Movies: Stephen Thrower

One of the most important English singers of 20th century traditional song, Shirley Collins and her sister Dolly stood at the epicentre of the folk music revival from the 1950s through to the 1970’s. Directors Rob Curry and Tim Plester have created a...

A documentary which covers Splatterfest ’90, the notorious all-night horror festival held at London’s legendary Scala Cinema....

A glimpse at how genre film-focused home video companies have taken the charge in preserving, restoring, and releasing so many works which otherwise might have been lost to time....

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s....

For over 60 years teams within the US Air Force and Intelligence services exploited and manipulated beliefs about UFOs and ET visitations as part of their counterintelligence programs. In doing so they spawned a mythology so powerful that it captivat...

Imagining October explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite Britain. The title refers to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and Sergei Eisenstein’s propaganda film Octo...

Set in a London gentleman's outfitters in 1976, and taking inspiration from the emotions aroused by a fetishist love of corduroy, leather and tight trousers, two men enter Sir John's Trouser Bar but little do they know the sexual adventures that awai...

The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 Vide...

The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic images and opaque landscapes through which two men take a journey into...

Genre writer Stephen Thrower discusses the film. We find out from the ever-informative Stephen that the film was shot in Munich; that composer Bruno Nicolai taught Ennio Morricone....

A brief history of Grindhouse cinema presented by Emily Booth...

Stephen Thrower examines locations used in Jess Franco movies....

After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who opera...

At the edge of a grand estate, near a crumbling old mansion lies a strange stone building with just a single room. In the room there lies a bed. Born of demonic power, the bed seeks the flesh, blood and life essence of unwary travelers… Three pretty ...

After lying to their parents and running off to see a rock concert, five teens leave their suburb neighborhood of Islamabad and travel into the wild only to have their van break down and they get set upon by not only flesh eating zombies, but a ghoul...

Before unsung gay NYC exploitation maverick Andy Milligan died of AIDS, he cranked out grindhouse-ready shock and so-bad-it’s-good schlock movies throughout the late 1960s and ’70s. Yet, as captured in this fascinating documentary, his life and on-se...

Pioneer erotic film maker Peter de Rome talks about his life and work....

Documentary on the making of the low-budget 1970's drive-in cult classics Axe (1974) and Date with a Kidnapper (1976)...

Film historian Stephen Thrower discusses the 1970 cult classic Eugenie....

Author Stephen Thrower talks in detail about the Italian 1970s thriller classic "The Perfume of the Lady in Black"....