Stephen King’s IT miniseries was one of the great horror releases of the 90s, and still terrifies audiences more than 30 years after release. Featured within In Search of Darkness 1990-1994, we have an exclusive clip with director Tommy Lee Wallace, who talks about the world’s fear of clowns, and bringing Pennywise to life with Tim Curry!
Ready to explore the best of ‘90s horror films and TV? In Search of Darkness 1990-1994, a five-plus-hour documentary featuring brand-new interviews with the greatest line-up of horror icons and experts, is now available to pre-order exclusively at 90sHorrorDoc.com until Midnight Halloween (Pacific Time) on October 31st, 2024. Audiences will have their last chance to have their names alongside their favorite horror icons in the credits!
From CREATORVC, the creative minds behind the In Search of Darkness ‘80s horror trilogy and Aliens Expanded documentary, 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 – leaving no shortage of terror tales on TV, at the local video store, and on multiplex screens.
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 are deconstructed, re-contextualized, and revered with a nostalgic, celebratory lens in In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994, which features new
interviews with legendary film icons of the ‘90s, side-by-side with genre experts and famous fans – all assembled to reframe a fascinating period in horror history and hold up a cracked mirror to the compelling socio-political issues of the landscape.
Horror icons and fan favorites featured in the documentary include John Carpenter (In the Mouth of Madness), Heather Langenkamp (Wes Craven’s New Nightmare), Tim Balme (Dead Alive), Michael Gross (Tremors), James V. Hart (Bram Stoker’s Dracula), Frank Henenlotter (Frankenhooker), Ted Raimi (Army of Darkness), Berrnard Rose (Candyman), Charlie Band (Full Moon Entertainment), Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep), Akela Cooper (M3GAN), Jill Schoelen (Popcorn), Amelia Kinkade (Night of the Demons), A. Michael Baldwin (Phantasm), Alex Winter (Freaked), Tom Savini (Night of the Living Dead), Kane Hodder (Jason Goes to Hell), Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik), Tommy Lee Wallace (Stephen King’s IT), Ernest Dickerson (Def by Temptation), Don Mancini (Child’s Play), Screaming Mad George (Bride of Re-Animator), Robert Kurtzman (Misery), Mick Garris (The Stand), Ted Nicolaou (Subspecies), Adam Marcus (Jason Goes to Hell), Stephen Volk (Ghostwatch), Brian Yuzna (Return of the Living Dead 3), Clancy Brown (Pet Sematary II), Shinya Tsukamoto (Hiruko the Goblin), Gilbert Adler (Tales from the Crypt), and more.
“The ‘90s was a much more exciting time for horror filmmaking, TV programming, and bold innovation than many of us may remember,” says In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 writer/director David Weiner. “There was an abundance of creative visions, vibrant approaches, and insane indie entries. And it was also a time of major transition, growing pains and evolution for horror filmmakers. I’m excited to present a brand-new line-up of ‘90s horror legends and contemporary voices, alongside several returning ‘80s favorites, to reframe the perspective of this oft-maligned decade of great horror entertainment and risk-taking in In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994.”
“I’m thrilled to invite superfans on an extraordinary journey with In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994,” says CEO of CREATORVC, Robin Block. “Together, we were able to show the world a new form of documentary with the first In Search of Darkness in 2019, expanding the film into a trilogy and subsequent books. We are excited to take on a new decade in horror and explore it with our fans.”
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 Purchase Options:
Pre-orders for In Search of Darkness: 1990 – 1994 are available October 8 through midnight October 31 exclusively at www.90shorrordoc.com
