The chainsaw is the worst weapon you could ever use for any kind of fight.
你只能把手边的东西扔进电锯的网里 这样它才能停下来
All you have to do is throw anything into the web of a chainsaw and it stops.
所以它可以说是最糟糕的武器
So, it’s about the worst weapon you could ever use.
如果你想抓住一些真正的80年代精神 那就不要再往下看了
If you want to go to something that really catches the spirit of the ’80s don’t look any further.
顺带一提 它的标题是挺不错
Also, quite a great title.
《疯子》(1980) – 预告片
卡罗琳·威廉姆斯
《德州电锯杀人狂2》演员
我真的很喜欢《疯子》
Oh, I love Maniac.
《疯子》(1980)
使《疯子》成为真正与众不同的电影 是因为它的表演质量很高
The thing that makes Maniac a true stand apart film is the quality of the performances.
一流的选角 一流的叙事 一流的剪辑
Top-notch casting, top-notch storytelling, amazing editing.
整部电影就像他妈的闪电一样
That movie moves like fucking lightning.
他有时会放慢播放速度 但这是有原因的 是为了给接下来做准备
When he slows the movie down, he does it for a reason, to set you up for the next thing.
这简直太合我的口味了
It’s a little strong for my tastes.
米克·加里斯
《恐怖大♥师♥》创作者
这证明了它的力量
It’s a testament to its power.
它让汤姆·萨维尼做化妆效果 他来自越南 他知道被撕碎的身体
You have Tom Savini doing the makeup effects who had come from Vietnam and knew all about
应当是什么样子的
what bodies rent asunder looked like.
那部电影中的剥头皮非常吓人 因为它看起来特别真实
You’ve got scalpings in that movie that are incredibly effective because they’re so real.
这是一部非常独♥立♥的电影 如果放到今天 肯定无法在院线上映
That’s a very independent movie that could not get on movie screens today.
但还有一些人数少但狂热的观众 这部影片可以算是酷刑色情片的先驱
But there was a small but hungry audience for that and that’s the precursor to torture
《人皮客栈》这种后来者都源自于它 它开启了一个新的类型
porn that you know, Hostel came along much later and started a whole new sub-genre.
贪婪的消费
家用录像带革命
录像带时代的人和后下载时代的人很难共情
The VHS era is hard to convey to someone who grew up in the post Napster digital era when
亚历克斯·温特
《捉鬼小灵精》演员
因为现在获取影视太方便了
everything is available by some means.
《罗伯特·阿贝尔的世界》(1985)
你可以随时进入电影的世界 不必拘泥于对小时候在11频道看到的什么
You suddenly had access to a world of cinema beyond just your hazy memories of the Hammer
汉默公♥司♥电影的模糊记忆
films they played when you were a kid on Channel 11.
乔·鲍勃·布里格斯
《乔·鲍勃·布里格斯的最后时刻》主持人
那是音像店的时代 每个街角都会有一家
It was the age of the video store and there was one on every street corner.
你可以尽情地浏览并观看买♥♥那些普通人通常不会看的东西
You could browse forever and watch things that no normal person would ever normally
这对于没有预算 但是有良好想象力的年轻独♥立♥导演来说
watch and this was a goldmine for young indie directors who had no budget but had a good
就是个金矿
imagination.
卡罗琳·威廉姆斯
《德州电锯杀人狂2》演员
每个人都会去音像店
Everybody went to the video store.
你要靠它来消磨夜晚时光
That was the way you started your evening.
科里·泰勒
《Slipknot》主音乐师
当妈妈不在的时候 我时不时会跑到当地的音像店去
Running down to the local rental store to see ooh what can I get away with renting without
我能买♥♥到什么好东西
my mom here.
然后就是Beta和录像带的战斗
And we had the Beta versus VHS battles.
就像是录像界的可口可乐大战百事可乐
It was like the Coke – Pepsi battle of the video tech world at the time and obviously
安德烈·高尔
《降妖别动队》演员
最后录像带赢了 商店里都是录像带
VHS won out and that’s what the stores had.
瑞恩·图雷克
怖屋公♥司♥发展副总裁
录像带具有某种魔力
There was a certain magic to the VHS tape.
我记得我第一次借录像带借的是《猛鬼街》《魔精》等
I remember the first one we rented was A Nightmare on Elm Street and Critters
都是给我妈借的
and something for my mom.
然后你就可以办自己的影展了
And then you had the personal curation aspect.
我很喜欢收集录像带
I could collect videos.
现在我有了一套的电影收藏
Now I could have the equivalent of albums but in film form.
突然间我产生了一种前所未有的归属感
Suddenly I felt a kind of ownership of the content in a way that I never had felt before.
杰弗瑞·考姆斯
《活跳尸》演员
现在没什么人关心电影收藏了
Nobody cares about owning movies anymore now.
没人想拥有实体的收藏
No one covets holding it.
全都储存在云端了
It’s all just like in the cloud.
一切都通过你的数字设备 像手♥机♥ iPad来完成 在这过程中
Everything’s through your digital device, your phone, your iPad and there’s definitely
肯定会有些冷漠
a certain coldness to the process.
HBO电影介绍(20世纪80年代)
我们是第一代通过有线电视发现这一切的人
We were the first generation to really discover all this stuff
这意味着我们更早地得到了它
through cable which meant we got it earlier which meant it was even more
它比前几代人要偷偷跑进电影院才能看到东西更加禁忌
taboo than like the earlier generations that had to kind of sneak into theaters and whatnot.
现在我随时可以在家中看到它
Now all of a sudden it’s being beamed into my house.
因为妈妈工作 我要一个人待3个小时 让我看看Cinemax上有什么
I’m by myself for three hours because my mom works, ooh what’s on Cinemax?
看看HBO有什么
What’s on HBO?
我享受了有线电视的益处 享受了租赁系统的好处
I had the benefits of cable and I had the benefits of the rental system.
你必须就当天晚上要看什么做出决定
You had to make some decisions about what you wanted to watch that night.
环球影业Logo(20世纪80年代)
你所知道的环球影业的一切都在其中 托比·霍珀就用录像带
It would have everything from a Universal Picture that you know, Tobe Hooper got tapped
来制♥作♥他拍摄的作品
to make to stuff that was shot on video.
小菲尔·诺贝尔
《Fangoria》杂♥志♥主编
例如在《开膛手》里 汤姆·萨维尼扮演开膛手
Like the Ripper. Tom Savini starring in the Ripper.
我们租了那部片子
We rented that and
以为可以看到像预告片里那样的一部真正的电影
I thought I was gonna get a real movie and it was like shot on video.
我不敢相信我借了一部什么片
I couldn’t believe I was watching,
就好像制片公♥司♥也和我一样 只花了3美元 然后让汤姆·萨维尼
like I just paid the same $3 that I would have paid for a studio release and it was Tom Savini
《开膛手》(1985)
在整部片子里到处乱跑
running around in a shot on video thing.
突然间你看到了大量故事不好 导演不好 演员不好的烂片
You suddenly had this great outpouring of poorly written, poorly directed, poorly acted
但偶尔你也能捡到些宝贝
films but then you would have the occasional gem.
在录像带大行其道后 像查理·班德 罗杰·科曼这样的人
Guys like Charlie Band, guys like Roger Corman found a whole new life on home video after
都在家庭录像中找到了新出路
the VHS explosion happened.
斯图尔特·戈登
《活跳尸》编剧、导演
查理·班德真正发明了直接视频
Charlie Band really invented direct-to-video.
查理大量地生产他们
Charlie was churning them out.
帝国国际影业Logo(20世纪80年代)
当时的帝国影业和查理·班德为崭露头角的人才提供了
Empire Pictures and Charlie Band at the time provided opportunity to up-and-coming talent
唐·曼西尼
《地窖居住者》编剧
留下痕迹的机会
to make their mark.
《魔偶奇谭》(1989)
他们正在紧跟大公♥司♥的发展规划 并试图更快 更便宜地
They’re chasing trends that the bigger guys are doing and trying to get there more quickly
《狂暴雷克斯》(1986)
《活魔人》(1986)
《寄生魔种》(1982)
《马桶妖怪》(1985)
实现目标
and more cheaply.
《惊惧幻象》(1986)
查尔斯·班德提供了这种无休止的产品流 其中一些影片是有价值的
Charles Band provided this sort of unending flow of product and some of it had real worth.
《禁域魔怪》(1987)
《惊惧幻象》(1986)
它们很俗气
They’re cheesy.
有很多血腥和恶心的场景 表演也糟糕 故事情节也很荒谬
A lot of blood and gore bad effects and bad acting and ridiculous storylines.
《魔偶奇谭》(1989)
卡珊德拉·彼得逊
《销魂天师》演员
它们就在我的小巷里 我爱它们
They were right up my alley and I loved them.
道格·布拉德利
《养鬼吃人》演员
很多粉丝跟我说 他第一次看《养鬼吃人》是因为他们在浏览热销影片的货架
A lot of fans have said to me that saw Hellraiser for the first time because they were browsing
然后当他们看到钉子头的造型时 就停下了脚步
through the shelves of Blockbuster and they paused when they got to the image of Pinhead.
他正在与你进行非常直接的目光接触
He’s making very direct eye contact with you.
好像在对你说 看看我对自己做了什么
What the image says is, look what I did to myself.
再想象一下我会对你做什么
Now imagine what I could do to you.
录像带封面的艺术性最初并不是很重要 直到其中一些关键的
Video cover art didn’t seem that important initially and until some of these key horror
恐怖电影出现
films started appearing.
格雷厄姆·亨弗里斯
电影海报设计师
基于它们的成功 这些封面突然变得非常重要
And on the base of their success then suddenly those covers became quite important.
很显然 当画面越亮 越有冲击力时
Obviously the brighter and the more shocking it could possibly be than the better and
它就越有可能被观众选择
more chance of that video being picked up.
迈克尔·金戈尔德
《AD Nauseum & Fangoria》作者
它们需要有一种能力 让你从中掌握一种模糊的概念
They had to have that art there to get you to grab an unknown title as opposed to something
而不是你在其它影片中司空见惯的内容
you might be familiar with from its theatrical release.
那时你真的要去寻找一些东西
Back then you really had to go looking for stuff.
希瑟·威克森
《Daily Dead》主编
你必须愿意冒险 如果它的正面或封面上有一张非常酷的海报
You had to be willing to take chances and if it had a really cool poster on the front
我就会被迷住
or cover art I was hooked.
员工精选区都会选择一些这样的影片 你最好租这些
It’s the staff pics that usually would pick something that would be like, you want to rent this.
不要租别的
Don’t rent that.
你一直都能租这些 你想要这个
You’ll always be able to rent that. You want this.
这些大家都知道
Those people knew.
他们知道什么是好电影 因为他们能看到内容
They knew what the good films were because they had access to them.
我的80年代恐怖圣经之一是《恐怖大全》的海报
One of my sort of Bibles of ’80s horror was the poster for Terror in the Aisles because
因为《恐怖大全》前面的头骨是由其中所有提到的电影名称
the skull on the front of Terror in the Aisles was made up of all the titles of the
组成的
names of the movies in it.
所以,我会在音像店里拿起《恐怖大全》
So, I would go pick up Terror in the Aisles in the video store and I’d start to go through
通览它的海报 找到些不同的电影
and I’d walk through and I try to find different movies.
它确实让我看到了很多我本来不会租的电影
But it really opened me up to a lot of movies I would have never rented otherwise.
我为制♥作♥《月光光心慌慌》海报的公♥司♥工作 就是那把神话般的标志性的刀
I worked for the company that did the Halloween posters, that fabulous iconic knife going through
穿过南瓜灯的那个海报
the pumpkin of the jack-0′-lantern.
这样就可以说是不言而喻了
That kind of said it all without saying anything.
我认为这是一个精彩绝伦的广♥告♥