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In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 Trailer Takes Horror Documentary Franchise Into the ’90s

October 8, 2024 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
In Search of Darkness 1990 - 1994 Image Credit: CreatorVC

The In Search of Darkness franchise is returning with a trip to the 1990s, and the trailer for the next entry is online. CreatorVC has released the final trailer for In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994, and you can check it out below.

The documentary is the latest in a series that includes three expansive films that looked at horror in the 1980s. Franchise director David Weiner is back to direct this entry, which is described as follows:

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.

The list of interviewees for 1990 – 1994 includes 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.

You can check out more details and pre-order the film here. Digital delivery is estimated for November, with physical releases estimated to ship in December.