Roy Frumkes
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Lost Emulsion
Overview: The majority of films made before World War II are missing. They have rotted, or destroyed accidentally or on purpose. Horror classics like LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT might be gone forever. Many other films are presently in danger of decomposition. LOST EMULSION tells that story, and the story of film restoration. Discover the plight of the lost films like the Edison Frankenstein, the work of Theda Bara, Lon Chaney, Wallace Reid, Joan Blondell, Raoul Walsh and more. Learn firsthand what The Library of Congress is doing to preserve our film heritage.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-18
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Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
Overview: A intimate reflection at the making of and cultural phenomenon of one of the most popular and profitable horror films ever made, The Exorcist (1973).
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-26
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42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
Overview: The story behind the rise and fall of New York's 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the people, the crime and the rebirth of the block as "New 42nd Street" - this is the document of the world's most notorious movie strip.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-15
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Who Do I Gotta Kill?
Overview: A struggling writer takes a job for his mobster uncle in order to obtain first-hand material for a book on conspiracy plots and the JFK assassination. They often say that a good writer lives what he writes, but what happens when the life that the writer is living could likely get him killed?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-23
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Tales That'll Tear Your Heart Out
Overview: Excerpts from an unfinished 1976 zombie-western anthology film by Wes Craven, in the style popularized by Amicus films, which were given an official home video release with The Last House on the Left, and placed in sections of an American version of the Italian film, Zombi Holocaust.
Genres: Horror Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-27
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Slime City Massacre
Overview: A dirty bomb has decimated New York City s financial district and reduced midtown to a post-apocalyptic nightmare. The neighborhood known as Slime City has been evacuated, except for the homeless, and in the ruins of a soup kitchen four squatters discover a supply of food that transforms them into hideous slime creatures, driven to murder! Meanwhile, a greedy developer who has set his sights on Slime City hires a team of mercenaries to wipe out the creatures.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-17
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My Brother
Overview: "My Brother" is an inner city story of two impoverished boys, Isaiah and James. James is developmentally disabled. Their mother, L'Tisha, finds herself in a tragic situation. Dying of tuberculosis, she desperately tries to get her two boys, eight and eleven at the time, adopted together. Finding that only Isaiah can be adopted. L'Tisha makes the only choice she feels she can make; creating an unbreakable bond of love between the boys, and hoping that bond will get them through life. Her prayers are answered as the boys overcome impossible odds on their way to adulthood, staying as close as ever as young men dealing with life's obstacles.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Document of the Dead
Overview: A documentary about George A. Romero's films, with a behind scenes look at Dawn of the Dead.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-19
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Street Trash
Overview: A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor and the killer.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-22
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The Meltdown Memoirs
Overview: The Meltdown Memoirs depicts the production of the movie Street Trash along with cast and crew interviews 20 years later.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-26
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Dawn of the Dead
Overview: During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-02
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Xangadix Lives!
Overview: Documentary about the Dutch HorrorMovie 'The Johnsons (1992)" - A horror film where the cream of the crop of the Dutch film world had been working on. It was one of the biggest films of the year, won prizes at international film festivals, was released worldwide and even managed to acquire a cult status in the US. But few people know the history of the film and that it is actually a miracle that it has ever been made.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-11-04
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Funkybutt
Overview: The camp classic saga of a washed-up, one-hit wonder roller-disco queen. Shot entirely in NYC 1989-1990.
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Original Language: en
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Zombies and Bikers
Overview: John Amplas, Roy Frumkes, Tom Savini, Christine Forrest, Tom Dubensky, Tony Buba, Taso Stavrakis and a whole host of zombies and bikers discuss their inolvement with 'Dawn of the Dead'. A new documentary for the Second Sight DotD box set.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-16
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Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
Overview: This thirty minute documentary features interviews with Giovinazzo's key contemporaries discussing the continued impact and influence of Combat Shock twenty-five years later.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-28
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Splatterfest Exhumed
Overview: A documentary which covers Splatterfest ’90, the notorious all-night horror festival held at London’s legendary Scala Cinema.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-03
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Saturday Nightmares: The Ultimate Horror Expo of All Time!
Overview: Stever gets up close and personal with many of the talented filmmakers and stars in exclusive backstage interviews. Stever captures the set-up of the memorabilia and collectibles stands by the hard-working staff and volunteers, the panel discussion with Romero, Barbeau and others moderated by Roy Frumkes, and the long lines of fans, some adorned in full costume and make-up, waiting to get autographs of their favorite horror legends.
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-22
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Killer Rack
Overview: Comedy about a woman suffering from low self esteem who gets breast enhancement surgery, unaware that her surgeon worships H.P. Lovecraft's elder gods, and the surgery is part of a diabolical plot to rule the world.
Genres: Music Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-14
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