A docu-series exploring how Chucky, Michael Myers, Pinhead and more came to be icons of the horror genre.

Tony Todd
Self

Robert Englund
Self

Virginia Madsen
Self

Nick Castle
Self

Brad Dourif
Self

Heather Langenkamp
Self

Lin Shaye
Self

Ryan Turek
Self

Tom Savini
Self
No horror icon came out of a filmmaker’s first draft fully formed. There were early drafts, wrong turns, experimentation. Once made flesh (or latex), there’s presentation, impact, audience response and legacy. Each of these steps that nudge a horror creation toward the annals of legend will be explored in Shudder’s BEHIND THE MONSTERS. Each episode examines a horror icon who has broken free of the confines of the film from which it was born and become the stuff of legend.
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