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The effects artists creating stuff usually knows best how to shoot it
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In Search of Darkness

The effects artists creating stuff usuallyknows best how to shoot it

The effects artists creating stuff usually
knows best how to shoot it

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The effects artists creating stuff usually knows best how to shoot it.
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5 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:55:59
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.
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...
There was so much work that everybody was keeping busy and it never felt like competition. - In Search of Darkness 00:06
There was so much work that everybody was keeping busy and i...
We all had the same backgrounds, we all grew up reading Famous Monsters of Filmland, - In Search of Darkness 00:08
We all had the same backgrounds, we all grew up reading Famo...
There was a sort of a shared heritage in what got us to where we were at that point. - In Search of Darkness 00:06
There was a sort of a shared heritage in what got us to wher...
In the early '80s, Fangoria magazine came out and now we had a group of people that were - In Search of Darkness 00:11
In the early '80s, Fangoria magazine came out and now w...
Before it was like yeah, you're a guy, you do special effects, that's cool. - In Search of Darkness 00:04
Before it was like yeah, you're a guy, you do special e...
But then Fangoria really made this like cool personality around them because they really - In Search of Darkness 00:11
But then Fangoria really made this like cool personality aro...
They printed the pictures that no one else would print. - In Search of Darkness 00:04
They printed the pictures that no one else would print.
And they had pictures of bloody corpses and people with slashed throats and tongues coming - In Search of Darkness 00:08
And they had pictures of bloody corpses and people with slas...
I wouldn't exactly call it porn but it had the same effect in a way because it was a - In Search of Darkness 00:09
I wouldn't exactly call it porn but it had the same eff...
Fangoria was the authority on what's about to come out and what do you need to see. - In Search of Darkness 00:05
Fangoria was the authority on what's about to come out ...
Without an internet, without an endless resource of images at your fingertips you would stare - In Search of Darkness 00:08
Without an internet, without an endless resource of images a...
Fangoria had a lot of trouble in the early days getting taken off of news stands and things - In Search of Darkness 00:09
Fangoria had a lot of trouble in the early days getting take...
Fangoria, Cinefantastique, Cinefex - In Search of Darkness 00:07
Fangoria, Cinefantastique, Cinefex
It was a wonderful way to see how other effects were being done, what films are being - In Search of Darkness 00:08
It was a wonderful way to see how other effects were being d...
Everybody in special effects and special makeup effects was reading all those magazines. - In Search of Darkness 00:05
Everybody in special effects and special makeup effects was ...
It actually generated more interest because somebody would watch that movie, or they'd see - In Search of Darkness 00:08
It actually generated more interest because somebody would w...
You did what with yak hair?" - In Search of Darkness 00:06
You did what with yak hair?"
I understand how it all comes together and look and I'm seeing it now and I'm believing it - In Search of Darkness 00:07
I understand how it all comes together and look and I'm...