Most Popular Calum Waddell Trailers
Total trailers found: 64
29 September 2014
A documentary about the 'new wave' of British horror directors and their films in the 1960s and 1970s.
01 March 2013
A look at horror films featuring people who leave modern civilisation with the aim of seeking out pastures new.
15 March 2015
Author and critic Michael Gingold looks back at Hallmark Releasing, the controversial and confrontational distributor that introduced Mark of the Devil to American cinemas.
31 October 2011
Larry Cohen remembers the genesis of Maniac Cop and his part in the creation of the film in this documentary shot exclusively for the Arrow UK Blu Ray release of the movie in 2011.
07 July 2014
This feature-length documentary from High Rise Productions takes a close look at some of the most popular action movies from the '80s and the different political overtones in them, as well as the very specific characterizations they promoted, their general attitude towards violence, the political climate in Hollywood, etc.
19 May 2014
Filmed exclusively for Arrow Video in 2013, this documentary looks at the making of The Pit and the Pendulum and features producer and director Roger Corman, star Barbara Steele, Vincent Price's daughter Victoria Price and more.
03 December 2012
The history of Italian zombie cinema, beginning with the breakout worldwide influence and success of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and continuing through to Lucio Fulci's trend-setting Zombie Flesh-Eaters (Zombi 2) and its many imitators.
04 May 2018
New historical documentary on the largely unknown period of South African B-movies, and the later cinematic identity of the nation that was established under the apartheid regime.
13 February 2012
Dolph Lundgren discusses the making of 'Red Scorpion'.
17 April 2020
Produced for the "ultimate edition" of "Rollerball" from Capelight Pictures in Germany, 2020. The Blu-Ray of the original 1975 classic comes packed with this fascinating 85-minute documentary that charts the influence of "Rollerball" on contemporary scifi cinema, including "Mad Max", "The Warriors" and "Escape from New York", as well as the Italian variant that struck the big time with motion picture successes such as "The Bronx Warriors" franchise, "The New Barbarians" and the wonderfully trashy "Endgame".
13 October 2014
"Parasite Memories" is a brand new retrospective piece on the film produced by High Rising Productions with lively contribution from effects artist Joe Blasco, actresses Lynn Lowry and Barbara Steele, actor Allan Kolman, and Canadian critic Kier La-Janisse.
28 January 2020
Newman covers a lot of ground in under a half hour, including Let's Scare Jessica to Death's connections to Hammer Horror, vampire movies in the Seventies (which is a genre he claims experienced an "enormous boom" during that era), and much more.
21 March 2022
A revealing insight into the short life and times of Michael Reeves.
18 April 2023
A documentary centered on The Brave Archer series featuring actors from the films alongside critics detailing the making of them.
11 April 2023
A look back at the largely undocumented period of early Chinese-language horror cinema, beginning in Hong Kong and the Shaw Brothers and graduating to Taiwan and the production of Calamity of Snakes in 1983.
14 March 2011
Catriona MacColl relives the events taken place during the making of Lucio Fulci's classic horror film The Beyond.
16 January 2017
Documentary that breaks down the rise of Hong Kong Splatter Cinema.
01 January 2015
2015 featurette documentary behind the experience of Nightmare and grindhouse cinema.
10 October 2018
Documentary on actress Me Me Lai, who's best known for playing native girls in several controversial Italian cannibal jungle adventure movies.
22 July 2013
Andrei Konchalovsky reflects on the making of Runaway Train.
27 August 2018
A look back at the storied career of the late, great exploitation director Umberto Lenzi - as told through the director, in one of his last substantial sit-down interviews, colleagues and critics.
10 January 2018
Documentary about the later works of director Lucio Fulci with special focus on "A Cat in the Brain".
01 August 2018
Follow-up to "Eaten Alive: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film", this documentary was produced for the 88 Films UK Blu-Ray release of "Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story" and looks at the dying days of the controversial Italian cycle of jungle-based horror-adventures.
10 March 2020
A documentary on the life and career of the legendary British exploitation film director Norman J. Warren, who gained a name for himself in the sexploitation business in the late 1960s before moving into low budget horror pictures in the 1970s and 1980s.
01 October 2020
This is the first and only feature-length documentary on the life and cinema of the late Jorge Grau, who is most famous for his classic social-political horror masterpiece "Living Dead at Manchester Morgue" (1974), seen by some critics as a fierce critique of the Franco government albeit set in a displaced foreign locale.
15 July 2015
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 "New 42nd Street" - this is the document of the world's most notorious movie strip.
11 March 2019
A look back at the brief period of Eurocine cannibal film production that resulted in such oddball horror epics as 'Cannibal Terror', 'The Devil Hunter' and 'White Cannibal Queen'.
14 March 2011
This documentary is featured on Arrow Video's 2011 DVD & Blu-ray releases for The Beyond (1981).
13 September 2019
Documentary featuring Dr. Fink (keyboards), Susan Rogers (sound engineer), Steve Purcell (editor), Leroy Bennett (stage and lighting design), Gert de Bruijn & Michiel Hoogeboezom (sound engineers), Dave Rusan (Rusan Guitarworks) and Edgar Kruize (author of ‘Prince: The Dutch Experience’).
23 February 2016
Feature-length in-depth documentary by High Rising Productions chronicling the Giallo film genre from its beginnings as early 20th century crime fiction, to its later influences on the modern slasher film genre.
08 October 2018
An insightful look at the history of Hong Kong's exploitation cinema, from the early days of the Shaw Brothers and such shockers as "Killer Snakes" through to the advent of the Category III rating in 1988 and then the June 4th massacre in Beijing.
01 November 2006
As a child, Lenore was tormented by nightmares and obsessed with the dark poems and stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
26 May 2015
A High Rising Productions documentary on the short-lived craze of Italian cannibal films in the '70s and '80s, featuring interviews with Umberto Lenzi, Ruggero Deodato, Sergio Martino, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, and Robert Kerman.
01 June 2009
Lucio Fulci documentary
11 October 2011
An affectionate look back at the life and career of Paul Naschy from those who worked with him, admired him and spent time with him.
07 October 2012
A celebration of slasher cinema - from PSYCHO to the present day, with a focus on highlighting many of the genre's forgotten cult classics, deconstructing how to survive a slice and dice movie and meditating upon why it is almost always a final girl and rarely a final guy.
02 December 2025
A "talking head" documentary that relives the fascinating and furious career of John Woo - from his early work, and emergence as a director, to his heroic bloodshed classics which changed the face of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s.
04 February 2011
This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.
09 April 2022
A feature-length documentary exploring the history of the Spanish zombie film.
15 September 2014
An in depth look at the making of The 'Burbs, from High Rising Productions. This feature-length documentary includes interviews with director Joe Dante, actors Corey Feldman, Courtney Gains and Wendy Schaal, director of photography Robert M.
02 January 2012
Director Frank Henenlotter, actor James Lorinz and special effects wizard Gabe Bartalos speak about the making of the cult classic Frankenhooker.
25 August 2020
A discussion of the later day period of Lucio Fulci's career, incorporating his bad health through to his eventual death and a retrospection of the supposedly "lesser" motion pictures that emerged, including "Aenigma" (1987) and "Cat in the Brain" (1990).
08 April 2019
A documentary taking a look at the career of Jess Franco.
03 December 2012
Actor Ian McCulloch reflects upon making Zombi 2 and his other Italian horror epics - Zombi Holocaust and Contamination.
24 July 2017
Insightful new documentary in which Jeff Lieberman, Roy Frumkes, Matt Cimber and Joe Ellison share memories of the slime and grime of the grindhouse glory days!
25 April 2011
Brian Yuzna sits down for a lengthy talk about the Re-Animator franchise for the The Beyond Re-Animator UK DVD.
08 October 2021
Italian horror fan and academic Calum Waddell speaks with some of the original makers of the controversial horror classic "Cannibal Holocaust" before venturing into the Amazon jungle and surrounding city port, Leticia, to uncover some of the local stories behind the making of the motion picture.
16 February 2015
A featurette looking back at the early years of the celebrated Canadian production company, including interviews with author Kier-La Janisse and special make-up artist Joe Blasco.
13 October 2014
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 females in the genre, an all-female line-up, discussing horror movies from their perspective – exploring the challenges of being an actress in a genre predominantly made by and for men, from how they came about to be defined as a “scream queen”, about the vagaries of the genre: nudity, violence, misogyny, etc.
07 March 2011
Five of the main players behind Dario Argento's classic horror shocker Phenomena (1985) sit down to take viewers through this exclusive, epic-sized, 52 minute making of feature documentary.
29 March 2010
25 years after-the-fact, actor Joseph Pilato talks about performing in the George Romero classic Day of the Dead, whilst sharing stories about his career and his thoughts on the remake and the world of horror movies.
14 October 2013
Extensive documentary on the making of Tobe Hooper's infamous 1985 science fiction flop LIFEFORCE. Features interviews with Hooper, producer Michael J.
03 September 2010
Short documentary about the making of Luigi Cozzi's 1989 film "The Black Cat".
08 May 2020
The very first feature-length discussion and breakdown of the entire "Emmanuelle" phenomenon - the atmosphere in Europe that led to the production of the original and its subsequent impact across the continent and indeed the world.
14 March 2011
Actress Cinzea Monreale guides viewers through her cult roles - most noticeably as the mysterious blind girl Emily in Lucio Fulci's classic haunted house film The Beyond (1981).
07 November 2014
Documentary about Mario Bava's film "The Girl Who Knew Too Much" and its impact on the Giallo genre.
10 March 2014
A 50-minute retrospective on Larry Cohen's 1985 cult classic, The Stuff.
