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In Search of Darkness

We rented that and I thought I was gonna get a real movie andit was like shot on video

We rented that and I thought I was gonna get a real movie and
it was like shot on video

Full Transcript

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We rented that and
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I thought I was gonna get a real movie and it was like shot on video.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:26:24
Uploaded
Jun 05, 2025
Genres
documentary, horror
Production
N/A

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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.
I couldn't believe I was watching, - In Search of Darkness 00:10
I couldn't believe I was watching,
You suddenly had this great outpouring of poorly written, poorly directed, poorly acted - In Search of Darkness 00:09
You suddenly had this great outpouring of poorly written, po...
Guys like Charlie Band, guys like Roger Corman found a whole new life on home video after - In Search of Darkness 00:06
Guys like Charlie Band, guys like Roger Corman found a whole...
Charlie Band really invented direct-to-video. - In Search of Darkness 00:05
Charlie Band really invented direct-to-video.
Empire Pictures and Charlie Band at the time provided opportunity to up-and-coming talent - In Search of Darkness 00:11
Empire Pictures and Charlie Band at the time provided opport...
They're chasing trends that the bigger guys are doing and trying to get there more quickly - In Search of Darkness 00:09
They're chasing trends that the bigger guys are doing a...
Charles Band provided this sort of unending flow of product and some of it had real worth. - In Search of Darkness 00:09
Charles Band provided this sort of unending flow of product ...
A lot of blood and gore bad effects and bad acting and ridiculous storylines. - In Search of Darkness 00:07
A lot of blood and gore bad effects and bad acting and ridic...
A lot of fans have said to me that saw Hellraiser for the first time because they were browsing - In Search of Darkness 00:11
A lot of fans have said to me that saw Hellraiser for the fi...
He's making very direct eye contact with you. - In Search of Darkness 00:04
He's making very direct eye contact with you.
Video cover art didn't seem that important initially and until some of these key horror - In Search of Darkness 00:09
Video cover art didn't seem that important initially an...
And on the base of their success then suddenly those covers became quite important. - In Search of Darkness 00:07
And on the base of their success then suddenly those covers ...
Obviously the brighter and the more shocking it could possibly be than the better and - In Search of Darkness 00:08
Obviously the brighter and the more shocking it could possib...
They had to have that art there to get you to grab an unknown title as opposed to something - In Search of Darkness 00:07
They had to have that art there to get you to grab an unknow...
You had to be willing to take chances and if it had a really cool poster on the front - In Search of Darkness 00:07
You had to be willing to take chances and if it had a really...
It's the staff pics that usually would pick something that would be like, you want to rent this. - In Search of Darkness 00:05
It's the staff pics that usually would pick something t...
One of my sort of Bibles of '80s horror was the poster for Terror in the Aisles because - In Search of Darkness 00:12
One of my sort of Bibles of '80s horror was the poster ...
So, I would go pick up Terror in the Aisles in the video store and I'd start to go through - In Search of Darkness 00:08
So, I would go pick up Terror in the Aisles in the video sto...
But it really opened me up to a lot of movies I would have never rented otherwise. - In Search of Darkness 00:05
But it really opened me up to a lot of movies I would have n...
I worked for the company that did the Halloween posters, that fabulous iconic knife going through - In Search of Darkness 00:09
I worked for the company that did the Halloween posters, tha...