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for people at home, it's because the people that

are interviewing me right now have no idea what I've done. So I'm feeling like --

I'm sitting here like, what do I do. I have to like feed

them into this stuff. -Going to shows like this, and

you see the way people dress, and the way that

they get into it -- and they express themselves,

and something that they like. I've always -- as an outsider,

someone who's not really into the genre myself, I can

still appreciate the fact that they are enjoying it,

and enjoying themselves. -These people had seen

everything, a lot of them, and they would probably --

I don't mean to be mean, but they'd probably be more

equipped to interview me than this stuff -- don't

even know [INAUDIBLE] -I'm telling you because

they are the best. Our film fans are absolutely

the best there is on the planet, OK? They buy all the tickets, they

buy the DVDs, the posters, the T-shirts , the

pictures, the -- whatever the hell and

the crap we come up with, because they're there supporting

us all the way down the line, and without them I got nothing. [INAUDIBLE] you what's

your favorite line in this, and my mind's going, oh God

-- I don't know [INAUDIBLE], what's your favorite line? And then they would

tell it to me, and I would say, coincidence! That was my favorite line too. And I'd write it on the thing. -I don't talk to

the celebrities, only because I'm always scared

it's going to change the way I see the movies, or anything

I'm interested in them in. I like to see them in

like every day life. You know, you see like -- like

we saw like Boondock Saints just walking around

casually like last night, and Sid Haig just

walking around. And like that alone

is awesome to me -- just to see them in real life

when they're not in a film. So I usually don't

talk to them much. [SWING MUSIC] -I have mixed feelings

about autographs. I really love get, you know,

my picture taken with someone , and get, you know, my book, or

my poster, or my movie signed, but I'm also very poor

and don't want to pay $20, $20, $20, $20, down the line. -I don't do this for the money. I have my school, I'm --

you know -- Independent. I come here because of hanging

out with Mosley or Sid Haig, you know? How hard is it to

sit here and have people throw money at

you all day, you know? If you complain about

that you're a moron. -Finished signing

an autograph here and there's a guy that comes to

the table over here who said, would you sign my dick? I said, no I wouldn't. Not even if you

washed it recently. Besides which, I'm not sure I

could fit my signature on it. -Lovecraft has kind of enjoyed

this resurgence in popularity. People are taking an

appreciation of sort of their -- the

literature aspect of it. In fact, in Portland

we have a bar, the whole theme of

which is Lovecraft. The guy's kind of

painted on the ceiling, and painted on the floor, and

posters, and all kinds of crazy stuff on the wall. -Hello, I'm John Horrid. I'm the owner of the Lovecraft

bar in Portland, Oregon. The Lovecraft bar

is not a Gothic bar. It's a horror-themed bar

embracing all horror culture. Be it literature,

music fashion or art. That way it's a broader

spectrum for everyone who loves anything

dark or spooky that goes bump in the night. It's sort of like Tim

Burton designed a lounge, you know, it's goofy horror. It's not so serious,

But it's definitely -- we have children's

coffins on the walls. There's bones

everywhere, and chains, but it's also kind

of fun feeling. [MUSIC] JOHN HORRID: H.P. Lovecraft

is probably one of the biggest names in horror, but has

never got credit for it. It's always Poe, and

Stephen King, and Anne Rice, and whatnot. But Lovecraft's impact on the

world of horror is immense. They've inspired

Metallica, Iron Maiden, mentioned in "Ghostbusters"

"Hellboy" -- he's everywhere. He's dark, he's gloomy, he's a

total freak, and he's awesome. I didn't want to be

specifically Lovecraft themed because there's so

much more to offer, and I'm a huge fan of

black-and-white horror movies honestly, so it's

just basically, I wanted to capture

that sort of feel. With the broader spectrum of

horror, it attracts all sorts. I love that we've attracted

authors, for example, like young, punky,

splatter horror authors are hanging out here. Apparently the road

manager to Metallica has been hanging out here. One of my favorite nights

ever, we first opened -- you got your

sulking metal heads, and your gloom-and-doom

goths over here, and there's a girls

dressed all in white -- she's bouncing around, and

I'm like, f***, here we go, there goes the end

of the bar, you know? But I'm not a dick, I

want to, like, be polite. She came up, she's

like, you're the owner? And I was like,

yeah, I'm the owner. And she's like, I love your bar. And I'm like, thank

you, you know? She's like I'm gonna tell

all my friends about it, and I'm like, cool. And she's like, I'm a librarian. And I'm like, please tell all

your freaky library friends, 'cause librarians are freaks yo. Bottom line. And we're slowly attracting

across the country a buzz with little

to no advertising. I don't Twitter. I f***ing hate that sh*t. Word of mouth has

been strong enough that horror fans

are coming to us. And ultimately my

goal is to get, like , Bruce Cambell or [INAUDIBLE]

in here, just to hang out. And they drink for

free, of course. So I was in a huge sort

of renovated furniture, recycled materials place. And I gave the

question, I was like, what do you have that's

uncomfortable for you guys here? And they mentioned, their

1890s children's coffins, and I was like, oh

I got to see those. And they're mahogany, and they

came in the original packaging. I fell in love with them

the second I saw them. And the price is right. I can't say I've spent more on

sushi , but I've come close. And they had a matching pair. And even the guys who delivered

didn't want to touch the boxes -- they were so superstitious. The Lovecraft Bar is an art

project always in motion. Whenever I'm out, antique

stores or whatever, I always ask whoever is

working there, what's the most messed up

thing you have here? What makes you uncomfortable? And then I usually guy it. Animal traps, old surgical

instruments, coffin handles, weird taxidermy art, stuff like

that has always appealed to me. LINNEA QUIGLEY:

Chainsaw Manicure. It was actually pretty easy to

break into movies when I first started, because I

was at a young age. I actually looked a

lot younger than I was. I was 18 when I started, and I

looked probably, oh 15 or 16. So it was actually a pretty

easy step for me to get into it. And they were doing a lot

of the '80s horror films, and I fit right in, at that

time, as being a victim. After "Return of

the Living Dead" and "Night of the

Demons," all of a sudden, like People Magazine,

Entertainment Tonight, all these, you know, press

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