48,941 --> 00:16:51,553 The Collector knows humans are easily manipulated 416 00:16:51,596 --> 00:16:55,209 by appearances, which mean nothing to it. 417 00:16:55,252 --> 00:16:58,212 - Do you think I'm pretty?- Aye, I think you're gorgeous. 418 00:16:58,255 --> 00:17:00,866 - Do you? - Aye, definitely. 419 00:17:00,910 --> 00:17:02,912 - Good. 420 00:17:02,955 --> 00:17:04,783 narrator: So when the Collector picks up a man 421 00:17:04,827 --> 00:17:07,003 suffering from neurofibromatosis, 422 00:17:07,047 --> 00:17:09,788 the Elephant Man's disease, 423 00:17:09,832 --> 00:17:12,443 she can effortlessly capture him. 424 00:17:12,487 --> 00:17:19,363 ♪ 425 00:17:19,407 --> 00:17:21,278 narrator: But for the first time, 426 00:17:21,322 --> 00:17:23,802 she feels sympathy for her prey. 427 00:17:23,846 --> 00:17:26,240 - We all love the assassin 428 00:17:26,283 --> 00:17:28,851 who struggles with carrying out their task 429 00:17:28,894 --> 00:17:30,592 because they've fallen in love with their target, 430 00:17:30,635 --> 00:17:33,421 and that's essentially what happens 431 00:17:33,464 --> 00:17:35,118 in "Under the Skin," 432 00:17:35,162 --> 00:17:39,470 is that she slowly becomes enamored of humanity 433 00:17:39,514 --> 00:17:41,820 and the complexities of being human. 434 00:17:41,864 --> 00:17:47,826 ♪ 435 00:17:47,870 --> 00:17:49,741 One of the most beautiful moments 436 00:17:49,785 --> 00:17:51,656 in "Under the Skin," for me, 437 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:54,833 was when Scarlett Johansson pauses 438 00:17:54,877 --> 00:17:58,881 and stares at the fly trapped in the spider's web 439 00:17:58,924 --> 00:18:03,581 and then decides to let one of her victims go. 440 00:18:03,625 --> 00:18:05,496 [door latch clicks] 441 00:18:05,540 --> 00:18:09,239 And that is the cascade that everything falls apart 442 00:18:09,283 --> 00:18:11,720 and leads to her demise. 443 00:18:11,763 --> 00:18:13,852 narrator: The Collector abandons her mission 444 00:18:13,896 --> 00:18:16,594 and attempts to enjoy her human body, 445 00:18:16,638 --> 00:18:18,292 but she's doomed to fail. 446 00:18:18,335 --> 00:18:19,510 - [chokes] 447 00:18:19,554 --> 00:18:21,164 ♪ 448 00:18:21,208 --> 00:18:24,472 - She tries to engage in consensual sex, 449 00:18:24,515 --> 00:18:26,648 and it tears her suit. 450 00:18:26,691 --> 00:18:31,218 ♪ 451 00:18:31,261 --> 00:18:34,177 And the fact that his penis, his human penis, 452 00:18:34,221 --> 00:18:37,267 tore her human skin suit because it's, like-- 453 00:18:37,311 --> 00:18:39,922 she's not there for penetration, 454 00:18:39,965 --> 00:18:43,317 was a fascinating kindof, like, wake-up call for her. 455 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:49,540 ♪ 456 00:18:50,889 --> 00:18:52,456 It's not your body, 457 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:54,241 and you've convinced yourself that it's your body, 458 00:18:54,284 --> 00:18:57,722 so it absolutely is Cronenbergian in that aspect. 459 00:18:57,766 --> 00:18:59,376 [tense music] 460 00:18:59,420 --> 00:19:00,464 narrator: Because the Collector 461 00:19:00,508 --> 00:19:02,074 is in the body of a woman, 462 00:19:02,118 --> 00:19:05,165 she becomes the target of a violent man 463 00:19:05,208 --> 00:19:09,517 who first wants to rape her then wants to murder her. 464 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:11,519 [gasoline splattering] 465 00:19:11,562 --> 00:19:13,999 [tense music] 466 00:19:14,043 --> 00:19:15,523 ♪ 467 00:19:15,566 --> 00:19:17,264 - We experience through horror 468 00:19:17,307 --> 00:19:22,007 what we tend to gloss over and pretend isn't there. 469 00:19:22,051 --> 00:19:24,140 The horror of what our own bodies can do, 470 00:19:24,184 --> 00:19:26,664 the horror of what other people can do, 471 00:19:26,708 --> 00:19:28,623 the sexism that we deal with every day 472 00:19:28,666 --> 00:19:30,407 is just what we deal with every day. 473 00:19:30,451 --> 00:19:31,930 It's how you react to it, 474 00:19:31,974 --> 00:19:33,802 it's whether you let it bother you or not, 475 00:19:33,845 --> 00:19:36,021 and most of the time, you let it roll off your back, 476 00:19:36,065 --> 00:19:40,330 and we're all very used to how we're treated in general. 477 00:19:40,374 --> 00:19:43,899 ♪ 478 00:19:43,942 --> 00:19:45,553 [wet squelching] 479 00:19:45,596 --> 00:19:47,555 narrator: But in some body horror films... 480 00:19:47,598 --> 00:19:49,252 [loud wet squelching, piano keys playing] 481 00:19:49,296 --> 00:19:50,775 Women are the punishers. 482 00:19:50,819 --> 00:19:52,864 - [gagging] 483 00:19:52,908 --> 00:19:56,346 narrator: They turn the tables on men who've objectified them 484 00:19:56,390 --> 00:19:58,609 and abused their power for sex. 485 00:19:58,653 --> 00:20:01,525 [flesh sizzles] - [screams] 486 00:20:01,569 --> 00:20:03,614 narrator: That's what happens in Takashi Miike's 487 00:20:03,658 --> 00:20:05,790 profoundly disturbing film... 488 00:20:05,834 --> 00:20:09,403 - [moans] 489 00:20:09,446 --> 00:20:11,448 narrator: "Audition." 490 00:20:11,492 --> 00:20:14,364 - "Audition" is--is horrifying. 491 00:20:14,408 --> 00:20:18,150 ♪ 492 00:20:18,194 --> 00:20:21,241 It starts out almost a social comedy 493 00:20:21,284 --> 00:20:23,243 about a lonely guy, 494 00:20:23,286 --> 00:20:26,463 and you're very sympathetic to the guy. 495 00:20:26,507 --> 00:20:29,466 - This man is a widower and he is being encouraged 496 00:20:29,510 --> 00:20:31,033 by his son to get back out there 497 00:20:31,076 --> 00:20:32,774 and give it a go in the dating field. 498 00:20:32,817 --> 00:20:36,299 - [speaking Japanese] 499 00:20:36,343 --> 00:20:38,693 - And they do 500 00:20:38,736 --> 00:20:41,130 just the absolutely despicable thing 501 00:20:41,173 --> 00:20:44,394 of auditioning women to be his girlfriend. 502 00:20:44,438 --> 00:20:46,701 narrator: With the producer's help, 503 00:20:46,744 --> 00:20:50,879 the widower stages a fake casting call for a film, 504 00:20:50,922 --> 00:20:53,664 but he's really casting for his ideal woman: 505 00:20:53,708 --> 00:20:57,277 physically perfect and perfectly submissive. 506 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:01,368 He thinks he finds her in shy, serene Asami. 507 00:21:01,411 --> 00:21:03,848 - And this woman, you know, becomes enamored of him. 508 00:21:03,892 --> 00:21:05,720 She falls in love with him 509 00:21:05,763 --> 00:21:09,680 and realizes the premise withwhich she has come to know him. 510 00:21:18,950 --> 00:21:21,257 - And being unstable, as the woman is, 511 00:21:21,301 --> 00:21:23,738 and being existing within a horror film, 512 00:21:23,781 --> 00:21:25,870 her response to that is to 513 00:21:25,914 --> 00:21:30,135 get very specific and really innovative revenge 514 00:21:30,179 --> 00:21:31,876 on the man who deceived her. 515 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:37,360 ♪ 516 00:21:37,404 --> 00:21:39,710 [tense musical sting] - [groans] 517 00:21:39,754 --> 00:21:41,408 narrator: Every shot in "Audition" 518 00:21:41,451 --> 00:21:44,541 is meticulously framed and beautifully lit. 519 00:21:44,585 --> 00:21:49,372 The film's perfection hypnotizes you, 520 00:21:49,416 --> 00:21:51,461 which makes the moment Asami goes to work 521 00:21:51,505 --> 00:21:54,464 with her needles and wire all the more jarring. 522 00:21:54,508 --> 00:21:57,119 - [whimpering softly] 523 00:21:57,162 --> 00:22:00,296 [groaning] 524 00:22:00,340 --> 00:22:03,517 - Suddenly, this demon is unleashed. 525 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,737 - [speaking Japanese] 526 00:22:08,913 --> 00:22:10,306 [dramatic musical sting] 527 00:22:10,350 --> 00:22:12,003 - The wire cutting in "Audition" is amazing. 528 00:22:12,047 --> 00:22:15,180 - [groaning and gasping] 529 00:22:15,224 --> 00:22:18,096 [eerie music] 530 00:22:18,140 --> 00:22:20,098 ♪ 531 00:22:20,142 --> 00:22:21,926 - What--what is it? [speaks Japanese] 532 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,109 [tense music] 533 00:22:31,153 --> 00:22:33,503 ♪ 534 00:22:33,547 --> 00:22:35,766 - That's--that's such an upsetting film. 535 00:22:35,810 --> 00:22:37,594 [ominous music] 536 00:22:37,638 --> 00:22:39,204 narrator: The otherwise decent man 537 00:22:39,248 --> 00:22:41,293 abuses his power one time, 538 00:22:41,337 --> 00:22:42,904 but he pays for all the times 539 00:22:42,947 --> 00:22:45,297 it's been done to the woman in the past. 540 00:22:45,341 --> 00:22:46,560 [clanking] 541 00:22:46,603 --> 00:22:48,866 And that's the point. 542 00:22:48,910 --> 00:22:52,217 You only need to do it once for it to be wrong. 543 00:22:52,261 --> 00:22:54,132 - The reaction to this man doing a bad thing 544 00:22:54,176 --> 00:22:55,438 is disproportionate, 545 00:22:55,482 --> 00:22:57,527 but in the context of a horror film, 546 00:22:57,571 --> 00:22:59,137 this is exactly what he had 547 00:22:59,181 --> 00:23:00,312 coming to him. [chuckles] 548 00:23:00,356 --> 00:23:03,577 ♪ 549 00:23:03,620 --> 00:23:06,623 narrator: Body horror films tear off our masks 550 00:23:06,667 --> 00:23:09,191 and expose us for who we really are. 551 00:23:09,234 --> 00:23:10,627 - [screaming] 552 00:23:10,671 --> 00:23:12,760 narrator: And sometimes, what's inside us 553 00:23:12,803 --> 00:23:14,370 isn't pretty. 554 00:23:19,331 --> 00:23:22,030 [sinister music] 555 00:23:22,073 --> 00:23:24,511 narrator: Body horror movies have always fascinated me. 556 00:23:24,554 --> 00:23:27,165 [both screaming] 557 00:23:27,209 --> 00:23:29,385 So much so that my first film deals 558 00:23:29,429 --> 00:23:32,780 with a highly-infectious skin-eating disease 559 00:23:32,823 --> 00:23:35,435 and how it tears apart a group of friends. 560 00:23:35,478 --> 00:23:38,176 [ominous music] - [faintly] Oh, my God. 561 00:23:38,220 --> 00:23:40,701 ♪ 562 00:23:40,744 --> 00:23:43,486 - I love how "Cabin Fever" draws inspiration 563 00:23:43,530 --> 00:23:47,882 from a lot of classic horrorand gore films from "Evil Dead" 564 00:23:47,925 --> 00:23:51,363 to the body horror films of David Cronenberg, 565 00:23:51,407 --> 00:23:54,584 early Wes Craven and George Romero. 566 00:23:54,628 --> 00:23:57,544 [dramatic music] 567 00:23:57,587 --> 00:23:59,415 - Better close the door, Marcy. 568 00:23:59,459 --> 00:24:03,158 You don't want to infect everyone. 569 00:24:03,201 --> 00:24:05,160 ♪ 570 00:24:05,203 --> 00:24:06,857 The thing about "Cabin Fever" 571 00:24:06,901 --> 00:24:09,164 is we didn't know what it was gonna be. 572 00:24:09,207 --> 00:24:10,731 I had never read a script like that. 573 00:24:10,774 --> 00:24:12,341 I think at the time, 574 00:24:12,384 --> 00:24:15,344 the scripts that were going outfor people our age 575 00:24:15,387 --> 00:24:17,520 didn't have that level of gore. 576 00:24:17,564 --> 00:24:19,870 ♪ 577 00:24:19,914 --> 00:24:22,177 They didn't have that grittiness 578 00:24:22,220 --> 00:24:24,266 and realness to them, 579 00:24:24,309 --> 00:24:26,573 and they weren't pushing the envelope so far. 580 00:24:26,616 --> 00:24:29,532 - The guy had bowled people's organs. 581 00:24:29,576 --> 00:24:31,795 Arms, legs, everything. 582 00:24:31,839 --> 00:24:35,712 - And I thought, "This is gonna be really incredible 583 00:24:35,756 --> 00:24:37,671 or it's gonna blow up in our faces." 584 00:24:37,714 --> 00:24:40,543 [tense music] 585 00:24:40,587 --> 00:24:42,110 - [screams] - Whoo! 586 00:24:42,153 --> 00:24:44,155 No more [no audio] finals! 587 00:24:44,199 --> 00:24:47,332 - "Cabin Fever" is about five friends 588 00:24:47,376 --> 00:24:52,120 who embark on a vacation in the woods, in a cabin, 589 00:24:52,163 --> 00:24:56,994 and they each come down with a flesh-eating bacteria. 590 00:24:57,038 --> 00:24:58,387 [dramatic musical sting] 591 00:24:58,430 --> 00:24:59,954 - [wet coughing] 592 00:24:59,997 --> 00:25:01,521 - Oh, God. Here. 593 00:25:01,564 --> 00:25:04,088 - The paranoia sort of sets in, 594 00:25:04,132 --> 00:25:06,917 and they start turning on each other. 595 00:25:06,961 --> 00:25:10,355 - Okay, we can eat alone, we can sleep alone, whatever. 596 00:25:10,399 --> 00:25:13,750 We have to talk to each other, we have to work together. 597 00:25:13,794 --> 00:25:19,277 ♪ 598 00:25:19,321 --> 00:25:22,672 - The tone is just so odd, and it's mostly, you know, 599 00:25:22,716 --> 00:25:25,806 about the saturation level of the violence, and the gore, 600 00:25:25,849 --> 00:25:27,416 and the--its intensity, you know? 601 00:25:27,459 --> 00:25:29,200 Everything is just so intense that you're, like-- 602 00:25:29,244 --> 00:25:31,028 you jump and then you laugh 603 00:25:31,072 --> 00:25:33,074 because it's so ridiculous that this is happening. 604 00:25:33,117 --> 00:25:36,164 - [screaming] 605 00:25:36,207 --> 00:25:37,469 - This guy's lit on fire, 606 00:25:37,513 --> 00:25:38,993 this dog is suddenly attacking, 607 00:25:39,036 --> 00:25:39,994 it's, like, it's just, oh, my God, 608 00:25:40,037 --> 00:25:41,691 it just keeps coming at you 609 00:25:41,735 --> 00:25:44,215 and that's sort of--that's the fun of watching the movie. 610 00:25:44,259 --> 00:25:46,348 - Paul, that guy asked for our help. 611 00:25:46,391 --> 00:25:49,481 We lit him on fire. 612 00:25:49,525 --> 00:25:54,008 - My character, Paul, is a horribly selfish person. 613 00:25:54,051 --> 00:25:56,532 Party's over, Winston. [thump] 614 00:25:56,576 --> 00:25:58,752 He's just worried about himself, and that's the karma. 615 00:25:58,795 --> 00:26:00,492 It comes back to bite him in the ass, 616 00:26:00,536 --> 00:26:02,103 and then to bite them all in the ass. 617 00:26:02,146 --> 00:26:03,974 [horn blasts] 618 00:26:04,018 --> 00:26:06,542 ♪ 619 00:26:06,586 --> 00:26:08,588 The makeup effects were done by KNB, 620 00:26:08,631 --> 00:26:11,155 and they were back in LA, but the person on set 621 00:26:11,199 --> 00:26:13,331 was this amazing makeup artist named Garrett Immel, 622 00:26:13,375 --> 00:26:16,465 and it was really his ability to improvise with what we had. 623 00:26:16,508 --> 00:26:19,468 [tense music] 624 00:26:19,511 --> 00:26:21,252 And when Garrett did the workon Jordan's face, for instance, 625 00:26:21,296 --> 00:26:24,560 this sort of legendary skull look, I mean, it was-- 626 00:26:24,604 --> 00:26:25,953 it was incredible. 627 00:26:25,996 --> 00:26:27,607 [dramatic musical sting] 628 00:26:27,650 --> 00:26:30,435 - I had never done prosthetic makeup work before. 629 00:26:30,479 --> 00:26:31,436 [dramatic musical sting] 630 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,917 It's incredible artistry, 631 00:26:33,961 --> 00:26:36,224 so applying it was, I would say, 632 00:26:36,267 --> 00:26:38,095 two to four hours. 633 00:26:38,139 --> 00:26:40,271 And then it's a slow process to take off, 634 00:26:40,315 --> 00:26:42,578 because they have to re-use the appliances, 635 00:26:42,622 --> 00:26:44,536 and if you just tear it off your face, 636 00:26:44,580 --> 00:26:46,451 you'll tear your skin off, and then, in fact, 637 00:26:46,495 --> 00:26:50,107 it really--your face would looklike mine did in "Cabin Fever." 638 00:26:50,151 --> 00:26:52,849 But it was devastating to see myself that way. 639 00:26:52,893 --> 00:26:54,938 - We all had to be sort of forewarned, 640 00:26:54,982 --> 00:26:58,159 because, you know, we didn't want Jordan to feel too bad. 641 00:26:58,202 --> 00:26:59,726 You know, how ugly she looked? 642 00:26:59,769 --> 00:27:01,162 'Cause it was like, your immediate reaction 643 00:27:01,205 --> 00:27:02,293 when she walked out of the trailer was like, 644 00:27:02,337 --> 00:27:03,294 "Oh, my God!" 645 00:27:03,338 --> 00:27:08,299 ♪ 646 00:27:08,343 --> 00:27:09,866 [dramatic musical sting] 647 00:27:09,910 --> 00:27:12,434 - You're there with your best friend, 648 00:27:12,477 --> 00:27:14,654 but then you have to kill your best friend 649 00:27:14,697 --> 00:27:17,091 because of this thing that's inside them. 650 00:27:17,134 --> 00:27:20,398 And that's what the disease became in "Cabin Fever." 651 00:27:20,442 --> 00:27:22,270 You're with your best friend, 652 00:27:22,313 --> 00:27:25,882 but you gotta isolate them, or you've gotta kill them, 653 00:27:25,926 --> 00:27:28,929 because whatever is inside them could get inside you. 654 00:27:28,972 --> 00:27:31,758 And suddenly, you're not seen as human anymore, 655 00:27:31,801 --> 00:27:33,890 and I think that there'ssomething very real about that. 656 00:27:33,934 --> 00:27:36,023 You know, when lepers have leprosy, 657 00:27:36,066 --> 00:27:38,025 what do we do? We isolate them. 658 00:27:38,068 --> 00:27:39,940 When SARS happened, 659 00:27:39,983 --> 00:27:41,202 when there's disease you don't understand, 660 00:27:41,245 --> 00:27:42,812 tent 'em off. 661 00:27:42,856 --> 00:27:44,596 People wanna get out? Too bad. 662 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,774 Epidemic, population control. Can't let it get out. 663 00:27:47,817 --> 00:27:51,386 There's something really, really scary about that. 664 00:27:51,429 --> 00:27:52,866 - Grim? 665 00:27:52,909 --> 00:27:54,824 [ominous music] 666 00:27:54,868 --> 00:27:57,131 - I would say it begins as a body horror film, 667 00:27:57,174 --> 00:28:00,047 but then the real villain is people's cruelty, you know? 668 00:28:00,090 --> 00:28:02,745 And people not willing to help somebody who has a disease. 669 00:28:02,789 --> 00:28:03,920 - [muffled] Don't [no audio] come near me! 670 00:28:03,964 --> 00:28:05,617 - Jeff! - Stop, stop! 671 00:28:05,661 --> 00:28:06,923 I don't want to get sick! 672 00:28:06,967 --> 00:28:08,316 I don't want any of us getting sick! 673 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,448 - Horror films usually-- usually leave you 674 00:28:10,492 --> 00:28:12,755 with a sense of dread about the world, 675 00:28:12,799 --> 00:28:15,715 and that's--I think that's healthy to explore. 676 00:28:15,758 --> 00:28:17,238 - [gasps] 677 00:28:17,281 --> 00:28:19,588 - The more the movie can make you feel 678 00:28:19,631 --> 00:28:21,372 that reaction of, like, 679 00:28:21,416 --> 00:28:24,027 "Oh, that's horrible, I don't want that in my life," 680 00:28:24,071 --> 00:28:25,637 good because that's what, 681 00:28:25,681 --> 00:28:27,030 you know,we shouldn't want those things. 682 00:28:27,074 --> 00:28:29,380 We shouldn't want-- like, violence is awful, 683 00:28:29,424 --> 00:28:31,731 and if we can confront it in a way that is, like-- 684 00:28:31,774 --> 00:28:34,777 makes you want to look away, that is healthy, you know? 685 00:28:34,821 --> 00:28:36,736 That's a good exercise of your imagination. 686 00:28:36,779 --> 00:28:38,563 - [screams] 687 00:28:38,607 --> 00:28:41,088 narrator: Paranoia was the menace of "Cabin Fever"... 688 00:28:41,131 --> 00:28:43,220 - Showtime, Billy! 689 00:28:43,264 --> 00:28:44,569 narrator: But sometimes, 690 00:28:44,613 --> 00:28:46,180 they really are out to get you. 691 00:28:46,223 --> 00:28:48,748 [cloth ripping] - What are you doing? 692 00:28:48,791 --> 00:28:50,314 narrator: Especially if you're part 693 00:28:50,358 --> 00:28:53,187 of the twisted world of "Society." 694 00:28:58,670 --> 00:29:01,369 [cheers and applause] 695 00:29:01,412 --> 00:29:03,980 narrator: F. Scott Fitzgerald once famously said, 696 00:29:04,024 --> 00:29:05,416 "The rich are different." 697 00:29:05,460 --> 00:29:09,072 [excited clamoring] 698 00:29:09,116 --> 00:29:10,813 narrator: In the film "Society," 699 00:29:10,857 --> 00:29:14,338 the rich are literally another species... 700 00:29:14,382 --> 00:29:16,340 - Wanna play? [cackles] 701 00:29:16,384 --> 00:29:18,908 narrator: Parasitic lifeforms that feed on the poor. 702 00:29:18,952 --> 00:29:22,085 [evil laughter] 703 00:29:22,129 --> 00:29:24,479 ♪ 704 00:29:24,522 --> 00:29:27,787 - Brian Yuzna's "Society" is one of my all-time favorite 705 00:29:27,830 --> 00:29:29,701 body horror movies. 706 00:29:29,745 --> 00:29:32,400 The makeup effects by Screaming Mad George 707 00:29:32,443 --> 00:29:34,097 in that film are unmatched. 708 00:29:34,141 --> 00:29:36,143 [laughter] - [moans frightfully] 709 00:29:36,186 --> 00:29:37,535 - "Society" is, like, 710 00:29:37,579 --> 00:29:42,192 where '80s teen movie meets Cronenberg. 711 00:29:42,236 --> 00:29:46,022 You've got a family with an older sister 712 00:29:46,066 --> 00:29:48,068 who's getting ready to have her debutante sort of thing, 713 00:29:48,111 --> 00:29:50,505 and the younger brother who just doesn't feel like 714 00:29:50,548 --> 00:29:51,506 he fits into the family. 715 00:29:51,549 --> 00:29:52,899 Can't figure out why. 716 00:29:52,942 --> 00:29:54,683 - They don't approve of me, okay? 717 00:29:54,726 --> 00:29:56,859 They don't accept my friends. 718 00:29:56,903 --> 00:29:59,122 [ominous music] 719 00:29:59,166 --> 00:30:01,429 - And then it becomes more and more clear that 720 00:30:01,472 --> 00:30:03,474 he's not actually part of the family. 721 00:30:03,518 --> 00:30:05,912 The parents and the sister are really the family, 722 00:30:05,955 --> 00:30:08,262 and they are part of this thing called "Society" 723 00:30:08,305 --> 00:30:09,611 that they're always worried about, 724 00:30:09,654 --> 00:30:11,134 like, "What will Society think?" 725 00:30:11,178 --> 00:30:13,310 "Bill, be careful, you have to fit into Society." 726 00:30:13,354 --> 00:30:16,661 - You know, you'll make such a great contribution to Society. 727 00:30:16,705 --> 00:30:19,273 [soft dramatic music] 728 00:30:19,316 --> 00:30:21,144 - I'd never seen a horror movie 729 00:30:21,188 --> 00:30:22,929 that had a mythology 730 00:30:22,972 --> 00:30:25,453 that was based on class. 731 00:30:25,496 --> 00:30:27,629 - You're a different race from us, 732 00:30:27,672 --> 00:30:31,763 a different species, a different class. 733 00:30:31,807 --> 00:30:36,290 - The idea was how can you havefun with class exploitation? 734 00:30:36,333 --> 00:30:39,336 narrator: The film's paranoid teen hero, Billy, 735 00:30:39,380 --> 00:30:41,686 learns that he and his friends are pawns 736 00:30:41,730 --> 00:30:43,601 in a sinister conspiracy... 737 00:30:43,645 --> 00:30:45,560 [dramatic musical sting] 738 00:30:45,603 --> 00:30:47,083 narrator: A conspiracy that the wealthiest people 739 00:30:47,127 --> 00:30:49,433 in Beverly Hills all seem to be a part of. 740 00:30:49,477 --> 00:30:51,871 [ominous music] 741 00:30:51,914 --> 00:30:55,265 - Definitely has the formatof a high school hijinks movie. 742 00:30:55,309 --> 00:30:59,487 The difference is is it quickly gets a little disturbing 743 00:30:59,530 --> 00:31:02,098 when Billy listens to the tape 744 00:31:02,142 --> 00:31:06,929 of his parents and sister goingto her coming out party. 745 00:31:06,973 --> 00:31:09,627 - On the schedule, first we dine, then copulation. 746 00:31:09,671 --> 00:31:11,412 With someone your own age first, 747 00:31:11,455 --> 00:31:13,240 then with your mother and me. 748 00:31:13,283 --> 00:31:14,676 - All of a sudden, it's taken 749 00:31:14,719 --> 00:31:18,201 the high school hijinks to another place. 750 00:31:18,245 --> 00:31:20,508 - That thing what I think it is? 751 00:31:20,551 --> 00:31:21,944 - That's a really disgusting thing 752 00:31:21,988 --> 00:31:23,206 to bring into Mom and Dad's bedroom. 753 00:31:23,250 --> 00:31:25,165 - [stutters] 754 00:31:25,208 --> 00:31:28,255 - Generally, it's accepted thathorror movies deal with taboos, 755 00:31:28,298 --> 00:31:31,475 and one of the main taboos that we have is incest. 756 00:31:31,519 --> 00:31:33,651 ♪ 757 00:31:33,695 --> 00:31:36,437 It's so pervasive, that taboo, 758 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,092 that we don't hardly talk about it much. 759 00:31:39,135 --> 00:31:41,572 I think it's the basis of a lot of horror movies 760 00:31:41,616 --> 00:31:44,097 implicitly, not explicitly. 761 00:31:44,140 --> 00:31:47,970 In "Society," we make it more explicit... 762 00:31:48,014 --> 00:31:49,537 - If you have any edible fantasies 763 00:31:49,580 --> 00:31:52,105 you'd like to indulge in, Billy, now's the time. 764 00:31:52,148 --> 00:31:53,280 [laughs] 765 00:31:53,323 --> 00:31:57,023 - That discomfort about sex, 766 00:31:57,066 --> 00:32:00,156 which is really important in horror movies-- 767 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,029 I always feel like horror and sex and death 768 00:32:03,072 --> 00:32:04,987 are just so intertwined. 769 00:32:05,031 --> 00:32:06,032 [dramatic music] 770 00:32:06,075 --> 00:32:08,512 - Mom? Dad? 771 00:32:08,556 --> 00:32:10,862 I'd like to have a little chat with you. 772 00:32:10,906 --> 00:32:12,995 ♪ 773 00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:14,475 narrator: It turns out, 774 00:32:14,518 --> 00:32:16,346 Billy was adopted for the sole reason 775 00:32:16,390 --> 00:32:18,914 of broadening Society's inbred gene pool. 776 00:32:18,958 --> 00:32:20,133 [laughter] 777 00:32:20,176 --> 00:32:22,570 - I do love the--[sniffs] 778 00:32:22,613 --> 00:32:25,094 smell of the hunt... 779 00:32:25,138 --> 00:32:28,271 and the taste of the Shunt. [all cheer] 780 00:32:28,315 --> 00:32:29,664 - Let go of me! 781 00:32:29,707 --> 00:32:31,622 ♪ 782 00:32:31,666 --> 00:32:35,191 narrator: He'll be sacrificed at an event called the Shunt, 783 00:32:35,235 --> 00:32:38,194 where Society shows its true face 784 00:32:38,238 --> 00:32:41,328 and all of its other body parts. 785 00:32:41,371 --> 00:32:43,547 [all shouting] 786 00:32:43,591 --> 00:32:45,071 [laughter] 787 00:32:45,114 --> 00:32:46,855 narrator: It's one of the strangest 788 00:32:46,898 --> 00:32:50,685 and most disturbing sequences ever put on film. 789 00:32:50,728 --> 00:32:53,035 ♪ 790 00:32:53,079 --> 00:32:56,908 - They get together and their bodies merge. 791 00:32:56,952 --> 00:32:58,388 Their clothes come off, 792 00:32:58,432 --> 00:33:00,956 they start moving to this amorphous blob, 793 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,916 and they eat poor people, and they bathe in their blood, 794 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:09,356 and you see all of it in graphic detail. 795 00:33:09,399 --> 00:33:14,056 ♪ 796 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:17,146 - It's the first time I had a chance to direct. 797 00:33:17,190 --> 00:33:20,671 I said, "Wow, what haven't I seen that I'd like to see?" 798 00:33:20,715 --> 00:33:22,543 I imagined a couple people in a room 799 00:33:22,586 --> 00:33:25,850 and their bodies kind of melding together. 800 00:33:25,894 --> 00:33:28,549 [laughter, slurping] 801 00:33:28,592 --> 00:33:31,900 The whole idea of a big orgiastic ending-- 802 00:33:31,943 --> 00:33:34,903 I saw "The Ten Commandments" when I was a kid, 803 00:33:34,946 --> 00:33:37,688 and it really affected me, 804 00:33:37,732 --> 00:33:39,864 because, first of all, it's very magical. 805 00:33:39,908 --> 00:33:41,605 It's like a horror movie. 806 00:33:41,649 --> 00:33:43,216 [tense music] 807 00:33:43,259 --> 00:33:45,218 The sea turns into blood... 808 00:33:45,261 --> 00:33:46,871 [staff clatters] 809 00:33:46,915 --> 00:33:50,136 There's sticks that turn into serpents, 810 00:33:50,179 --> 00:33:54,053 there's a green mist that kills kids, 811 00:33:54,096 --> 00:33:56,968 but at the end, there's this huge orgy 812 00:33:57,012 --> 00:34:01,408 when they're worshipping the golden calf. 813 00:34:01,451 --> 00:34:03,584 That certainly influenced me. 814 00:34:03,627 --> 00:34:05,194 - The rich have always sucked off 815 00:34:05,238 --> 00:34:07,196 low-class [no audio] like you. 816 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,893 ♪ 817 00:34:08,937 --> 00:34:11,070 - Obviously, it's, like, all a metaphor 818 00:34:11,113 --> 00:34:14,899 about propriety and fitting in and also capitalism 819 00:34:14,943 --> 00:34:18,077 and having the upper class act as though 820 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,645 they've got access to much finer things, when really, 821 00:34:21,689 --> 00:34:25,780 they have access to much more upsetting and debased things. 822 00:34:25,823 --> 00:34:27,564 ♪ 823 00:34:27,608 --> 00:34:30,219 narrator: Physical monstrosity is often equated 824 00:34:30,263 --> 00:34:31,307 with moral deformity. 825 00:34:31,351 --> 00:34:32,352 - [screaming] 826 00:34:33,962 --> 00:34:35,442 narrator: But sometimes, 827 00:34:35,485 --> 00:34:38,706 the "normal" people are the monsters, 828 00:34:38,749 --> 00:34:43,319 and the so-called "freaks" are too good for this world. 829 00:34:47,410 --> 00:34:49,238 - [whimpering] 830 00:34:49,282 --> 00:34:50,892 narrator: Body horror films play 831 00:34:50,935 --> 00:34:52,981 on a dark part of human psychology. 832 00:34:53,024 --> 00:34:55,549 - [frightened yelling] 833 00:34:55,592 --> 00:34:57,464 narrator: Our discomfort with any physical difference 834 00:34:57,507 --> 00:34:58,769 from the norm. 835 00:34:58,813 --> 00:35:01,337 [ominous music] 836 00:35:01,381 --> 00:35:02,382 narrator: They have their roots 837 00:35:02,425 --> 00:35:03,948 in the carnival sideshows 838 00:35:03,992 --> 00:35:06,777 of the 19th and early 20th centuries, 839 00:35:06,821 --> 00:35:08,649 where people with birth defects, 840 00:35:08,692 --> 00:35:11,608 so-called "freaks," were put on display 841 00:35:11,652 --> 00:35:15,134 for the general public's amusement. 842 00:35:15,177 --> 00:35:18,137 Tod Browning, the director of "Dracula," 843 00:35:18,180 --> 00:35:21,096 worked those carnivals as a young man. 844 00:35:21,140 --> 00:35:22,924 [laughter] 845 00:35:22,967 --> 00:35:24,491 narrator: He turned his fascination 846 00:35:24,534 --> 00:35:26,188 with the performers into one of the most 847 00:35:26,232 --> 00:35:29,235 infamous horror films of all time: 848 00:35:29,278 --> 00:35:30,714 "Freaks." 849 00:35:30,758 --> 00:35:33,108 - [chanting]Gooble, gobble, gooble, gobble. 850 00:35:33,152 --> 00:35:35,284 - [chanting] We accept her, we accept her. 851 00:35:35,328 --> 00:35:37,721 - [chanting]Gooble, gobble, gooble, gobble! 852 00:35:37,765 --> 00:35:40,681 - "Freaks" is a one-of-a-kind. It's a unique movie. 853 00:35:40,724 --> 00:35:43,162 How it got made, 854 00:35:43,205 --> 00:35:46,687 under the aegis of MGM in the 1930s, 855 00:35:46,730 --> 00:35:48,558 I will never understand. 856 00:35:48,602 --> 00:35:50,430 - Tomorrow night's the big night, eh, Daisy? 857 00:35:50,473 --> 00:35:52,388 - Yes. Your sister's getting married. 858 00:35:52,432 --> 00:35:56,871 - Because MGM was the [indistinct] of movie studios, 859 00:35:56,914 --> 00:36:01,702 so for that studio to turn out this fascinating, 860 00:36:01,745 --> 00:36:04,574 and yet, sometimes repellant film, 861 00:36:04,618 --> 00:36:06,924 is just a marvel. 862 00:36:08,056 --> 00:36:11,929 - "Freaks" didn't rely on special effects makeups, 863 00:36:11,973 --> 00:36:15,150 it used disabled and deformed human beings 864 00:36:15,194 --> 00:36:17,892 from real circuses and sideshows across the country 865 00:36:17,935 --> 00:36:19,502 to be its main players. 866 00:36:19,546 --> 00:36:21,461 - It reverses the tradition. 867 00:36:21,504 --> 00:36:24,812 It has the freaks, or the people we care about, 868 00:36:24,855 --> 00:36:27,597 and the beautiful people, the beautiful trapeze artists, 869 00:36:27,641 --> 00:36:29,947 and the strongmen, the physical specimens, 870 00:36:29,991 --> 00:36:31,253 are the monsters. 871 00:36:31,297 --> 00:36:34,648 - Well, here's something for your eye! 872 00:36:34,691 --> 00:36:37,477 - [laughs] 873 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,001 narrator: The film spins the tale of a trapeze artist 874 00:36:40,044 --> 00:36:42,221 who marries a dwarf for his money 875 00:36:42,264 --> 00:36:44,353 then plots to murder him. 876 00:36:44,397 --> 00:36:46,747 [dramatic musical sting] 877 00:36:46,790 --> 00:36:48,227 When she's found out, 878 00:36:48,270 --> 00:36:50,141 the freaks take revenge. 879 00:36:50,185 --> 00:36:52,709 ♪ 880 00:36:52,753 --> 00:36:55,886 - The thing about that movie that's so difficult 881 00:36:55,930 --> 00:37:01,196 is it generates such sympathy for the freaks. 882 00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:04,025 And then the movie does this strange turn... 883 00:37:04,068 --> 00:37:06,201 [shouting] 884 00:37:06,245 --> 00:37:07,811 Which is when they, all the freaks, 885 00:37:07,855 --> 00:37:09,465 come to mutilate her, 886 00:37:09,509 --> 00:37:11,467 there's images you don't forget. 887 00:37:11,511 --> 00:37:15,993 ♪ 888 00:37:16,037 --> 00:37:17,473 - [shouts] 889 00:37:17,517 --> 00:37:18,822 - [screams] [thunder booms] 890 00:37:18,866 --> 00:37:19,910 - [screams] 891 00:37:19,954 --> 00:37:22,173 [squawking] 892 00:37:22,217 --> 00:37:23,914 narrator: "Freaks" was attacked by critics 893 00:37:23,958 --> 00:37:25,481 and shunned by audiences. 894 00:37:25,525 --> 00:37:27,135 - [screams] 895 00:37:27,178 --> 00:37:28,484 narrator: For decades, 896 00:37:28,528 --> 00:37:30,312 it was banned in many countries. 897 00:37:30,356 --> 00:37:32,923 Today, it's considered a significant part 898 00:37:32,967 --> 00:37:34,185 of film history. 899 00:37:34,229 --> 00:37:35,970 [tense musical crescendo] 900 00:37:36,013 --> 00:37:37,798 - [screaming] 901 00:37:37,841 --> 00:37:39,713 - [indistinct] 902 00:37:39,756 --> 00:37:42,324 narrator: In 1980, producer Mel Brooks 903 00:37:42,368 --> 00:37:45,893 hired the young David Lynch to direct "The Elephant Man," 904 00:37:45,936 --> 00:37:48,417 a very different take on physical deformity. 905 00:37:48,461 --> 00:37:51,333 [dramatic carnival music] 906 00:37:51,377 --> 00:37:55,294 [laughter] 907 00:37:55,337 --> 00:37:57,948 Nominated for eight Academy Awards, 908 00:37:57,992 --> 00:37:59,994 "The Elephant Man" tells the true story 909 00:38:00,037 --> 00:38:01,256 of John Merrick, 910 00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:03,563 who goes from carnival exhibition 911 00:38:03,606 --> 00:38:06,174 to friend of the English aristocracy. 912 00:38:06,217 --> 00:38:08,394 - Because naturally, 913 00:38:08,437 --> 00:38:11,832 some people do find my appearance disturbing. 914 00:38:11,875 --> 00:38:14,356 - "The Elephant Man" is probably the antithesis 915 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,227 of Tod Browning's "Freaks" 916 00:38:16,271 --> 00:38:18,534 in that it is so sympathetic 917 00:38:18,578 --> 00:38:21,537 and it's from the point of view of someone 918 00:38:21,581 --> 00:38:24,061 who was born as a monster, 919 00:38:24,105 --> 00:38:27,238 even though his heart was that of an angel. 920 00:38:28,544 --> 00:38:31,460 This is a man who's so deformed, so grotesque, 921 00:38:31,504 --> 00:38:33,070 that he has to wear a mask 922 00:38:33,114 --> 00:38:34,898 so that he doesn't frighten everybody 923 00:38:34,942 --> 00:38:37,640 he comes in confrontation with. 924 00:38:37,684 --> 00:38:39,816 [all exclaiming] 925 00:38:39,860 --> 00:38:42,689 And is put on display in circuses 926 00:38:42,732 --> 00:38:45,213 because he's a freak. 927 00:38:45,256 --> 00:38:48,825 - Elephant...Man. 928 00:38:48,869 --> 00:38:50,697 [audience murmuring] 929 00:38:50,740 --> 00:38:53,395 narrator: Lynch employs a naturalistic style 930 00:38:53,439 --> 00:38:55,702 that reflects the brutal realities of life 931 00:38:55,745 --> 00:38:57,530 in Victorian England. 932 00:38:57,573 --> 00:38:59,662 [all clamoring] 933 00:38:59,706 --> 00:39:01,751 But combines it with dreamlike touches 934 00:39:01,795 --> 00:39:03,579 that are uniquely his own. 935 00:39:03,623 --> 00:39:06,539 [distorted howling] 936 00:39:06,582 --> 00:39:09,759 ♪ 937 00:39:09,803 --> 00:39:11,500 - That film, in black and white, 938 00:39:11,544 --> 00:39:13,241 just shimmers. 939 00:39:13,284 --> 00:39:17,201 The use of light and dark chiaroscuro shots-- 940 00:39:17,245 --> 00:39:19,421 it's ironic that you can say it's a thing of beauty, 941 00:39:19,465 --> 00:39:20,814 even though it deals with 942 00:39:20,857 --> 00:39:22,859 someone who is anything but beautiful. 943 00:39:22,903 --> 00:39:26,776 But the power of that film is the very deft way 944 00:39:26,820 --> 00:39:31,477 that Lynch first reveals the look of John Marrick 945 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,523 and then gradually lets you see him a little longer, 946 00:39:34,567 --> 00:39:37,047 and you begin to understand 947 00:39:37,091 --> 00:39:39,180 that it's not what's on the outside, 948 00:39:39,223 --> 00:39:41,574 but what's on the inside that really does count, 949 00:39:41,617 --> 00:39:45,273 corny as that may sound, but that's the entire premise. 950 00:39:45,316 --> 00:39:49,190 - I am not an animal! 951 00:39:51,235 --> 00:39:56,458 I am a human being! 952 00:39:56,502 --> 00:39:58,591 - The tagline of the movie on the poster, 953 00:39:58,634 --> 00:40:00,767 "I'm not an animal, I'm a human being," 954 00:40:00,810 --> 00:40:02,595 that is at the core of body horror-- 955 00:40:02,638 --> 00:40:05,598 what makes a human being a human being. 956 00:40:05,641 --> 00:40:07,469 Is it--is it this? 957 00:40:07,513 --> 00:40:10,864 Or is it something else? Is it something below? 958 00:40:10,907 --> 00:40:15,651 - My life is full 'cause I know that I am loved. 959 00:40:15,695 --> 00:40:17,784 - If you watch that film on an emotional level, 960 00:40:17,827 --> 00:40:18,959 I want to be John Merrick. 961 00:40:19,002 --> 00:40:21,788 He's a pure goodness, you know? 962 00:40:21,831 --> 00:40:23,485 He's a loving creature 963 00:40:23,529 --> 00:40:27,054 who's not been destroyed by all the darkness he's seen. 964 00:40:27,097 --> 00:40:28,795 What more could we wish for ourselves? 965 00:40:28,838 --> 00:40:30,579 - She's very pretty, your mother. 966 00:40:30,623 --> 00:40:33,277 - Oh, yes. 967 00:40:33,321 --> 00:40:34,714 - A friend of mine told me 968 00:40:34,757 --> 00:40:36,193 he saw "Elephant Man" in the theater, 969 00:40:36,237 --> 00:40:37,934 and there was a scene where the Elephant Man's 970 00:40:37,978 --> 00:40:40,371 talking to the singer woman, 971 00:40:40,415 --> 00:40:42,852 and it's a very sweet, gentle scene, 972 00:40:42,896 --> 00:40:44,854 and she's kind of looking at him like he's a human, 973 00:40:44,898 --> 00:40:46,508 and she saying, "It's so nice to meet you." 974 00:40:46,552 --> 00:40:48,510 And there's this quiet moment. 975 00:40:48,554 --> 00:40:50,251 And a guy in the theater went, 976 00:40:50,294 --> 00:40:53,602 "Kill her, Elephant Man!" [chuckles] 977 00:40:53,646 --> 00:40:56,083 Like, he's like, "It's a monster movie, right? 978 00:40:56,126 --> 00:40:58,389 When's Elephant Man gonna startkilling people?" 979 00:40:58,433 --> 00:40:59,652 [laughing] 980 00:40:59,695 --> 00:41:01,088 [tense music] 981 00:41:01,131 --> 00:41:02,524 - [screams] 982 00:41:02,568 --> 00:41:05,222 narrator: Sometimes disgusting, 983 00:41:05,266 --> 00:41:06,876 often disturbing-- 984 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,312 - [whimpers] 985 00:41:08,356 --> 00:41:09,444 narrator: But always powerful... 986 00:41:09,488 --> 00:41:10,532 - [growling] [phone rings] 987 00:41:10,576 --> 00:41:12,229 narrator: Body horror films 988 00:41:12,273 --> 00:41:14,057 make us question our prejudices 989 00:41:14,101 --> 00:41:15,798 against physical difference... 990 00:41:15,842 --> 00:41:18,497 - You filth! 991 00:41:18,540 --> 00:41:20,847 narrator: Our attitudes about sex and gender... 992 00:41:20,890 --> 00:41:23,502 [wire sawing] 993 00:41:23,545 --> 00:41:25,460 [screaming] 994 00:41:25,504 --> 00:41:27,941 narrator: Our fear of disease and contamination... 995 00:41:27,984 --> 00:41:29,029 - [shouts] 996 00:41:29,072 --> 00:41:30,813 ♪ 997 00:41:30,857 --> 00:41:31,988 narrator: And how much our appearance 998 00:41:32,032 --> 00:41:34,208 determines who we are. 999 00:41:34,251 --> 00:41:36,036 - [screaming] 1000 00:41:36,079 --> 00:41:37,994 narrator: They confront us with the beauty 1001 00:41:38,038 --> 00:41:41,868 and horror of being human. 1002 00:41:41,911 --> 00:41:44,610 - [screaming]