Forrest J. Ackerman

Lionel ve sevgilisi Paquita,hayvanat bahçesine gezmeye giderlerken meraklı annesi de onları takip eder. Ancak kadını Sumatra'dan gelen bir tür fare-maymun ısırır ve bulaşıcı bir zombi salgını başlatır. Annesini korumaya çalışan Lionel, onun kurbanlarını evlerinin bodrumunda saklamaya çalışır ancak olaylar giderek kontrolden çıkar ve zombiler bir ordu halinde dışarı taşarlar. Yüzüklerin Efendisi'ni yöneten Yeni Zelanda'lı yönetmen Peter Jackson'ın ülkesinde çektiği 3. uzun metrajlı filmi olan Braindead, komedi ve korku unsurlarını bir arada ve başarıyla barındırıyor.

Bir seri katilin kurbanı olmaktan zor kurtulan başarılı TV spikeri Karen Write, doktorun önerisi ile ormanlık bir alanda yerleşik bir kamp niteliğindeki rehabilitasyon merkezine gider. Aslında kampın sakinleri tuhaf bir koloninin üyeleri gibi davranmaktadır. Çok geçmeden Karen, yağmurdan kaçarken doluya tutulduğunun farkına varır.

Bir grup çocuk, içinde çürüyen bir ceset bulunan varillerden birini keşfeder ve 2-4-5 Trioxin gazını havaya salarak ölülerin bir kez daha mezardan çıkıp beyin aramasına neden olur.

While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series of killings six months previously, is at the bottom of the whole thing. Little do they know the real horror that they face in the end.

A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies. Released at the height of Thriller’s success, the short film redefined the music video, broke racial barriers, and became the first inducted into the U.S. National Film Registry.

Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.

Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.

The history of the comic book superhero, Superman, in his various media incarnations.

RINGERS: LORD OF THE FANS, J.R.R. Tolkien’in destansı fantazisi “The Lord of The Rings”in pop kültürü elli yıl boyunca nasıl etkilediğine dair mizahi bir yorum! Her kültürden ve zaman sınırı tanımaksızın milyonlarca “Yüzük Tutkunu” yaratan ve onları büyüleyen güçlü bir hikayenin etkileri! TheOneRing.net’in işbirliğiyle gerçekleştirilen bu yapımda, The Lord of The Rings üçlemesinin yıldızlarından Dominic Monaghan hikaye anlatımını üstleniyor. Bu ödüllü ve çığır açan film, Tolkien’in yarattığı yeni mitolojinin etkilerini, muhteşem görseller, animasyon ve Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Clive Barker, David Carradine ve Orta Amerika’dan Orta–Dünya’ya kadar yayılan “Yüzük Tutkunları” ile yapılan röportajlarla ortaya çıkarıyor. Tolkien’den ilham alan ağırtopların (Rush) yeraldığı enerji dolu film müzikleri ile RINGERS: LORD OF THE FANS, “The Lord Of Rings” fenomeninin özünü yakalıyor.

Among the finalists for "Centerfold Of The Year" are Angel and her spiteful rival Betty. However, no one is aware of Angel's involvement in a secret medical beauty enhancement program headed by Dr. Lindstrom. Desperate to win, Angel overdoses on Lindstrom's formula, with disastrous results. Soon she has grown to monstrous but shapely proportions, causing all sorts of complications, the most dangerous being Betty's jealousy of Angel's new-found attention. Betty discovers Angel's secret and takes the formula herself, causing her to grow into an equally gorgeous giant. As the girls battle it out on Hollywood Blvd., Dr. Lindstrom races to find an antidote.

Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.

Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with the genre helped bring it into the mainstream and shape the way we view science fiction today.

A Hollywood filmmaker makes a short for an evil film studio. Unbeknownst to him, the producer has placed a bet of $25,000 that he won't come up with anything with a use. Luckily, our film creator gets the help of his friends.

Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.

Legendary all-stars of cinema bring to life the evolution of science-fiction and special effects films from the wild and funny days of B-movies to blockbusters that have captured the world's imagination. This is the story of the Sci-Fi Boys, who started out as kids making amateur movies inspired by Forrest J Ackerman's FAMOUS MONSTERS magazine and grew up to take Hollywood by storm, inventing the art and technology for filming anything the mind can dream.

A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster. (Uses footage from Encounter in Space (1963).)

Kim Taylor inherits her grandfather's drive-in theatre. She must raise $25,000 over one weekend or the bank will take the property from her. She also has to deal with pesky capitalist J.B. Winston.

For over a half century, Ray Harryhausen has amazed and inspired countless filmmakers and fans around the world with his breathtaking motion picture effects and stop-motion animation. Presented here for the first time ever is the authorized collection of his earliest work, along with hours of supplemental features.

A look behind the scenes at Cortlandt Hull's "The Witch's Dungeon," a movie-themed Halloween attraction in Bristol, Connecticut -- now the longest-running show of its type in the United States.

A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fare, which starts being plagued by strange, deadly accidents.

Judith Fontaine is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out that Joanie has become fallen victim to Groton, an axe-wielding homicidal maniac under the employ of Dr. Durea, the last living descendant of the Frankenstein family and is now both running a house of horrors on the beach's boardwalk and performing experiments on Groton's victims in his basement laboratory.

Research scientists experimenting with time warps are accidentally propelled forward into an unbearable future.

A documentary detailing the making of the cult favorite "Plan 9 from Outer Space," featuring interviews with cast members and prominent filmmakers about the film, its lasting legacy, and its creator, Edward D. Wood Jr.

Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that explored speculative fiction — science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic books — and its relation to various thematic and social issues. Produced by TVOntario, the show was the brainchild of former comic retail manager Mark Askwith and writer Daniel Richler, and was hosted by Rick Green. The series aired 139 episodes over 5 seasons from 1989 to 1994.

Looking at the private lives of famous historical figures.

In 1999, Cult Movies TV was inspired in part by two earlier video documentaries that Copner and Barnett produced, Bela Lugosi Then And Now and On The Trail Of Ed Wood.