In Search of Darkness

"In Search of Darkness" (2019) — four hours and twenty minutes of 1980s horror you can watch online on iFILM. Director David A. Weiner gathered dozens of people who actually made that decade's most iconic genre films and gave them room to talk.

John Carpenter breaks down why silence outperforms jump scares. Nick Castle describes what it felt like inside Michael Myers' mask on set. Barbara Crampton, Doug Bradley, and Sean Cunningham each pull back the curtain on productions that built the modern slasher and body-horror playbook. The film moves chronologically through the decade, pausing at every landmark — "Halloween," "The Thing," "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "The Fly" — with the people who made them.

If the 1980s horror canon is your subject, this functions as a four-hour oral history more than a conventional documentary. Stream "In Search of Darkness" online on iFILM.