Some of the biggest wigs in Hollywood horror, like John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape From New York)Roger Corman (The Fall of the House of Usher, Death Race 2000, Little Shop of Horrors) and George A. Romero (Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Survival of the Dead), discuss horror movies from the silent movies like Phantom of the Opera to today's torture pornos like Hostel and Saw.
It was incredibly interesting to see these masters of terror talk about how the Wolfman was different from the other monsters, the use of humor, Stephen King as a darker Norman Rockwell and the atom bomb movies of the '50s. My only gripe is that they didn't talk about modern horror and its pension for almost sexualized gore enough.
It was an entrancing documentary and I encourage anyone with a love of horror to watch it.
4 stars.
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