Movies: Horror filmmaking

A Sunday walk through the late summer landscape leads not only to a small lake, but also to the abyss of human existence. Dominance and oppression, superiority and humiliation serve for an alleged "incarnation"....

To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story is the harrowing story of a stuntman overcoming a dehumanizing childhood filled with torment and bullying in Sparks, Nevada. After surviving a near-death burn accident, he worked his way up through Hollywood, l...

An exploration of the appeal of horror films, with interviews of many legendary directors in the genre....

Tom Savini is one of the greatest special effects legends in the history of cinema, but little is known about his personal life until now. For the first time ever a feature length film has covered not only Tom's amazing career spanning over four deca...

The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp. Includes groundbreaking classics like "Night of the Living Dead," and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and sci-fi gems such as...

Documentary tracing the rise of the 'slasher' movie....

A look at Hammer’s progression from a back office in London’s Regent Street to its iconic status within the horror film genre. The company, started by comedian and businessman William Hinds in 1934, made films such as The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracu...

The story of how one Pittsburgh boy’s fascination with monsters drove him to the very top of the Hollywood food chain. In 1989, Greg Nicotero, much to his parents’ chagrin, quit medical school and headed for Hollywood to pursue a dream of making mons...

Revealing, intimate documentary spotlighting the Hollywood horror community....

A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children'...

A feature-length documentary exploring the history of the Spanish zombie film....

Directed by UK-horror scene stalwart Calum Waddell and hosted by scream queen Debbie Rochon (Terror Firmer, Tromeo and Juliet) Scream Queens: Horror Heroines Exposed features, in a change of pace for horror documentaries, especially those focusing on...

A filmmaker's lifelong dream quickly becomes his worst nightmare when he attempts to make a low budget horror film about an aborted fetus that seeks revenge on its family....

Documentary that explores Argento's film career....

Strange disappearances have occurred somewhere in France and a bunch of paranormal fans decide to break into an old building to find out what has happened....

4 stories about 4 criminal children. Two teenagers trapped in a world full of drugs and human trafficking, another two kids bring their loved ones to the limit, other two resentful kids want to fulfill their most evil desires, and one kid who has to ...

DIABLO is a 2021 short film about a masked stalker who hunts down his victims like prey and ends up driving them into a state of paranoia and insanity....

In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: international markets were opened, the production was continuous, a small star-system was created, as well as a solid group of specialized directors. Although f...

In 2013, a filming unit arrived at Isla del Faro Rojo to make a documentary about the Ticolense culture that lived there, and about how they turned it into a place of mass extermination. Once installed on the island, away from all civilization and te...

A feature-length documentary on the life and work of Wisconsin grindhouse cinema auteur Bill Rebane, featuring historians, critics, and filmmakers, plus cast and crew members who worked with Rebane himself....