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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:02 >> They're back.
00:03 >> The Search of Darkness, Part 2.
00:05 I'm in this one.
00:06 [MUSIC]
00:07 The 80s was the splattered decade.
00:10 That was my decade.
00:11 >> There was something really dark and sexy and strange.
00:15 >> Crazy stuff.
00:17 >> It's like a roller coaster ride.
00:19 People loved this stuff.
00:20 >> There really was a shift of a whole new generation of monster makers.
00:24 [SOUND]
00:25 >> That was so clever and creative.
00:27 >> We were rock stars in the 80s.
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00:31 >> Tom Savini came to us and said, I wanna cut somebody's head off.
00:35 >> I was called the Sultan of Splatter, the Wizard of Gore.
00:39 >> I think it's one of the finest ways of murdering someone.
00:43 >> How could you let me watch that?
00:45 >> It was something your parents hated.
00:47 >> That was one of the attractions of it.
00:49 >> It is just a shredder.
00:51 >> The essence of sex and violence.
00:53 [SOUND]
00:54 >> It never ceases to amaze me.
00:57 I just couldn't get enough of it.
00:58 >> I remember having to stop it because it was getting so rattled.
01:03 >> That's an image that I'll never forget.
01:05 [SOUND]
01:10 >> Gives me chills thinking about it.
01:12 [MUSIC]
01:14 >> I love those Italian movies, they're just crazy.
01:17 >> The Italians, this is what they're immediate.
01:19 >> Yes, I put it.
01:22 >> Video nasties were a good thing for me.
01:24 >> A fake snuff film phase.
01:26 >> Really?
01:27 >> Not very PC, is it?
01:28 [SOUND]
01:30 >> Liquidate the nascerene.
01:31 [SOUND]
01:33 >> And I just remember thinking, this is fucking weird.
01:38 [LAUGH]
01:39 [SOUND]
01:40 >> It was all about trying to understand the world around us, and
01:43 the world around us was extremely hostile.
01:46 >> It's full of things that want to bite you and kill you and eat you, and
01:49 that's just the humans.
01:51 >> Revenge of the nerds on steroids.
01:54 >> You control a murderer.
01:56 [MUSIC]
01:59 >> Yeah, it's more fun to be the bad guy.
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02:01 >> Freddy bored into his subconscious and was maybe opening the closet door.
02:06 >> And when people go, hey,
02:07 what's it like to be in the gayest horror movie ever made?
02:10 I go, it was fucking awesome.
02:12 [MUSIC]
02:13 >> I'd been bullied, I'd been an outcast.
02:16 >> I think that's really one of the first times that you saw what Goth was all about.
02:20 [MUSIC]
02:24 >> All right, talking turkey.
02:27 >> It's not just a one note genre.
02:30 >> It's funny as hell.
02:32 >> I started growing hair.
02:33 >> It just all meshes together so perfectly.
02:35 [MUSIC]
02:38 >> Like horror of the absurd.
02:41 >> That's a funny moment, but it's scary as hell.
02:43 >> That is kind of what resonates with fans.
02:47 >> Hey, kids.
02:50 Welcome to Prime Time.
02:51 [MUSIC]
03:01 >> Making the film was so interesting technically.
03:14 >> When he started to turn into a zombie, he had me on the floor.
03:18 >> Just remember, I gave him life.
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03:30 >> You are all my children now.
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