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.

• Tony Todd
• Robert Englund
• Virginia Madsen
• Nick Castle
• Brad Dourif
• Heather Langenkamp
• Lin Shaye
• Ryan Turek