{"id":17279,"date":"2016-08-23T12:10:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T10:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berlin030.de\/?p=17279"},"modified":"2016-08-23T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T10:10:31","slug":"horror-ist-einfach-das-unterhaltsamste-genre-interview-zur-filmreihe-creepy-crypt-und-dem-jubilaeum-von-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berlin030.de\/en\/2016\/08\/23\/horror-ist-einfach-das-unterhaltsamste-genre-interview-zur-filmreihe-creepy-crypt-und-dem-jubilaeum-von-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Horror is simply the most entertaining genre!&#8221; &#8211; Creepy Crypt and the Anniversary of Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<meta http-equiv=\"CONTENT-TYPE\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" \/><meta name=\"GENERATOR\" content=\"OpenOffice 4.0.0  (Unix)\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n\t\t@page { margin: 2cm }\n\t--><\/style>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>Wes Craven&#8217;s meta-slasher &#8220;Scream&#8221; turns 20 this year. That&#8217;s reason enough to want to see it once more on the big screen. Creepy Crypt \u2013 reminiscent of the 1950s comic series &#8220;Tales from the Crypt&#8221; or the American TV show of the same name from the 1980s \u2013 is a horror film series that takes place every Saturday during the late-night screening at Neuk\u00f6lln&#8217;s Rollberg cinema, and is currently the only one of its kind in Berlin. I met with initiator, curator, and projectionist, and therefore practically all-round genius Daniel Schuh, to talk about the logistical challenges of such a project, about German genre cinema, about film censorship, and, of course, about the horror film itself.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>Do you have an origin story? How did you come to start a film series, and specifically a horror film series?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tI work for the Yorck cinemas, although in administration rather than directly in the cinemas, and I\u2019m a huge fan of horror films. I\u2019ve really always watched horror films, ever since I was very young. There once was a horror film series at another cinema in Berlin, but then there wasn\u2019t for quite some time, and I think watching horror films at home on the computer or on the television is a pity; they\u2019re not really made for that. I do always make everything dark, draw the curtains and all that, but it\u2019s just not the same, I always want to see these films in the cinema. So really, at first, it all started out of pure self-interest. <i>(laughs)<\/i> But of course, I\u2019m glad that other people can, and want to, watch the films too. It&#8217;s always funny as well when other people have totally different reactions to the film, or people get startled at moments that don\u2019t faze me at all. Watching films together in the cinema is always a special experience, and there are so many horror films that struggle or simply don\u2019t get the chance to make it onto the big screen.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>Your programme features a very colourful mix of festival films that aren\u2019t easy to find in cinemas, current releases and classics. Is there a curatorial concept behind it all?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tThere actually was one at the start, but I pretty quickly threw that overboard. At first, for example, I wanted to show a German horror film once a month. Unfortunately, they often have lower production values or recycle stories that have already been told in other films \u2013 and there are just too few of them. I once myself worked on a German horror film called Beyond Remedy and, back then, they just threw all the popular stories into one \u2013 killer, creepy child and so on. I don\u2019t rule out German horror films at all, of course, but wanting to show one every month was just too restricting, that was a very high-minded goal. Now, for instance, I plan to show a classic once a month \u2013 especially since I found out that\u2019s what most people want to see. The first one was <b>The Fog<\/b>, back then there were 80 people there, which was the best-attended screening so far.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<figure id=\"attachment_17284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17284\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the fog, nebel, horror, john carpenter\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17284\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.030.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/12779053_1657941314455217_6190452843230869711_o.jpg\" width=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/berlin030.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/12779053_1657941314455217_6190452843230869711_o.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/berlin030.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/12779053_1657941314455217_6190452843230869711_o-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/berlin030.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/12779053_1657941314455217_6190452843230869711_o-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fog &#8211; Nebel des Grauens (1980) by John Carpenter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>Do you remember the worst-attended screening?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tI believe that was <b>Die Pr\u00e4senz<\/b>, also a German film. <i>(laughs)<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>Did you feel an obligation at the time to support German genre cinema a little? With film funding and distribution being rather tricky here in Germany, after all.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tI\u2019d certainly like to, and if something comes up, I do screen it. But often, it\u2019s just a matter of quality being lacking. I&#8217;ve also had a director submit their film directly, with his sister playing the lead role, and it was just dreadful. I do try to maintain a certain level of quality, which isn\u2019t always easy with German horror films. I thought <b>Die Pr\u00e4senz<\/b> was pretty dreadful myself, for example. <i>(laughs)<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>Do you still remember any German horror films from recent years that you&#8217;d consider screening?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>Blutgletscher<\/b> is probably quite good; I\u2019ve seen the trailer, and it even had well-done CGI effects. <b>Hell<\/b> is a bit more of a thriller than a horror film, but a colleague did suggest it to me. I\u2019ll have to look into the rights again for that.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>As you had previously worked for the cinemas, were you already familiar with the logistical and legal ins and outs?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tNo, actually not entirely. The problem is that our programming is done by one person, and he doesn\u2019t really like people looking over his shoulder. But there\u2019s a colleague in the office who knows their way around too and was happy to support me. And after you\u2019ve phoned around with all the people a few times, you get the hang of it. I always start from what I\u2019d like to show. Then I try to find out whether there\u2019s actually anyone I can ask. Eventually, it starts repeating itself. Different distributors also have different ideas about pricing, and as I only charge \u20ac7.50 entry, it often works out as a break-even business in the end. But I\u2019m not bothered about making crazy profits. The classics do well \u2013 you can, funnily enough, get them at the cheapest rates. All in all, I\u2019m happy if it breaks even. I also started in the spring because it hadn\u2019t worked out before, and now I hope it will pick up even more in autumn\/winter, which is more the cinema season. Accordingly, in August I picked titles that are cheap to acquire, so it\u2019s not a disaster if nobody turns up. <i>(laughs)<\/i><br \/>\n\tThe most bizarre story was recently, when I wanted to show <b>Halloween<\/b> for Halloween and found that, in Germany, no one holds the rights to that film anymore. Warner did at one point, but those have expired, and now no one has them. It&#8217;s absurd: this is an absolute classic of horror cinema and, theoretically, you can\u2019t show it in a German cinema. It\u2019s the same for many films. There\u2019s also no rights holder for Pulp Fiction in Germany. So, the rights are definitely the biggest hurdle. But by now, I\u2019ve spoken to all the important people several times, and they think I\u2019m all right.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<figure id=\"attachment_17291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17291\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a nightmare on elm street, nightmare, horror, wes craven\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17291\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.030.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/freddykrueger-profile-1024x489.jpg\" width=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/berlin030.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/freddykrueger-profile-1024x489.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/berlin030.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/freddykrueger-profile-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/berlin030.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/freddykrueger-profile-768x366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/berlin030.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/freddykrueger-profile.jpg 1073w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) by Wes Craven<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>Can you say when you first got interested in horror films? Was there a particular horror film that really influenced you?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tI come from the south of Germany, and back in the day SDR used to have a horror film night every first Friday of the month or so, where Boris Masurke, done up in zombie makeup and decorations, would crack jokes and introduce the films. Sort of like Elvira or Vampira in the American equivalents. (\u201cDie lange Masurke Filmnacht\u201d on SDR, Ed.) Then, I had a mate I always used to go to the video shop with \u2013 back then there were still video shops. And I knew the owner, and all those terribly bad Italian cannibal films, some of which were actually banned, he kept in a box behind the counter, and he\u2019d let us borrow them even though we were underage. That\u2019s how it started. I think horror is simply the most entertaining genre. You don\u2019t have to expect much, these cannibal films were also incredibly boring, nothing happens for 70 minutes, they tramp through the jungle, then they get caught, there are a couple of murders, and then in the next film the same murder scene is sometimes used again, interspersed with odd wildlife documentary shots&#8230; (Daniel is referring to so-called \u2018mondo films\u2019, Ed.) Incredibly bad, but somehow always fun. I watched absolutely everything. I think my all-time favourite horror villain, who I even had posters of in my childhood room, was Freddy Krueger. <strong>A<\/strong>&nbsp;<b>Nightmare on Elm Street<\/b> I could watch over and over again, <b>Hellraiser<\/b> was also always one of my favourite films, although from today\u2019s perspective, those are more mainstream films. But I also watched all the trash over and over. Back then, you could actually get things very cheaply on eBay. If you were lucky and the auction didn\u2019t get reported and removed, you could even snap up banned films there.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>Speaking of the index: Evil Dead was only just recently released again a few days ago. Mad, isn\u2019t it?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tYes, that\u2019s been happening quite a lot lately. With <b>Reanimator<\/b> as well. I hope that it might eventually happen with <b>Braindead<\/b> . I think, back then, loads of films were banned without good reason. I\u2019d also really like to show <b>Halloween 3 <\/b>, because that one\u2019s a stand-alone and actually works by itself. Michael Myers doesn\u2019t even appear in it. I read on the cover that it too was only recently taken off the index. And it&#8217;s now rated 16. <i>(laughs)<\/i> How can it be that it was so bad back then, and now you can buy the film at 16? The only thing stopping films being taken off the index is that someone has to pay for them to be re-reviewed. As soon as that&#8217;s paid for, it pretty much always happens.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>With a lot of B-movies, there\u2019s probably just no one who\u2019s interested enough to pay for it. With Evil Dead, I suppose, the recent TV series probably made it worthwhile.<\/b><br \/>\n\t<b style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">How long have you been running the series now?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<strong>Scream<\/strong>marks the 25th week, so it\u2019s a little anniversary for me too. It kept getting pushed back. I originally wanted to start last year in October for Halloween \u2013 I\u2019d already pitched it, but it just didn\u2019t work out. That would obviously have been nicer \u2013 starting on Halloween and then running through the winter. It finally worked out in spring, and I thought, &#8220;Sod it, I just want the series to exist now.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<figure id=\"attachment_17286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17286\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"scream, schrei, horror, wes craven\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17286\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.030.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Wes-Cravens-Scream.jpg\" width=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/berlin030.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Wes-Cravens-Scream.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/berlin030.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Wes-Cravens-Scream-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/berlin030.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Wes-Cravens-Scream-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scream &#8211; Schrei! (1996) by Wes Craven<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>Have you noticed an increase in audience numbers during that time? Is it becoming established or are you still struggling?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tI am still struggling, to be honest. I can never tell how many people will turn up. For instance, I showed <b>The Invitation<\/b> and didn&#8217;t expect much, but then over forty people came. That was a nice surprise. Today, I\u2019m not expecting a big turnout either. Today I\u2019m showing Theatre Bizarre, which is a bit more brutal. Tom Savini did a segment where a bloke gets cut up with a circular saw blade. I think, &#8220;Cool \u2013 but it\u2019s not really the sort of film that brings in the crowds&#8221;, unlike The Conjuring or all that stuff which gets shown anyway in regular cinemas, which is a bit sad really.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>Then maybe your audience isn\u2019t really made up of genre fans, if the classics are popular and more splatter-heavy stuff struggles?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tYes, of course. Films like <b>Jaws<\/b> or <b>The Exorcist<\/b>, people just want to have seen those, whether or not they\u2019re strictly horror. I mean, <b>Jaws<\/b> is really harmless. Or <b>The Fog<\/b>, which is actually pretty ridiculous when it comes to horror. But those are the films people turn out for.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>With Scream, you\u2019ll soon be showing a slightly newer classic, you could say.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<b>Scream<\/b> premiered in December 1996, so it\u2019s already 20 years old this year. I wouldn\u2019t have thought so either, until I read it. As I said, I\u2019m a massive <strong>A<\/strong><b>Nightmare on Elm Street<\/b> fan, and since both films are by Wes Craven, I was also a huge <b>Scream<\/b> fan. The Creepy Crypt decoration wall here at the cinema even has a <b>Scream<\/b> mask hanging on it, which is mine. I bought it for myself back in the day.<br \/>\n\tOn 10 September I\u2019m also showing <b>Final Cut<\/b>, for the anniversary, because the lead actor is none other than Robert Englund, aka Freddy Krueger.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<i>This Saturday, 27 August at 10:30pm, Daniel is showing &#8220;Scream&#8221; in the original version at Rollberg cinema. To stay updated on future programme announcements, follow Creepy Crypt&#8217;s Facebook page at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yorckscreepycrypt\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yorckscreepycrypt\/<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wes Craven&#8217;s meta-slasher &#8220;Scream&#8221; turns 20 this year. That&#8217;s reason enough to want to see it once more on the big screen. 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