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Channel 4 (UK) Sunday 9.05pm THE PERFECT SCARY MOVIE :
What devilish concoction of secret ingredients makes up The Perfect Scary Movie ? All is revealed just in time for Hallowe'en in this ambitious feature-length documentary that exposes the closely guarded tricks and psychological ploys that scary movies have used to make billions of film-goers around the world jump with fright. From Dracula and the original movie monsters that started it all, to the serial killer thrillers like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and the sci-fi inspired terror of Alien ,
The Perfect Scary Movie uses expert analysis from the biggest names in the business to chronicle the bloody development of the horror industry. The film also examines the deep-rooted fears of their time, be it the atom bomb anxieties that plagued the 1950s or the godless 1970s that spawned the satanic The Exorcist . Featuring the scariest films of the last century - from Psycho to The Blair Witch Project - along with never previously broadcast scenes deemed too shocking for the fragile audiences of their time,
The Perfect Scary Movie reveals exactly what it is we've been so afraid of all these years. Horror may never be the same again...
Contributors include horror directors John Carpenter, Wes Craven, John Landis, Tobe Hooper, Edgar Wright and Joe Dante, stars Linda Blair, Robert Englund, Jenny Agutter, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Bruce Campbell, writer James Herbert and fan Alice Cooper. The Perfect Scary Movie is accompanied by a season of scary films introduced by Bill Bailey, including Halloween H20 later tonight. Prod: Toby Dye; Dir: Simon George; Exec Prod: Tony Moss; Prod Co: Visual Voodoo
Followed at 11.15pm, by Halloween h20
What devilish concoction of secret ingredients makes up The Perfect Scary Movie ? All is revealed just in time for Hallowe'en in this ambitious feature-length documentary that exposes the closely guarded tricks and psychological ploys that scary movies have used to make billions of film-goers around the world jump with fright. From Dracula and the original movie monsters that started it all, to the serial killer thrillers like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and the sci-fi inspired terror of Alien ,
The Perfect Scary Movie uses expert analysis from the biggest names in the business to chronicle the bloody development of the horror industry. The film also examines the deep-rooted fears of their time, be it the atom bomb anxieties that plagued the 1950s or the godless 1970s that spawned the satanic The Exorcist . Featuring the scariest films of the last century - from Psycho to The Blair Witch Project - along with never previously broadcast scenes deemed too shocking for the fragile audiences of their time,
The Perfect Scary Movie reveals exactly what it is we've been so afraid of all these years. Horror may never be the same again...
Contributors include horror directors John Carpenter, Wes Craven, John Landis, Tobe Hooper, Edgar Wright and Joe Dante, stars Linda Blair, Robert Englund, Jenny Agutter, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Bruce Campbell, writer James Herbert and fan Alice Cooper. The Perfect Scary Movie is accompanied by a season of scary films introduced by Bill Bailey, including Halloween H20 later tonight. Prod: Toby Dye; Dir: Simon George; Exec Prod: Tony Moss; Prod Co: Visual Voodoo
Followed at 11.15pm, by Halloween h20