Browse: Midnight Makers: Cult and Horror Docs

The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street. The story behind the rise and fall of New York’s 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the people, the crime and the rebirth of the block as...Read More
The award winning documentary celebrates some of the unsung action stars of the late eighties and early ninety in the North American Pictures Catalog. From Cynthia Rothrock and Bolo Yeung to Bi...Read More
Welcome to your crash course on the history of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema, one of the most curious and invigorating periods in exploitation filmmaking. This new documentary arrival covers th...Read More
Known as the “Father of Claymation,” Will Vinton revolutionized the animation business during the 1980s and 90s, creating such iconic characters as the California Raisins and Domino’s The Noid....Read More
This documentary chronicles the captivating, funny, outrageous and ultimately tragic true Hollywood story of Douglas Dunning, actor. Dunning of suspect British descent, burst on to the scene in...Read More
A documentary by Felipe M. Guerra that explores the film-by-film triumphs, tragedies and controversies of notorious filmmaker Ruggero Deodato. "Great information and insider stories, all coming...Read More
From Grindhouse Releasing: A documentary on the short-lived craze of Italian cannibal films in the ’70s and ’80s, (to which we are no strangers!) featuring interviews with Umberto Lenzi, Rugger...Read More
In 1976, during the hottest summer on record, "Star Wars" was shot in suburban North London. Nobody involved had any idea how big the film would become and many couldn't even remember the title...Read More
Inspired by the success of arthouse films like THE NIGHT PORTER and THE DAMNED, shrewd and shameless exploitation movie producers were quick to the market with low budget cash-ins and created a...Read More
From the 1950s when they pumped Technicolor blood into old monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula, to today's chillers like 'Let The Right One In" and "The Lady In Black", Hammer Films combined...Read More
He was known as The Maestro of Splatter and The Godfather of Gore. But who was the real Lucio Fulci? When an actor (Nicola Nocella of Easy and Pupi Avati’s The Youngest Son) agrees to portray t...Read More
Ghostheads is a documentary that explores the extreme side of the Ghostbusters fandom, and looks back at the impact the franchise has had on the world over the past three decades featuring inte...Read More
From the creator of documentaries 42nd Street Memories and Eaten Alive, Images of Apartheid uncovers the likes of Joe Bullet (1973), Fishy Stones (1979) and Umbango (1986), blaxploitation produ...Read More
Bouncer. Novelist. Composer. Producer. Star. To '80s UK audiences, Cliff Twemlow was all of these and then some. Between 1982 and 1993, Twemlow gathered a devoted team of local doormen, martial...Read More
A definitive documentary on the history of nudity in the movies from the early silent days to the present, examining the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasi...Read More
From director Frank Henenlotter (Frankenhooker, Brain Damage) and co-producer Mike Vraney (the late founder of Something Weird Video) comes the epic documentary critics call "fascinating" (Vide...Read More
Chris Poggiali, co-author of These Fists Break Bricks, narrates the early years of Kung Fu film distribution in the U.S. in a new documentary, now streaming in our "Midnight Makers: Cult & Horr...Read More
Diabolical. Seductive. Immortal. Vampires have been an icon of evil in folklore and popular culture for more than three centuries, yet only one name still personifies the ultimate aristocrat of...Read More
From The Rocky Horror Picture Show to The Big Lebowski and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussin...Read More
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...Read More