Movies: Sarah Appleton

An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally specific, in other countries; to i...

This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years....

The documentary tracks the origins of the found footage technique and how it transformed with technological changes throughout the last few decades....

Horror bleeds into the 21st Century in an incisive documentary looking back at the late 1990s film industry on a global scale to find out what happened at the turn of the millennium to allow for the huge wealth of horror films flooding out from all c...

A look at Hammer’s progression from a back off 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, Dracula,...

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Quinqui cinema encompassed a series of Spanish crime films with a unique national sensibility, as they reflected the times of the Franco dictatorship transition. Guided by academics Mery Cuesta and Tom Whittaker, this featurette explores this explosi...

How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in this insightful documentary charting the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of Japanese supernatural chillers feat...

A brand new interview with Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman director Koji Shiraishi....

An analysis of Quentin Dupieux's film "Incredible But True" by film critic Elena Lazic....

Explores the salacious career of mysterious British filmmaker and distributor David Hamilton-Grant, who was the only supplier to be sent to prison for releasing a "video nasty". Hamilton-Grant navigated loopholes in the law in the 70s in order to pro...

An hour of interviews about the iconic British cinema....

A mother and daughter allow their mobile phones to track their whereabouts and get more than they bargained for....

A new documentary on the career of horror legend Charles Band....

A 30th anniversary documentary about Ghostwatch....

Documentary tracing the history of Soviet fantasy and sci-fi films. Included on Severin's release of Viy....

Documentary on the making of Hammer's adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles"....

A feature length documentary examining the horror films of director Bob Clark...

A documentary about the making of Brain Dead (1990)...

Matthew Holness, writer and star of cult television series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, offers up an appreciation of Milano Calibro 9 and the Italian poliziotteschi sub-genre...