Kim Newman Movies

Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne ‘Ilsa’ Thorne, Malissa ‘Elsa’ Longo,...

A screener at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films,...

A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.

Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually...

Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing...

An exploration of our cultural obsession with vampires and what they reveal about the human psyche.

One-man armies, meet-cutes, casual strolls away from huge explosions — stars and industry insiders toast and roast these cinematic chestnuts...

In this fascinating and well executed documentary film theorist and cult expert Xavier Mendik places "Cannibal Holocaust" in a broader context.

A short documentary about the classic Universal Monster actor, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.

Film critic Kim Newman introduces a new series of DVDs and Blu-ray disc releases by BFI showcasing little known British films.

Retrospective on The Nightmare On Elm Street Series.

Documentary about the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton, featured on the 2005 DVD release "The Val Lewton Horror Collection."

The making of The Prince of Egypt (1998).

Tribute to Universal make-up artist Jack Pierce who created some of the studio's most famous works including Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolf Man,...

Diabolical. Seductive. Immortal. Vampires have been an icon of evil in folklore and popular culture for more than three centuries, yet only one name...

This short documentary takes a look at the making of Twentieth Century Fox's 1944 film "The Lodger".

A documentary about the making of the movie "Dragonwyck"

Retrospective documentary on the British horror anthology classic Dead of Night (1945).

The history of Italian zombie cinema, beginning with the breakout worldwide influence and success of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and...