Calum Waddell
Director · Fife, Scotland, UK
Calum Waddell was born in Fife, Scotland. He is a producer and director, known for 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015), Scream Queens: Horror Heroines Exposed (2014) and Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film (2015).
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Movie2.6HorrorThrillerAs a child, Lenore was tormented by nightmares and obsessed with the dark poems and stories of Edgar Allan Poe. As the lead singer in a Los Angeles band, the adult Lenore finds herself, friends and colleagues haunted by a murderer from beyond the grave. Only in her dreams -- in which she's visited by Poe's ghost -- will Lenore find the key to defeat her supernatural stalker and finally escape the spirits battling for her soul.
The Raven
2006 · 7 votes
Movie5.6DocumentaryAn 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. The latter led to a panic in Hong Kong, before the Handover of the former UK colony to Mainland China, and a number of motion pictures proceeded to take freedom of speech (and sometimes political symbolism) to the extreme. This is the story of one of the most curious and invigorating periods in exploitation filmmaking.
MovieDocumentaryA feature-length documentary exploring the history of the Spanish zombie film.
MovieDocumentaryDocumentary on actress Me Me Lai, best known for playing native girls in several controversial Italian cannibal horror movies, which were seized during the video nasty era.
Movie6.0DocumentaryA 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.
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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".
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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. Produced for the American release of "Inseminoid", which debuted on Blu-Ray in the USA on March, 10th 2020, this extensive documentary draws on hours of footage of Warren and also some of his best known collaborators such as the screenwriter David McGillivray.
MovieDocumentaryA 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.
Movie6.0DocumentaryFollow-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.
MovieDocumentaryThis 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.
MovieDocumentaryThe 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.
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Documentary about the later works of director Lucio Fulci with special focus on "A Cat in the Brain".
Brain Food: Analysing Late Day Fulci
2018 · 1 votes
Movie4.4DocumentaryItalian 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. What is uncovered, however, leads to a wider and unexpected "true crime" story.
Searching for Cannibal Holocaust
2021 · 8 votes