The horror host talks the evolution of the genre community over the decades.
Movie fans typically show their love of horror most in the weeks leading up to Halloween, but devout horror fans can celebrate their love of all things spooky all year long, thanks to streaming service Shudder. One of the ways in which fans can come together is by watching The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, as host Briggs and cohost Diana Prince offer insight into each film shown during an episode, all while fans themselves connect on social media.
Joe Bob Briggs: I'm always working on Halloween and I used to not think that was a good thing, but then, at some point, I just decided to really embrace it, and so I go to everything. I go to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal and I go to the one at Disney and I go to the one at Knott's Berry Farm. I always find fans of the show at these places, and so I've now become one of those crazy, haunted-house people who has to go to every haunted house. So yeah, I guess I've become ...
Then we did a Nosferatu double feature on the 100th anniversary of Nosferatu. Normally, if you're a programmer, you say,"Don't make people read subtitles, don't show silent films, don't show black-and-white stuff. These are all the rules of television. You don't do this. Don't show weird artsy foreign films.
But, usually, when we get those complaints, that's people -- that's the '80s, slasher guys, and that's what they want and they don't want to veer off too far from that. I don't want to say they're all stoners, but they're watching the show under the influence of something and they can't go into the deep, deep, deep dives, they can't follow the deep, deep, deep dives, that we're going deep on the more complicated movies.
But a lot of people said,"This is a very disturbing movie. How did this get past the rating board in 1972 or whenever that was?" And people wouldn't choose to sit down and spend their Friday night with their family watching The Baby. But when they do, when they're asked to do it by us, they go along with it, and then there's this"wow" reaction.
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