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If you do them right, practical effects are much more powerful
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In Search of Darkness

If you do them right, practical effects aremuch more powerful

If you do them right, practical effects are
much more powerful

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If you do them right, practical effects are much more powerful.
Duration
5 seconds
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20
Timestamp in Movie
00:53:51
Uploaded
Jun 05, 2025
Genres
documentary, horror
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Movie Summary

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.
How do you build a better decapitation? - In Search of Darkness 00:04
How do you build a better decapitation?
I mean these are things that still obsess me. - In Search of Darkness 00:04
I mean these are things that still obsess me.
There's an almost sort of childlike aspect to what we do that I feel very grateful for. - In Search of Darkness 00:08
There's an almost sort of childlike aspect to what we d...
This is impressive art; This is impressive stuff and it drives and propels the story - In Search of Darkness 00:11
This is impressive art; This is impressive stuff and it driv...
I'm always trying to sort of push things beyond the realm of good taste in it and sometimes - In Search of Darkness 00:07
I'm always trying to sort of push things beyond the rea...
You should be able to make the audience believe something that's impossible is happening - In Search of Darkness 00:07
You should be able to make the audience believe something th...
The only thing that you would have to contend with was the ratings board. - In Search of Darkness 00:04
The only thing that you would have to contend with was the r...
It was always a fight because the directors felt they had creative freedom to tell the - In Search of Darkness 00:07
It was always a fight because the directors felt they had cr...
And of course, there were people that found some of the subject matter and some of what - In Search of Darkness 00:07
And of course, there were people that found some of the subj...
For a certain amount of blood, you get an X and an X means the distributor can't release - In Search of Darkness 00:09
For a certain amount of blood, you get an X and an X means t...
You've got a very small release which means it's a very small profit. - In Search of Darkness 00:04
You've got a very small release which means it's a...
I've helped several films get X ratings because of the violence and the blood. - In Search of Darkness 00:04
I've helped several films get X ratings because of the ...
Often they'll resubmit it, they'll cut out a few frames here and a few there. - In Search of Darkness 00:05
Often they'll resubmit it, they'll cut out a few f...
It was often that this fear of getting an X - rating so they would go with blood that - In Search of Darkness 00:10
It was often that this fear of getting an X - rating so they...
There's such a focus on blood and gore particularly in movies in the '80s and to be honest with you - In Search of Darkness 00:07
There's such a focus on blood and gore particularly in ...
Once filmmakers got into that whole blood thing and the bloodletting and it became bigger - In Search of Darkness 00:08
Once filmmakers got into that whole blood thing and the bloo...
And yeah, that's fun but to me it wasn't quite as realistic as what happens in real life. - In Search of Darkness 00:07
And yeah, that's fun but to me it wasn't quite as ...
The effects artists creating stuff usually knows best how to shoot it. - In Search of Darkness 00:05
The effects artists creating stuff usually knows best how to...
Some things are going to be shot from a certain angle, they work best not from this angle. - In Search of Darkness 00:06
Some things are going to be shot from a certain angle, they ...
And a good director is going to trust their effects people but if you shoot it from something - In Search of Darkness 00:12
And a good director is going to trust their effects people b...