We all have scary movies we love so much that we want to know everything we can about them.
Today’s episode has me discussing over two dozen of the best horror documentaries! Some cover legendary movies, and others cover movies and subjects that will become your new obsessions!
Thanks for listening!
MOVIES COVERED:
Boorman and The Devil (2026)
Making Movies: A Day in the Vitagraph Studio (1908)
The American West of John Ford (1971)
A Primer for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1970)
The Making of Star Wars (1977)
OUR FOUNDING FEAR-FATHERS
Document of the Dead (1980)
Dario Argento's World of Horror (1985)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
WHO SURVIVED- AND WHAT WAS LEFT OF THEM
The Thing: Terror Takes Shape (1998)
The Beast Within: The Making of 'Alien' (2003)
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead (2011)
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' (2007)
Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth (2000)
You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night (2016)
MAD GODS: THE ANYTHING GOES DIRECTORS
Blood and Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019)
King Cohen: the Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2017)
Damned: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins (2001)
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé (2016)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
REEL NIGHTMARES IN REAL LIFE
The American Nightmare (2000)
Ban the Sadist Videos (2005) and 2 (2006)
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)
A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (2010)
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
THE HORROR LIFE: THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE REALLY UGLY
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021)
Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era (2011)
Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (2019)
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS-FANDOM
American Movie (1999)
Beast Wishes (2012)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist' (1998)
Corman’s World (2011)
Birth of the Living Dead (2013)
American Grindhouse (2010)
78/52 (2017) Psycho shower scene
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation (2008)