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too fond of the hearse. I run a foster home for

medically-fragile, disabled children, and I used my hearse

as a wheelchair vehicle. She kind of cringes a

little bit when we show up at Dorenbecher's

Children's Hospital and I'm rolling out

looking like this, with my tattoos pulling

wheelchairs out of the back. And Kids have a seat that rides

in the back there as well. That kind of freaks people out. My daughter's doing

this out the window as we're driving down the road. -My friends and family, you

know, my dad helped me buy it, and he's an eight-year-old

conservative Republican. Maybe my neighbors

across street that are trying to sell their house,

they don't necessarily like it so much, but they're

about the only ones. -I think you're probably

a hearse fan first, if you own a hearse,

before you want to buy one. Just 'cause you

like horror stuff, if you like horror things

and go buy horror effects, you know, a hearse

[INAUDIBLE] first, and then probably have

an interest in, you know, the dark side of things,

or the macabre stuff. -I don't have like, it all deck

out with skeletons and things like that. I have it very classic,

with the white-wall tires, and just want to keep

it as professional looking as possible. So that's my goal. Just to have,like

a collector's car that's a little more

on the macabre side. -My cars' all are custom. They've got skeletons hanging

from the ceiling in there. You know, big fan

white walls was kind of in your face vehicles. DAD: Those look like

the Halloween props, when we put the

Halloween props in. -Especially Zilch. -Yeah, especially Zilch. Zilch is a little zombie

baby that we put in the car. BOY: He creeps me out. DAD: He doesn't like to ride

in the same seat as Zilch. [MUSIC] -My name's Voltaire, and I

have a little bit of trouble explaining exactly

what it is that I do, because I do a lot

of different things. I started out as a

stop-motion animator. I animated and directed some

of the early MTV and Sci-Fi channel station IDs --

all of the spookier ones, I like to think. And I got into

making comic book, so I made some comic

books -- sci-fi, horror, usually with a touch of comedy. And then at some point in the

'90s I learned to play guitar, and I, on a dare,

played a live show which got me signed to a

record label, and I've been a recording

artists ever since. [MUSIC] -Everything I do

tends to be macabre. So there's always,

sort of an appreciation or a love for monsters

and the macabre, and there's also,

usually, a sense of humor. I don't choose to put

the macabre in my music. The macabre is just in my

music, because I'm macabre. And that may sound really,

I don't know, pretentious or corny, but it's

just the truth. Everything around

me, I inevitably find some cynical or

sarcastic way of looking at. I have been a fan of

monsters since as far back as I can remember. My earliest memories were

memories of, you know, getting excited because

"King Kong Vs Godzilla" was going to be

on the 4:
30 movie. As a child, if it had a monster

in it, that was all I needed. So "King Kong" is

probably my favorite film, and as far as I'm concerned

it's a monster movie. I was on tour a few years ago,

and I was in Portland Oregon, and I was in a bookstore

-- no record store, and I saw a gentleman

signing a Bauhaus poster, and that gentleman was

apparently the bass player -- David J. And at some point,

when I least expected it, the man came up to

me and said, excuse me is your name Voltaire? And I said, yes. He said, did you write a

book called "What is Goth?" And I said, yes. And he goes, I loved that book. Would you autograph it for me? And I like, wow -- the

bass player of Bauhaus is asking me for my autograph. This is pretty epic. [MUSIC] -Yes, I'm a founding father,

if not the godfather, of goth. It is said that I wrote the

song, "Bela Lugosi's Dead," but actually I

made a contribution to the song, in that I wrote

the lyrics and the bass line. And then Peter saying it as if

he'd been singing it for years. And then we recorded the

thing, like the next week. So it was all very quick. And then it was made into

a record very quickly, and it took off. [MUSIC] -Director -- Mr. Scott. He saw a performance of ours on

a TV show called "Riverside," and we were doing

"Bela Lugosi's Dead," and he ran it Bowie and

Bowie gave it the thumbs up. As far as my favorite

type of horror film, it's usually

psychological actually. And the more subtle,

and the horror that's implied rather

than shown, I think, is much more potent. IVAN DE PRUME:

Unleash with no fear. People don't like it

when we hold back. When you're -- we you

watch someone on stage and they're holding back,

then we're going to hold back. We're not gonna go crazy. We notice when the

band is going crazy, the audience is going crazy. Right? [MUSIC] -We are Dead Animal

Assembly Plant. We're a horror industrial band. The story goes back to the

Sweet Meat's slaughterhouse. It was found in the late

1800s by someone named Wilhelm Schroder, who industrialized

butchery with the machines. And after he was fed to the

machines by the townspeople, the Sweet Meat's

Slaughter remained empty until we came along. -Be who you are -- 100%. Kick ass, and then you're

gonna be proud of yourself, because no one else is

gonna give a sh*t except you in the end. -The whole theme is

cannibalistic, murderous, you know, slaughterhouse,

kind of dirty south -- more the embrace of

raw industrial sound. It's not clean, it's not

perfect, but it is sincere. -So If you want to do

a horror kind of thing, do a horror kind of thing. But do it 100% present! Don't just do a

little dibble dabble. Don't just get one monster,

get all the monster. You know, make them

as ugly as you can. Like, big teeth, you know? With fire. Saw blades. -Virtually every

creative outlet I have, horror films have wormed

their way into it. -Started working on

independent feature films. Did everything

from being a blood guy to dealing with

the body parts. -To which I'm really,

really grateful, because it's made my work a

lot better and more interesting than it use be, I think. -To washing off the

naked women when they were done doing

their blood scenes. -I wrote a book

called "Shadow Play: Philosophy and Psychology

of the Modern Horror Film," to explore aspects of the psyche

that we're trying to leave behind as we reach

for civilization. And horror films are

a perfect fantasy arena to process all that stuff. -Started developing a

distribution company to distribute my own

movies, and then that was the creation of "Iron

Virgin" and "Stripper Land," of writing and directing and

co-producing horror movies with our own company,

to open the doors to bigger and better things. DANIELLE ANATHEMA: I

always love photography because I can't paint. Basically I like to capture an

image that looks like a movie still. When I was a child I had

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