Search Results for "practical special effects"

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.

A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through the making of part of one of the films, including the hurricane during the shooting of the first film, and how advances in CGI for Jurassic Park helped change the world of special effects forever. All interviews for these retrospective documentaries come with comments from Spielberg, Johnston, Neill, Dern, Goldblum, the effects crews, the child actors, and Peter Stormare. This documentary is broken into six parts: Dawn of a New Era (25 min), Making Prehistory (20 min), The Next Step in Evolution (15 min), Finding the Lost World (28 min), Something Survived (16 min), and The Third Adventure (25 min).

A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring interviews with cast and crew from the twelve films spanning 3 decades.

After witnessing a grotesque murder at a party in her new town, a teenager starts having strange visions and bizarre desires.

There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that man is special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. Focusing on the man behind the landmark effects on films like Clash Of The Titans, One Million Years B.C., Jason And The Argonauts and many more, this in-depth film features interviews with the great man himself, and with an array of animators and directors influenced by his work including Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Terry Gilliam, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. The film also features unseen footage of tests and experiments recently uncovered.

An ancient blood feud between two gangs of rival mimes escalates to horrifying new heights when they discover their mimed weaponry has [extremely bloody] real world consequences.

Roberta must finish her art school thesis amid an anthropomorphic crisis of self-actualization in Northern Ontario.

When a group of friends accidentally commits murder after smoking abandoned marijuana in remote New Zealand, the drug's cannibalistic side effects force them to keep smoking to devour the evidence, triggering a paranoid struggle for survival as their food supply dwindles.

Host Paul Davis takes a trip through some of the iconic backdrops of John Landis' 1981 werewolf classic An American Werewolf In London. The original cast and crew tell the story of how the film was made over a quarter of a century ago featuring rare footage and never before seen photos.

The mad scientist Anton Lupesky invents a drug that can free the souls of the users and allow them to posses the bodies of corpses. The horrible side effect is sometimes fatal hallucinations, that leave the survivors incurably mad.

A persuasive Leech wreaks havoc on rural Provinstate, ‘98

When their dream apartment turns out to be a nightmare, roommates Cathy and Dave join forces against a dark, nocturnal force lurking inside their kitchen, before they become its next Midnight Snack. While landlords and neighbors ignore the imminent danger, these two best friends fend for themselves and learn the harsh truth: RENTING BITES.

An in-depth, sad, and beautiful documentary about the stop motion and VFX artist Phil Tippett, a man who changed the landscape of visual effects in film.

A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing his sources of inspiration and his revolutionary filming techniques.

Portrait of producer and special effects legend Stan Winston. Produced for the “Wrong Turn” DVD.

Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. takes you underwater on the trail of the great white shark and behind the scenes on the production of Jaws 3-D.

Bj, somewhat confident in his faith, attends a yearly retreat to hang himself to spend his life in eternity. However, he can't tie a noose and begins to have doubts.

A witch with a foul mouth and a hangover is the only hope for a group of strangers when their town is invaded by the forces of Hell.

Alejandro, a man with alcohol problems, helps his older brother hide something wicked in the bathroom of his house, without imagining that with this he would face a dark memory from his past.

During a remote hunting trip, a family unwittingly awakens an ancient woodland civilization, disrupting the natural order and setting off a chain reaction that culminates in a brutal clash between man and nature.