1 00:00:07,485 --> 00:00:11,968 - The Covid-19 pandemic came as a surprise to some, 2 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:15,667 but horror films have sounded the alarm for decades. 3 00:00:17,104 --> 00:00:19,454 - What "Contagion" did perfect 4 00:00:19,497 --> 00:00:23,240 was to show us that the deadliest infection is fear. 5 00:00:24,415 --> 00:00:26,504 - It was an upsetting movie when there was no pandemic. 6 00:00:27,853 --> 00:00:29,377 And it was even more upsetting during the pandemic. 7 00:00:29,420 --> 00:00:30,291 [horn blaring] 8 00:00:32,293 --> 00:00:33,859 - I remember when we shot "12 Monkeys," 9 00:00:33,903 --> 00:00:36,079 and you'd use a "What if?" 10 00:00:37,472 --> 00:00:39,691 - You won't think I'm crazy when people start dying next month. 11 00:00:39,735 --> 00:00:41,084 - You think it can't possibly happen. 12 00:00:41,128 --> 00:00:42,651 - No...! 13 00:00:42,694 --> 00:00:44,087 - [screaming] 14 00:00:44,131 --> 00:00:46,524 - When it comes to an infected people movie, 15 00:00:46,568 --> 00:00:49,092 probably my very favorite is David Cronenberg's "Rabid." 16 00:00:50,615 --> 00:00:52,095 - [screaming] 17 00:00:52,139 --> 00:00:53,966 - The idea of sexually transmitted diseases 18 00:00:54,010 --> 00:00:57,579 and sex being the thing that destroys you. 19 00:00:57,622 --> 00:01:00,495 - [roaring] 20 00:01:00,538 --> 00:01:04,020 - "[REC]," I think, was genuinely terrifying. 21 00:01:04,064 --> 00:01:07,067 - [screaming] 22 00:01:07,110 --> 00:01:11,332 - It was just raw and real and felt like, 23 00:01:11,375 --> 00:01:14,683 oh, that could be happening down the street, tomorrow. 24 00:01:14,726 --> 00:01:16,337 - [screaming] 25 00:01:16,380 --> 00:01:19,383 - That's the pernicious element of a disease. 26 00:01:19,427 --> 00:01:22,299 All the weapons of mankind 27 00:01:22,343 --> 00:01:24,910 are helpless before it, you know, you can't bomb a disease. 28 00:01:24,954 --> 00:01:26,042 - Oh, God! 29 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:30,481 - You can't see it, you don't know where it is or when 30 00:01:30,525 --> 00:01:33,005 it's present or how dangerous it is or when it might strike. 31 00:01:34,790 --> 00:01:36,574 But you have to be on guard all of the time. 32 00:01:39,142 --> 00:01:43,059 [eerie music] 33 00:01:58,814 --> 00:01:59,945 [chainsaw whirring] 34 00:02:05,864 --> 00:02:08,215 [dramatic music] 35 00:02:08,258 --> 00:02:10,826 - Horror stories are built around our fear of threats 36 00:02:10,869 --> 00:02:13,611 we know exist, but can't stop... 37 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:18,834 ...and the threats we don't know about 38 00:02:18,877 --> 00:02:20,749 until it's too late. 39 00:02:23,230 --> 00:02:26,363 Pathogens inspire both kinds of fear. 40 00:02:26,407 --> 00:02:29,105 At first we don't know what's killing us, 41 00:02:29,149 --> 00:02:32,500 then we realize an invisible monster is on the loose, 42 00:02:32,543 --> 00:02:34,589 and it's coming for everyone. 43 00:02:34,632 --> 00:02:37,244 - [screaming] 44 00:02:37,287 --> 00:02:39,637 - In horror, these diseases often come wrapped 45 00:02:39,681 --> 00:02:41,378 in a supernatural clothing. 46 00:02:46,557 --> 00:02:49,647 But when COVID-19 brought the world to a standstill, 47 00:02:49,691 --> 00:02:54,522 many people sought out the films that seemed closest to reality. 48 00:02:54,565 --> 00:02:56,045 - At the top of the pandemic, 49 00:02:56,088 --> 00:02:59,962 I was seeing so many people online, 50 00:03:00,005 --> 00:03:03,095 purposely watching pandemic and zombie movies. 51 00:03:03,139 --> 00:03:05,141 And that says something about our psyche-- 52 00:03:05,185 --> 00:03:09,058 that when we are at our lowest point, 53 00:03:09,101 --> 00:03:10,973 we want to poke that. 54 00:03:11,016 --> 00:03:12,496 - [screaming] 55 00:03:14,106 --> 00:03:16,848 - "Outbreak," from 1995, 56 00:03:16,892 --> 00:03:19,416 follows the trail of an Ebola-like virus 57 00:03:19,460 --> 00:03:21,810 brought to America by a black market monkey. 58 00:03:24,073 --> 00:03:26,858 - Sirs... Mr. Motaba. 59 00:03:26,902 --> 00:03:28,904 - Help! [glass shatters] 60 00:03:28,947 --> 00:03:30,645 Oh, God! [screaming] 61 00:03:30,688 --> 00:03:32,908 - "Outbreak" is one of the first of what you may call 62 00:03:32,951 --> 00:03:35,258 semi-realistic plague films. 63 00:03:35,302 --> 00:03:36,999 I wouldn't say entirely, because it goes nuts 64 00:03:37,042 --> 00:03:38,783 in the last half hour, but it's essentially kind of 65 00:03:38,827 --> 00:03:40,307 a look at how plague might actually operate 66 00:03:40,350 --> 00:03:43,658 in the modern world. [rotors whirring] 67 00:03:43,701 --> 00:03:46,182 And I think it was a really underrated film because 68 00:03:46,226 --> 00:03:48,532 that was the first time a lot of moviegoers thought, 69 00:03:48,576 --> 00:03:50,491 "Oh, yeah, this actually could happen." 70 00:03:50,534 --> 00:03:52,275 - [screeching] 71 00:03:52,319 --> 00:03:54,625 - You had the monkey, you had the sneezing in the theater. 72 00:03:54,669 --> 00:03:56,279 - [coughing and sneezing] 73 00:03:56,323 --> 00:03:59,978 - And you had these, these visual expressions that 74 00:04:00,022 --> 00:04:01,937 taught people, like, oh, 75 00:04:01,980 --> 00:04:04,156 [bleep], it's actually dangerous 76 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:08,291 to be a human being and have lungs 77 00:04:08,335 --> 00:04:11,163 that can absorb bacteria 78 00:04:11,207 --> 00:04:13,644 in a way that can destroy our entire system. 79 00:04:15,733 --> 00:04:17,126 - Don't tell me when I need sleep, Casey, 80 00:04:17,169 --> 00:04:18,736 I don't tell you when you need sleep. 81 00:04:21,391 --> 00:04:24,612 - For every person who gets sick, 82 00:04:24,655 --> 00:04:27,092 how many other people are they likely to infect? 83 00:04:27,136 --> 00:04:29,617 - I feel like "Contagion" really brought that to the next level 84 00:04:29,660 --> 00:04:32,794 and included a scientific aspect 85 00:04:32,837 --> 00:04:36,580 of the storytelling that an outbreak was really rudimentary. 86 00:04:36,624 --> 00:04:40,410 - "Contagion" is the first movie that made me aware 87 00:04:40,454 --> 00:04:43,108 of how an epidemic spread. 88 00:04:44,980 --> 00:04:47,591 And Scott Z. Burns' script 89 00:04:47,635 --> 00:04:50,812 and the way it's executed by Steven Soderbergh, 90 00:04:50,855 --> 00:04:52,944 it's just right on the money. 91 00:04:54,816 --> 00:04:57,949 - "Contagion" begins as a woman, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, 92 00:04:57,993 --> 00:05:01,301 returns home to Minnesota after a business trip to China. 93 00:05:02,693 --> 00:05:04,260 She's been infected with 94 00:05:04,304 --> 00:05:05,827 a highly contagious respiratory virus 95 00:05:05,870 --> 00:05:09,265 that she unknowingly spreads everywhere she goes. 96 00:05:11,572 --> 00:05:14,139 As the number of deaths exponentially rise, 97 00:05:14,183 --> 00:05:17,229 it becomes a race against time to figure out how to stop 98 00:05:17,273 --> 00:05:20,102 the virus before the human race is decimated. 99 00:05:20,145 --> 00:05:22,017 [horn blaring] 100 00:05:22,060 --> 00:05:23,801 - When I started the project, 101 00:05:23,845 --> 00:05:29,764 my hope was that I could write a movie that was, 102 00:05:29,807 --> 00:05:34,899 in some ways, a '70s-era disaster movie 103 00:05:34,943 --> 00:05:38,207 where we had this big, star-studded cast. 104 00:05:38,250 --> 00:05:41,428 [ticking, explosion] 105 00:05:43,908 --> 00:05:48,913 But what I wanted to do was sort of Trojan Horse that idea 106 00:05:48,957 --> 00:05:50,567 and fill it with science. 107 00:05:50,611 --> 00:05:52,352 - Somewhere in the world 108 00:05:52,395 --> 00:05:54,484 the wrong pig met up with the wrong bat. 109 00:05:54,528 --> 00:05:55,920 - Have you ever seen anything like this before? 110 00:05:55,964 --> 00:05:57,879 - No. 111 00:05:57,922 --> 00:05:59,837 - One of the great things about the all-star cast 112 00:05:59,881 --> 00:06:01,796 is that it made it really 113 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,974 easy for an audience to track the overlapping stories. 114 00:06:06,017 --> 00:06:08,672 You knew when you were with Marion Cotillard, 115 00:06:08,716 --> 00:06:11,414 you were in the World Health Organization story. 116 00:06:11,458 --> 00:06:13,808 You knew that when you were with Kate Winslet, 117 00:06:13,851 --> 00:06:18,421 you were in the CDC epidemiology domestic policy story. 118 00:06:18,465 --> 00:06:20,467 You knew that Laurence Fishburne 119 00:06:20,510 --> 00:06:22,469 represented both the CDC and government 120 00:06:22,512 --> 00:06:24,514 and the intersection of that, you know, 121 00:06:24,558 --> 00:06:28,039 Matt Damon was all of us. 122 00:06:28,083 --> 00:06:30,955 - Borrowing a page from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho"... 123 00:06:30,999 --> 00:06:32,957 - Honey? 124 00:06:33,001 --> 00:06:36,047 - ..."Contagion" throws its audience off-balance by killing 125 00:06:36,091 --> 00:06:40,051 one of its biggest stars in the first 10 minutes of the film. 126 00:06:40,095 --> 00:06:41,444 - Let's get a line in her. 127 00:06:41,488 --> 00:06:43,620 - I think one of the best scenes in the movie, 128 00:06:43,664 --> 00:06:46,014 and it's a brilliant piece of acting, 129 00:06:46,057 --> 00:06:49,452 but it's, like, incredibly sad but very plausible, 130 00:06:49,496 --> 00:06:51,628 is when Matt Damon is in hospital 131 00:06:51,672 --> 00:06:54,457 and is informed of his wife's death. 132 00:06:54,501 --> 00:06:57,025 - She failed to respond. - Okay, and? 133 00:06:57,068 --> 00:07:00,985 - Her heart stopped and, unfortunately, she did die. 134 00:07:01,029 --> 00:07:02,639 - Right. 135 00:07:02,683 --> 00:07:05,076 - And he doesn't hear it, he can't process it. 136 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,644 - Okay, so can I go talk to her? 137 00:07:07,688 --> 00:07:11,431 - Mr. Emhoff, I'm sorry, your wife is dead. 138 00:07:14,085 --> 00:07:16,740 - [coughing] 139 00:07:16,784 --> 00:07:19,917 - There's no doubt that "Contagion" is a horror film, 140 00:07:19,961 --> 00:07:21,484 but it's so artfully done, 141 00:07:21,528 --> 00:07:23,878 it's so intelligent, so well-written, 142 00:07:23,921 --> 00:07:27,272 it has such an enormous star cast that I think people 143 00:07:27,316 --> 00:07:30,798 who dislike horror try to steal it and say, oh, it's actually 144 00:07:30,841 --> 00:07:32,800 a drama-- it's a horror film. 145 00:07:32,843 --> 00:07:34,845 [saw buzzing] 146 00:07:34,889 --> 00:07:38,022 And the proof is when they peel off 147 00:07:38,066 --> 00:07:40,590 Gwyneth Paltrow's face, 148 00:07:40,634 --> 00:07:42,897 open up the top her skull and look inside 149 00:07:42,940 --> 00:07:45,421 and there's nothing but goop in there. 150 00:07:45,465 --> 00:07:48,293 - My wife makes me take off my clothes in the garage 151 00:07:48,337 --> 00:07:51,296 and she leaves out a bucket of warm water and some soap, 152 00:07:51,340 --> 00:07:55,518 and then she douses everything in hand sanitizer after I leave. 153 00:07:55,562 --> 00:07:57,651 I mean, she's overreacting, right? 154 00:07:57,694 --> 00:07:59,522 - Not really. 155 00:07:59,566 --> 00:08:04,658 - What I was hoping for was to get to a place where reality 156 00:08:04,701 --> 00:08:07,487 was scarier than, than fiction, 157 00:08:07,530 --> 00:08:09,837 and so I was very interested 158 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:15,495 in what human beings perceive as dangerous. 159 00:08:15,538 --> 00:08:17,540 - What's that, fomites? 160 00:08:17,584 --> 00:08:19,586 - It refers to transmission from surfaces. 161 00:08:19,629 --> 00:08:22,458 - As opposed to what really is. 162 00:08:22,502 --> 00:08:23,851 - The average person touches their face 163 00:08:23,894 --> 00:08:25,766 two or three thousand times a day. 164 00:08:25,809 --> 00:08:28,551 - Two or three thousand times a day? 165 00:08:28,595 --> 00:08:30,553 - Three to five times every waking minute. 166 00:08:30,597 --> 00:08:33,948 - It turns out it tends to be our, our, our habits 167 00:08:33,991 --> 00:08:39,083 and our lack of willpower that is probably 168 00:08:39,127 --> 00:08:41,651 a greater existential threat. 169 00:08:41,695 --> 00:08:43,261 - What's your temperature? 170 00:08:43,305 --> 00:08:45,002 - 101.8. 171 00:08:45,046 --> 00:08:47,570 - Steven Soderbergh peoples the film with, like, 172 00:08:47,614 --> 00:08:49,224 very famous actors and says, 173 00:08:49,267 --> 00:08:51,922 dead, alive, dead, alive, dead, alive, dead, alive. 174 00:08:51,966 --> 00:08:53,533 - I'm sorry I couldn't finish. 175 00:08:53,576 --> 00:08:54,882 - Just because Kate Winslet's a big name 176 00:08:54,925 --> 00:08:56,927 doesn't mean she's gonna make it. 177 00:08:56,971 --> 00:08:59,800 It's a brilliant way to look at it because you kind of think, 178 00:08:59,843 --> 00:09:02,063 I'm gonna be okay, my family's gonna be okay-- 179 00:09:02,106 --> 00:09:04,152 oh, wait, my brother's dead? 180 00:09:04,195 --> 00:09:06,850 How is that possible? How can I be immune and him not? 181 00:09:08,765 --> 00:09:10,898 - If the film seems prophetic, 182 00:09:10,941 --> 00:09:14,162 it's because writer Scott Burns consulted with virologists 183 00:09:14,205 --> 00:09:18,035 and public policy makers to work out how a novel pathogen 184 00:09:18,079 --> 00:09:19,907 could come into the world, 185 00:09:19,950 --> 00:09:23,040 and what would happen if it did. 186 00:09:23,084 --> 00:09:26,261 - It was so prophetic, it was so dead-on, 187 00:09:26,304 --> 00:09:28,698 it didn't miss a single trick. 188 00:09:28,742 --> 00:09:33,747 Everything that it imagined happening happened, 189 00:09:33,790 --> 00:09:36,967 with only a few tiny exceptions. 190 00:09:37,011 --> 00:09:40,144 - Right now, our best defense has been social distancing-- 191 00:09:40,188 --> 00:09:42,756 no hand shaking, staying home when you're sick, 192 00:09:42,799 --> 00:09:46,063 washing your hands frequently. 193 00:09:46,107 --> 00:09:50,024 - It anticipated a lot of the crazy conspiracy theories-- 194 00:09:50,067 --> 00:09:54,332 you've got Jude Law selling Forsythia to suckers. 195 00:09:54,376 --> 00:09:56,117 - What does Forsythia do? 196 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,032 - It's the cure. 197 00:09:58,075 --> 00:10:01,383 [dramatic music] 198 00:10:01,426 --> 00:10:03,254 - It think it's a really brilliant film, 199 00:10:03,298 --> 00:10:07,084 I'm not surprised that a lot of people watched it, like, 200 00:10:07,128 --> 00:10:10,697 either for the first time or, like me, a second time around, 201 00:10:10,740 --> 00:10:15,266 slack-jawed with horror, like, oh, [bleep], here we go. 202 00:10:19,531 --> 00:10:21,708 - When did we run out of body bags? 203 00:10:21,751 --> 00:10:24,145 - Two days ago. 204 00:10:24,188 --> 00:10:26,495 [dramatic music] 205 00:10:26,538 --> 00:10:27,888 - "Contagion" showed us humanity 206 00:10:27,931 --> 00:10:29,890 at the brink of a viral apocalypse. 207 00:10:31,935 --> 00:10:35,243 What if we went over the edge, and into the void? 208 00:10:37,985 --> 00:10:40,117 [dramatic music] 209 00:10:40,161 --> 00:10:42,032 - You've gotta think I'm addicted, haven't you, Cole? 210 00:10:42,076 --> 00:10:44,469 To that dying world? 211 00:10:44,513 --> 00:10:46,210 - I just wanna do my part, 212 00:10:46,254 --> 00:10:49,387 to get us back on top, in charge of the planet. 213 00:10:49,431 --> 00:10:53,000 - In 1995, a romance about a weaponized virus 214 00:10:53,043 --> 00:10:56,046 wiping out humanity came to the screen... 215 00:10:56,090 --> 00:10:59,571 - Five billion people died in 1996 and 1997. 216 00:10:59,615 --> 00:11:01,748 - ...Terry Gilliam's "12 Monkeys." 217 00:11:01,791 --> 00:11:03,532 - Are you going to save us, Mr. Cole? 218 00:11:03,575 --> 00:11:04,968 - I can't save you-- nobody can. 219 00:11:07,667 --> 00:11:11,845 - "12 Monkeys" is based on "La Jetée," by Chris Marker, 220 00:11:11,888 --> 00:11:16,153 who was a French filmmaker, and he took a really unique concept 221 00:11:16,197 --> 00:11:20,941 of using stills-- still images-- to convey the arc 222 00:11:20,984 --> 00:11:26,424 of a love story and a man's witnessing his own death. 223 00:11:26,468 --> 00:11:29,471 [dramatic music and clicking] 224 00:11:32,474 --> 00:11:34,737 And "12 Monkeys" took that story 225 00:11:34,781 --> 00:11:37,000 and made a feature film from it. 226 00:11:37,044 --> 00:11:40,264 [dramatic music, indistinct voice on PA] 227 00:11:40,308 --> 00:11:42,092 - Bruce Willis plays James Cole, 228 00:11:42,136 --> 00:11:44,921 a convict in the virus-wrecked future. 229 00:11:44,965 --> 00:11:48,055 - James Cole, cleared from quarantine. 230 00:11:48,098 --> 00:11:49,752 - Cole is sent back in time 231 00:11:49,796 --> 00:11:51,711 to find the source of the contagion. 232 00:11:55,149 --> 00:11:56,541 [beep] 233 00:11:56,585 --> 00:11:58,282 But he winds up in a mental institution, 234 00:11:58,326 --> 00:12:00,545 where he meets psychiatrist Kathryn Railly, 235 00:12:00,589 --> 00:12:02,722 played by Madeleine Stowe. 236 00:12:02,765 --> 00:12:03,810 - What year is this? 237 00:12:03,853 --> 00:12:05,942 - What year do you think it is? 238 00:12:05,986 --> 00:12:08,031 - 1996. 239 00:12:08,075 --> 00:12:09,772 - That's the future, James. 240 00:12:09,816 --> 00:12:11,992 Do you think you're living in the future? 241 00:12:13,515 --> 00:12:16,648 I was very familiar with Terry and his sense of displacement 242 00:12:16,692 --> 00:12:19,260 and disorientation that permeated his movies, 243 00:12:19,303 --> 00:12:21,001 and I was dying to work with him. 244 00:12:22,306 --> 00:12:24,656 There were some challenging days, 245 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:26,223 and part of the challenge, quite frankly, 246 00:12:26,267 --> 00:12:29,009 was he was dealing with a movie star in Bruce... 247 00:12:29,052 --> 00:12:31,620 - This is it, James, what you've been working for. 248 00:12:31,663 --> 00:12:33,709 - Women will want to get to know you. 249 00:12:33,753 --> 00:12:36,016 - I don't want your women! I want to get well! 250 00:12:36,059 --> 00:12:38,932 - In the end, he became very surprised with what Bruce 251 00:12:38,975 --> 00:12:42,283 was doing, which was this wonderful sort of pure, 252 00:12:42,326 --> 00:12:44,938 childlike thing. 253 00:12:44,981 --> 00:12:48,028 - People can't travel back in time, "Whoop! Whoop!" 254 00:12:48,071 --> 00:12:50,247 Uh-uh. Not here. 255 00:12:50,291 --> 00:12:53,729 He was just very pure, and that's perfect for the movie 256 00:12:53,773 --> 00:12:57,385 because it's actually told from a child's point of view. 257 00:12:57,428 --> 00:12:59,866 [whirring] 258 00:12:59,909 --> 00:13:02,259 - The scenes set in the past were shot on location 259 00:13:02,303 --> 00:13:06,220 in Philadelphia, which helps to give the film its unique look. 260 00:13:10,746 --> 00:13:12,748 - It was not a great time for cities period, 261 00:13:12,792 --> 00:13:15,359 but Philadelphia, it was really rough. 262 00:13:15,403 --> 00:13:17,361 He went to corners of the city 263 00:13:17,405 --> 00:13:19,886 that filmmakers were not going to. 264 00:13:19,929 --> 00:13:23,367 You know, for him it was just, you know, as an artist, 265 00:13:23,411 --> 00:13:25,456 a great palette for him. 266 00:13:25,500 --> 00:13:27,894 - Maybe the human race deserves to be wiped out. 267 00:13:29,156 --> 00:13:31,636 - Wiping out the human race? 268 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:33,987 That's a great idea. 269 00:13:34,030 --> 00:13:36,990 - In his first Academy Award-nominated performance, 270 00:13:37,033 --> 00:13:39,514 Brad Pitt plays a mental patient 271 00:13:39,557 --> 00:13:41,690 with mysterious ties to the pandemic. 272 00:13:41,733 --> 00:13:43,953 - Jeffrey? - Mm-hmm. 273 00:13:43,997 --> 00:13:45,999 - You're completely insane. 274 00:13:46,042 --> 00:13:49,176 - He seems to be the engineer of the apocalypse... 275 00:13:49,219 --> 00:13:51,482 - No, I'm not. 276 00:13:51,526 --> 00:13:53,441 - ...but that's deliberate misdirection. 277 00:13:53,484 --> 00:13:55,573 The real threat is a rogue scientist 278 00:13:55,617 --> 00:13:57,662 played by David Morse. 279 00:14:00,535 --> 00:14:03,930 He plans to release a highly infectious airborne pathogen 280 00:14:03,973 --> 00:14:06,367 across the world. 281 00:14:06,410 --> 00:14:08,804 - He was talking to me about 282 00:14:08,848 --> 00:14:11,763 that scene, you know, in the airport in "12 Monkeys." 283 00:14:11,807 --> 00:14:13,069 - Do you mind letting me have a look 284 00:14:13,113 --> 00:14:13,765 at the contents of your bag, please? 285 00:14:13,809 --> 00:14:15,245 - Please. 286 00:14:15,289 --> 00:14:17,987 Probably my favorite part of it was the moment 287 00:14:18,031 --> 00:14:21,861 going through security and didn't want to open the vial, 288 00:14:21,904 --> 00:14:23,427 I guess, or the bottle. 289 00:14:23,471 --> 00:14:27,736 It doesn't... even... have an odor. 290 00:14:27,779 --> 00:14:29,738 - That's not necessary, sir. 291 00:14:29,781 --> 00:14:32,480 - And just the realization of what's going to happen 292 00:14:32,523 --> 00:14:34,917 if they do that. 293 00:14:34,961 --> 00:14:38,616 - Cole tries to stop him and change history. 294 00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:40,053 - No...! 295 00:14:40,096 --> 00:14:42,490 - But the past can't be changed. 296 00:14:42,533 --> 00:14:43,708 [gunshot echoing] 297 00:14:50,367 --> 00:14:53,457 - The story of the film is that time is a circle, 298 00:14:53,501 --> 00:14:57,548 and that things fold in on themself and then 299 00:14:57,592 --> 00:15:02,075 Bruce Willis' character is haunted by a traumatic event 300 00:15:02,118 --> 00:15:04,947 that he witnessed as a child, 301 00:15:04,991 --> 00:15:06,862 and then at the end of the movie we realize 302 00:15:06,906 --> 00:15:10,083 that the traumatic event was caused by him as an adult. 303 00:15:10,126 --> 00:15:13,651 [dramatic music] 304 00:15:13,695 --> 00:15:16,132 - It's a very smartly told narrative because at the center 305 00:15:16,176 --> 00:15:18,526 of it, you think, oh, that's just the romance and you need 306 00:15:18,569 --> 00:15:22,617 a romance in this type of story, but really, that's what 307 00:15:22,660 --> 00:15:27,100 the movie is about, is these two human beings being human 308 00:15:27,143 --> 00:15:31,582 and that is coming to an end and that's worth saving. 309 00:15:34,890 --> 00:15:36,674 - Without that love story, 310 00:15:36,718 --> 00:15:39,982 how much does Coles' journey really matter? 311 00:15:40,026 --> 00:15:43,159 How much does the end of the world really matter? [laughs] 312 00:15:43,203 --> 00:15:46,902 Right, you know, I mean, we're here for a reason, you know? 313 00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:49,774 I like to think it's to love each other, so... 314 00:15:53,691 --> 00:15:57,434 - Infections based in reality are frightening. 315 00:15:57,478 --> 00:15:59,306 When you add a touch of the supernatural, 316 00:15:59,349 --> 00:16:01,786 they can be absolutely terrifying. 317 00:16:04,485 --> 00:16:06,356 - Who's chasing you? - My mom. 318 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,011 My dad. 319 00:16:09,055 --> 00:16:11,405 They're trying to kill me. - Amen. 320 00:16:11,448 --> 00:16:13,842 - Zombie infection films take our fears of contagion 321 00:16:13,885 --> 00:16:15,844 and give them teeth. 322 00:16:15,887 --> 00:16:17,019 [growling and screaming] 323 00:16:24,809 --> 00:16:27,812 - Two of the most original and unforgettable twists 324 00:16:27,856 --> 00:16:30,685 on the genre are "Pontypool," from Canada. 325 00:16:30,728 --> 00:16:32,774 - [retching] 326 00:16:32,817 --> 00:16:36,473 - [screaming] 327 00:16:36,517 --> 00:16:37,822 - ..and "[REC]" from Spain. 328 00:16:40,869 --> 00:16:42,566 - "[REC]" is a masterpiece. 329 00:16:42,610 --> 00:16:45,265 It really was the first docu-style film 330 00:16:45,308 --> 00:16:47,528 since "Blair Witch" that I thought was, like, 331 00:16:47,571 --> 00:16:49,095 legitimately terrifying. 332 00:16:49,138 --> 00:16:51,053 - [screaming] 333 00:16:51,097 --> 00:16:53,186 - "[REC]" is all found footage 334 00:16:53,229 --> 00:16:56,276 through the lens of this journalist 335 00:16:56,319 --> 00:16:58,756 following just a regular, good, old night at the job 336 00:16:58,800 --> 00:16:59,975 with these firefighters. 337 00:17:02,456 --> 00:17:04,980 Until they get this call at this building. 338 00:17:05,024 --> 00:17:08,375 But there's a woman that's in a little bit of trouble-- 339 00:17:08,418 --> 00:17:11,117 maybe she's sick-- and the moment 340 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,076 that the firefighter team gets there, to this building, 341 00:17:14,120 --> 00:17:16,383 everybody's already in panic. 342 00:17:16,426 --> 00:17:18,167 - [screams] 343 00:17:20,256 --> 00:17:22,432 - And then suddenly, once the firefighters 344 00:17:22,476 --> 00:17:25,914 and this journalist go all the way in, man, 345 00:17:25,957 --> 00:17:29,135 that's when all hell breaks loose, that there's an infection 346 00:17:29,178 --> 00:17:31,050 spreading really fast in the building. 347 00:17:31,093 --> 00:17:35,271 - [growling and shouting] 348 00:17:35,315 --> 00:17:37,839 [grunting and shouting in foreign language] 349 00:17:43,062 --> 00:17:45,151 - "[REC]" scared the [bleep] out of me. 350 00:17:45,194 --> 00:17:49,503 I was just completely shocked, captivated, appalled, 351 00:17:49,546 --> 00:17:52,506 the moment when they walk into that apartment and that 352 00:17:52,549 --> 00:17:55,465 old woman in a nightgown comes running at the camera. 353 00:17:55,509 --> 00:17:59,991 [screaming, gunshots] 354 00:18:00,035 --> 00:18:02,124 It was just so shocking, and we'd seen 355 00:18:02,168 --> 00:18:05,214 a lot of found footage films up to this point, 356 00:18:05,258 --> 00:18:07,216 but this did something different with it. 357 00:18:07,260 --> 00:18:09,088 - [speaking Spanish] 358 00:18:16,007 --> 00:18:19,054 - It had looked like we were following real people. 359 00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:23,189 No known actors or added score or anything like that, 360 00:18:23,232 --> 00:18:27,410 it was all use of diegetic sounds, all of it. 361 00:18:27,454 --> 00:18:29,760 [banging and screaming] 362 00:18:32,589 --> 00:18:35,070 It's an incredible use of what's actually on the frame 363 00:18:35,114 --> 00:18:38,508 and enhancing those sounds-- the echo in the building, 364 00:18:38,552 --> 00:18:42,556 when you hear at the top story, "Whaaaap." 365 00:18:42,599 --> 00:18:46,168 [thud, screaming] 366 00:18:46,212 --> 00:18:49,302 And a firefighter had just got thrown 367 00:18:49,345 --> 00:18:51,869 off the top floor, all the way down. 368 00:18:51,913 --> 00:18:54,045 That echo and that use of sound design 369 00:18:54,089 --> 00:18:56,613 really makes an audience feel like we're there. 370 00:18:58,833 --> 00:19:01,792 [man speaking Spanish on PA] 371 00:19:04,099 --> 00:19:06,101 - Found footage became part of the horror, 372 00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:10,061 it became part of really using the camera 373 00:19:10,105 --> 00:19:11,802 to show the isolation. 374 00:19:11,846 --> 00:19:14,457 It uses it so well in the final scene where we're hurting 375 00:19:14,501 --> 00:19:18,461 for light, and so then we get this limited view where she goes 376 00:19:18,505 --> 00:19:22,639 into night vision and we are experiencing the exact same 377 00:19:22,683 --> 00:19:25,251 limited periphery that the character is. 378 00:19:25,294 --> 00:19:27,818 [rattling] 379 00:19:27,862 --> 00:19:29,603 - That last scene, 380 00:19:29,646 --> 00:19:32,171 when she's in that room and there's something 381 00:19:32,214 --> 00:19:34,477 in there with her and you realize this is patient zero. 382 00:19:40,309 --> 00:19:42,485 This is the thing that started it, 383 00:19:42,529 --> 00:19:45,271 whatever experiment led to this person being infected, 384 00:19:45,314 --> 00:19:47,577 that they've had it longer than anyone 385 00:19:47,621 --> 00:19:49,492 and that's what's spreading it to everybody. 386 00:19:52,843 --> 00:19:55,933 And it's just the scariest, most awful looking thing, 387 00:19:55,977 --> 00:19:57,587 it's just everyone's worst nightmare. 388 00:20:00,503 --> 00:20:03,289 - "[REC]" may be the most terrifying zombie infection film 389 00:20:03,332 --> 00:20:04,812 of recent times... 390 00:20:04,855 --> 00:20:07,771 - [screaming] 391 00:20:10,513 --> 00:20:13,734 - ...but "Pontypool" is the most unusual. 392 00:20:13,777 --> 00:20:17,128 - Grant, Grant, Grant... 393 00:20:19,392 --> 00:20:21,916 - Stephen McHattie plays a talk radio personality 394 00:20:21,959 --> 00:20:24,223 in a small Canadian town... 395 00:20:24,266 --> 00:20:26,094 - Pontypool, good morning. 396 00:20:26,137 --> 00:20:27,530 You know, I want to talk to you about something 397 00:20:27,574 --> 00:20:30,925 that has been buggin' me. 398 00:20:30,968 --> 00:20:33,797 - ...who slowly begins to realize he's broadcasting 399 00:20:33,841 --> 00:20:37,236 from the epicenter of a rage zombie outbreak. 400 00:20:37,279 --> 00:20:40,804 [static and man screaming] 401 00:20:40,848 --> 00:20:43,154 - Pontypool's under quarantine. 402 00:20:43,198 --> 00:20:45,766 Everybody has to stay inside at all times. 403 00:20:45,809 --> 00:20:48,464 - "Pontypool" is a really fascinating and different 404 00:20:48,508 --> 00:20:52,338 kind of infection because it's not airborne, 405 00:20:52,381 --> 00:20:54,992 there's no real way of understanding the transmission 406 00:20:55,036 --> 00:20:58,082 because it's just through the spoken language. 407 00:20:58,126 --> 00:21:00,737 - I'm going to go see if Mr. Mazzy's missing... 408 00:21:00,781 --> 00:21:06,003 [indistinct echoing] ...missing, missing. 409 00:21:06,047 --> 00:21:08,092 - Where you say a word and then they keep saying that word 410 00:21:08,136 --> 00:21:09,442 over and over and over again and then it starts spreading 411 00:21:09,485 --> 00:21:10,921 from person to person. 412 00:21:10,965 --> 00:21:15,404 - Prah, prah, prah, prah, prah... 413 00:21:17,363 --> 00:21:19,669 - You say something, you're unknowingly infecting them 414 00:21:19,713 --> 00:21:22,455 with this virus that's making them insane. 415 00:21:22,498 --> 00:21:25,371 [shouting and banging] 416 00:21:29,375 --> 00:21:31,812 - It is the ultimate low-budget movie 417 00:21:31,855 --> 00:21:34,554 in that you never leave this radio studio. 418 00:21:34,597 --> 00:21:36,947 And there's a massive infection 419 00:21:36,991 --> 00:21:39,776 taking place outside the studio, in the real world, 420 00:21:39,820 --> 00:21:42,605 and other than a handful of the infected, 421 00:21:42,649 --> 00:21:44,651 you never really see them. 422 00:21:44,694 --> 00:21:46,914 It's a movie as a radio play. 423 00:21:46,957 --> 00:21:50,352 - People need to know, we have to get this out. 424 00:21:50,396 --> 00:21:52,572 - Well, it's your call, Mr. Mazzy. 425 00:21:52,615 --> 00:21:54,661 Let's just hope what you're getting out there 426 00:21:54,704 --> 00:21:58,578 isn't going to destroy your world. 427 00:21:58,621 --> 00:22:00,057 - When it came out it seemed something very alien, 428 00:22:00,101 --> 00:22:01,537 like how can a word or a phrase be something 429 00:22:01,581 --> 00:22:03,452 that could actually hurt you? 430 00:22:03,496 --> 00:22:06,368 And now social media, of course, has come such a long way since 431 00:22:06,412 --> 00:22:08,239 that movie came out, it's all about words, 432 00:22:08,283 --> 00:22:09,893 it's so violent right now that if you just say 433 00:22:09,937 --> 00:22:12,287 the wrong thing to someone, like, boom, 434 00:22:12,331 --> 00:22:13,636 you know, all you do is say one sentence and suddenly 435 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,291 you've got people rioting in the capitol building. 436 00:22:16,335 --> 00:22:18,162 So that's, I think "Pontypool," in that way, 437 00:22:18,206 --> 00:22:19,903 is very ahead of its time. 438 00:22:19,947 --> 00:22:21,818 - I am trying to piss a few people off 439 00:22:21,862 --> 00:22:25,126 because that's how it's done, simple as that. 440 00:22:26,562 --> 00:22:29,391 - Infections take many forms-- 441 00:22:29,435 --> 00:22:32,089 none more unnerving than the sexual parasites 442 00:22:32,133 --> 00:22:35,354 infesting the early films of David Cronenberg. 443 00:22:38,052 --> 00:22:43,231 [eerie music] 444 00:22:43,274 --> 00:22:45,625 - Of all the infections human beings can endure... 445 00:22:45,668 --> 00:22:48,279 - [screaming] 446 00:22:48,323 --> 00:22:50,064 - ...sexually transmitted diseases 447 00:22:50,107 --> 00:22:52,022 induce the most squirms. 448 00:22:53,981 --> 00:22:57,332 One trailblazing filmmaker, David Cronenberg, 449 00:22:57,376 --> 00:23:00,335 brought venereal horror to the screen. 450 00:23:02,685 --> 00:23:04,774 At the beginning of his long career 451 00:23:04,818 --> 00:23:09,126 he made two influential films that traumatized a generation. 452 00:23:09,170 --> 00:23:11,607 The first was "Shivers." 453 00:23:11,651 --> 00:23:12,695 - Ew! 454 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:18,397 [screaming] 455 00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:28,189 - "Shivers"-- initially released in America 456 00:23:28,232 --> 00:23:31,279 as "They Came From Within"-- chronicles the spread 457 00:23:31,322 --> 00:23:33,716 of genetically engineered parasites 458 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,327 inside a high-rise apartment building. 459 00:23:36,371 --> 00:23:38,895 - Ooh! - Oh! 460 00:23:38,939 --> 00:23:40,419 - Ooh, good heavens. 461 00:23:42,377 --> 00:23:44,901 - The parasites turn mild-mannered Canadians 462 00:23:44,945 --> 00:23:47,121 into crazed sex fiends. 463 00:23:47,164 --> 00:23:49,384 - I'm hungry for love! 464 00:23:51,517 --> 00:23:53,562 - A combination of aphrodisiac 465 00:23:53,606 --> 00:23:56,435 and venereal disease, it will hopefully turn the world 466 00:23:56,478 --> 00:23:59,089 into one beautiful, mindless orgy. 467 00:24:01,918 --> 00:24:05,052 - Well, I think it sounds a little crazy to me. 468 00:24:05,095 --> 00:24:09,186 - Roger, I had a very disturbing dream last night. 469 00:24:09,230 --> 00:24:14,409 In this dream, I found myself making love to a strange man. 470 00:24:14,453 --> 00:24:16,803 - "Shivers" or "They Came From Within" 471 00:24:16,846 --> 00:24:20,459 is one of the absolute perfect films from David Cronenberg, 472 00:24:20,502 --> 00:24:22,635 and it's one of his first. 473 00:24:22,678 --> 00:24:24,375 - [hissing] 474 00:24:26,552 --> 00:24:29,119 - It's psychosexual, it's twisted, 475 00:24:29,163 --> 00:24:31,861 it brings in all of these elements of body horror, 476 00:24:31,905 --> 00:24:35,430 and it is beautifully post-1960s. 477 00:24:35,474 --> 00:24:39,521 [all shouting] 478 00:24:39,565 --> 00:24:42,263 - That was a plague film of its time 479 00:24:42,306 --> 00:24:44,308 because that was the sexual revolution, 480 00:24:44,352 --> 00:24:46,963 that was when Baby Boomers were suddenly waking up to the idea 481 00:24:47,007 --> 00:24:50,401 that you can boink someone that you weren't married to. 482 00:24:53,013 --> 00:24:55,668 And that was a very big deal to that generation, 483 00:24:55,711 --> 00:24:59,759 so you had to have a plague that could make you do something 484 00:24:59,802 --> 00:25:02,326 as crazy as have sex out of wedlock. 485 00:25:07,723 --> 00:25:11,510 [all moaning] 486 00:25:13,599 --> 00:25:16,689 - It culminates in this completely abhorrent 487 00:25:16,732 --> 00:25:19,779 orgy pool scene. 488 00:25:19,822 --> 00:25:22,521 Somehow even though you don't really see much, 489 00:25:22,564 --> 00:25:25,001 it feels like you are seeing everything. 490 00:25:28,178 --> 00:25:31,138 - I think the end of "Shivers" is really terrifying, 491 00:25:31,181 --> 00:25:33,270 when they had that slow motion shot of them in the pool 492 00:25:33,314 --> 00:25:35,577 and her kissing him-- 493 00:25:35,621 --> 00:25:38,319 the music and everything-- really disturbing. 494 00:25:38,362 --> 00:25:41,365 [eerie music] 495 00:25:41,409 --> 00:25:42,976 - Are these people victims? 496 00:25:43,019 --> 00:25:44,934 Or have they been liberated from the straightjacket 497 00:25:44,978 --> 00:25:48,024 of their lonely middle-class lives? 498 00:25:48,068 --> 00:25:50,940 Cronenberg's subversive mission is to make us question 499 00:25:50,984 --> 00:25:53,682 our assumptions about our true natures. 500 00:25:57,817 --> 00:25:59,296 His next film, "Rabid," 501 00:25:59,340 --> 00:26:02,212 was a kind of sequel to "Shivers." 502 00:26:02,256 --> 00:26:04,475 Instead of confining the action to one building, 503 00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:06,739 he follows the spread of a nasty new form 504 00:26:06,782 --> 00:26:08,697 of rabies across Quebec. 505 00:26:08,741 --> 00:26:11,221 [gunshots] 506 00:26:14,485 --> 00:26:16,226 The source of the contagion is Rose, 507 00:26:16,270 --> 00:26:19,012 played by Marilyn Chambers. 508 00:26:19,055 --> 00:26:23,277 After an accident, Rose receives experimental skin grafts 509 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,366 from a pioneering plastic surgeon. 510 00:26:25,409 --> 00:26:26,715 - [screaming] 511 00:26:28,761 --> 00:26:30,327 - All right, you hold it right there. 512 00:26:30,371 --> 00:26:32,634 - The procedure restores her body, 513 00:26:32,678 --> 00:26:35,158 but gives her a little something extra-- 514 00:26:35,202 --> 00:26:37,857 a blood-sucking stinger under her armpit. 515 00:26:37,900 --> 00:26:39,032 - [screaming] 516 00:26:45,473 --> 00:26:48,955 - Anyone she feeds on will become a bloodthirsty cannibal. 517 00:26:48,998 --> 00:26:50,739 - [roaring] 518 00:26:53,394 --> 00:26:54,830 - I remember watching it and like, oh, 519 00:26:54,874 --> 00:26:56,266 this is pretty good, going along with it. 520 00:26:58,791 --> 00:27:00,793 Like, wow, this is getting a little rougher 521 00:27:00,836 --> 00:27:02,098 than I was expecting. 522 00:27:03,709 --> 00:27:06,581 But when the operation scene happens 523 00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:09,671 and the doctor takes the nurse's finger 524 00:27:09,715 --> 00:27:13,414 and cuts it off with the scissors. 525 00:27:13,457 --> 00:27:15,590 - [screaming] 526 00:27:18,724 --> 00:27:20,726 - Oh, my God! What am I watching? 527 00:27:23,642 --> 00:27:25,644 - In "Rabid," what was scary about it 528 00:27:25,687 --> 00:27:28,821 was to see how quickly infections spread. 529 00:27:28,864 --> 00:27:31,258 [shouting and screaming] 530 00:27:36,916 --> 00:27:39,266 Even if you set off a nuke on a city, 531 00:27:39,309 --> 00:27:41,703 if you live outside the city, you're gonna be okay. 532 00:27:41,747 --> 00:27:45,707 But imagine setting off a nuke that then makes more nukes. 533 00:27:45,751 --> 00:27:48,797 - I'm in terrible trouble, you gotta help me. 534 00:27:48,841 --> 00:27:53,149 - Marilyn Chambers didn't even know that she was Typhoid Mary 535 00:27:53,193 --> 00:27:55,717 until it was too late-- 536 00:27:55,761 --> 00:27:58,807 that's what's so scary about being a spreader-- you don't 537 00:27:58,851 --> 00:28:03,072 even know you're a spreader until you've already spread. 538 00:28:03,116 --> 00:28:04,639 [indistinct screaming on phone] 539 00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:06,206 - I'm afraid! 540 00:28:06,249 --> 00:28:08,077 - As the pandemic rages, 541 00:28:08,121 --> 00:28:09,949 Rose falls victim to one of the infected. 542 00:28:14,736 --> 00:28:17,521 She becomes just another corpse to be disposed of. 543 00:28:20,655 --> 00:28:24,441 Plagues have ravaged mankind for centuries. 544 00:28:24,485 --> 00:28:25,921 - Pull! 545 00:28:25,965 --> 00:28:27,575 - But there have always been those who think 546 00:28:27,618 --> 00:28:29,533 it could never happen to them. 547 00:28:32,580 --> 00:28:35,148 [clanging] 548 00:28:35,191 --> 00:28:39,326 - In the early 1960s, director/producer Roger Corman 549 00:28:39,369 --> 00:28:41,763 made the jump from low-budget black-and-white films 550 00:28:41,807 --> 00:28:44,505 to the slightly-bigger-budgeted color films 551 00:28:44,548 --> 00:28:46,681 based on the gothic horror of Edgar Allan Poe. 552 00:28:49,075 --> 00:28:50,685 To help sell the pictures, 553 00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:54,341 Corman brought in veteran actor Vincent Price. 554 00:28:54,384 --> 00:28:56,735 - [screaming] 555 00:28:56,778 --> 00:28:59,868 - The Poe films made Price a horror icon. 556 00:29:01,827 --> 00:29:05,134 - Vincent Price was wonderful to work with-- 557 00:29:05,178 --> 00:29:08,964 he was a highly intelligent, educated man, 558 00:29:09,008 --> 00:29:11,793 he'd graduated from Yale. 559 00:29:11,837 --> 00:29:14,056 [dramatic music] 560 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:16,755 - The razor edge of death. 561 00:29:16,798 --> 00:29:20,628 Thus the condition of man. 562 00:29:20,671 --> 00:29:25,154 Bound on an island from which he can never hope to escape. 563 00:29:25,198 --> 00:29:29,115 - So he came with great intelligence 564 00:29:29,158 --> 00:29:33,075 and a classical training as an actor. 565 00:29:36,687 --> 00:29:38,385 - What is the meaning of this? 566 00:29:38,428 --> 00:29:41,127 - Probably the very first of the films, 567 00:29:41,170 --> 00:29:43,825 "The Fall of the House of Usher." 568 00:29:43,869 --> 00:29:46,088 - How dare you admit anyone into this house? 569 00:29:46,132 --> 00:29:49,178 - I think it was one of his best performances. 570 00:29:49,222 --> 00:29:51,224 - Be done! [thunder crashes] 571 00:29:51,267 --> 00:29:53,966 - That and the first film we shot in England, 572 00:29:54,009 --> 00:29:56,185 which was "Masque of the Red Death." 573 00:29:56,229 --> 00:29:59,493 - The village is full of the Red Death. 574 00:29:59,536 --> 00:30:01,843 - The Red Death? 575 00:30:01,887 --> 00:30:05,238 Prince Prospero, I beg you, allow us haven! 576 00:30:05,281 --> 00:30:06,805 I beg sanctuary! 577 00:30:06,848 --> 00:30:08,807 - This is no church. 578 00:30:10,156 --> 00:30:11,592 - "The Masque of the Red Death" is, you know, 579 00:30:11,635 --> 00:30:15,422 a terrific movie, I think, it seems to be the pinnacle 580 00:30:15,465 --> 00:30:18,425 of the Edgar Allan Poe series that Roger Corman did 581 00:30:18,468 --> 00:30:22,733 because he was in England and he had access to more time 582 00:30:22,777 --> 00:30:24,735 and a bit more money. 583 00:30:24,779 --> 00:30:27,303 - He'd been very influenced, shall we say, 584 00:30:27,347 --> 00:30:29,044 by "The Seventh Seal," which was a huge art house hit at the time 585 00:30:29,088 --> 00:30:30,785 which, you know, Ingmar Bergman film, 586 00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:32,178 where you had Death in a black cloak. 587 00:30:32,221 --> 00:30:34,963 [both speaking foreign language] 588 00:30:38,532 --> 00:30:41,535 - Very symbolic, all about the Plague, you know, 589 00:30:41,578 --> 00:30:43,406 during the medieval era. 590 00:30:43,450 --> 00:30:45,800 And so he kind of found a way to filter that 591 00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:49,108 into the Edgar Allan Poe story. 592 00:30:49,151 --> 00:30:50,326 - [screaming] 593 00:30:53,329 --> 00:30:56,376 - Prince Prospero, who's this very cruel nobleman who invites 594 00:30:56,419 --> 00:30:58,552 his friends up to his castle because there's the Red Death, 595 00:30:58,595 --> 00:31:00,815 this plague that's ravaging the countryside and so they figure, 596 00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:03,122 oh, we'll just cloister ourselves away and party down 597 00:31:03,165 --> 00:31:05,211 and, you know, when it's all done and the smoke clears 598 00:31:05,254 --> 00:31:07,866 we'll go out and live our lives. 599 00:31:07,909 --> 00:31:11,695 - But because of me, through my mediation with my master, 600 00:31:11,739 --> 00:31:14,133 the Lord of Flies, 601 00:31:14,176 --> 00:31:19,051 you-- all of you-- unworthy though you may be, 602 00:31:19,094 --> 00:31:22,141 will be safe from the Red Death. 603 00:31:24,186 --> 00:31:25,666 - He shot in beautiful Technicolor, and that's one of 604 00:31:25,709 --> 00:31:27,886 the most amazing aspects of the movie, actually, 605 00:31:27,929 --> 00:31:31,846 the cinematography by Nicolas Roeg--it's just stunning. 606 00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:34,893 The camera's constantly moving one way or another. 607 00:31:35,981 --> 00:31:38,026 There's a lot of very wide shots 608 00:31:38,070 --> 00:31:40,550 because those sets allow a lot of scope. 609 00:31:40,594 --> 00:31:42,161 It's just-- it's stunning, 610 00:31:42,204 --> 00:31:43,902 it's a really, really beautiful movie. 611 00:31:45,816 --> 00:31:47,557 And then, of course, there's Vincent Price, who was, 612 00:31:47,601 --> 00:31:51,518 you know, giving 100 percent as Prince Prospero 613 00:31:51,561 --> 00:31:55,914 and delightfully cruel and delightfully hate-able. 614 00:31:58,394 --> 00:31:59,700 - You're a madman! 615 00:31:59,743 --> 00:32:02,355 - And yet I will live and you will die. 616 00:32:02,398 --> 00:32:06,707 - He played a man of evil, but there were shadings 617 00:32:06,750 --> 00:32:12,495 of tenderness within him towards a young girl that he had 618 00:32:12,539 --> 00:32:16,325 taken from the plague-stricken countryside. 619 00:32:16,369 --> 00:32:19,850 - I do not want to hurt you, my dear. 620 00:32:19,894 --> 00:32:22,070 Can't you understand? 621 00:32:22,114 --> 00:32:24,768 I want to help save your soul so you can join me 622 00:32:24,812 --> 00:32:26,118 in the glories of Hell. 623 00:32:26,161 --> 00:32:27,771 - No! Never! 624 00:32:30,296 --> 00:32:33,429 - While the outside world is ravaged by a plague of the body, 625 00:32:33,473 --> 00:32:37,999 Prospero's castle is infected by a plague of the spirit. 626 00:32:38,043 --> 00:32:40,741 - Demon lover, of all those 627 00:32:40,784 --> 00:32:44,440 who wish to live in your eternal light, 628 00:32:44,484 --> 00:32:46,442 transcribe the final mark. 629 00:32:46,486 --> 00:32:48,967 - This infection isn't inflicted on its victims-- 630 00:32:49,010 --> 00:32:50,925 it's chosen by them. 631 00:32:56,452 --> 00:32:59,151 The orgy of corruption, cruelty, and depravity 632 00:32:59,194 --> 00:33:02,284 reaches its zenith at Prospero's masquerade ball, 633 00:33:02,328 --> 00:33:06,201 where everything is permitted, except wearing the color red. 634 00:33:10,597 --> 00:33:12,338 - The one percent locks themselves up 635 00:33:12,381 --> 00:33:15,036 in the castle and parties, thinking that, you know, 636 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,734 they're never gonna let anybody infected in. 637 00:33:17,778 --> 00:33:20,085 And then, of course, the Grim Reaper gets in. 638 00:33:23,262 --> 00:33:26,787 There's no escape, is what I got out of that. 639 00:33:28,310 --> 00:33:30,921 - I would like to see your face. 640 00:33:32,053 --> 00:33:35,056 - There is no face of death 641 00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:38,842 until the moment of your own death. 642 00:33:40,583 --> 00:33:43,325 - Death is the great leveler. 643 00:33:43,369 --> 00:33:46,241 You can be famous, you can be rich, you could be powerful-- 644 00:33:46,285 --> 00:33:48,678 but one thing you're not going to escape, 645 00:33:48,722 --> 00:33:52,421 and it's an experience that's common to everybody 646 00:33:52,465 --> 00:33:55,033 who has ever lived and who ever will live. 647 00:33:55,076 --> 00:33:57,296 - Let me see your face. 648 00:33:57,339 --> 00:34:00,081 [thunder crashes] 649 00:34:00,125 --> 00:34:03,084 - Your hell, Prince Prospero, 650 00:34:03,128 --> 00:34:06,087 and the moment of your death. 651 00:34:06,131 --> 00:34:08,742 - It's the one common nod of humanity. 652 00:34:08,785 --> 00:34:13,355 [dramatic music] 653 00:34:13,399 --> 00:34:18,186 - The human race is barely able to cope with disease on Earth. 654 00:34:18,230 --> 00:34:21,494 Would we stand a chance against something not of this Earth? 655 00:34:25,193 --> 00:34:27,456 [eerie music] 656 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:29,241 - When you think of alien invaders, 657 00:34:29,284 --> 00:34:31,025 you might think of this. 658 00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:32,505 [laser zapping] 659 00:34:38,293 --> 00:34:40,382 [dramatic music] 660 00:34:40,426 --> 00:34:43,168 But what if the invader was a virus from space, 661 00:34:43,211 --> 00:34:45,909 something we have no immunity against? 662 00:34:48,173 --> 00:34:50,740 That's the premise of "The Andromeda Strain." 663 00:34:52,351 --> 00:34:54,353 Based on the novel by Michael Crichton, 664 00:34:54,396 --> 00:34:57,573 it's the story of a space probe that crash lands 665 00:34:57,617 --> 00:35:00,968 in a small town, bringing back a pathogen that rapidly kills 666 00:35:01,011 --> 00:35:04,798 99.9 percent of the population, 667 00:35:04,841 --> 00:35:07,148 turning their blood to dust. 668 00:35:07,192 --> 00:35:08,889 - Powder. 669 00:35:08,932 --> 00:35:12,066 - I'll be damned. 670 00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:15,069 - Now an elite team of scientists must find a cure 671 00:35:15,113 --> 00:35:18,507 before the alien virus spreads across the Earth. 672 00:35:18,551 --> 00:35:20,335 - Never believed this could really happen. 673 00:35:20,379 --> 00:35:22,207 - Well, it has happened. 674 00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:26,080 - The classic of that genre, I think, the Big Mamou, 675 00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:28,082 the one that everyone-- they're all judged by 676 00:35:28,126 --> 00:35:29,475 is probably "The Andromeda Strain." 677 00:35:29,518 --> 00:35:31,955 - Uh, yeah, yes. 678 00:35:31,999 --> 00:35:33,740 - If you're not talking about just some weird zombie breakout 679 00:35:33,783 --> 00:35:37,439 happening-- you're talking about, like, oh, a genuine 680 00:35:37,483 --> 00:35:41,226 disease that it could happen and you're trying to clamp it down, 681 00:35:41,269 --> 00:35:44,011 that's the one that they all get judged by, I think. 682 00:35:44,054 --> 00:35:45,230 - I mean, I love "The Androm--" 683 00:35:45,273 --> 00:35:47,145 What do you think-- what is it about? 684 00:35:47,188 --> 00:35:49,103 It's such a simple movie and it's so well done, and it just, 685 00:35:49,147 --> 00:35:51,845 it's just the pace of that movie just moves and moves. 686 00:35:51,888 --> 00:35:55,414 [dramatic music] 687 00:35:55,457 --> 00:35:59,635 - I fell in love with, with just the notion of, you know, 688 00:35:59,679 --> 00:36:02,725 the scene where they're, like, examining the ship. 689 00:36:02,769 --> 00:36:04,597 - What about the bits of green? 690 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,468 - And then you just see the one little green speck 691 00:36:06,512 --> 00:36:11,517 and you're like, wait, that one little tiny speck of dust 692 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,475 caused all of this. 693 00:36:15,782 --> 00:36:17,523 [softly] - It's growing. 694 00:36:17,566 --> 00:36:20,526 [dramatic music] 695 00:36:20,569 --> 00:36:23,529 - Perhaps the strangest infection ever put on film 696 00:36:23,572 --> 00:36:27,663 is the 2020 adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story, 697 00:36:27,707 --> 00:36:29,187 "The Color Out of Space". 698 00:36:31,189 --> 00:36:33,930 Nicolas Cage plays the patriarch of an eccentric family 699 00:36:33,974 --> 00:36:36,890 living in an isolated country house. 700 00:36:36,933 --> 00:36:39,936 [explosion, screaming] 701 00:36:39,980 --> 00:36:42,983 One night a meteorite crashes into their yard, 702 00:36:43,026 --> 00:36:46,247 bringing with it an unearthly infection. 703 00:36:46,291 --> 00:36:49,294 Teenaged daughter Lavinia is the only member of the family 704 00:36:49,337 --> 00:36:53,472 who quickly realizes the meteorite is not what it seems. 705 00:36:53,515 --> 00:36:58,128 - It's behind the lightning. [thunder crashing] 706 00:36:58,172 --> 00:37:00,348 - At first it's fascinating because it's this 707 00:37:00,392 --> 00:37:03,395 beautiful thing-- there's that dichotomy of it being this 708 00:37:03,438 --> 00:37:07,529 gorgeous meteorite that lands in their front yard and it's 709 00:37:07,573 --> 00:37:11,751 kind of this amazing thing that's otherworldly. 710 00:37:11,794 --> 00:37:15,015 [eerie music] 711 00:37:15,058 --> 00:37:17,626 And then gradually you see that this is 712 00:37:17,670 --> 00:37:19,976 a very malevolent entity. 713 00:37:23,066 --> 00:37:25,112 - Whatever was in the meteorite infects the land 714 00:37:25,155 --> 00:37:28,158 and transforms the family-- 715 00:37:28,202 --> 00:37:32,554 first, their minds... then, their bodies. 716 00:37:34,556 --> 00:37:37,037 - It's like a virus-- you can't see it, you don't know 717 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,605 where it is or when it's present or how dangerous it is 718 00:37:39,648 --> 00:37:41,302 or when it might strike. 719 00:37:41,346 --> 00:37:43,304 But you have to be on guard all of the time. 720 00:37:43,348 --> 00:37:44,914 - Look out! [screaming] 721 00:37:44,958 --> 00:37:47,177 - The worse things get, 722 00:37:47,221 --> 00:37:49,571 the deeper the father sinks into denial. 723 00:37:49,615 --> 00:37:51,573 - Come on, dad, don't pretend that you haven't noticed. 724 00:37:51,617 --> 00:37:54,620 - Nothing has been [bleep] this place up. 725 00:37:54,663 --> 00:37:56,535 - Why are you so in denial? 726 00:37:56,578 --> 00:37:59,712 - Okay, you know, I've had it with your drama! 727 00:37:59,755 --> 00:38:03,281 - The picture features a classically 728 00:38:03,324 --> 00:38:06,632 unhinged performance by Nic Cage. 729 00:38:06,675 --> 00:38:11,289 - [shouting] 730 00:38:13,508 --> 00:38:15,031 - His performance is a stunner, 731 00:38:15,075 --> 00:38:18,600 but in and around that performance is a story 732 00:38:18,644 --> 00:38:21,342 about a family's shared sense of reality 733 00:38:21,386 --> 00:38:26,129 being smashed into tinier and tinier fragments 734 00:38:26,173 --> 00:38:27,696 by an environmental poison 735 00:38:27,740 --> 00:38:29,872 that has leaked into their well water. 736 00:38:31,831 --> 00:38:34,790 - Much of the film is seen from the point of view of Ward, 737 00:38:34,834 --> 00:38:37,315 a young scientist who befriends the family. 738 00:38:37,358 --> 00:38:40,143 - Jack, what are you up to? 739 00:38:40,187 --> 00:38:41,971 - Playing with my friends. 740 00:38:42,015 --> 00:38:45,105 - This de facto stand-in for the infamously racist Lovecraft 741 00:38:45,148 --> 00:38:47,847 is played by a person of color. 742 00:38:47,890 --> 00:38:50,023 - I remember Nic saying a few times 743 00:38:50,066 --> 00:38:53,200 that he'd always wanted to do a family drama and, for him, 744 00:38:53,243 --> 00:38:55,028 that's what "Color" was. 745 00:38:55,071 --> 00:38:56,769 - What do you mean you tried? 746 00:38:56,812 --> 00:39:00,381 Do you have any idea how much those animals cost us? 747 00:39:00,425 --> 00:39:03,602 They are alpacas-- alpacas. 748 00:39:03,645 --> 00:39:05,995 - And so that's how we entered it and I think 749 00:39:06,039 --> 00:39:09,390 it's exactly that, it was a dysfunctional family 750 00:39:09,434 --> 00:39:12,785 in very bizarre circumstances, 751 00:39:12,828 --> 00:39:15,831 and that's what really gave it its kick. 752 00:39:15,875 --> 00:39:17,572 - I can't get a dial tone. 753 00:39:17,616 --> 00:39:20,270 - It becomes body horror, which is basically 754 00:39:20,314 --> 00:39:23,970 taking something as simple and intrinsic to our experience 755 00:39:24,013 --> 00:39:27,408 as humans as a mother's embrace of their own child 756 00:39:27,452 --> 00:39:30,150 and turning that into something grotesque. 757 00:39:30,193 --> 00:39:32,805 - [screaming] 758 00:39:32,848 --> 00:39:35,155 [eerie music] 759 00:39:35,198 --> 00:39:38,288 - Late in the picture the llamas out in the garage 760 00:39:38,332 --> 00:39:40,943 all become this one slimy 761 00:39:40,987 --> 00:39:43,250 10-headed grotesque llama creature. 762 00:39:43,293 --> 00:39:46,035 - [screaming, gunshot] 763 00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:48,908 - The teen girl is slicing 764 00:39:48,951 --> 00:39:52,520 pentagrams into her flesh. 765 00:39:52,564 --> 00:39:54,653 - The father loses his mind. 766 00:39:54,696 --> 00:39:58,004 - We've been having a hard time, you know? 767 00:39:58,047 --> 00:40:01,355 - And Lavinia realizes she is humanity's last line of defense 768 00:40:01,399 --> 00:40:04,053 against the color out of space. 769 00:40:04,097 --> 00:40:06,360 - It's so beautiful. 770 00:40:08,667 --> 00:40:10,451 - It's a progressive spin on Lovecraft's 771 00:40:10,495 --> 00:40:13,367 relentlessly misanthropic tale. 772 00:40:16,022 --> 00:40:18,546 - Lavinia isn't ruined by the color, rather, 773 00:40:18,590 --> 00:40:20,243 she's elevated by the color 774 00:40:20,287 --> 00:40:22,463 and she kind of reaches her true purpose 775 00:40:22,507 --> 00:40:26,380 by willingly and voluntarily merging 776 00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:28,600 with the color and sacrificing herself 777 00:40:28,643 --> 00:40:31,559 so that the color returns to its original source. 778 00:40:37,043 --> 00:40:40,089 - Only Ward survives, slowly emerging from the wreckage 779 00:40:40,133 --> 00:40:43,049 into a colorless world. 780 00:40:43,092 --> 00:40:46,182 - It came out right before, you know, Covid... 781 00:40:46,226 --> 00:40:48,533 hit and started impacting the entire world. 782 00:40:51,536 --> 00:40:53,494 It's absolutely relevant to today 783 00:40:53,538 --> 00:40:56,323 and I don't know what the moral of the story is, 784 00:40:56,366 --> 00:40:57,890 because we haven't, you know, 785 00:40:57,933 --> 00:41:00,109 we haven't reached the conclusion of this one yet. 786 00:41:00,153 --> 00:41:04,505 What touched this place cannot be quantified or understood 787 00:41:04,549 --> 00:41:06,855 by human science. 788 00:41:06,899 --> 00:41:08,553 And I don't really know what the moral of the story 789 00:41:08,596 --> 00:41:10,859 of "Color Out of Space" is, either... 790 00:41:10,903 --> 00:41:14,820 yeah, other than maybe be the Black guy, for once. [laughs] 791 00:41:14,863 --> 00:41:16,474 I'll take it. 792 00:41:16,517 --> 00:41:20,608 It was just a color out of space. 793 00:41:22,305 --> 00:41:24,699 [rumbling] 794 00:41:24,743 --> 00:41:26,658 - In the movies, lethal contagions can come 795 00:41:26,701 --> 00:41:31,053 from outer space, escape from a lab, 796 00:41:31,097 --> 00:41:33,403 or emerge from the rain forest, 797 00:41:33,447 --> 00:41:35,623 leaving a trail of the dead in their wake. 798 00:41:37,799 --> 00:41:40,149 But as films and real life have shown us, 799 00:41:40,193 --> 00:41:42,108 the human race is resilient. 800 00:41:42,151 --> 00:41:43,457 - Boy, I better get vaccinated. 801 00:41:45,154 --> 00:41:48,810 - New threats will come, but we can survive them... 802 00:41:48,854 --> 00:41:50,029 or can we? 803 00:41:50,072 --> 00:41:51,334 - [screaming]