Jonathan Rigby
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Birthday: February 23, 1963
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Gender: Male
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The Pharaoh's Curse: Inside Blood From The Mummy's Tomb
Overview: The interviewees cover Bram Stoker's life around the time he wrote The Jewel of the Seven Stars, the movie's producers, Leon's onscreen persona, technical & creative decisions, and the movie's supporting players.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-10
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The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth
Overview: A documentary produced for Universal about their early Wolf Man film(s)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-02
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Shadow Play: Inside The Shadow of the Cat
Overview: Documentary on the Hammer film
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-28
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The Young General: Reflections on Michael Reeves
Overview: A revealing insight into the short life and times of Michael Reeves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-21
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Back From the Dead: Inside The Revenge of Frankenstein
Overview: A documentary on The Revenge of Frankenstein
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-25
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A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
Overview: It’s 1881, and Old College, Oxford plays host to three very different academics. Abercrombie Smith is a model of Victorian manhood, clean of limb and sound of mind. Monkhouse Lee is a delicate and unworldly student from Thailand. And occupying the rooms between them is the strange and exotic Edward Bellingham, whose unnatural researches into the secrets of ancient Egypt are the talk of the college. Can Bellingham’s experiments truly bring the breath of life to the horrifying bag of bones that is the mysterious Lot No 249?
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-24
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A House of Secrets: Exploring 'Dragonwyck'
Overview: A documentary about the making of the movie "Dragonwyck"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-09
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Horror’s Missing Link: Rediscovering Dr. Renault’s Secret
Overview: Filmmakers and historians discuss the 1942 cult classic Dr. Renault’s Secret.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-09
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Borley Rectory
Overview: An animated documentary chronicling famed paranormal investigator Harry Price’s research at Borley Rectory, renowned as the ‘most haunted house in England’.
Genres: Documentary Horror History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-06
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The Brains Behind the Nightmare
Overview: A documentary about the making of Brain Dead (1990)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-28
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Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Overview: An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally specific, in other countries; to its resurgence in the last decade.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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Unnatural Selection
Overview: In 1975, the British Government quietly closed down a secret evolutionary project codenamed BEAGLE, ordering the destruction of all research materials. Today, the horrific discovery of several oddly mutated bodies alerts Liz Shaw and P.R.O.B.E. to the fact that something is stalking the original site of project BEAGLE – something which may challenge the very nature of humanity itself! With a crack security team at her disposal, Liz desperately attempts to track down the perverted results of the project. But who or what is hunting whom?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-01
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The Zero Imperative
Overview: Former UNIT luminary Liz Shaw and her assistant Bayliss are investigating a series of bizarre murders, all committed near a soon-to-be-closed psychiatric hospital. When the hospital is unexpectedly reprieved by rich Industrialist Peter Russell events seem to move out of Liz's control. Are the incumbent director of the clinic, Doctor Dove and his predecessor Doctor O'Kane harboring the killer? What is the centuries-old horror hidden in the grounds? And what exactly is the secret of room zero?
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Burial
Overview: Set in the last days of World War II, a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva, who is tasked with trafficking the remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. En route, the unit is attacked by German ‘Werewolf’ partisans and picked off one-by-one. Brana leads her surviving comrades in a last stand to ensure their ‘cargo’ doesn’t fall into the hands of those who would see it buried in order to hide the truth forever.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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I Am Your Father
Overview: David Prowse is an eighty years old actor, who has lived behind Darth Vader's mask during three decades. A group of Star Wars fans find out why he has been apparently forgotten by Lucasfilm during thirty years, and decide to give him back the glory he never had. This is their last opportunity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-10-05
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The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
Overview: Aristocratic Italian roots, a close family connection to James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, wartime experiences in the British and Finnish military, post-war Nazi-hunting adventures and a side career as a heavy metal rock singer. And one of the most iconic actors of all time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-09
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Inside the Tower
Overview: A look back at a 70s cult classic, Tower of Evil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-02
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Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Overview: The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic monsters populated oppressive scenarios in provocative productions that shocked censorship and disgusted critics but fascinated the public. Movies in which horror was shown in offensive colors: dreadful stories, told without prejudices, that offered fear, blood, sex and stunning performances.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-08-06
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The Trail of Dracula
Overview: Diabolical. Seductive. Immortal. Vampires have been an icon of evil in folklore and popular culture for more than three centuries, yet only one name still personifies the ultimate aristocrat of bloodlust. Now join the world’s foremost experts on Dracula – including academics, authors and horror historians – as they explore the untold story of the Transylvanian Count, from the legend of Vlad The Impaler and Bram Stoker’s celebrated novel through its landmark stage productions and classic movie adaptations.
Genres: History Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-12
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Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years
Overview: The untold story of Hammer at Warner Bros, and the relationship that produced some of the British company's finest films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-13
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Harry Price & the Martian Lighthouse
Overview: The story of how famed psychical researcher Harry Price became involved in a real-life plan to build a lighthouse that could be used to direct a beam at Mars, contacting the aliens who supposedly lived there.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-06
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In Search of Dracula
Overview: Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep coming back to the count.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-03
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Global Conspiracy?
Overview: Investigative reporter Terry Scanlon follows up the strange goings on in Llanfairfach, with interviews with people there at the time, including Professor Clifford Jones and mysterious boss, Stevens.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-10
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Gallows Humour: Inside 'The Horror of Frankenstein'
Overview: A series of interviews between film historians Jonathan Rigby, Kevin Lyons, John J. Johnston and several others that tracks the events which led to the making of the film The Horror of Frankenstein and the state of the Hammer studio at the time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-29
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Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
Overview: Documentary that chronicles the making of the third film in Hammer's Dracula series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-30
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The Devil of Winterborne
Overview: When P.R.O.B.E. is summoned to investigate the savage murder of a retired headmaster, Liz Shaw is disturbed to find evidence of satanic rite near the scene of the crime. She soon discovers a web of deceit and corruption that extends back in time, threatening the current occupants of nearby Winterborne School. With P.R.O.B.E. under threat from within and the death toll mounting, Liz finds herself under increasing pressure from all sides to produce results... The Devil of Winterborne is at large and only Liz can stop it!
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-01
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Lennon Naked
Overview: A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-21
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Dennis Wheatley at Hammer
Overview: Dennis Wheatley biographer Phil Baker provides a brief history of author nearly 80 book career, covers the whole of Wheatley’s contentious relationship with Hammer studios, including his displeasure with The Lost Continent (1968) and his utter loathing of To the Devil a Daughter (1976). The feature is a examination of one of horror fiction’s influential voices and paints a picture that informs both The Devil Rides Out and Hammer’s occult output in their latter years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-22
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Dark Arts: Inside 'To the Devil a Daughter'
Overview: A series of interviews between film historians Jonathan Rigby, Kevin Lyons and John J. Johnston as they discuss the troubled production of the film and how it relates to the end of Hammer’s horror run for some time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-28
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The Last Sacrifice
Overview: The Last Sacrifice delves into the real-life 1945 witchcraft killing of Charles Walton—the terrifying event that inspired The Wicker Man and birthed the folk horror genre. This unsettling true-crime interrogation probes into the eerie, enigmatic cultural undercurrents that shaped 1970's folk horror genre, leaving an indelible mark on cinema and public psyche. The Last Sacrifice uncovers an unflinching portrayal of Britain's profound identity crisis, both during the tumultuous early 1970s and the resurgence of folk horror today, ominously coinciding with yet another national descent into madness. Its conclusion: The Wicker Man is more fact than fiction.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-29
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House of Cards
Overview: The Making of DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-09
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Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
Overview: A look at Hammer’s progression from a back off in London’s Regent Street to its iconic status within the horror film genre. The company, started by comedian and businessman William Hinds in 1934, made films such as The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Quartermass Xperiment during the period for which it is best known, making stars out of the likes of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-31
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