Over the course of three In Search of Darkness documentary movies, all of which have been over 4 hours lengthy (with one in every of them almost reaching the six hour mark), director David Weiner did an unimaginable job of digging into the various nice (and a few not-so-great) horror films that have been launched within the Nineteen Eighties. There have been nonetheless so many films left uncovered that Weiner might circle again and proceed trying into ’80s films for years to come back – however as a substitute, he determined to maneuver ahead into the ’90s. Final yr, we obtained In Search of Darkness: 1990 – 1994, and now a brand new installment within the collection, In Search of Darkness: 1995 – 1999 is offered for pre-order on the official web site HERE! Pre-orders opened at this time, October seventh, and can be obtainable by means of midnight on Halloween.
Right here’s the data on the brand new film: In Search of Darkness: 1995 – 1999 continues the journey into iconic late-’90s horror with notable film-industry horror legends, skilled journalists & authors deconstructing, re-contextualizing, and reframing meta-fueled films like Scream & Scream 2, Bride of Chucky & Within the Mouth of Insanity; teen-driven movies that rode the Scream wave together with I Know What You Did Final Summer season, City Legend, Halloween H20, The College & The Craft; the gritty different horror of Se7en & From Nightfall Until Daybreak; indie sensations like Dice, Tales from the Hood and found-footage phenomenon The Blair Witch Venture; the stunning sleeper hit of The Sixth Sense; and the surprising J-Horror explosion led by Ringu.
Options all-new, unique interviews with the best meeting of ’90s horror movie icons and consultants ever, together with Jamie Kennedy (Scream), Dee Snider (Strangeland), Lou Diamond Phillips (Bats), The Blair Witch Venture co-director Eduardo Sánchez, Occasion Horizon director Paul W.S. Anderson, The Craft director Andrew Fleming, City Legend stars Rebecca Gayheart & Michael Rosenbaum, Tales from the Hood director Rusty Cundieff, Wishmaster icon Andrew Divoff, Corbin Bernsen (The Dentist), Emily Bergl (The Rage: Carrie 2), Steven Weber (The Shining miniseries), Scream composer Marco Beltrami and Bride of Chucky composer Graeme Revell, Finish of Days director Peter Hyams, C. Robert Cargill (The Black Telephone), Rue Morgue Government Editor Andrea Subissati, and plenty of extra. These new faces to the collection be part of key expertise from In Search of Darkness: 1990 – 1994 together with the legendary John Carpenter, Doug Bradley, Tom Savini, Heather Langenkamp, Alex Winter, Charles Band, Don Mancini, Ernest Dickerson, Mike Flanagan, and Akela Cooper — all sharing candid observations, experiences, and evaluation of the period with the signature celebratory and insightful lens of the In Search of Darkness documentary collection.
Author/director David Weiner offered the next assertion: “Notion about horror output within the ’90s is uniquely selective. Like fast-forwarding a film to when issues begin to get thrilling, many really feel just like the movie choice actually didn’t begin killing it till Scream arrived in ’96, kick-starting a fever-pitch of massive, shiny, Hollywood teen-driven slashers and meta-fueled tales that hit new highs on the field workplace. However hardcore horror followers knew the place to search for heavier, much less mainstream fare — on straight-to-video cabinets and Tartan Asia Excessive DVDs, with indie-film shockers, and in shock cineplex hits starting from Se7en, The Sixth Sense, From Nightfall Until Daybreak, and the found-footage phenom Blair Witch Venture. ‘Oh, yeah, forgot about that!’ individuals appear to say with enthusiasm after they understand that the ’90s certainly had a treasure trove of horror to supply. In Search of Darkness: 1995 – 1999 tracks this thrilling time for horror tasks of all types, profiling movies that mirrored society’s struggles: looming millennium anxiousness, the specter of Y2K, and new cultural fears amid burgeoning web and home-media applied sciences. That includes a brand-new set of unique horror-legend interviews, my second six-hour deep-dive caps what could be the final, in-depth journey into ’90s horror — all advised, it’s 12-hours lengthy. How splendidly loopy is that? Please be part of us on our wild journey again into iconic ’90s horror, and invite your genre-loving associates.“
In Search of Darkness: 1995 – 1999 is predicted to be launched in January. Are you a fan of the In Search of Darkness documentaries, and can you be watching this one? Tell us by leaving a remark beneath.
