I Heart Monster Movies

Tell me why you like horror movies.

-My name is Anakin, and I like horror movies

because the amount of people that get murdered.

- --to metal one week, then goth, or, like,

glam-rock, but I'm still into horror.

- --a culture surrounding it that is very enjoyable

and, you know, oddly positive.

- --bloody, it's kind of sexy in this weird way.

-Watching a good horror movie will

give you a-- a brain orgasm.

-I just like watching people die pretty much.

A horror fan?

Hell yeah.

I'm a monster a kid.

Aren't you a monster a kid?

-From the outside looking in, they

think they're all a bunch of, you know,

slobering, crazed idiots.

Um, some of them are.

A lot of improv was encouraged.

And that produced things like, you know, e-x-i-t, exit.

You know, which was basically a tip

of the hat to "Sesame Street."

-Pretend, like for instance in reality,

that 99.9% of the human population never heard of me,

or thinks I'm a dead French guy.

-Sid Haig is the only man on the planet that

can say that he worked with Lon Chaney, Jr. And Rob Zombie.

And I am.

-My favorite type of horror film--

it's usually psychological actually,

the horror that's implied rather than shown.

-I like to do a trash with a Linda

Hamilton Terminator Twist.

Something like that I think would be, like, my dream role.

-You know, I think I'm a good screamer.

- --horror stuff, but you also like, I don't know, rainbows.

- --kicked out of here if I answer that honestly.

I'm really not a horror fan.

I never have been.

-They not only remember anything I did,

they remembered shit I didn't even remember doing.

-Horror films are my life, um, because I make them.

What am I looking at?

I felt like I'd been shown much more

than I was supposed to see.

-(SINGING) One, two, Freddy's coming for you.

Three, four, better lock her door.

-The scariest horror movie I've ever seen

would have to be Twilight.

-(SINGING) Five, six, better get your crucifix.

Seven, eight, stay up late.

-I always wanted to watch them just to be scared,

to see how scared I could really get and stay that way.

-(SINGING) Nine, ten, never sleep again.

-We had gone way beyond The Three Little Pigs,

and way beyond, some of the other fairy tales.

-You can kind of escape your daily life,

and-- and, you know, scare yourself a little bit.

I think if you're always on edge,

a little bit fear is good in life.

-People see it, and they're like oh, do you like to cook?

I'm like, no, I like axe-murdering maniacs.

I heart monster movies.

Alright, and got it.

-So my first horror movie was "Nightmare on Elm Street,"

and that scared the crap out of me, because Freddy Krueger is

really scary, and he's really gross looking.

-Johnny Depp's eaten by the bed, I just

have, like, vivid memories from childhood

of having these horrible nightmares of getting eaten

by the bed and blood squirting all over my room.

-It's kinda cool how, like, when you fall asleep,

and then Freddy kinda comes for you.

-I'm really picky when it comes to my horror.

Like, it has to be good, or I will not sit through it.

- --anything that's scary and creepy,

possibly sexy in there somewhere.

--things like "It."

I don't like clowns.

- --and the clown were, like, awful,

and I would not watch a horror movie for years after that.

- --going out in the rain, seeing, like,

storm drains and just thinking of clowns.

-My mother came into the shower when I was a kid

and would throw balloons up, and start making the sounds

that the clowns did on the movie "It."

Scared the hell out of me.

Yeah.

-They come in-- in-- in all walks of life.

I have teachers, and soccer moms, and lawyers, and--

-So I'm pretty much just a-- a-- a mild fan, I guess,

when it comes to horror movies.

I like to go and watch them.

It doesn't really influence my life.

- --not a uber fan, like, I have many friends who are.

-Basically grew up watching horror,

I think, like a lot of kids do.

-Well, I wouldn't consider myself

to be a fan of horror movies.

I'm a definite horror fan.

I went to the drive-ins.

I hate horror movies.

-People actually say they think, like,

my house looks like a Halloween house,

because I have skulls hanging in cages

outside of-- all year round.

-I've always been into the macabre, anything that's

really spooky, and scary, and stuff like that.

-I like horror films because-- a real horror

film, not a slasher film.

-Oddly enough, even though I love horror films,

I don't handle gore that well.

- --the American stuff, which is more just straight blood

and guts-- which, I mean I can appreciate, too.

Gotta have blood.

Lots of blood.

-As long as it's horror, I'm pretty happy person.

Yes.

Hi, mom.

-My name is Annie Violet, and I am

here at the Seattle Zombie Con.

So, I'm from southern California.

So, drove all the way up here just to see everyone,

and, like, hang out and see all the panels.

Very excited about the panels.

-I'm at Zombie Con because I have

been a lifelong zombie fan.

-The thing about conventions is there's always,

like, tattoos buzzing, and flourescent lights, and a lot

of people you need to talk to, and you gotta stay charming,

and you probably sleep all of three hours a night.

So, they're definitely draining, but they're super fun.

And you, you know, you get to hang out

with people you don't normally get to see.

-I'm here because I'm a horror freak.

I adore movies, adore the genre, video games, comic books,

you name it.

I love it.

There's a lot of fun to be had.

You can meet a lot of people who've

created these works of art, be it

films, or books, or paintings, or, you know, whatever.

You need a lot of people behind that.

-I just like the vendors, and I love, like-- I can find things.

It's like, oh, I freak out.

I'm like-- I nerdgasm.

-Yeah, you get to be with other people who like to be weird

and put blood on their face and dress like characters, too.

-One of the great things about doing The Twisted Geeks podcast

is we get to go to conventions, like

Zombie Con, like Crypticon, and other ones that I love,

like StarFest, where we get to meet,

not only just the fans of all this

and see the great fan outpouring,

but we also get a great opportunity

to meet the-- the minds behind all the stuff that we've

enjoyed, some of the writers, directors,

especially the actors.

And we get to spend time interviewing

and talking with them.

And it's been a fantastic time.

-Yeah, I look up, Malcom McDowell is ahead of me

getting coffee.

Chuck Palahniuk and Max Brooks are trading

notes for their talk that night.

And George Romero is just kicking it in the lobby,

and I just look around, and I'm like, I'm surrounded.

There's so much genius in this room.

It was very hard for me to contain myself,

and not just run up to everyone and be like --

oh my God, I love you.

I'm such a fan!

-If this seems a awkward for people at home,

it's because the people that are interviewing me right now

have no idea what I've done.

So I'm feeling like -- I'm sitting here like,

what do I do.

I have to like feed them into this stuff.

-Going to shows like this, and you see the way people dress,

and the way that they get into it --

and they express themselves, and something that they like.

I've always -- as an outsider, someone who's not really

into the genre myself, I can still appreciate the fact that

they are enjoying it, and enjoying themselves.

-These people had seen everything, a lot of them,

and they would probably -- I don't mean to be mean,

but they'd probably be more equipped to interview me than

this stuff -- don't even know

-I'm telling you because they are the best.

Our film fans are absolutely the best there is on the planet,

OK?

They buy all the tickets, they buy the DVDs, the posters,

the T-shirts , the pictures, the --

whatever the hell and the crap we come up with,

because they're there supporting us all the way down the line,

and without them I got nothing.

you what's your favorite line in this,

and my mind's going, oh God -- I don't know ,

what's your favorite line?