Fear in the Dark

TV Movie
1991
1h

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For those who don't understand the appeal of horror movies believe the genre has nothing to offer audiences. However, the 1991 TV documentary "Fear In The Dark" might make some naysayers int... Read allFor those who don't understand the appeal of horror movies believe the genre has nothing to offer audiences. However, the 1991 TV documentary "Fear In The Dark" might make some naysayers into horror believers.For those who don't understand the appeal of horror movies believe the genre has nothing to offer audiences. However, the 1991 TV documentary "Fear In The Dark" might make some naysayers into horror believers.

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6.4/10

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A clip from Mother's Day (1980) of Tiana Pierce with blonde braided pigtails stabbing someone with an electric carving knife is mistakenly credited to the horror documentary Don't Scream: It's Only a Movie! (1985), perhaps partly because the film was featured in the documentary.

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John Carpenter: Fear is the most powerful emotion in the human race and fear of the unknown is probably the most ancient, so you're dealing with stuff that everybody's felt from being little babies: we're frightened of the dark, we're frightened of what we don't know about; and if you're making a horror film you get to play with the audience's feelings.

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Features Nosferatu le vampire (1922)

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6/10

OK documentary

Documentary made for British TV about horror movies and why people go to them. It also has pretty gory clips from various horror films and directors, actors and even writers discussing horror. There's really nothing new here that I didn't already know but I was entertained. Seeing Barbara Steele (who looks fantastic) was fun. However I have one complaint. According to this Saul Bass directed the shower sequence in "Psycho". That just simply isn't true. Even Bass (who died in 1990) admitted that Hitchcock directed it and not him. Still in this Bass talks about it and says he directed it himself! That should have been left out. Still that's a minor complaint. Also Christopher Lee narrates it! Available on YouTube.