‘In Search of Darkness’ Director David Weiner On The Underrated Power of 90s Horror
As a 90s kid, I’m admittedly biased about my love of 90s horror. But, there’s no denying it was a good, albeit bizarre, decade for the genre. Sure it was a little all over the place, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It was just a decade of trying weird things and who can begrudge that? Director David Weiner agrees, which is why he and CREATORVC teamed up again to continue their epic In Search Of Darkness series. This time, they’re leaving the 80s and jumping into horror from 1990 to 1994.
Read the full synopsis below:
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 delves into an era of horror evolution marked by grittier, meta filmmaking, straight-to-video ingenuity, darker villains alongside franchise icons, and the birth of seismic digital effects—deconstructing and recontextualizing such landmark film favorites including Candyman, The Silence of the Lambs, Tremors, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Stephen King’s IT miniseries, Frankenhooker and Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive.
Featuring 40+ exclusive new interviews with John Carpenter (In the Mouth of Madness), Heather Langenkamp (Wes Craven’s New Nightmare), Ted Raimi (Army of Darkness), Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep), Akela Cooper (M3GAN), Tommy Lee Wallace (Stephen King’s IT), and many more, In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 invites horror fans back to the ‘90s to view the era in a whole new and terrifying light.
We sat down with Weiner to discuss the power of 90s horror, why he wanted to continue the documentary series, and some of the decade’s most underrated gems.
Watch the full interview:
CREATORVC will also celebrate Halloween with a free 24-hour stream of the original In Search of Darkness ‘80s horror doc on YouTube, available here.
Final pre-orders of In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 have been extended to November 3, 2024, at midnight! Horror fans now have the opportunity to get both digital and physical copies of the six-hour documentary, as well as their names in the credits alongside their horror heroes.
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