(eerie music)
- I can't necessarily think of anything crazy
that I've done to really accumulate all the stuff.
It's more been a process of searching
and hunting down the perfect artist
of What movie speaks to me.
(dramatic music)
My name is Greg Palko.
I collect horror movies and movie memorabilia.
When I was younger, I went to a video store
with my sister in town.
looking through the horror movies and looking at the box art
and the covers, and just spending basically hours
because I love the artwork.
There was a movie called "Headless Eyes," this is it.
And I wanted to buy this exact movie.
Naive 15-year-old me brings it off the shelf,
goes up front and the guy wouldn't sell it to me
because I'm not 18 years old and they cannot
sell movies to a minor.
That basically started my fuel for my horror obsession.
(shelves falling)
The oldest piece in my current collection is probably
the Jason Vorhees from Part Four of "Friday the 13th."
I chose that as my first one because
who isn't a "Friday the 13th" fan
who doesn't want a Jason in their house?
It doesn't matter if you're a horror collector or not.
You can wear the hockey mask
and just scare whoever's over.
The second piece I got was a Krite
from the movie "Critters."
(creatures chattering)
You've seen "Critters," I'm sure.
The 1980s little fur balls that would basically
eat you alive or turn into a massive fur ball
and roll over anything and consume it.
That's a latex piece with resin eyes,
acrylic eyes, resin teeth.
They could either be made out of resin, out of silicone.
Some of them are foam-filled.
Some of them are just basically hollow.
The David that you could see back over there
from the "Lost Boys" movie, that's a silicone piece.
All the hand-punched hair.
Many, many hours, I'm sure, were put into that one.
It was not cheap.
Look at the Leatherface over here, which is a latex piece,
and probably about half the price,
if not a quarter of the price as the silicone.
The quality may not be as high, but it's still effective.
I have a "Blind Dead" Templar, which I had custom-made,
and it's the only one on Earth.
(man screaming)
I'll take a Tall Man bust and basically chop that apart,
build it with a mannequin and make a full,
life-size Tall Man.
- You think that when you die, you'll go to heaven.
You'll come to us.
- This is a minion from "The Gate Part Two."
(girl screaming)
It's a resin piece, the cage came with this one
and then behind me on the shelf is the original minion
from the first "Gate," in the eighties,
film with the Stephen Dorff.
I've only sold, I think, maybe one or two
out of the 15-plus years that I've been collecting busts,
just because maybe other people had them
and it didn't feel special anymore or something.
Since I put so much time and effort
into choosing which piece I want next for the collection,
I don't think I can pick a favorite.
(upbeat music)
I've been collecting movies for about 25 years,
maybe a little bit longer.
So it's a long process, but a lot of these movies
you probably wouldn't be able to get any more for cheap,
so I can see people going through insane lengths right now
to get them, but for me, it's a lot of them
I bought a long time ago.
A good one to start with if you're into 70s sleaze
would be "Driller Killer."
Somewhat rare big box tape, but if you're into punk rock
and a guy with a battery pack and a drill killing people,
then that's obviously up your alley.
The "Blind Dead" films.
These are the first two.
There's "The Tombs of the Blind Dead"
and "Return of the Blind Dead."
(man gasping)
And that was the very first movie I ever saw
without a happy ending.
I went upstairs and my eyes did not close the entire night.
That kind of also pushed me into the realm of horror.
The original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
It's a classic, Tobe Hooper wrote this.
(woman screaming)
Loosely based off of some real serial killers and whatnot,
but this is definitely one that any horror hound
or person looking to get into horror
should definitely check out.
- [Narrator] This is the movie that is just as real,
just as terrifying as being there.
- I don't think there's ever gonna be
an end goal with this collection.
I mean, there was never really
any kind of set goalposts to begin with.
It was just doing something I really love.
There's no point in doing something half-assed
if you really love it.
So, I'm just going to keep collecting.
I'm sure I'm gonna run out of room.
I almost am, but I'll find ways to insert more shelves
on the ceiling or take over other rooms in the house
without the girlfriend killing me.
(upbeat music)