Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters 2024

A look at Hammer’s progression from a back office 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, and The Quatermass Xperiment during the period for which it is best known, making stars out of the likes of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

Director's POV Koji Shiraishi on NOROl: The Curse 2024

Generation Terror 2024

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 corners of the globe. From SCREAM (1996), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) and FINAL DESTINATION (2000), to WRONG TURN (2003), HOSTEL (2005) and SAW (2004), with insight from Joe Lynch, Xavier Gens and Bill Malone who track the technology, the industry and the societal changes behind the next generation of horror films.

Scala!!! 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.

Scala Interviews 2024

An hour of interviews about the iconic British cinema.

The J-Horror Virus 2023

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 featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay. From Psychic Vision: Jaganrei (1988) and straight-to-video scary true stories to such key titles as Ring (1998), Pulse (2001) and The Grudge (2002), critics and filmmakers reflect on how the bleak Dystopian visions and unsettling atmospheres infiltrated their way into the world’s shocker consciousness.

Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant 2023

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 produce and screen smut in an extremely censorship restricted Britain. When the home video boom hit in the 80s he was one of the first to capitalize on the initially far less regulated format... but he would pay the price. Then things get really dark and strange.

Upside Down, Inside Out: An Appreciation of the Films of Quentin Dupieux by Elena Lazic 2022

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

Dreaming of Death: Bob Clark's Horror Films 2022

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

Do You Believe In Ghosts?: 30 Years of Ghostwatch 2022

A 30th anniversary documentary about Ghostwatch.

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror 2021

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 its resurgence in the last decade.

The Found Footage Phenomenon 2021

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

Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon 2021

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 explosive subgenre.

The Brains Behind the Nightmare 2020

A documentary about the making of Brain Dead (1990)

End User 2018

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

Italia Violenta 2015

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