Documentary on TV Vampire “Barnabas Collins” Coming This Halloween Season DARK SHADOWS AND BEYOND THE JONATHAN FRID STORY Arrives October 5th, 2021 on Digital Platforms, DVD and Blu-ray from MPI Home Video An unlikely daytime TV hit that became a cultural touchstone for generations of viewers, the gothic serial Dark Shadows continues to cast…
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SCARY STORIES **** USA 2019 Dir: Cody Meirick. 84 mins Timed to more or less coincide with the release of the Del Toro-produced box office hit SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK, this is a comprehensive feature documentary about the influential “Young Adult” horror work of Alvin Schwartz. The…
ON THE TRAIL OF BIGFOOT: THE JOURNEY *** USA 2021 Dir: Seth Breedlove. 95 mins Monster or strange phenomena documentaries have changed since the days of Peter Graves and THE MYSTERIOUS MONSTERS (1975) or the most celebrated CHARIOTS OF THE GODS (1968) by Erich von Däniken. Bigfoot was even a…
SHARKNADO: FEEDING FRENZY *** USA 2015 Dir: Jeremy Wagener. 78 mins At the peak of its original airing, SHARKNADO was yielding 5000 tweets a minute and, at the time of this documentary’s emergence, the series was already up to its third outing in three years. Even without the hindsight of…
From the director of the shockumentary Mondo Siam (2020). René Wiesner, known for his work on the Marian Dora double feature Das Verlangen der Maria D. and Pesthauch der Menschlichkeit, comes an all new feature length documentary about a collector of serial killer art and human skulls. Michael who is…