Birth of the Living Dead Page #6

grew up in the Bronx

before moving to Pittsburgh.

And it was the old days

of the Sharks and the Jets.

And people, most people

thought I was Italian

so I got away, I think

I got away with my hide,

the Golden Guineas

left me alone,

until they found

out I was Spanish.

Then I was a Shark, you know.

I was never really

into any of that stuff.

I just wanted to make movies.

This movie to me

what's so gorgeous,

even the way it starts,

just that road,

and there are different ways

to make horror films,

what I enjoy about this

is that right away,

the music is very disturbing

and telegraphs that you're

going to get into something

that's going to be scary.

But then, you know,

they go to a graveyard,

and they have their little

dialogue about the length

of the trip and they got

started late and so on.

They ought to make

the day the time changes

the first day of summer.

What?

Well, it's 8 o'clock

and it's still light.

A lot of good the extra

day light does us.

We've still got

a 3 hour drive back.

We're not going to be home

until after midnight.

So it's mundane you know,

there's a mundanity to it

and that is um, I think

a very modern approach.

It even came following

a bunch of low budget films

that basically, like

white girls in bikinis

being chased by guys

wearing shag carpeting

being kind of monster.

Before "Night," audiences

of horror were accustomed

to space aliens,

radioactive mutations

and traditional

gothic monsters.

And by not doing

that kind of stuff,

by making it just

as real as possible,

it became this

whole other thing.

It's not even

a haunted cemetery,

it looks like a big open place

where they can park their car

and they can go to the grave

and it'll be fine.

It's still spooky, the music

is indicating something to come

but it's essentially

a day in the life episode

of these characters.

Boy, you used to really

be scared here.

Johnny!

You're still afraid!

It's to me one of the first sort

of post-modern horror movies

in that it is

commenting on itself.

They're coming

to get you, Barbara!

That's what's so brilliant

about that famous line,

"They're coming

to get you, Barbara!"

is that he's commenting

on a horror movie.

They're coming for you!

Look, there comes

one of them now!

Now, of course,

years later we have "Scream"

and other films like that,

and they're self-reflexive,

but in this obnoxious

nudge-nudge, wink-wink way,

where it's like the audience,

well we've seen all this before

let's make fun

of the characters.

That's not how it

functions in this movie.

It functions

as two people, you know

the brother is kind of teasing

and scare the sister,

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes