1 00:00:01,413 --> 00:00:04,242 male narrator: I'm Eli Roth. 2 00:00:04,286 --> 00:00:07,550 I want to introduce you to nine uncategorizable films 3 00:00:07,593 --> 00:00:08,942 that pushed the boundaries of horror... 4 00:00:08,986 --> 00:00:11,162 [terrifying music] 5 00:00:11,206 --> 00:00:14,644 Nine films that tell us dark truths about society 6 00:00:14,687 --> 00:00:16,211 and ourselves. 7 00:00:16,254 --> 00:00:17,821 - [screams] 8 00:00:17,864 --> 00:00:19,779 narrator: Nine films filled with fear... 9 00:00:19,823 --> 00:00:21,085 and fun. 10 00:00:21,129 --> 00:00:22,782 - [screaming] 11 00:00:22,826 --> 00:00:25,176 narrator: Nine nightmares you'll never forget. 12 00:00:25,220 --> 00:00:26,395 [tense music] 13 00:00:26,438 --> 00:00:27,483 - [screams abruptly] 14 00:00:27,526 --> 00:00:30,486 [eerie music] 15 00:00:30,529 --> 00:00:37,319 ♪ 16 00:00:38,189 --> 00:00:39,756 - [screams] 17 00:00:47,155 --> 00:00:48,765 [chainsaw revving] 18 00:00:55,380 --> 00:00:58,340 narrator: Horror is the outlier genre of cinema. 19 00:00:58,383 --> 00:01:00,124 Some people fear it. 20 00:01:00,168 --> 00:01:03,040 Others don't respect it, 21 00:01:03,084 --> 00:01:05,782 but that renegade status lets it go places 22 00:01:05,825 --> 00:01:08,132 no other genre can reach. 23 00:01:08,176 --> 00:01:12,484 Great horror films entertain us and provoke us. 24 00:01:12,528 --> 00:01:15,270 They put society under a microscope... 25 00:01:15,313 --> 00:01:17,054 - Sam? 26 00:01:17,098 --> 00:01:18,577 narrator: Making us question not just what we fear... 27 00:01:18,621 --> 00:01:21,319 [bell rings] - [screams] 28 00:01:21,363 --> 00:01:22,842 narrator: But why we fear it. 29 00:01:22,886 --> 00:01:25,149 [suspenseful music] 30 00:01:25,193 --> 00:01:27,325 And there's no better recent example 31 00:01:27,369 --> 00:01:29,762 than Jordan Peele's "Us." 32 00:01:29,806 --> 00:01:31,851 ♪ 33 00:01:31,895 --> 00:01:37,161 In 2017, Jordan released his first film, "Get Out," 34 00:01:37,205 --> 00:01:39,381 an Oscar-winning commercial and critical hit 35 00:01:39,424 --> 00:01:42,688 satirizing racism in America. 36 00:01:42,732 --> 00:01:44,081 ♪ 37 00:01:44,125 --> 00:01:48,564 - The Armitages are so good to us. 38 00:01:48,607 --> 00:01:50,522 - What you experienced in your first movie is, like, 39 00:01:50,566 --> 00:01:51,828 to come up with the Academy Award, 40 00:01:51,871 --> 00:01:53,395 to make a movie that is, like, 41 00:01:53,438 --> 00:01:55,875 probably the most culturally significant horror film 42 00:01:55,919 --> 00:01:57,747 since "Night of the Living Dead," 43 00:01:57,790 --> 00:01:59,879 and then you're like, "Now I have to follow that up." 44 00:01:59,923 --> 00:02:03,187 - The expectationswere a bitch. 45 00:02:03,231 --> 00:02:05,885 As you know, you, like--you kind of have to say, 46 00:02:05,929 --> 00:02:08,149 "Okay, well what got me herein the first place?" 47 00:02:08,192 --> 00:02:10,977 looking at "Get Out"and imagining 48 00:02:11,021 --> 00:02:12,240 what people are expecting. 49 00:02:12,283 --> 00:02:13,371 [ominous notes] 50 00:02:13,415 --> 00:02:15,156 [heart pounding] 51 00:02:15,199 --> 00:02:17,462 If I can kind of start to understand or pinpoint 52 00:02:17,506 --> 00:02:20,204 what I think people are expecting, 53 00:02:20,248 --> 00:02:23,990 I can start to plot how to subvert that. 54 00:02:24,034 --> 00:02:25,905 ♪ 55 00:02:25,949 --> 00:02:28,821 [deep ominous notes] 56 00:02:28,865 --> 00:02:36,002 ♪ 57 00:02:36,046 --> 00:02:39,615 - There is a Black family vacationing in Santa Cruz 58 00:02:39,658 --> 00:02:41,182 at their summer home, 59 00:02:41,225 --> 00:02:43,140 basically the only Black family you can see 60 00:02:43,184 --> 00:02:44,576 on this beach. 61 00:02:44,620 --> 00:02:47,231 So it speaks to isolation almost immediately. 62 00:02:47,275 --> 00:02:51,366 And over the course of a normal evening, the young son, Jason, 63 00:02:51,409 --> 00:02:53,498 realizes there's a family standing outside. 64 00:02:53,542 --> 00:02:55,761 ♪ 65 00:02:55,805 --> 00:02:57,328 [dramatic musical sting] 66 00:02:57,372 --> 00:03:00,070 And once the family breaks into the house, 67 00:03:00,113 --> 00:03:03,204 we realize these are doppelgangers, 68 00:03:03,247 --> 00:03:05,336 that everyone who's broken into the house 69 00:03:05,380 --> 00:03:09,166 is a mirror image of this family. 70 00:03:09,210 --> 00:03:11,255 ♪ 71 00:03:11,299 --> 00:03:13,039 - You know, I think both films, in a strange way, 72 00:03:13,083 --> 00:03:15,607 are about losing your identity and sort of who you are-- 73 00:03:15,651 --> 00:03:17,696 like, what the external world sees 74 00:03:17,740 --> 00:03:19,524 and what you are on the inside. 75 00:03:19,568 --> 00:03:22,745 - Both of these moviesbecame clear to me 76 00:03:22,788 --> 00:03:25,182 when I decidedto be vulnerable 77 00:03:25,226 --> 00:03:27,140 and--and--andlook--look within. 78 00:03:27,184 --> 00:03:28,446 - [shouts unintelligibly] 79 00:03:28,490 --> 00:03:30,405 [pants wheezily] 80 00:03:30,448 --> 00:03:33,016 Asked myself what really scares me, 81 00:03:33,059 --> 00:03:36,498 asked myselfwhat I'm not ready to face. 82 00:03:36,541 --> 00:03:38,413 - What are you people? 83 00:03:38,456 --> 00:03:41,807 - Which felt related to what we're not ready to face. 84 00:03:41,851 --> 00:03:44,332 - [hoarsely] We're Americans. 85 00:03:44,375 --> 00:03:46,159 [ominous music] 86 00:03:46,203 --> 00:03:47,857 - What would it be like to see someone 87 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:49,293 who looked exactly like you? 88 00:03:49,337 --> 00:03:51,121 Who is that person? What does that mean? 89 00:03:51,164 --> 00:03:52,862 Are they taking something away from you, 90 00:03:52,905 --> 00:03:54,864 or are you taking something away from them? 91 00:03:54,907 --> 00:03:57,388 - [hoarsely] Run! - [yelping] 92 00:03:57,432 --> 00:03:59,172 narrator: At first, 93 00:03:59,216 --> 00:04:01,392 the film seems to be about one family in peril... 94 00:04:01,436 --> 00:04:03,264 - [roaring] 95 00:04:03,307 --> 00:04:05,048 narrator: Then we discover 96 00:04:05,091 --> 00:04:07,920 everyone has a doppelganger living underground, 97 00:04:07,964 --> 00:04:11,576 invisibly tethered to their counterparts on the surface. 98 00:04:11,620 --> 00:04:14,362 Now, our tethered twins have emerged 99 00:04:14,405 --> 00:04:15,885 to murder us. 100 00:04:15,928 --> 00:04:17,321 [sharp musical sting] 101 00:04:17,365 --> 00:04:20,498 [suspenseful music] 102 00:04:20,542 --> 00:04:22,152 I remember you telling me after we shot last year 103 00:04:22,195 --> 00:04:23,240 that you were gonna go shoot something 104 00:04:23,284 --> 00:04:24,502 that felt like "Lost Boys." 105 00:04:24,546 --> 00:04:28,767 ♪ 106 00:04:28,811 --> 00:04:30,421 - Yeah, we're in the same place-- 107 00:04:30,465 --> 00:04:32,945 Santa Cruz Boardwalk-- the exact same location. 108 00:04:32,989 --> 00:04:35,034 Did you hear the lineabout "Lost Boys" in there? 109 00:04:35,078 --> 00:04:36,775 - You know, they're filming something about a carousel. 110 00:04:36,819 --> 00:04:38,473 You should see if they're looking for extras. 111 00:04:38,516 --> 00:04:39,865 - [screams] 112 00:04:39,909 --> 00:04:40,866 [shouts unintelligibly] 113 00:04:40,910 --> 00:04:42,868 [dramatic music] 114 00:04:42,912 --> 00:04:43,956 - But I always thought this idea of "Lost Boys"-- 115 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,176 that there's a monster up here, 116 00:04:46,219 --> 00:04:47,830 and so I thought,with that same location, 117 00:04:47,873 --> 00:04:50,049 what if there's a monsterunderneath as well? 118 00:04:50,093 --> 00:04:51,224 - Mm-hmm. - On the opposite side. 119 00:04:51,268 --> 00:04:52,791 - Yeah. 120 00:04:52,835 --> 00:04:55,533 - [hoarsely] They created the Tethered 121 00:04:55,577 --> 00:04:58,231 so they could use them to control the ones above. 122 00:04:58,275 --> 00:05:00,190 [unsettling music] 123 00:05:00,233 --> 00:05:02,801 Like puppets. 124 00:05:02,845 --> 00:05:05,500 - I was thinking about, uh, incarceration. 125 00:05:05,543 --> 00:05:07,066 I was thinking about class. - Mm-hmm. 126 00:05:07,110 --> 00:05:09,895 - I--I was thinking about the term "us and them," 127 00:05:09,939 --> 00:05:12,158 the--the idea of "us and them" 128 00:05:12,202 --> 00:05:14,117 and the--the--the division 129 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,728 when--when yousort of identify an "us." 130 00:05:16,772 --> 00:05:19,818 You create a "them."You create an other. 131 00:05:19,862 --> 00:05:22,299 - Don't waste your strength. Don't try to fight it. 132 00:05:22,343 --> 00:05:24,736 You can't stop the inevitable. 133 00:05:24,780 --> 00:05:26,521 - Much like "Get Out," 134 00:05:26,564 --> 00:05:29,872 this is a--a systemic monster we're dealing with. 135 00:05:29,915 --> 00:05:31,613 - It really does appear to be, 136 00:05:31,656 --> 00:05:33,615 on a fairly straightforward level, 137 00:05:33,658 --> 00:05:35,791 a story about the haves and the have-nots. 138 00:05:35,834 --> 00:05:38,750 [pleasant orchestral music] 139 00:05:38,794 --> 00:05:44,190 ♪ 140 00:05:44,234 --> 00:05:47,411 - Sort of existing with a privilege 141 00:05:47,455 --> 00:05:50,675 and--and a privilege that many of us enjoy 142 00:05:50,719 --> 00:05:52,721 is a violent act. 143 00:05:52,764 --> 00:05:54,505 And that's--that'sthe central theme of "Us," 144 00:05:54,549 --> 00:05:56,420 is this idea that, 145 00:05:56,464 --> 00:05:58,422 when we look at the mirror, 146 00:05:58,466 --> 00:06:00,293 both individually and collectively, 147 00:06:00,337 --> 00:06:01,817 we might realize, well, 148 00:06:01,860 --> 00:06:05,124 it's not as simple as, "I'm the good guy." 149 00:06:05,168 --> 00:06:07,257 - You know, we're all part of a system. 150 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:10,303 There's a story behind everything we enjoy. 151 00:06:10,347 --> 00:06:12,784 There's a factory. There's a--a line. 152 00:06:12,828 --> 00:06:14,395 There's--there's somebody working overtime, 153 00:06:14,438 --> 00:06:16,309 you know, to--to try to make us happy 154 00:06:16,353 --> 00:06:17,528 if we can afford it. 155 00:06:17,572 --> 00:06:19,269 ♪ 156 00:06:19,312 --> 00:06:21,402 Our little pleasures are coming 157 00:06:21,445 --> 00:06:23,186 at the cost of invisible people 158 00:06:23,229 --> 00:06:24,883 that we really don't want to acknowledge or see 159 00:06:24,927 --> 00:06:26,885 because it's inconvenient. 160 00:06:26,929 --> 00:06:28,931 [ominous notes] 161 00:06:28,974 --> 00:06:30,759 narrator: The family at the center of the film 162 00:06:30,802 --> 00:06:32,935 are better equipped to handle the Tethered 163 00:06:32,978 --> 00:06:34,589 than most horror film protagonists... 164 00:06:34,632 --> 00:06:36,460 - [shrieks] 165 00:06:36,504 --> 00:06:38,810 narrator: Partly because, as Black people in America, 166 00:06:38,854 --> 00:06:41,117 they are always on guard. 167 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:42,466 - Let's make some traps or something, 168 00:06:42,510 --> 00:06:44,033 like some "Home Alone"-type stuff. 169 00:06:44,076 --> 00:06:45,469 That way if she comes-- 170 00:06:45,513 --> 00:06:47,384 - Tell me you did notjust reference "Home Alone." 171 00:06:47,428 --> 00:06:48,603 - Well, havinga Black protagonist 172 00:06:48,646 --> 00:06:50,169 in--in a horror movie, 173 00:06:50,213 --> 00:06:51,606 as a writer, is a trap 174 00:06:51,649 --> 00:06:55,131 because you can't have them dothe stupid response. 175 00:06:55,174 --> 00:06:57,133 - They have the upper hand. 176 00:06:57,176 --> 00:06:58,830 This is the time to run, 177 00:06:58,874 --> 00:07:02,443 not to be sprinklingMicro Machines on the floor. 178 00:07:02,486 --> 00:07:03,705 - What are Micro Machines? 179 00:07:03,748 --> 00:07:05,228 - What's "Home Alone"? 180 00:07:05,271 --> 00:07:07,578 - It's--it's partlya satirical comment, 181 00:07:07,622 --> 00:07:10,233 but partly very groundedin real--real life. 182 00:07:10,276 --> 00:07:12,670 This country is--is a-- 183 00:07:12,714 --> 00:07:14,063 is a horror show... 184 00:07:14,106 --> 00:07:15,238 - Yeah. - For Black people, you know? 185 00:07:15,281 --> 00:07:16,239 This is--we're in a horror movie. 186 00:07:16,282 --> 00:07:19,242 [eerie music] 187 00:07:19,285 --> 00:07:20,983 I try and access 188 00:07:21,026 --> 00:07:22,114 what I'm actually afraid of or what I'm--you know. 189 00:07:22,158 --> 00:07:23,725 - Mm-hmm. 190 00:07:23,768 --> 00:07:26,467 - And that--part of the processof making these movies, 191 00:07:26,510 --> 00:07:29,034 I swear, I kind--I--I overcome my fear. 192 00:07:29,078 --> 00:07:30,514 [match snaps and hisses] 193 00:07:30,558 --> 00:07:31,950 - [rasping] 194 00:07:31,994 --> 00:07:33,561 narrator: Race and class divisions 195 00:07:33,604 --> 00:07:36,781 can turn everyday lives into horror movies, 196 00:07:36,825 --> 00:07:38,566 but what about people 197 00:07:38,609 --> 00:07:41,090 in the most privileged position in society? 198 00:07:41,133 --> 00:07:43,396 What nightmares stalk the ruling class? 199 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:44,441 - [screams wildly] 200 00:07:48,358 --> 00:07:51,143 narrator: In the year 2000, 201 00:07:51,187 --> 00:07:53,319 Christian Bale gave an unforgettable performance 202 00:07:53,363 --> 00:07:55,931 as the antihero of "American Psycho"... 203 00:07:55,974 --> 00:07:57,410 [chainsaw revving] 204 00:07:57,454 --> 00:07:59,630 A dark satire of human behavior 205 00:07:59,674 --> 00:08:01,589 at the top of the economic ladder. 206 00:08:01,632 --> 00:08:03,591 [suspenseful music] 207 00:08:03,634 --> 00:08:05,244 - "American Psycho," 208 00:08:05,288 --> 00:08:08,247 based on the notorious novel by Bret Easton Ellis, 209 00:08:08,291 --> 00:08:11,512 is about a young, wealthy businessman 210 00:08:11,555 --> 00:08:13,470 who seems to have a perfect life. 211 00:08:13,514 --> 00:08:15,472 - I work on Wall Street. 212 00:08:15,516 --> 00:08:17,039 - So he's, uh, very handsome; 213 00:08:17,082 --> 00:08:18,562 he has a perfect apartment; 214 00:08:18,606 --> 00:08:21,304 he has a-- you know, a high-paying job. 215 00:08:21,347 --> 00:08:22,871 So it's about someone 216 00:08:22,914 --> 00:08:24,742 whose life is full of perfect surfaces 217 00:08:24,786 --> 00:08:27,571 and who is so filled with, sort of, rage and emptiness 218 00:08:27,615 --> 00:08:30,531 that he disembowels young women. 219 00:08:30,574 --> 00:08:32,184 - I like to dissect girls. 220 00:08:32,228 --> 00:08:33,969 Did you knowI'm utterly insane? 221 00:08:34,012 --> 00:08:35,448 - Uh... [chuckles] 222 00:08:35,492 --> 00:08:37,799 Uh, great tan, Marcus. 223 00:08:37,842 --> 00:08:39,322 I mean, really impressive. 224 00:08:39,365 --> 00:08:41,019 Where do you tan? - Salon. 225 00:08:41,063 --> 00:08:42,847 [musical sting] 226 00:08:42,891 --> 00:08:47,286 - "American Psycho" is one of the best satires of all time. 227 00:08:47,330 --> 00:08:50,289 - You can always be thinner, look better. 228 00:08:50,333 --> 00:08:54,032 - To me, it really, really caught what the '90s was about. 229 00:08:54,076 --> 00:08:55,773 ♪ 230 00:08:55,817 --> 00:08:58,123 Suddenly, metrosexuality came in 231 00:08:58,167 --> 00:09:00,604 and men became obsessive with grooming products, 232 00:09:00,648 --> 00:09:03,302 skin care, waxing, tanning booths. 233 00:09:03,346 --> 00:09:05,522 - What beautiful skin you have, Mr. Bateman. 234 00:09:05,566 --> 00:09:07,306 - And what suits you were wearing, 235 00:09:07,350 --> 00:09:10,440 the kind of explosion in fashion and commerce 236 00:09:10,483 --> 00:09:12,398 and restaurants and status. 237 00:09:12,442 --> 00:09:14,836 It was just this Wall Street world. 238 00:09:14,879 --> 00:09:16,751 - Gene, great jacket. Matsuda? 239 00:09:16,794 --> 00:09:18,709 - Valentino Couture. 240 00:09:18,753 --> 00:09:20,581 - It's really a satire of consumerism... 241 00:09:20,624 --> 00:09:22,887 - Where did you get that overnight bag? 242 00:09:22,931 --> 00:09:24,759 [car trunk slams] - Jean Paul Gautier. 243 00:09:24,802 --> 00:09:26,412 - You know, American vulture capitalism 244 00:09:26,456 --> 00:09:28,414 at the end of the 20th century. 245 00:09:28,458 --> 00:09:31,417 And it's all expressed in this person who looks good, 246 00:09:31,461 --> 00:09:33,637 but is actually a monster. 247 00:09:33,681 --> 00:09:35,073 - [hollowly] I guess you could say 248 00:09:35,117 --> 00:09:36,379 I just want to have meaningful relationship 249 00:09:36,422 --> 00:09:38,337 with someone special. 250 00:09:38,381 --> 00:09:40,818 - I wanted Bateman to be the object of fear. 251 00:09:40,862 --> 00:09:43,342 [tense music] 252 00:09:43,386 --> 00:09:45,344 When Christian and I were in preparation 253 00:09:45,388 --> 00:09:47,085 for "American Psycho," 254 00:09:47,129 --> 00:09:48,696 we talked about him as being like a--a Martian-- 255 00:09:48,739 --> 00:09:50,480 someone from another planet 256 00:09:50,523 --> 00:09:52,264 who doesn't know how to be a human being. 257 00:09:52,308 --> 00:09:54,876 ♪ 258 00:09:54,919 --> 00:09:57,095 So when Bateman's going to have sex with someone, 259 00:09:57,139 --> 00:09:58,923 he watches a porno movie. 260 00:09:58,967 --> 00:10:00,621 [chainsaw revving and woman screaming on TV] 261 00:10:00,664 --> 00:10:02,361 - If he's gonna, uh, commit a murder, 262 00:10:02,405 --> 00:10:04,363 he's gonna watch a--a famous horror movie. 263 00:10:04,407 --> 00:10:06,191 [chainsaw revving and woman screaming on TV] 264 00:10:06,235 --> 00:10:08,324 - The fact that it was directed by a woman, I think, 265 00:10:08,367 --> 00:10:11,849 was such an interesting counterbalance to the book. 266 00:10:11,893 --> 00:10:14,547 Even though he's doing all of these crazy things, 267 00:10:14,591 --> 00:10:17,550 there isn't this misogynist, 268 00:10:17,594 --> 00:10:20,466 anti-woman, kind of gross tone about the movie. 269 00:10:20,510 --> 00:10:21,642 - Jean? 270 00:10:23,252 --> 00:10:24,775 Sorbet? 271 00:10:24,819 --> 00:10:26,559 - When we were filming "American Psycho," 272 00:10:26,603 --> 00:10:28,083 I realized that 273 00:10:28,126 --> 00:10:30,563 the fear a woman has of going on a date 274 00:10:30,607 --> 00:10:33,784 or going to a guy's apartment and something bad happening 275 00:10:33,828 --> 00:10:35,873 or him suddenly transforming 276 00:10:35,917 --> 00:10:39,529 from one kind of person into another 277 00:10:39,572 --> 00:10:44,055 is-- is a very strong female fear. 278 00:10:44,099 --> 00:10:46,231 - Can we go now? 279 00:10:46,275 --> 00:10:48,581 - We're not through yet. 280 00:10:48,625 --> 00:10:51,846 - Movies are a way of exploring those fears. 281 00:10:51,889 --> 00:10:53,195 [chainsaw revving] - [yelps] 282 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:59,636 [wet impact] - [screams] 283 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:02,160 - We don't want to admit it, but all of us-- 284 00:11:02,204 --> 00:11:04,685 there's a part of us that is like Patrick Bateman, 285 00:11:04,728 --> 00:11:07,078 that is obsessive, that wants things. 286 00:11:07,122 --> 00:11:11,039 It's like this personification of all the greed 287 00:11:11,082 --> 00:11:13,606 and the vanity and the consumption 288 00:11:13,650 --> 00:11:15,347 and the vapidness-- 289 00:11:15,391 --> 00:11:17,001 all the stuff that we suppress; 290 00:11:17,045 --> 00:11:18,611 that we say we don't have; 291 00:11:18,655 --> 00:11:20,701 that we say, "That's just other people"; 292 00:11:20,744 --> 00:11:22,267 it's all reflected in Patrick Bateman, 293 00:11:22,311 --> 00:11:23,791 but we're watching him 294 00:11:23,834 --> 00:11:26,271 and there is a part of him that's in all of us. 295 00:11:26,315 --> 00:11:27,969 - [laughing] 296 00:11:28,012 --> 00:11:29,579 I... [gasps] 297 00:11:29,622 --> 00:11:32,016 Just have to kill a lot of people! 298 00:11:32,060 --> 00:11:33,670 And um... 299 00:11:33,714 --> 00:11:36,151 [tense music fades] 300 00:11:36,194 --> 00:11:37,761 [stutters and sniffles] 301 00:11:37,805 --> 00:11:42,853 I'm not sure I'm gonna get away with it this time. 302 00:11:42,897 --> 00:11:44,550 - He's not punished at the end, 303 00:11:44,594 --> 00:11:46,378 so you're not giving the audience that satisfaction, 304 00:11:46,422 --> 00:11:47,771 actually. 305 00:11:47,815 --> 00:11:49,338 But I felt like the-- 306 00:11:49,381 --> 00:11:52,471 the satirical and also of the moral point 307 00:11:52,515 --> 00:11:54,560 of Bret Easton Ellis's book 308 00:11:54,604 --> 00:11:56,693 was that he wouldn't get found out 309 00:11:56,737 --> 00:11:59,217 because society didn't care to find him out. 310 00:11:59,261 --> 00:12:02,917 - I chopped Allen's [bleep] head off. 311 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:08,052 The whole message I left on your machine was true. 312 00:12:08,096 --> 00:12:11,273 - Excuse me.I really must be going now. 313 00:12:11,316 --> 00:12:12,796 - Society just didn't care 314 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,668 as long as he conformed to the perfect, you know, 315 00:12:15,712 --> 00:12:17,627 surfaces and perfect, uh, stereotypes 316 00:12:17,670 --> 00:12:19,498 of--of the successful businessman. 317 00:12:19,542 --> 00:12:21,239 No one would bother. 318 00:12:21,283 --> 00:12:25,069 - This confession has meant nothing. 319 00:12:25,113 --> 00:12:26,897 [unsettling music] 320 00:12:26,941 --> 00:12:28,769 [musical sting] 321 00:12:28,812 --> 00:12:30,771 narrator: Faced with the emptiness of consumer culture, 322 00:12:30,814 --> 00:12:33,643 many turned to the spiritual comforts of religion. 323 00:12:33,686 --> 00:12:35,210 - ...accursed! 324 00:12:35,253 --> 00:12:36,733 ♪ 325 00:12:36,777 --> 00:12:38,256 narrator: But there can be a fine line 326 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:40,215 between a religion and a death cult. 327 00:12:40,258 --> 00:12:41,564 - No! - No! 328 00:12:46,134 --> 00:12:49,833 narrator: Most religions teach the way of peace, 329 00:12:49,877 --> 00:12:52,140 yet religious differences have led 330 00:12:52,183 --> 00:12:54,446 to an almost unthinkable amount of bloodshed. 331 00:12:54,490 --> 00:12:56,187 - He brought you upto be a pagan. 332 00:12:56,231 --> 00:12:58,015 [eerie music] 333 00:12:58,059 --> 00:12:59,756 narrator: This paradox is at the heart 334 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,236 of two films about faith... 335 00:13:01,279 --> 00:13:02,846 [musical sting] 336 00:13:02,890 --> 00:13:06,850 "Midsommar" from 2019... 337 00:13:06,894 --> 00:13:08,069 and "The Wicker Man"... 338 00:13:08,112 --> 00:13:09,505 [all gasp] 339 00:13:09,548 --> 00:13:11,115 From 1973. 340 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:12,725 ♪ 341 00:13:12,769 --> 00:13:14,771 "The Wicker Man" has the reputation 342 00:13:14,815 --> 00:13:17,252 for being the greatest British horror film of all time. 343 00:13:17,295 --> 00:13:19,863 [goat shrieking] 344 00:13:19,907 --> 00:13:22,039 It was one of those movies I didn't see until late in life 345 00:13:22,083 --> 00:13:23,911 because I would look at the video box and go, 346 00:13:23,954 --> 00:13:26,130 "What's scary about a wicker man?" 347 00:13:26,174 --> 00:13:29,481 - Oh, God! Oh, Jesus Christ! 348 00:13:29,525 --> 00:13:31,744 [single drum beating ominously] 349 00:13:31,788 --> 00:13:33,398 - I finally saw it, 350 00:13:33,442 --> 00:13:36,271 and it's one of those movies that changed my life. 351 00:13:36,314 --> 00:13:38,664 [organ playing hymn] all: ♪ In pastures green 352 00:13:38,708 --> 00:13:41,624 ♪ He leadeth me 353 00:13:41,667 --> 00:13:45,236 - It has to do with Christianity versus paganism. 354 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:47,891 [tense music] 355 00:13:47,935 --> 00:13:49,980 A police inspector is sent 356 00:13:50,024 --> 00:13:52,591 to this remote isle of Summerisle 357 00:13:52,635 --> 00:13:55,377 to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. 358 00:13:55,420 --> 00:14:00,251 [chalk scraping] - Rowan Morrison. 359 00:14:00,295 --> 00:14:02,514 - And he's this repressed, uh, Christian 360 00:14:02,558 --> 00:14:04,690 coming to grips with this society 361 00:14:04,734 --> 00:14:07,868 that is the total opposite of everything he believes in. 362 00:14:07,911 --> 00:14:10,044 - I find degeneracy,and there is brawling in bars. 363 00:14:10,087 --> 00:14:12,524 There is indecencyin public places. 364 00:14:12,568 --> 00:14:15,223 - Open sex and wild dancing 365 00:14:15,266 --> 00:14:19,836 and all this uninhibited craziness that he's not used to 366 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:21,707 and he has a hard time adjusting to that. 367 00:14:21,751 --> 00:14:24,014 - Can I do anything for you, sergeant? 368 00:14:24,058 --> 00:14:27,713 - Oh, I doubt it...seeing you're all raving mad. 369 00:14:27,757 --> 00:14:29,324 - And the fun of the film 370 00:14:29,367 --> 00:14:32,066 is watching him getting taken down a notch or two. 371 00:14:32,109 --> 00:14:34,720 - They do love their divinity lessons. 372 00:14:34,764 --> 00:14:38,072 - But they--they are--are naked. 373 00:14:38,115 --> 00:14:39,203 - Naturally. 374 00:14:39,247 --> 00:14:40,683 It's much too dangerous 375 00:14:40,726 --> 00:14:42,511 to jump through the fire with your clothes on. 376 00:14:42,554 --> 00:14:44,382 - Oh, Christopher Lee did that picture for almost no money 377 00:14:44,426 --> 00:14:45,818 because he liked the part so much. 378 00:14:45,862 --> 00:14:46,819 And I think it was his favorite part 379 00:14:46,863 --> 00:14:47,995 of anything he'd ever done. 380 00:14:48,038 --> 00:14:49,953 [peaceful music] 381 00:14:49,997 --> 00:14:54,044 It's a truly weird, pagan, fascinating movie. 382 00:14:54,088 --> 00:14:55,611 It's almost a musical. 383 00:14:55,654 --> 00:14:57,700 I mean, it's got all these Paul Giovanni songs. 384 00:14:57,743 --> 00:14:59,658 [pianist playing slow song] - ♪ She took the tinker 385 00:14:59,702 --> 00:15:00,746 ♪ By the hand 386 00:15:00,790 --> 00:15:02,357 - They created a score 387 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,881 that are folk songs integral to this island 388 00:15:04,925 --> 00:15:06,100 to tell the story 389 00:15:06,143 --> 00:15:07,144 of their religion and their culture. 390 00:15:07,188 --> 00:15:08,885 together: ♪ For patching 391 00:15:08,929 --> 00:15:12,715 ♪ And plugging is his delight ♪ 392 00:15:12,758 --> 00:15:14,021 [echoing musical sting] 393 00:15:14,064 --> 00:15:17,024 - The lyrics of these songs are so-- 394 00:15:17,067 --> 00:15:19,243 everything's a double entendre and everything's sexual. 395 00:15:19,287 --> 00:15:21,332 [musicians playing upbeat folk music] 396 00:15:21,376 --> 00:15:24,727 And it's a very, very subversive, sexual movie. 397 00:15:24,770 --> 00:15:26,120 - [raps loudly on bar] 398 00:15:26,163 --> 00:15:27,904 [music stops] 399 00:15:27,948 --> 00:15:30,907 - This police officer is unwittingly being led, 400 00:15:30,951 --> 00:15:32,909 thinking he's on an investigation, 401 00:15:32,953 --> 00:15:35,912 thinking he's gonna catch the killer of a little girl, 402 00:15:35,956 --> 00:15:37,435 until he realizes 403 00:15:37,479 --> 00:15:39,611 that he's been a sucker this entire time. 404 00:15:39,655 --> 00:15:40,830 [ominous musical sting] 405 00:15:40,873 --> 00:15:42,223 - It's about faith 406 00:15:42,266 --> 00:15:43,485 and how faith doesn't really pan out for you. 407 00:15:43,528 --> 00:15:45,617 - There is no sun god! 408 00:15:45,661 --> 00:15:50,231 There is no... goddess of the fields! 409 00:15:50,274 --> 00:15:52,929 - I wouldn't say it's on the side of the pagans, 410 00:15:52,973 --> 00:15:54,322 but it certainly comes close, 411 00:15:54,365 --> 00:15:56,150 because as devout as the hero is, 412 00:15:56,193 --> 00:15:57,412 it doesn't save him. 413 00:15:57,455 --> 00:15:59,240 - No! No! Think! 414 00:15:59,283 --> 00:16:00,458 Just think what you're doing! 415 00:16:00,502 --> 00:16:02,112 [words echoing] 416 00:16:02,156 --> 00:16:04,680 Think what you're doing! Think! 417 00:16:04,723 --> 00:16:07,944 - The reason "The Wicker Man" has such staying power is 418 00:16:07,988 --> 00:16:09,641 you look at this cult 419 00:16:09,685 --> 00:16:12,644 that believes that burning and sacrificing a virgin 420 00:16:12,688 --> 00:16:14,342 is going to bring back the crops. 421 00:16:14,385 --> 00:16:15,908 That makes perfect sense to them. 422 00:16:15,952 --> 00:16:19,912 pagans: [together] ♪ Summer is a-comin' in 423 00:16:19,956 --> 00:16:22,263 - To this other person, it's absolutely insane 424 00:16:22,306 --> 00:16:23,960 because everything he believes 425 00:16:24,004 --> 00:16:25,962 is from a Christian perspective... 426 00:16:26,006 --> 00:16:28,008 pagans: [together] ♪ And blows the mead 427 00:16:28,051 --> 00:16:30,488 - And these are coming from a pagan perspective. 428 00:16:30,532 --> 00:16:32,751 What is totally normal to one person 429 00:16:32,795 --> 00:16:34,840 is absolutely terrifying to another, 430 00:16:34,884 --> 00:16:36,625 and I think there's something very real about that. 431 00:16:36,668 --> 00:16:38,975 [suspenseful music] 432 00:16:39,019 --> 00:16:41,499 The culture clash captured by "The Wicker Man" 433 00:16:41,543 --> 00:16:44,502 was a big influence on my film "Hostel." 434 00:16:44,546 --> 00:16:46,852 So I visually paid tribute to it. 435 00:16:46,896 --> 00:16:49,942 ♪ 436 00:16:49,986 --> 00:16:51,379 And you can see elements of both films 437 00:16:51,422 --> 00:16:54,164 in Ari Aster's "Midsommar." 438 00:16:54,208 --> 00:16:57,080 ♪ 439 00:16:57,124 --> 00:16:59,256 In the wake of a devastating loss, 440 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:01,998 a young woman joins her self-absorbed boyfriend 441 00:17:02,042 --> 00:17:04,218 and his fellow grad students 442 00:17:04,261 --> 00:17:06,133 on a trip to the Swedish countryside. 443 00:17:06,176 --> 00:17:08,091 They've been invited to witness 444 00:17:08,135 --> 00:17:09,397 an annual folk celebration. 445 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:11,051 [locals whoop] 446 00:17:12,922 --> 00:17:15,838 - The writing of "Midsommar" was pretty therapeutic. 447 00:17:15,881 --> 00:17:18,841 I was going through a breakup and was looking for, uh, 448 00:17:18,884 --> 00:17:21,061 kind of an angle on a breakup movie. 449 00:17:21,104 --> 00:17:22,671 ♪ 450 00:17:22,714 --> 00:17:25,543 What's, like, the evil version of that? 451 00:17:25,587 --> 00:17:27,676 [echoing scream] 452 00:17:27,719 --> 00:17:30,026 narrator: The students enter what at first appears to be 453 00:17:30,070 --> 00:17:33,116 a peaceful community of nature-worshipping pagans. 454 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:34,639 [bell dings] 455 00:17:34,683 --> 00:17:38,034 - I love that it is, like "The Wicker Man," 456 00:17:38,078 --> 00:17:42,430 set in this isolated, very homogenous community 457 00:17:42,473 --> 00:17:46,216 that is supposed to signify safety... 458 00:17:46,260 --> 00:17:47,739 - [gasps] 459 00:17:47,783 --> 00:17:48,914 - And then have it completely turn around. 460 00:17:48,958 --> 00:17:50,916 - No! - No! 461 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:52,266 - [gasps] 462 00:17:52,309 --> 00:17:54,137 - The Americans are trying to be cool, 463 00:17:54,181 --> 00:17:56,139 and they want to be open and they want to embrace it 464 00:17:56,183 --> 00:17:57,923 and they want to understand it 465 00:17:57,967 --> 00:17:59,534 and they don't quite get what's going on. 466 00:17:59,577 --> 00:18:02,145 - What's going on? 467 00:18:02,189 --> 00:18:05,148 - [claps] [ethereal whooshing] 468 00:18:05,192 --> 00:18:07,324 - But they get caught up in the ritual 469 00:18:07,368 --> 00:18:08,978 and the pomp and the circumstance 470 00:18:09,021 --> 00:18:10,545 and they don't want to offend the culture 471 00:18:10,588 --> 00:18:12,416 and, you know, they wind up paying the price for it. 472 00:18:12,460 --> 00:18:14,331 - [blows] 473 00:18:14,375 --> 00:18:16,812 ♪ 474 00:18:16,855 --> 00:18:19,075 narrator: The film's protagonist is gradually drawn 475 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:21,338 into what turns out to be a death cult... 476 00:18:21,382 --> 00:18:23,862 ♪ 477 00:18:23,906 --> 00:18:26,256 And the other travelers are ritual sacrifices. 478 00:18:26,300 --> 00:18:30,739 - She ends up finding, in this community, 479 00:18:30,782 --> 00:18:32,610 what might be a home. 480 00:18:32,654 --> 00:18:34,830 - You are the family now, yes? 481 00:18:34,873 --> 00:18:37,006 Yes, you are the family! 482 00:18:37,049 --> 00:18:38,529 - And of course, 483 00:18:38,573 --> 00:18:41,489 the irony is that they are a eugenicist community 484 00:18:41,532 --> 00:18:43,317 of murderers. 485 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:45,928 - [shrieking] 486 00:18:45,971 --> 00:18:49,149 - But they're also much more empathic, 487 00:18:49,192 --> 00:18:50,324 they're--they're much more compassionate. 488 00:18:50,367 --> 00:18:54,197 [all wailing] 489 00:18:54,241 --> 00:18:56,765 - And that's why people join cults. 490 00:18:56,808 --> 00:19:00,203 [eerie music] 491 00:19:00,247 --> 00:19:03,641 People don't join cults because they want to be mass murderers. 492 00:19:03,685 --> 00:19:06,601 [ominous droning music] 493 00:19:06,644 --> 00:19:12,520 ♪ 494 00:19:12,563 --> 00:19:15,653 They join cults because they need connection. 495 00:19:15,697 --> 00:19:18,613 [peaceful droning music] 496 00:19:18,656 --> 00:19:21,442 ♪ 497 00:19:21,485 --> 00:19:23,487 narrator: "Midsommar" was a slow-burn film 498 00:19:23,531 --> 00:19:27,317 that built to a fiery conclusion. 499 00:19:27,361 --> 00:19:29,972 But horror can also go way over the top to make a point. 500 00:19:30,015 --> 00:19:30,886 [rushing music] 501 00:19:35,804 --> 00:19:38,633 narrator: When you think of a morality tale, 502 00:19:38,676 --> 00:19:40,243 you might picture something like this. 503 00:19:40,287 --> 00:19:43,333 - [speaking Swedish] Amen. 504 00:19:43,377 --> 00:19:44,813 others: Amen. 505 00:19:44,856 --> 00:19:47,772 [suspenseful music] 506 00:19:47,816 --> 00:19:49,687 ♪ 507 00:19:49,731 --> 00:19:53,038 - I hope you rot in hell. 508 00:19:53,082 --> 00:19:54,692 narrator: But in horror, 509 00:19:54,736 --> 00:19:56,955 stories about suffering terrible consequences 510 00:19:56,999 --> 00:20:00,916 for your poor behavior can be scary and fun, 511 00:20:00,959 --> 00:20:02,961 like "Creepshow." 512 00:20:03,005 --> 00:20:04,354 "Creepshow" was a horror fan's dream. 513 00:20:04,398 --> 00:20:05,921 It still is. 514 00:20:05,964 --> 00:20:07,836 It's the combination of George Romero, 515 00:20:07,879 --> 00:20:10,578 Stephen King, and Tom Savini. 516 00:20:10,621 --> 00:20:12,797 Me, as a 12-year-old horror fan, 517 00:20:12,841 --> 00:20:14,451 knowing that this was the director 518 00:20:14,495 --> 00:20:15,539 of "Dawn of the Dead"... 519 00:20:15,583 --> 00:20:19,021 ♪ 520 00:20:19,064 --> 00:20:20,631 This was the guy that did all the gore 521 00:20:20,675 --> 00:20:21,632 in "Dawn of the Dead" and "Friday the 13th." 522 00:20:21,676 --> 00:20:24,853 [intense string music] 523 00:20:24,896 --> 00:20:27,290 And Stephen King writing these stories? 524 00:20:27,334 --> 00:20:30,162 This was gonna be the greatest movie ever made. 525 00:20:30,206 --> 00:20:32,208 [sparse ominous music] 526 00:20:32,252 --> 00:20:33,731 ♪ 527 00:20:33,775 --> 00:20:35,864 - Well, my first thing with George was he said, 528 00:20:35,907 --> 00:20:37,213 "Why don't we do a number of stories 529 00:20:37,257 --> 00:20:38,606 like 'Tales from the Crypt'?" 530 00:20:38,649 --> 00:20:41,086 And I went, "Yeah, let's--let's do that." 531 00:20:41,130 --> 00:20:42,566 - It's a comic book. - What? 532 00:20:42,610 --> 00:20:44,307 - It's a comic book! - It's a comic book! 533 00:20:44,351 --> 00:20:46,309 [musical sting] - Look. 534 00:20:46,353 --> 00:20:48,006 - Because really, what is a comic book? 535 00:20:48,050 --> 00:20:50,139 It's a storyboard for a movie, right? 536 00:20:52,228 --> 00:20:53,838 narrator: "Creepshow" is presented 537 00:20:53,882 --> 00:20:57,189 like an EC comic book from the 1950s, 538 00:20:57,233 --> 00:20:59,322 with five macabre stories... 539 00:20:59,366 --> 00:21:00,758 ♪ 540 00:21:00,802 --> 00:21:02,325 - [shouts] 541 00:21:02,369 --> 00:21:04,066 narrator: And an all-star cast. 542 00:21:04,109 --> 00:21:05,676 Stephen King himself 543 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,113 plays the doomed hayseed, Jordy Verrill. 544 00:21:08,157 --> 00:21:09,898 ♪ 545 00:21:09,941 --> 00:21:12,640 - I'm a goner already, Daddy... 546 00:21:12,683 --> 00:21:13,728 ain't I? 547 00:21:13,771 --> 00:21:15,338 ♪ 548 00:21:15,382 --> 00:21:17,166 narrator: Each story was a moral tale 549 00:21:17,209 --> 00:21:20,691 in which sinners were rewarded with ironic deaths, 550 00:21:20,735 --> 00:21:24,782 and sometimes, ironic afterlives. 551 00:21:24,826 --> 00:21:27,524 The teenaged Greg Nicotero was a frequent visitor 552 00:21:27,568 --> 00:21:29,874 to the "Creepshow" set. 553 00:21:29,918 --> 00:21:32,747 - I remember seeing them shooting the actors 554 00:21:32,790 --> 00:21:35,271 with the colored lights in the background. 555 00:21:35,315 --> 00:21:38,492 - I got my cake. 556 00:21:38,535 --> 00:21:40,102 - All of a sudden, like, there's a bunch of guys 557 00:21:40,145 --> 00:21:41,712 on dimmers, and they'd go... [imitates electricity] 558 00:21:41,756 --> 00:21:44,889 - [screaming] - Happy Father's Day. 559 00:21:44,933 --> 00:21:47,283 - Then they would turn it and the lights would change. 560 00:21:47,327 --> 00:21:50,982 They were trying to immerse you into the comic book world. 561 00:21:51,026 --> 00:21:52,767 ♪ 562 00:21:52,810 --> 00:21:55,552 narrator: One of my favorite stories is "The Crate," 563 00:21:55,596 --> 00:21:57,511 where a henpecked college professor 564 00:21:57,554 --> 00:21:59,382 comes into possession of a vicious animal... 565 00:21:59,426 --> 00:22:01,384 - ...a couple of emeralds! - Don't! 566 00:22:01,428 --> 00:22:04,213 narrator: With a thirst for human blood. 567 00:22:04,256 --> 00:22:05,954 - [screaming] 568 00:22:05,997 --> 00:22:10,567 - [laughing deliriously] I don't even know what it was. 569 00:22:10,611 --> 00:22:13,483 - And it's Hal Holbrook and Fritz Weaver 570 00:22:13,527 --> 00:22:16,573 and Adrienne Barbeau and this old crate, 571 00:22:16,617 --> 00:22:17,748 and you're just waiting for Fluffy. 572 00:22:17,792 --> 00:22:19,750 - [roars] 573 00:22:19,794 --> 00:22:21,317 - I remember, as a kid, I read "Fangoria" magazine 574 00:22:21,361 --> 00:22:22,579 and I saw pictures 575 00:22:22,623 --> 00:22:24,146 of the monster that they called Fluffy. 576 00:22:24,189 --> 00:22:26,191 And when that thing comes out of the crate... 577 00:22:26,235 --> 00:22:28,716 ♪ 578 00:22:28,759 --> 00:22:31,109 - The fun is inventing how to do this stuff. 579 00:22:31,153 --> 00:22:33,938 ♪ 580 00:22:33,982 --> 00:22:36,811 You know, the script, kind of, is sometimes very vague. 581 00:22:36,854 --> 00:22:38,813 "We see a flash of fur and teeth." 582 00:22:38,856 --> 00:22:40,902 [dramatic tense music] 583 00:22:40,945 --> 00:22:42,643 Well, I gotta create a creature from that 584 00:22:42,686 --> 00:22:44,209 that comes out of a crate 585 00:22:44,253 --> 00:22:45,907 underneath steps in "Creepshow," you know? 586 00:22:45,950 --> 00:22:47,474 - Something shiny. 587 00:22:47,517 --> 00:22:49,519 - I had never built an animatronic creature before. 588 00:22:49,563 --> 00:22:52,653 So I called Rob Bottin on the phone. 589 00:22:52,696 --> 00:22:54,437 Took me to his house. 590 00:22:54,481 --> 00:22:56,396 He tore the skins off to show me 591 00:22:56,439 --> 00:22:59,007 how the mechanisms worked in the heads, 592 00:22:59,050 --> 00:23:00,487 the fake heads that he was making. 593 00:23:00,530 --> 00:23:03,446 [suspenseful music] 594 00:23:03,490 --> 00:23:05,361 - As great as "The Crate" is, 595 00:23:05,405 --> 00:23:08,495 nothing quite prepares you for E.G. Marshall's performance 596 00:23:08,538 --> 00:23:09,844 as Upson Pratt. 597 00:23:09,887 --> 00:23:11,889 "This is Upson Pratt, the Upson Pratt." 598 00:23:11,933 --> 00:23:13,935 - Well, I found anothercockroach this evening, George. 599 00:23:13,978 --> 00:23:14,979 - Oh, no. 600 00:23:15,023 --> 00:23:16,459 - One of those big ones 601 00:23:16,503 --> 00:23:19,375 right here in my $3,200-a-monthpenthouse apartment. 602 00:23:19,419 --> 00:23:22,813 ♪ 603 00:23:22,857 --> 00:23:25,555 narrator: Upson Pratt is a wealthy and vicious germaphobe 604 00:23:25,599 --> 00:23:26,948 who treats everyone like vermin. 605 00:23:26,991 --> 00:23:29,298 - You might go far, boy. 606 00:23:29,341 --> 00:23:31,735 I've noticed that, in service jobs, 607 00:23:31,779 --> 00:23:34,695 people like yourself often do-- 608 00:23:34,738 --> 00:23:36,218 people of color. 609 00:23:36,261 --> 00:23:39,003 - You know, the Marshall story does represent 610 00:23:39,047 --> 00:23:40,483 a lot of the sociopolitical things 611 00:23:40,527 --> 00:23:42,833 that were going on at the time, you know, 612 00:23:42,877 --> 00:23:46,271 with him being a blatant racist character 613 00:23:46,315 --> 00:23:47,925 who is trying to live 614 00:23:47,969 --> 00:23:50,232 in this sort of protected white bubble, literally, 615 00:23:50,275 --> 00:23:51,886 in his compound, 616 00:23:51,929 --> 00:23:53,453 and he's terrified 617 00:23:53,496 --> 00:23:56,020 of other things getting into that world. 618 00:23:56,064 --> 00:23:57,239 [bugs squeaking] 619 00:23:57,282 --> 00:23:59,154 - Damn bugs--ugh! 620 00:23:59,197 --> 00:24:00,547 Bugs! [shouts] 621 00:24:00,590 --> 00:24:02,679 - Now you'd have a digital cockroach. 622 00:24:02,723 --> 00:24:04,072 Back then, you really hadto do it with cockroaches. 623 00:24:04,115 --> 00:24:05,377 - Cockroaches. 624 00:24:05,421 --> 00:24:06,553 They were everywhere, Eli! - Yeah. 625 00:24:06,596 --> 00:24:07,902 - Those cockroaches were everywhere. 626 00:24:07,945 --> 00:24:10,948 [ominous music] 627 00:24:10,992 --> 00:24:12,733 [cockroaches chittering] - [screaming] 628 00:24:12,776 --> 00:24:15,170 - And when we did the final scene, where the b-- 629 00:24:15,213 --> 00:24:18,652 he just sort of explodes with bugs all inside him-- 630 00:24:18,695 --> 00:24:21,742 everybody was, like, right-- 631 00:24:21,785 --> 00:24:24,309 nervous, scared to death. 632 00:24:24,353 --> 00:24:26,181 It could be one take. - Yeah. 633 00:24:26,224 --> 00:24:27,487 - That's the only thing you could do. 634 00:24:27,530 --> 00:24:29,227 There were, like, 5,000 cockroaches 635 00:24:29,271 --> 00:24:32,274 and they were gonna blow 'em through this--this tube. 636 00:24:34,015 --> 00:24:35,451 Quiet on the set, 637 00:24:35,495 --> 00:24:37,018 get the cockroaches ready. 638 00:24:37,061 --> 00:24:39,324 [chuckling] You know, cue the cockroaches. 639 00:24:39,368 --> 00:24:42,327 [eerie music] 640 00:24:42,371 --> 00:24:44,939 ♪ 641 00:24:44,982 --> 00:24:47,768 - [screaming] 642 00:24:47,811 --> 00:24:49,421 - And it was perfect 643 00:24:49,465 --> 00:24:51,859 and everybody in the place just exploded into applause. 644 00:24:51,902 --> 00:24:53,295 - It's one of the-- 645 00:24:53,338 --> 00:24:55,515 it's one of the great,great moments in movies. 646 00:24:55,558 --> 00:24:57,560 [cockroaches chittering] 647 00:24:57,604 --> 00:24:59,736 - "Creepshow" was-- was way ahead of its time 648 00:24:59,780 --> 00:25:03,044 in terms of George and Steve King's 649 00:25:03,087 --> 00:25:05,002 sort of love letter to EC comics. 650 00:25:05,046 --> 00:25:06,830 - [cackles] 651 00:25:06,874 --> 00:25:08,702 [thunder booms] 652 00:25:08,745 --> 00:25:11,922 - Doing "Creepshow" really was--was their opportunity 653 00:25:11,966 --> 00:25:15,752 to pay tribute to the stuff that inspired them. 654 00:25:15,796 --> 00:25:17,537 [tense musical sting] - [screams] 655 00:25:17,580 --> 00:25:19,190 narrator: In "Creepshow," 656 00:25:19,234 --> 00:25:22,585 bad people are punished with gruesome deaths. 657 00:25:22,629 --> 00:25:24,805 The violence upset audiences 658 00:25:24,848 --> 00:25:28,809 expecting a lightweight comic book movie, 659 00:25:28,852 --> 00:25:31,159 but to really upset Americans, 660 00:25:31,202 --> 00:25:32,682 do what Brian De Palma did: 661 00:25:32,726 --> 00:25:36,077 make a horror film about sex. 662 00:25:39,907 --> 00:25:41,038 - [gasps] 663 00:25:41,082 --> 00:25:42,953 [dramatic music] 664 00:25:42,997 --> 00:25:45,173 [gagging] 665 00:25:45,216 --> 00:25:47,131 narrator: Few things provoke audiences more 666 00:25:47,175 --> 00:25:49,525 than sexual violence. 667 00:25:49,569 --> 00:25:51,266 It's a taboo region 668 00:25:51,309 --> 00:25:55,009 that horror films are uniquely able to explore 669 00:25:55,052 --> 00:25:57,620 because horror goes where the timid fear to tread. 670 00:25:57,664 --> 00:25:59,579 - [screams] 671 00:26:00,362 --> 00:26:02,407 narrator: And even a comically bad slasher 672 00:26:02,451 --> 00:26:05,628 can carry a surprising message about toxic masculinity. 673 00:26:05,672 --> 00:26:08,109 - Where did this filth come from? 674 00:26:08,152 --> 00:26:09,980 [grunts] 675 00:26:10,024 --> 00:26:15,116 [screaming] 676 00:26:15,159 --> 00:26:19,120 - "Pieces" is one of the greatest WTF horror films 677 00:26:19,163 --> 00:26:20,121 of all time. 678 00:26:20,164 --> 00:26:22,166 [saw scraping] 679 00:26:22,210 --> 00:26:23,820 [telephone ringing] 680 00:26:23,864 --> 00:26:25,256 For me, it might be 681 00:26:25,300 --> 00:26:26,562 my favorite horror movie of all time 682 00:26:26,606 --> 00:26:27,781 after all these years 683 00:26:27,824 --> 00:26:29,565 because it just defies every rule 684 00:26:29,609 --> 00:26:30,958 of what you're supposed to do. 685 00:26:31,001 --> 00:26:31,959 [dramatic synthesized music] 686 00:26:32,002 --> 00:26:33,525 - [weeps] 687 00:26:33,569 --> 00:26:35,266 - It is so absurd 688 00:26:35,310 --> 00:26:37,704 that, if you put it on with a room of people, 689 00:26:37,747 --> 00:26:39,140 you will guarantee to have 690 00:26:39,183 --> 00:26:40,445 the whole audience come out of it going, 691 00:26:40,489 --> 00:26:41,795 "That's the best movie I've ever seen." 692 00:26:41,838 --> 00:26:44,841 [dramatic music] - [screaming] 693 00:26:44,885 --> 00:26:48,279 [mirrors shattering] 694 00:26:48,323 --> 00:26:51,718 - Horror is the genre that gave us the idea of bad-good. 695 00:26:51,761 --> 00:26:55,765 - [screams] [chainsaw revving] 696 00:26:55,809 --> 00:26:57,419 - Like, there can be a really great horror movie, 697 00:26:57,462 --> 00:26:59,682 and that's fun to watch, but a really bad horror movie 698 00:26:59,726 --> 00:27:01,205 can be fun to watch too. 699 00:27:01,249 --> 00:27:03,730 - [shrieking]Bastard! 700 00:27:03,773 --> 00:27:06,210 Bastard! 701 00:27:06,254 --> 00:27:08,082 [suspenseful music] 702 00:27:08,125 --> 00:27:10,084 Bastard! 703 00:27:10,127 --> 00:27:11,868 [booming musical sting] 704 00:27:11,912 --> 00:27:14,610 narrator: The plot of "Pieces" follows a campus stud 705 00:27:14,654 --> 00:27:17,047 and an undercover policewoman 706 00:27:17,091 --> 00:27:20,398 trying to catch a mysterious chainsaw killer. 707 00:27:20,442 --> 00:27:23,401 - [screaming] [chainsaw revving] 708 00:27:23,445 --> 00:27:25,621 - It's got all the classic tropes of slasher movies. 709 00:27:25,665 --> 00:27:27,362 [chainsaw revving] 710 00:27:27,405 --> 00:27:28,711 - You! 711 00:27:28,755 --> 00:27:30,495 - They have these beautiful Spanish girls 712 00:27:30,539 --> 00:27:32,541 that always get naked right before they're chopped. 713 00:27:32,584 --> 00:27:34,499 [dramatic music] - [gasps] 714 00:27:34,543 --> 00:27:36,110 - The deaths are so over-the-top. 715 00:27:36,153 --> 00:27:40,244 ♪ 716 00:27:40,288 --> 00:27:41,898 At the end of the film, 717 00:27:41,942 --> 00:27:43,508 the police catch the killer 718 00:27:43,552 --> 00:27:45,859 and they're about to leave 719 00:27:45,902 --> 00:27:47,730 and they open the door and the body falls out. 720 00:27:47,774 --> 00:27:48,862 - Really-- 721 00:27:48,905 --> 00:27:51,168 - [screaming] 722 00:27:51,212 --> 00:27:52,213 - [screams] 723 00:27:52,256 --> 00:27:53,867 - And you realize 724 00:27:53,910 --> 00:27:55,085 this guy's been making a human jigsaw puzzle. 725 00:27:55,129 --> 00:27:56,739 It's an incredible shock moment. 726 00:27:56,783 --> 00:27:58,349 - [screaming] 727 00:27:58,393 --> 00:28:02,397 [sobbing] 728 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,094 - And then at the very end, 729 00:28:04,138 --> 00:28:06,357 Ian Sera comes back 'cause he forgot his coat 730 00:28:06,401 --> 00:28:08,446 and the hand of the body comes out 731 00:28:08,490 --> 00:28:11,101 and just rips his genitals off. 732 00:28:11,145 --> 00:28:13,016 - [screaming] 733 00:28:13,060 --> 00:28:14,626 [flesh squelches] 734 00:28:14,670 --> 00:28:16,063 - You can watch the movie on one level 735 00:28:16,106 --> 00:28:17,978 and go, "This is a grade-Z slasher movie." 736 00:28:18,021 --> 00:28:19,327 Or you could say, 737 00:28:19,370 --> 00:28:21,459 "This is a subversive work of art 738 00:28:21,503 --> 00:28:24,114 "by a master director who's making a comment 739 00:28:24,158 --> 00:28:27,727 on this character who uses women like pieces of meat." 740 00:28:27,770 --> 00:28:29,598 These girls are then killed 741 00:28:29,641 --> 00:28:33,515 and the body... is the residual anger. 742 00:28:33,558 --> 00:28:35,125 The anger of these girls 743 00:28:35,169 --> 00:28:36,823 and the resentmentof these girls 744 00:28:36,866 --> 00:28:41,305 of being used by this guyall boils up 745 00:28:41,349 --> 00:28:44,004 and they castrate him at the end of the movie. 746 00:28:44,047 --> 00:28:45,832 narrator: You don't expect great depth 747 00:28:45,875 --> 00:28:48,791 from a movie like "Pieces." 748 00:28:48,835 --> 00:28:51,925 More confounding to critics is when a brilliant filmmaker 749 00:28:51,968 --> 00:28:54,231 deliberately challenges an audience 750 00:28:54,275 --> 00:28:57,713 by fusing sex and violence with high cinematic style. 751 00:28:57,757 --> 00:28:59,367 ♪ 752 00:28:59,410 --> 00:29:02,674 Exhibit A: Brian De Palma's "Dressed to Kill," 753 00:29:02,718 --> 00:29:04,589 a provocative film 754 00:29:04,633 --> 00:29:08,593 about the corrosive effects of sexual repression. 755 00:29:08,637 --> 00:29:11,640 - "Dressed to Kill" is an interesting juxtaposition 756 00:29:11,683 --> 00:29:14,599 of two women's expression of their own sexuality-- 757 00:29:14,643 --> 00:29:16,427 one being a conservative housewife 758 00:29:16,471 --> 00:29:18,342 who is oppressed by her sexuality 759 00:29:18,386 --> 00:29:20,344 and one being a young sex worker 760 00:29:20,388 --> 00:29:23,260 who is empowered by her sexuality-- 761 00:29:23,304 --> 00:29:25,828 and the man who is a psychiatrist 762 00:29:25,872 --> 00:29:28,439 who is his own worst patient 763 00:29:28,483 --> 00:29:29,963 who's trying to draw the bridge 764 00:29:30,006 --> 00:29:33,357 between his own relationship with his sexuality 765 00:29:33,401 --> 00:29:36,665 and these two women. 766 00:29:36,708 --> 00:29:38,536 narrator: Sexually frustrated Kate, 767 00:29:38,580 --> 00:29:40,408 played by Angie Dickinson, 768 00:29:40,451 --> 00:29:44,064 acts the part of the perfect wife and mother, 769 00:29:44,107 --> 00:29:48,242 but she yearns for a more stimulating life. 770 00:29:48,285 --> 00:29:51,375 Kate confides her feelings to her psychiatrist, 771 00:29:51,419 --> 00:29:53,377 arousing his own secret desires. 772 00:29:53,421 --> 00:29:54,509 [sweeping music] 773 00:29:54,552 --> 00:29:56,772 - Would you want to sleep with me? 774 00:29:56,816 --> 00:29:57,860 - Yes. 775 00:29:57,904 --> 00:29:59,644 [tense dramatic music] 776 00:29:59,688 --> 00:30:01,298 - [gasps] 777 00:30:01,342 --> 00:30:03,126 [screaming] 778 00:30:03,170 --> 00:30:05,302 ♪ 779 00:30:05,346 --> 00:30:07,130 narrator: Then, in a shocking twist, 780 00:30:07,174 --> 00:30:08,740 Kate is brutally murdered 781 00:30:08,784 --> 00:30:12,092 by a mysterious black-gloved killer... 782 00:30:12,135 --> 00:30:16,096 - [screaming] 783 00:30:16,139 --> 00:30:18,402 narrator: A crime witnessed by the movie's other heroine, 784 00:30:18,446 --> 00:30:21,797 Liz Blake, played by Nancy Allen. 785 00:30:21,841 --> 00:30:24,539 - I think my nightmares on "Dressed to Kill" 786 00:30:24,582 --> 00:30:27,150 really started when they did the... [imitates slashing] 787 00:30:27,194 --> 00:30:30,806 [soft eerie music] 788 00:30:30,850 --> 00:30:33,504 It's so strange because it's all so technical. 789 00:30:33,548 --> 00:30:36,812 ♪ 790 00:30:36,856 --> 00:30:38,770 But emotionally, 791 00:30:38,814 --> 00:30:41,556 it really does-- somehow, it gets in. 792 00:30:41,599 --> 00:30:43,993 At least with me, it gets back in there. 793 00:30:44,037 --> 00:30:45,995 ♪ 794 00:30:46,039 --> 00:30:49,520 Maybe it's all "Psycho's" fault for making me so scared. 795 00:30:49,564 --> 00:30:52,393 ["The Murder"] - [screaming] 796 00:30:52,436 --> 00:30:53,785 narrator: Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" 797 00:30:53,829 --> 00:30:55,918 famously kills off its protagonist 798 00:30:55,962 --> 00:30:58,138 more than half an hour into the film. 799 00:30:58,181 --> 00:31:03,360 ♪ 800 00:31:03,404 --> 00:31:06,363 "Dressed to Kill" both updates and parodies "Psycho." 801 00:31:08,539 --> 00:31:11,020 De Palma turns the trail blazed by Hitchcock 802 00:31:11,064 --> 00:31:13,457 into a slyly satirical boulevard, 803 00:31:13,501 --> 00:31:16,678 going places Hitchcock couldn't in 1960. 804 00:31:16,721 --> 00:31:18,680 [soft ominous music] 805 00:31:18,723 --> 00:31:20,290 narrator: The second half of "Dressed to Kill" 806 00:31:20,334 --> 00:31:21,857 is a detective story 807 00:31:21,901 --> 00:31:24,381 led by two amateur sleuths: 808 00:31:24,425 --> 00:31:27,732 Liz Blake and Kate's adoring son Peter, 809 00:31:27,776 --> 00:31:29,821 played by Keith Gordon. 810 00:31:29,865 --> 00:31:31,867 Every scene is enhanced 811 00:31:31,911 --> 00:31:34,565 by De Palma's vast knowledge of film technique. 812 00:31:34,609 --> 00:31:37,220 ♪ 813 00:31:37,264 --> 00:31:39,222 - Obviously, the story involves 814 00:31:39,266 --> 00:31:42,660 a lot of double and mirror and two people looking alike 815 00:31:42,704 --> 00:31:45,359 and, you know, having two personalities and splits. 816 00:31:45,402 --> 00:31:47,143 [tense music] 817 00:31:47,187 --> 00:31:50,016 Really good visual directors will find themes 818 00:31:50,059 --> 00:31:51,800 and then they'll continue to find places to inject it 819 00:31:51,843 --> 00:31:53,584 where maybe they hadn't even planned ahead of time, 820 00:31:53,628 --> 00:31:55,325 but they keep seeing opportunities. 821 00:31:55,369 --> 00:31:56,718 - When I speak of transsexuals, 822 00:31:56,761 --> 00:31:58,763 I tend to speak of male-to-female 823 00:31:58,807 --> 00:32:00,417 because there are a whole lot more of them 824 00:32:00,461 --> 00:32:01,984 than the going the other way. 825 00:32:02,028 --> 00:32:04,639 - The scene I remember the most is the television 826 00:32:04,682 --> 00:32:06,946 where Donahue is interviewing someone 827 00:32:06,989 --> 00:32:09,035 and Michael Caine is watching it. 828 00:32:09,078 --> 00:32:11,385 Just the--the lighting, the way it's photographed, 829 00:32:11,428 --> 00:32:13,082 and as kid, split screens drive me crazy. 830 00:32:13,126 --> 00:32:14,431 You're like,"What am I supposed to watch? 831 00:32:14,475 --> 00:32:15,693 What am I supposed to watch?" 832 00:32:15,737 --> 00:32:17,304 But you just sort of give over to it. 833 00:32:17,347 --> 00:32:18,653 It's got a very, very interesting effect 834 00:32:18,696 --> 00:32:20,611 on the audience. 835 00:32:20,655 --> 00:32:21,830 - More than that, I've always been a devout heterosexual. 836 00:32:21,873 --> 00:32:23,571 [chuckles] 837 00:32:23,614 --> 00:32:25,529 - The interview with the transsexual woman 838 00:32:25,573 --> 00:32:28,184 signals to the audience that Kate's psychiatrist, 839 00:32:28,228 --> 00:32:30,926 played by Michael Caine... 840 00:32:30,970 --> 00:32:33,146 is also the killer. 841 00:32:33,189 --> 00:32:35,148 - The cinematography is absolutely gorgeous. 842 00:32:35,191 --> 00:32:36,801 It's breathtaking. 843 00:32:36,845 --> 00:32:38,673 So it's unfortunate 844 00:32:38,716 --> 00:32:42,372 that l--it sits on a foundation of transphobia 845 00:32:42,416 --> 00:32:46,681 in a really big way, in a really blatant way. 846 00:32:46,724 --> 00:32:48,117 - It played into a lot of clichés. 847 00:32:48,161 --> 00:32:49,901 I mean, there were, you know-- 848 00:32:49,945 --> 00:32:51,338 trans people as being weird, 849 00:32:51,381 --> 00:32:54,732 being dangerous, being other, being crazy. 850 00:32:54,776 --> 00:32:58,649 - Because "Dressed to Kill" came out at a time 851 00:32:58,693 --> 00:33:03,698 when trans people were still thought of as illegal, 852 00:33:03,741 --> 00:33:07,223 making us murderers made perfect sense. 853 00:33:07,267 --> 00:33:09,138 It wasn't a big stretch 854 00:33:09,182 --> 00:33:12,141 to think that we would go from jail to killing someone. 855 00:33:12,185 --> 00:33:14,709 [eerie music] 856 00:33:14,752 --> 00:33:16,363 - I don't think that's what Brian's intention 857 00:33:16,406 --> 00:33:17,799 of making the film was about. 858 00:33:17,842 --> 00:33:19,279 Doesn't mean it's cool. 859 00:33:19,322 --> 00:33:20,541 I mean, you know, I mean, that part of the film, 860 00:33:20,584 --> 00:33:23,239 I feel like yeah, that has not dated well. 861 00:33:23,283 --> 00:33:25,154 narrator: In 1980, 862 00:33:25,198 --> 00:33:28,244 far more people were upset by the character of Liz Blake, 863 00:33:28,288 --> 00:33:30,551 a sex worker the movie never judges or shames. 864 00:33:30,594 --> 00:33:31,726 - Well, hi. 865 00:33:31,769 --> 00:33:33,510 I'm Liz from the escort service. 866 00:33:33,554 --> 00:33:36,078 I love Liz Blake. 867 00:33:36,122 --> 00:33:38,733 She's smart. She has a sense of humor. 868 00:33:38,776 --> 00:33:42,215 She's comfortable with her sexuality. 869 00:33:42,258 --> 00:33:43,564 She's not afraid of it 870 00:33:43,607 --> 00:33:45,131 or feels like she has to cover it up. 871 00:33:45,174 --> 00:33:47,568 She just--she's a free s-- kind of free spirit. 872 00:33:47,611 --> 00:33:48,917 Do you think you could put together 873 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,094 a--a coffee break and a hot lunch? 874 00:33:52,138 --> 00:33:54,009 For tomorrow? 875 00:33:54,053 --> 00:33:57,186 Yeah, I need a thousand dollars for my mother's operation. 876 00:33:57,230 --> 00:34:01,147 Which was somewhat reflective of my own personality, 877 00:34:01,190 --> 00:34:02,626 but not completely, you know? 878 00:34:02,670 --> 00:34:04,498 I am a child of the '50s. 879 00:34:04,541 --> 00:34:06,065 So I do have that repression. 880 00:34:06,108 --> 00:34:08,110 [chuckles] Liz still lives in me a little bit. 881 00:34:08,154 --> 00:34:10,199 Thank God straight [bleep]s are still in style. 882 00:34:10,243 --> 00:34:11,940 ♪ 883 00:34:11,983 --> 00:34:15,683 - That's why the film doesn't smack of misogyny to me-- 884 00:34:15,726 --> 00:34:17,598 because it feels like 885 00:34:17,641 --> 00:34:21,732 Brian De Palma trying to understand 886 00:34:21,776 --> 00:34:24,866 why people are so hung up on their sexuality. 887 00:34:24,909 --> 00:34:26,868 ♪ 888 00:34:26,911 --> 00:34:29,784 And it is designed to get you 889 00:34:29,827 --> 00:34:31,133 to question your own relationship 890 00:34:31,177 --> 00:34:33,396 with your sexuality. 891 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,268 narrator: In the hands of a master, 892 00:34:35,311 --> 00:34:38,488 graphic scenes of violence become stylish explorations 893 00:34:38,532 --> 00:34:40,534 of the language of cinema, 894 00:34:40,577 --> 00:34:42,840 but film can also be a blunt instrument... 895 00:34:42,884 --> 00:34:44,233 - [screams] 896 00:34:44,277 --> 00:34:45,800 ♪ 897 00:34:45,843 --> 00:34:47,410 narrator: Using violent horror 898 00:34:47,454 --> 00:34:49,760 to make us face the worst parts of ourselves. 899 00:34:49,804 --> 00:34:52,198 ♪ 900 00:34:55,244 --> 00:34:58,943 - [screaming] 901 00:34:58,987 --> 00:35:01,555 narrator: My great love is Italian horror. 902 00:35:01,598 --> 00:35:03,339 - [screaming] 903 00:35:03,383 --> 00:35:05,211 - Italian horror, as opposed to American horror-- 904 00:35:05,254 --> 00:35:07,082 they're like horror movies with no rules. 905 00:35:07,126 --> 00:35:08,344 There were no limits on gore. 906 00:35:08,388 --> 00:35:11,913 [indistinct chatter] 907 00:35:11,956 --> 00:35:12,957 [dramatic music] 908 00:35:13,001 --> 00:35:14,263 - [gasps] 909 00:35:14,307 --> 00:35:15,699 [screams] 910 00:35:15,743 --> 00:35:17,223 narrator: In the '70s and '80s, 911 00:35:17,266 --> 00:35:20,051 directors like Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, 912 00:35:20,095 --> 00:35:21,618 and Dario Argento... 913 00:35:21,662 --> 00:35:23,751 - [sobbing] 914 00:35:23,794 --> 00:35:25,796 narrator: Took the conventions of horror 915 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,843 and dialed them up to operatic intensity. 916 00:35:28,886 --> 00:35:31,367 [intense dramatic music] - [cries out] 917 00:35:31,411 --> 00:35:32,890 - They didn't know you weren't allowed 918 00:35:32,934 --> 00:35:35,415 to have eyeballs exploding and eviscerations, 919 00:35:35,458 --> 00:35:38,592 whereas American movies or Canadian movies like "Scanners" 920 00:35:38,635 --> 00:35:41,377 had one big moment or a couple of big moments. 921 00:35:41,421 --> 00:35:43,205 [loud pops] 922 00:35:43,249 --> 00:35:46,600 - [howling bestially] 923 00:35:46,643 --> 00:35:48,079 - The Italian movies, 924 00:35:48,123 --> 00:35:51,518 it's just like one after another after another. 925 00:35:51,561 --> 00:35:53,476 narrator: Dario Argento's debut film, 926 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,435 "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage," 927 00:35:55,478 --> 00:35:58,699 took the brutal Italian crime genre called giallo... 928 00:35:58,742 --> 00:36:01,136 [horn honks] 929 00:36:01,180 --> 00:36:02,529 narrator: And turned it into high art. 930 00:36:02,572 --> 00:36:05,967 - [screaming] 931 00:36:06,010 --> 00:36:08,448 [suspenseful music] 932 00:36:08,491 --> 00:36:10,319 - So there was certain tropes you had to follow 933 00:36:10,363 --> 00:36:12,147 for it to be a giallo. 934 00:36:12,191 --> 00:36:14,367 You had to have red herrings. 935 00:36:14,410 --> 00:36:16,630 You had to be guessing who the killer was the whole movie. 936 00:36:16,673 --> 00:36:19,285 The killer had to wear gloves. 937 00:36:19,328 --> 00:36:21,025 ♪ 938 00:36:21,069 --> 00:36:23,767 Dario Argento rewrites the rules 939 00:36:23,811 --> 00:36:24,986 with "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage." 940 00:36:25,029 --> 00:36:28,729 - [shrieking] 941 00:36:28,772 --> 00:36:30,644 - It's got all of the signature things 942 00:36:30,687 --> 00:36:32,950 from Argento and the most fantastic score by Morricone. 943 00:36:32,994 --> 00:36:35,170 The black-gloved killer-- 944 00:36:35,214 --> 00:36:37,303 that, most of the time, was Dario Argento's hands 945 00:36:37,346 --> 00:36:38,608 'cause it had to be done right. 946 00:36:38,652 --> 00:36:40,523 - [screaming] 947 00:36:40,567 --> 00:36:43,004 - Penetrating the victim with a knife... 948 00:36:43,047 --> 00:36:45,049 - [shrieking] 949 00:36:45,093 --> 00:36:46,834 - But very, very stylish. 950 00:36:46,877 --> 00:36:49,619 [intense music] 951 00:36:49,663 --> 00:36:53,057 "Bird with the Crystal Plumage" really announces 952 00:36:53,101 --> 00:36:55,277 the era of the modern horror film... 953 00:36:55,321 --> 00:36:59,412 ♪ 954 00:36:59,455 --> 00:37:02,632 narrator: And was a big influence on Brian De Palma. 955 00:37:02,676 --> 00:37:04,417 - You look at "Dressed to Kill" 956 00:37:04,460 --> 00:37:06,070 and you look at "Bird with the Crystal Plumage"-- 957 00:37:06,114 --> 00:37:07,681 you could put the movies on top of each other. 958 00:37:07,724 --> 00:37:09,857 ♪ 959 00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:11,772 narrator: But the most groundbreaking, 960 00:37:11,815 --> 00:37:14,731 provocative Italian horror film of all time... 961 00:37:16,342 --> 00:37:19,475 Is Ruggero Deodato's "Cannibal Holocaust." 962 00:37:19,519 --> 00:37:21,347 ♪ 963 00:37:21,390 --> 00:37:25,307 Deodato apprenticed under two master directors, 964 00:37:25,351 --> 00:37:28,484 Sergio Corbucci and Roberto Rossellini. 965 00:37:28,528 --> 00:37:30,138 - Francesco! 966 00:37:30,181 --> 00:37:32,967 Francesco! Francesco! 967 00:37:33,010 --> 00:37:34,534 - Think of the violence and the realism 968 00:37:34,577 --> 00:37:35,752 of "Rome, Open City"... 969 00:37:35,796 --> 00:37:37,145 [gunfire] 970 00:37:37,188 --> 00:37:39,756 - Mama! Mama! 971 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,498 ♪ 972 00:37:42,542 --> 00:37:45,240 - And the violence and politics of Corbucci's films. 973 00:37:45,284 --> 00:37:49,636 [gunshot] - [shouting and moaning] 974 00:37:49,679 --> 00:37:51,855 - And you combine them and you get Ruggero Deodato. 975 00:37:51,899 --> 00:37:53,335 [people chanting] 976 00:37:53,379 --> 00:37:54,597 - You're about to witness an ancient ritual 977 00:37:54,641 --> 00:37:56,817 never before seen by civilized man. 978 00:37:56,860 --> 00:37:59,602 - And that's why "Cannibal Holocaust" is so effective. 979 00:37:59,646 --> 00:38:01,300 It's no accident. 980 00:38:01,343 --> 00:38:02,779 [music rushing] 981 00:38:02,823 --> 00:38:04,999 ♪ 982 00:38:05,042 --> 00:38:08,611 - Today is, uh, Saturday the 25th. 983 00:38:08,655 --> 00:38:10,874 If I were in New York right now, 984 00:38:10,918 --> 00:38:13,007 I'd probably be out shopping. 985 00:38:13,050 --> 00:38:14,225 - "Cannibal Holocaust" is the first 986 00:38:14,269 --> 00:38:15,357 kind of found-footage movie. 987 00:38:15,401 --> 00:38:18,534 - [wailing] 988 00:38:18,578 --> 00:38:21,232 [cries out in Spanish] 989 00:38:21,276 --> 00:38:22,625 ♪ 990 00:38:22,669 --> 00:38:24,192 - "Cannibal Holocaust" starts out 991 00:38:24,235 --> 00:38:26,368 with a group of documentary filmmakers 992 00:38:26,412 --> 00:38:29,240 who went down to the jungles of the Amazon 993 00:38:29,284 --> 00:38:31,634 to make a movie about cannibals and never returned. 994 00:38:31,678 --> 00:38:32,983 "Cannibal Holocaust" narrator: Are they still alive? 995 00:38:33,027 --> 00:38:34,724 And if so, where are they? 996 00:38:34,768 --> 00:38:36,030 - They've disappeared 997 00:38:36,073 --> 00:38:37,466 and we don't know what happened to them, 998 00:38:37,510 --> 00:38:39,381 so then Professor Monroe goes through 999 00:38:39,425 --> 00:38:40,730 and kind of retraces their steps 1000 00:38:40,774 --> 00:38:42,471 and finds all these clues 1001 00:38:42,515 --> 00:38:45,387 until he finally finds the skulls of the people, 1002 00:38:45,431 --> 00:38:47,824 and they're dead and there are all the film cans there. 1003 00:38:47,868 --> 00:38:50,566 ♪ 1004 00:38:50,610 --> 00:38:51,741 [eerie whirring] - Okay. 1005 00:38:51,785 --> 00:38:53,395 - The second half of the movie 1006 00:38:53,439 --> 00:38:55,528 is him back in New York City, watching the footage, 1007 00:38:55,571 --> 00:38:56,964 and what he sees is shocking. 1008 00:38:57,007 --> 00:38:59,749 [intense ominous music] 1009 00:38:59,793 --> 00:39:03,666 ♪ 1010 00:39:03,710 --> 00:39:05,494 - You know thisis gonna make us famous. 1011 00:39:05,538 --> 00:39:06,713 - Yeah, you think so, huh? 1012 00:39:06,756 --> 00:39:07,888 - Yeah. - How famous? 1013 00:39:07,931 --> 00:39:09,890 - Real famous and real rich. 1014 00:39:09,933 --> 00:39:12,283 [gunshot] - Die! 1015 00:39:12,327 --> 00:39:14,111 - But Professor Monroe discovers 1016 00:39:14,155 --> 00:39:15,896 that it wasn't that these documentary gr--filmmakers 1017 00:39:15,939 --> 00:39:18,072 were preyed on by cannibals and eaten by cannibals. 1018 00:39:18,115 --> 00:39:19,421 They were actually the manipulators. 1019 00:39:19,465 --> 00:39:22,337 [Riz Ortolani's "Love with Fun"] 1020 00:39:22,381 --> 00:39:25,340 [slow upbeat music] 1021 00:39:25,384 --> 00:39:32,521 ♪ 1022 00:39:32,565 --> 00:39:35,263 narrator: Deodato has said the film was a reaction 1023 00:39:35,306 --> 00:39:37,483 to the media's sensationalized coverage 1024 00:39:37,526 --> 00:39:39,180 of Italian terrorists. 1025 00:39:39,223 --> 00:39:41,182 [eerie music] 1026 00:39:41,225 --> 00:39:42,618 But for many viewers, 1027 00:39:42,662 --> 00:39:44,794 the political message was overshadowed 1028 00:39:44,838 --> 00:39:47,623 by the film's extremely realistic violence. 1029 00:39:47,667 --> 00:39:49,408 [tragic music] 1030 00:39:49,451 --> 00:39:51,758 - Everyone thought "Cannibal Holocaust" was real, 1031 00:39:51,801 --> 00:39:54,456 and this was years before "Blair Witch." 1032 00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:56,719 "Cannibal Holocaust" was so shocking 1033 00:39:56,763 --> 00:39:59,896 that Ruggero Deodato was brought up on murder charges. 1034 00:39:59,940 --> 00:40:02,072 ♪ 1035 00:40:02,116 --> 00:40:04,335 - But when he actually ended up in court, 1036 00:40:04,379 --> 00:40:06,947 Deodato was acquitted on the--the human killing 1037 00:40:06,990 --> 00:40:09,297 because he actually brought out the actors and said, 1038 00:40:09,340 --> 00:40:10,646 "Okay, you-- you think these guys are dead. 1039 00:40:10,690 --> 00:40:11,778 Here they are." 1040 00:40:11,821 --> 00:40:13,562 [indistinct shouting] 1041 00:40:13,606 --> 00:40:16,826 narrator: "Cannibal Holocaust" deeply affected me, 1042 00:40:16,870 --> 00:40:19,176 so much so that I had to make my own cannibal movie. 1043 00:40:19,220 --> 00:40:21,570 [all shrieking] 1044 00:40:21,614 --> 00:40:23,137 The documentary 1045 00:40:23,180 --> 00:40:25,052 that the kids in "Cannibal Holocaust" are making 1046 00:40:25,095 --> 00:40:27,010 is called "The Green Inferno." 1047 00:40:27,054 --> 00:40:29,012 So I named my movie "The Green Inferno" 1048 00:40:29,056 --> 00:40:30,623 as a nod to "Cannibal Holocaust." 1049 00:40:30,666 --> 00:40:34,104 [man screaming, flesh squelching] 1050 00:40:34,148 --> 00:40:35,976 This was the feature-film version of that. 1051 00:40:36,019 --> 00:40:38,718 [man screaming, flesh squelching] 1052 00:40:38,761 --> 00:40:41,808 - [exclaims in language] 1053 00:40:41,851 --> 00:40:43,592 narrator: Some artists are compelled 1054 00:40:43,636 --> 00:40:47,335 to challenge their audiences, but how far is too far? 1055 00:40:47,378 --> 00:40:50,599 For me, "Cannibal Holocaust" is right at the edge. 1056 00:40:50,643 --> 00:40:53,384 For others, it's way over it. 1057 00:40:53,428 --> 00:40:55,517 - I really think it's a movie that is so offensive 1058 00:40:55,561 --> 00:40:56,910 and so horrific 1059 00:40:56,953 --> 00:40:59,390 and really has something to offend everybody. 1060 00:40:59,434 --> 00:41:02,306 [dissonant music] 1061 00:41:02,350 --> 00:41:03,569 - It's supposed to be shocking. 1062 00:41:03,612 --> 00:41:04,787 You're not supposed to just watch it 1063 00:41:04,831 --> 00:41:05,484 and then move on to something else. 1064 00:41:05,527 --> 00:41:06,963 You know, 1065 00:41:07,007 --> 00:41:08,312 if you can get through "Cannibal Holocaust," 1066 00:41:08,356 --> 00:41:09,531 you see some of the most incredible, 1067 00:41:09,575 --> 00:41:11,315 incredible filmmaking ever. 1068 00:41:11,359 --> 00:41:15,929 ♪ 1069 00:41:15,972 --> 00:41:18,758 [eerie music] 1070 00:41:18,801 --> 00:41:23,066 narrator: Horror is where our nightmares come to life. 1071 00:41:23,110 --> 00:41:26,505 It reveals humanity at its best and its worst... 1072 00:41:26,548 --> 00:41:28,507 ♪ 1073 00:41:28,550 --> 00:41:31,553 What we desire and what we dread, 1074 00:41:31,597 --> 00:41:32,554 who we are... 1075 00:41:32,598 --> 00:41:34,251 [gunshot] 1076 00:41:34,295 --> 00:41:35,601 And what we're afraid we might be. 1077 00:41:35,644 --> 00:41:36,993 - [grunts] 1078 00:41:37,037 --> 00:41:38,299 narrator: If we have the courage 1079 00:41:38,342 --> 00:41:40,083 to face our nightmares, 1080 00:41:40,127 --> 00:41:42,390 we can conquer our deepest fears. 1081 00:41:42,433 --> 00:41:43,522 - [screaming]