Horror Documentaries
 

I'm always on the lookout for great documentaries on horror. I have:

Going To Pieces: The Rise And Fall Of The Slasher Film
Dario Argento: An Eye For Horror
Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation

I really want:

100 Years Of Horror - the complete set
Terror In The Aisles
Boogeymen 2: Masters Of Horror

What other great horror documentaries are out there?

Also, besides the Bravo and Channel 4 horror countdowns, do you know of any other horror countdowns that are worth watching?

Terror In The Aisles is pretty bad - I have a VHS of it somewhere.

VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP AND VIDEOTAPE thats on the Video nasty DVD is great.

Long Live the New Flesh about Cronenberg.

Not Quite Hollywood is amazing (more exploitation but some horror in it).

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait

American Nightmare

The Studio that Dripped Blood (great Hammer doc).

His Name Was Jason

Thank you. I see a lot of this is on Youtube, so I'll be busy for a while.:D

ban the sadist videos, good watch if u can find it. about all the baned movies.

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street legacy (must watch)

The Psycho legacy

The Omen legacy

Halloween: 25 Years of Terror

IFC presents: The American Nightmare

Cropsey

Thanks guys. Just watched American Nightmare. Added to wishlist.:)

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994)

Some great stuff mentioned.

Check out this one too:

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That is an AMAZING movie. "No, it's pronounced COE - ven!"

I have a couple of good Lovecraft Documentaries-they may be best for hardcore fans though.

I'd forgotten that one. I really enjoyed it.:)

What are the Ban The Sadist Videos dcoumentaries like? (who's involved, what clips of films are there, how much is about the history of the Nasties phenomenon etc.)

I'm interested in possibly having a look.

I only have IFC's The American Nightmare on DVD and already downloaded the following ones but haven't seen them yet:o

1. Bravo's 100 scariest movie moments+30 more scarier movie moments
2. Cropsey
3. Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
4. His name was Jason
5. Machete Madness
6. Nightmares in Red, White & Blue
7. Not Quite Hollywood

Thanks for the recs, V! I'll try to hunt them down soon.

Going to download it soon.


I have seen only one and I loved it...Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown.

I'll definitely second this one. Excellent documentary (and the DVD set has an insane amount of extra stuff).

That's one I have yes its great-You may also like-The Eldritch Influence which is the other one I have.

Haven't heard of it before but noted down and thanks a lot for the rec. :)

Right on all counts.:)

I picked up Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide, so I watched all 72 trailers for the video nasties as well as the doc. They just don't make 'em like that anymore.:D

Not Quite Hollywood is very good and it's also streaming on Netflix.

I really liked S&Man (2006) and Cropsey (2009).

Haven't seen a lot of those mentioned - Thanks for the recs!


Also - not necessarily horror-related, but more of a mystery/cryptozoology feel, I have to recommend Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011) - Utterly fascinating.

Can't recommend that one enough. Brilliant stuff.

If I remember correctly it was your recommendation that got me to seek it out


thanks :D

That does look cool. I'll have to track that down.:)

Saw a great documentary called American Grindhouse about the history of American exploitation films. It's interesting to see that exploitation has been around since the invention of film itself.

THAT'S the name I was trying to remember so I could reccomend it.

Yes, great documentary.

Saw one recently on BBC4 called Dear Censor about the censors we've had in the UK over they years and how the BBFC has changed. It was based on archives recently released to the public.

Thanks for the head's up!

News for people who can get the Horror Channel.

It's showing Video Nasties:Moral Panic, Censorship....
On November 4th 22:55pm (UK Time)

It's part of its banned November season. I can't wait to see the full uncut version of Island Of Death which the waste of money BBFC greenlighted September 2010.

Haha yeah no doubt! Got a copy of the follow Machete Maidens Unleashed to watch. It's made by the same folks and covers all the exploitation flicks made in the Philippines. Hopefully it's just as good although I've heard mixed reviews about it.

I didn't think much of that one. Really lightweight. The section on the early era was interesting but the rest was just to brief barely scratching the surface and offered nothing new or insightful. I guess it would be more suited to viewers who knew nothing at all about exploitation cinema but after the recent revival due to Grindhouse your average movie buff would be already familiar with the majority of what was mentioned.

Yeah have to agree with this.

Another high recommendation for this one. Very informative and well put-together.

Also saw a really short documentary about Dardano Sacchetti for fans of Italian horror he worked on like Bava's A Bay Of Blood, Fulci's Seven Notes In Black and The Beyond, Argento's Cat O Nine Tails etc recently.Here's details

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1784343/

I second that. S&Man is great (although sort of a mockumentary, since it's laced with a fictional plot as well. Or is it... ;)).

There's also a very analytical doc called The Perverts Guide to Cinema. I only made it about a quarter of the way through though. Am sure it's very clever and interesting if you can understand the guy properly, but it all went over my head (and also his accent is a little difficult to follow sometimes!). Still, some well-made scenes, and Slavoj Zizek is certainly very passionate in his analysis.

I do also have Midnight Movies: From the Margin to Mainstream which I am about to watch thanks to being reminded of it by this thread!

I watched a decent one on halloween morning called Zombiemania. If you are a Romero fan you will dig it, the whole doc is like one big George A Romero ass kiss, lol!

OMG it was astounding you were completely right as well as showing clips from most of the video nasties it is extremely in depth and surprisingly profound towards the end. It confirmed a lot of what I suspected about the real reasons behind the whole video nasty hooha. Also in the version you saw did it have Emily Booth being attacked by videotape or did the horror channel sneakily include it themselves in the version they shown. The horror channel is notorious for its occasional acts of subversion like when they advertised The Incredible Melting Man "in amazing 2D! and gave "Street Trash" a PG rating!

Haha, that's awesome. Yeah, that bit with Emily Booth getting attacked is on the DVD menu.

Yeah, it is quite profound, especially considering it in the context of other "witch hunt" manias throughout history.

I'm glad the horror channel didn't put that bit in and it was on the dvd-I don't mind what they do but putting things in movies that shouldn't be there would be going too far. Yes the similarities between the many witchunt phases in history is striking. Also I loved how it showed you that authorities were trying to control what we see in the UK-so very true even today.

Yes, it's very scary. Especially with Congress considering a wretched, unprecedented Internet censorship bill here in the US.

They are?! Where'd you hear that? Of course, with being so close to Philly, all we're hearing about is the Penn State scandal and the death of Joe Frazier.

http://www.mozilla.org/sopa/

We should know more after today.

Holy crap! I had no idea! Thanks for the info, fortunato.

There are a lot of sites encouraging people in the US to contact their senators to try and stop this-the sad thing is that this will censor sites not just in the US but the whole world-this needs to be stopped at all cost-we can't let the bastards control the internet like this-please everyone try and stop this if its possible.