John Landis: Monsters in the Movies

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Elvis Mitchell talks to director John Landis about his new book, Monsters in the Movies, a visually rich history of the presence and evolution of monsters in film.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.
0:15.5	Welcome to the treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.
0:19.6	In 1973, my guest director, John Landis, loved horror movies so much that he made his first film a tribute to those films, a film called Schlock.
0:27.6	In the intervening years, he's made many great movies coming to America in the Blues Bros.
0:31.2	But he's also gone back to horror with films such as American Werewolf in London and Innocent Blood.
0:36.2	He has finally let his inner film historian out for his book, Monsters in the movies.
0:41.6	John, what a pleasure to have you here.
0:43.2	Thanks for coming back.
0:44.0	Thank you.
0:44.5	You know, actually, Schlaquois made at 1971, but I didn't get a distributor until 73.
0:51.4	So it always says 73.
0:54.3	Well, 73 is one I ISO, but forgive me.
0:56.3	No, no.
0:56.6	We're here in the hinterlands in Detroit.
0:58.2	No, no, you know what?
0:58.9	No, no.
0:58.9	You know what?
0:58.9	I had to go.
1:01.7	I had to go.
1:01.7	I had to go.
1:02.6	I had to go.
1:02.6	I had to go on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show to promote schlock. And I remember I was almost 23 and I had to lie and say I was 21.
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