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In Search of Darkness

An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.

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David A. Weiner

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That influenced movies and influenced
television and influenced more music. - In Search of Darkness

That influenced movies and influenced television and influen...

You know Cyndi Lauper of course, Torn Petty
and Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen. - In Search of Darkness

You know Cyndi Lauper of course, Torn Petty and Jackson Brow...

The top 4O stuff was off the chain. - In Search of Darkness

The top 4O stuff was off the chain.

Really saccharine Olivia Newton-John, romantic
ballads on the one hand and you had punk - In Search of Darkness

Really saccharine Olivia Newton-John, romantic ballads on th...

It was a lot like Mel Gibson's hair in Lethal
Weapon. - In Search of Darkness

It was a lot like Mel Gibson's hair in Lethal Weapon.

I remember Jane Fonda Workout watching people
walk down the street in workout outfits - In Search of Darkness

I remember Jane Fonda Workout watching people walk down the ...

Big hair, big shoulder pads and cocaine. - In Search of Darkness

Big hair, big shoulder pads and cocaine.

You had the fuddy-duddy sort of older generation
saying no we let the kids play long enough - In Search of Darkness

You had the fuddy-duddy sort of older generation saying no w...

It was hard to be gay in that era, it was hard to state
certain political views in that period. - In Search of Darkness

It was hard to be gay in that era, it was hard to state cert...

Because the '80s were an era of excess in every
conceivable way. - In Search of Darkness

Because the '80s were an era of excess in every conceiv...

Drugs, disco, sex, the tragedy of the AIDS
epidemic. - In Search of Darkness

Drugs, disco, sex, the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic.

There were a lot of very heightened things
going on in that decade and the horror movies - In Search of Darkness

There were a lot of very heightened things going on in that ...

And they say there's a theory that horror
thrives when there's a repressive government. - In Search of Darkness

And they say there's a theory that horror thrives when ...

After Halloween I had a deal with AVCO Embassy to
make two films and - In Search of Darkness

After Halloween I had a deal with AVCO Embassy to make two f...

It was a ghost story conceived on a trip to
England and Stonehenge. - In Search of Darkness

It was a ghost story conceived on a trip to England and Ston...

I said to Debra Hill, man it's really amazing
here. And it's a fog bank at the time was off - In Search of Darkness

I said to Debra Hill, man it's really amazing here. And...

I was gonna get hired for horror films. - In Search of Darkness

I was gonna get hired for horror films.

That's what was gonna happen because that's
where I had a hit. - In Search of Darkness

That's what was gonna happen because that's where ...

You know, it's kind of an old-fashioned ghost
story. - In Search of Darkness

You know, it's kind of an old-fashioned ghost story.

She spent the entire time up in that tower
and so, we were never ever on-screen together. - In Search of Darkness

She spent the entire time up in that tower and so, we were n...

She's hitchhiking and the first thing she says
when she gets in the car is, "Are you weird?" - In Search of Darkness

She's hitchhiking and the first thing she says when she...

And then I offer her a sip of beer and then they cut
and there we are in bed. - In Search of Darkness

And then I offer her a sip of beer and then they cut and the...

Just like that. It's that easy because I'm
smooth. - In Search of Darkness

Just like that. It's that easy because I'm smooth.

I don't think it bothered her to get on that
scream queen path as long as she thought she - In Search of Darkness

I don't think it bothered her to get on that scream que...

I also remember that very fondly because as
you pan across inside Adrienne's room, she's - In Search of Darkness

I also remember that very fondly because as you pan across i...

The guys that come out of the fog at the end
into the church, take Hal Holbrook to heaven - In Search of Darkness

The guys that come out of the fog at the end into the church...

They look great in their own
seaweedy oogy outfits. - In Search of Darkness

They look great in their own seaweedy oogy outfits.

Big box fans and fog machines at the end of
a street trying to make enough fog to look - In Search of Darkness

Big box fans and fog machines at the end of a street trying ...

The slightest breeze took it all away and
then to start over again kind of build it - In Search of Darkness

The slightest breeze took it all away and then to start over...

That was re-vamped after we finished it as
it didn't work and the script was changed. - In Search of Darkness

That was re-vamped after we finished it as it didn't wo...

It didn't get going quick enough somehow. - In Search of Darkness

It didn't get going quick enough somehow.

In the Changeling, George C. Scott discovers
something's rotten in Seattle while investigating - In Search of Darkness

In the Changeling, George C. Scott discovers something'...

He plays John Russell who's a composer recovering
from the tragedy of losing his family and - In Search of Darkness

He plays John Russell who's a composer recovering from ...

It's a brooding melancholy tone poem and I just
really you know, I was hypnotized by that movie. - In Search of Darkness

It's a brooding melancholy tone poem and I just really ...

You think its sort of a haunted house movie
but it's about so much more. - In Search of Darkness

You think its sort of a haunted house movie but it's ab...

The acting in it is incredible. The house
that they shot that film in is gorgeous and - In Search of Darkness

The acting in it is incredible. The house that they shot tha...

And the exterior of that film was built over
another house that was existing. - In Search of Darkness

And the exterior of that film was built over another house t...

It's very mood inducing and anxiety producing
the whole way through. - In Search of Darkness

It's very mood inducing and anxiety producing the whole...

There's plenty of classic ghost story chills
in this one and The Changeling makes for a - In Search of Darkness

There's plenty of classic ghost story chills in this on...

I can remember seeing John Carpenter's Halloween
which unlike some sort of British horror - In Search of Darkness

I can remember seeing John Carpenter's Halloween which ...

The idea that you could create a really simple
story that had scary elements connected to it - In Search of Darkness

The idea that you could create a really simple story that ha...

A lot of people make their first horror movies
because they're cheap, they don't require - In Search of Darkness

A lot of people make their first horror movies because they&...

We didn't have a clue that it was ever going
to be successful or going to be changing horror - In Search of Darkness

We didn't have a clue that it was ever going to be succ...

What we were trying to do is come up with
a credible movie that would run 9O minutes - In Search of Darkness

What we were trying to do is come up with a credible movie t...

I think we were all flying by the seat of
our pants having a good time doing this. - In Search of Darkness

I think we were all flying by the seat of our pants having a...

Tom Savini made the mold of my neck and when
I lifted my head back like that, - In Search of Darkness

Tom Savini made the mold of my neck and when I lifted my hea...

There was the POV of the killer but you never
saw the killer. - In Search of Darkness

There was the POV of the killer but you never saw the killer...

All you knew was like wow, this person's upset. - In Search of Darkness

All you knew was like wow, this person's upset.

When the music comes in then you're seeing
what the killer sees as opposed to just - In Search of Darkness

When the music comes in then you're seeing what the kil...

Everybody loves the Harry Manfredini signature
Friday the 13th, Ki-Ki-Ki, Ma-Ma-Ma. - In Search of Darkness

Everybody loves the Harry Manfredini signature Friday the 13...

I thought it was "ha, ha, ha, ha"
but it's really"kill, kill, kill, kill." - In Search of Darkness

I thought it was "ha, ha, ha, ha" but it's re...

So many gory, scary moments but the one that
really comes to mind is Kevin Bacon's kill. - In Search of Darkness

So many gory, scary moments but the one that really comes to...

How in the world does she become
the crazed killer? - In Search of Darkness

How in the world does she become the crazed killer?

She smiles when she says it, meanwhile they've
cut to the little Jason drowning and I'm going like - In Search of Darkness

She smiles when she says it, meanwhile they've cut to t...

You know you're crazy and you don't care. - In Search of Darkness

You know you're crazy and you don't care.

A bunch of us having a great time and you know
making this movie and it wasn't scary at all. - In Search of Darkness

A bunch of us having a great time and you know making this m...

But the first time I saw it, I actually
had some nightmares. - In Search of Darkness

But the first time I saw it, I actually had some nightmares.

The end scene I did not know was coming. - In Search of Darkness

The end scene I did not know was coming.

Alice is in the canoe so relieved and Jason
the kid he jumps out of a lake and looking - In Search of Darkness

Alice is in the canoe so relieved and Jason the kid he jumps...

The fact that it became as successful as it
did was mostly luck. - In Search of Darkness

The fact that it became as successful as it did was mostly l...

It was a scary film ya know for what it was
at the time but I don't think anybody thought - In Search of Darkness

It was a scary film ya know for what it was at the time but ...

The reviews when it came out were absolutely
terrible across the board. - In Search of Darkness

The reviews when it came out were absolutely terrible across...

There may have been the occasional exception
but it was not a well-liked movie. - In Search of Darkness

There may have been the occasional exception but it was not ...

However, it connected with a young audience
in such a powerful way that it became iconic. - In Search of Darkness

However, it connected with a young audience in such a powerf...

And I was so crashingly disappointed with
it because I loved the book and it's not the book. - In Search of Darkness

And I was so crashingly disappointed with it because I loved...

It was something about Kubrick's take on that
that was just so arch. - In Search of Darkness

It was something about Kubrick's take on that that was ...

Sometimes it takes you a few watches before
you gain appreciation for something. - In Search of Darkness

Sometimes it takes you a few watches before you gain appreci...

But it has that Kubrick quality of hypnotic
fascination that you can't get away from and - In Search of Darkness

But it has that Kubrick quality of hypnotic fascination that...

I think The Shining is probably the best
performance in any horror film, maybe ever. - In Search of Darkness

I think The Shining is probably the best performance in any ...

Shelley Duvall looks honestly terrified and
Jack Nicholson honestly looks like - In Search of Darkness

Shelley Duvall looks honestly terrified and Jack Nicholson h...

I mean to the point where I'm thinking, "Am I
seeing the characters or am I seeing the actors - In Search of Darkness

I mean to the point where I'm thinking, "Am I seei...

That's always the hardest part to play is
the wife who has to like make the decision, - In Search of Darkness

That's always the hardest part to play is the wife who ...

And I think every woman on the face of the
planet wants to give their husband the benefit - In Search of Darkness

And I think every woman on the face of the planet wants to g...

That's something that was seared into my brain
forever and ever and ever. - In Search of Darkness

That's something that was seared into my brain forever ...

Every line every like beat in that whole scene
he just chews it up. - In Search of Darkness

Every line every like beat in that whole scene he just chews...

I think any movie where a parent is a villain
is really hard to watch. - In Search of Darkness

I think any movie where a parent is a villain is really hard...

It really hooks into for me this feeling of
trusting the men around you and how it would - In Search of Darkness

It really hooks into for me this feeling of trusting the men...

Now you look at that movie, what's missing
in that sequence? It's supposed to be out in the - In Search of Darkness

Now you look at that movie, what's missing in that sequ...

Kubrick is such a stickler for detail and
everything's got to be just right and how - In Search of Darkness

Kubrick is such a stickler for detail and everything's ...

The Shining was promoted as a Stanley Kubrick
movie, not a Stephen King movie. - In Search of Darkness

The Shining was promoted as a Stanley Kubrick movie, not a S...

There was a long period of time when the name
Stephen King was avoided by marketers because - In Search of Darkness

There was a long period of time when the name Stephen King w...

King had actually written a script for Kubrick
for The Shining which Kubrick just tossed aside. - In Search of Darkness

King had actually written a script for Kubrick for The Shini...

I think it was painful to King to see this
because it was such a personal book to him. - In Search of Darkness

I think it was painful to King to see this because it was su...

When Kubrick turned his hand to The Shining,
I think it sort of was like well, you know - In Search of Darkness

When Kubrick turned his hand to The Shining, I think it sort...

It became a very viable genre for all budget
levels which was not true before. - In Search of Darkness

It became a very viable genre for all budget levels which wa...

Dressed to Kill was pretty obviously even
though I think DePalma denies this. - In Search of Darkness

Dressed to Kill was pretty obviously even though I think DeP...

I think DePalma says he had never seen an
Argento movie and that may in fact well be - In Search of Darkness

I think DePalma says he had never seen an Argento movie and ...

But it did seem like he was bringing certain
aesthetic concepts of the Giallo into American - In Search of Darkness

But it did seem like he was bringing certain aesthetic conce...

You know how he used the star filters first as like
reflections would show up and they'd go - In Search of Darkness

You know how he used the star filters first as like reflecti...

It has a sexual feel to it even more than
most horror films. - In Search of Darkness

It has a sexual feel to it even more than most horror films.

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An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.

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Director: David A. Weiner

Writer: David A. Weiner

Production: N/A

Genre: documentary, horror

Year: 2019

MetaScore: N/A/100

ImdbRating: 8.0

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Released: 13 Oct 2019

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