Most Popular Kim Newman Trailers
Total trailers found: 78
25 June 2019
Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne ‘Ilsa’ Thorne, Malissa ‘Elsa’ Longo, filmmakers Sergio Garrone, Mariano Caiano, Rino Di Silvestro, Liliana Cavani, Bruno Mattei, and many more.
29 September 2014
A documentary about the 'new wave' of British horror directors and their films in the 1960s and 1970s.
04 October 2005
Documentary about the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton, featured on the 2005 DVD release "The Val Lewton Horror Collection.
21 April 2015
Documentary on the making of Hammer's adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
05 January 2024
An hour of interviews about the iconic British cinema.
29 September 2011
Lifting the lid on the world of cinema censorship, this programme has unique access to the files of the British Board of Film Classification.
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.
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".
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.
02 February 2010
A short documentary about the classic Universal Monster actor, Lon Chaney, Jr.
19 December 1999
The 12th Episode from the "Eurotika" documentary series, made for the UK Channel 4 about European exploitation cinema.
10 January 2018
Documentary about the later works of director Lucio Fulci with special focus on "A Cat in the Brain".
20 December 2018
Mark unwraps a glittering selection of Christmas cinematic treats, from much-loved classics to hidden gems, Hollywood blockbusters to international films, and reveals the film-making techniques and storytelling secrets that make them so successful.
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.
09 November 2020
An exploration of our cultural obsession with vampires and what they reveal about the human psyche.
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.
10 February 2012
Retrospective on The Nightmare On Elm Street Series.
27 August 2016
Dolly Diggs needs a voice and Connie needs a body, but she's nobody's puppet... Who's the dummy in the dead of night?
09 September 2008
A documentary about the making of the movie "Dragonwyck"
31 October 2022
Commemorates 100 years since the release of the German classic, Nosferatu, by FW Murnau, and explores the general fascination of Count Dracula, a figure who resonates with audiences across the literary, art, mythological and historical worlds.
30 April 2006
Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Boris Karloff.
11 October 2010
Every Video Nasty from the DPP list of 39 is critiqued and explored, followed by the original trailers.
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.
27 September 2021
One-man armies, meet-cutes, casual strolls away from huge explosions — stars and industry insiders toast and roast these cinematic chestnuts and more.
09 October 2007
A look at the life and films of the expressionistic movie and television director John Brahm.
02 February 2010
A documentary produced for Universal about their early Wolf Man film(s)
18 July 2006
Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing intimate peeks at its tough, scheming dames, mischievous misfits and flawed men - all caught in the wicked web of a twisted fate.
22 August 2006
A documentary featuring film historians, directors and authors discussing the making of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity.
09 October 2007
This short documentary takes a look at the making of Twentieth Century Fox's 1944 film "The Lodger".
10 April 2006
A look at the appearances of the Daleks and Davros in the classic Doctor Who era.
21 October 2008
The life and career of the renowned voice actor of animation and radio. For generations, Mel Blanc was one of the most famous Hollywood voice actors with his myriad of voices for classic animated characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and scores of others.
26 September 2006
Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Bela Lugosi.
11 October 2010
Every Video Nasty from the DPP list of dropped 33 titles is critiqued and explored, followed by the original trailers.
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.
20 December 2021
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 ghosts.
31 October 2020
A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.
24 February 2014
Retrospective documentary on the British horror anthology classic Dead of Night (1945).
25 January 2010
Film critic Kim Newman introduces a new series of DVDs and Blu-ray disc releases by BFI showcasing little known British films.
11 June 2021
A screener at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control after viewing a low-budget horror with similarities to the disappearance of her sister.
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.
09 April 2022
A feature-length documentary exploring the history of the Spanish zombie film.
09 October 2007
A biography of the short-lived character actor Laird Cregar.
21 November 2009
A countdown of the top 10 3D moments in film, television and pop music from the last 50 years.
20 September 2014
A feature length documentary shot over 9 months taking a look at the explosion of movies that became available on VHS in the UK.
09 July 2008
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, the Mummy and countless other creatures.
10 September 2025
Exploring Michael Mann's 1983 film adapted from the F. Paul Wilson novel and its impact.
05 January 2024
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.
01 March 2014
The focus is on the eighty-two Section 3 titles, those advised by the DPP not to be obscene, but still known to have been seized.
14 February 2011
The First Doctor was the kind of scientist and adventurer popularised by the novels of H. G. Wells. But how much does Doctor Who owe to the 'Father of Science Fiction'? This documentary features writers and historians Matthew Sweet and Dominic Sandbrook, author and critic Kim Newman, literary editor Graham Sleight, and Anthony Keen of the Open University.
10 February 2020
A series of interviews about the cult Public Information Film "The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water"
13 September 2011
Film critic Kim Newman, Total Film news editor Rosie Fletcher, and film critic Alan Jones discuss Heavenly Creatures and the story the film chronicles, as well as Peter Jackson and his legacy.
15 October 2003
Documentary about Nigel Kneale, creator of Quatermass.
28 June 2018
The critic Kim Newman discussing ‘The End of the World Through the Years’. Newman covers the modern fascination with doomsday scenarios, beginning with Mary Shelley’s lesser-known novel The Last Man novel, and how such stories evolved to entertain audiences of various eras.
15 May 2018
Offers some nice background on Japanese horror in general and this trilogy in particular, delivered with Newman's typical enthusiasm and humor.
09 September 2008
Filmmakers and historians discuss the 1942 cult classic Dr. Renault’s Secret.
01 March 2014
The focus is on the eighty-two Section 3 titles, those advised by the DPP not to be obscene, but still known to have been seized.
29 May 2018
An analysis by the critic and author of Wild West Movies.
07 September 2009
What will it take to become a hero?
