Tag: documentary

Documentary: Mexican horror filmmaker Carlos Enrique Taboada

Jirón (Shred), a new documentary by Christian Cueva

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Watch Hayao Miyazaki Animate The Last Shot of His Final Film

Clip from documentary “The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness”

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POCtober: WATCH Mondo Macabro~ A Documentary on Mexican Horror/Cult Film

A short history of Mexican B movies, from monster movies to masked wrestlers, to the avant garde art cinema of Juan Lopez Moctezuma – collaborator of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Featured interviews with Ignacio Duran, David Wilt.

An installment from the BBC’s documentary series Mondo Macabro. Based on the book of the same name by Pete Tombs, the series focuses on cult cinema from around the world.

This Halloween How About a Documentary?

Here are our recs…


The American Scream (2012)


Cropsey (2009)


Room 237 (2012)


Monsters Wanted (2013)


The Bridge (2006)


Hell House (2001)


Best Worst Movie (2009)


Gates of Heaven (1978)

Kubrick’s “The Shining” & the Genocide of Native Americans

Slavery, Cannibalism & Genocide: Controversial Themes in “The Shining”
An essay by British film historian Rob Ager.

You may also want to check out the 2013 documentary Room 237.

A subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining (1980). The film may be over 30 years old, but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice overs, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments. Together they’ll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends — many ways in, but no way out.