
Shock Cinema: Volume One
Horror · Documentary
Overview
An hour-long documentary featuring interviews with various filmmakers who've made a name in the direct-to-video market.
Top Cast


Brinke Stevens
Brinke Stevens
Herself / Hostess
Brinke Stevens
Herself / Hostess


Charles Band
Charles Band
Himself
Charles Band
Himself


Fred Olen Ray
Fred Olen Ray
Himself
Fred Olen Ray
Himself


Jeff Burr
Jeff Burr
Himself
Jeff Burr
Himself


Scott Spiegel
Scott Spiegel
Himself
Scott Spiegel
Himself


David DeCoteau
David DeCoteau
Himself
David DeCoteau
Himself
C. Courtney Joyner
C. Courtney Joyner
Himself
C. Courtney Joyner
Himself
Ernest Farino
Ernest Farino
Himself
Ernest Farino
Himself
Dan Peterson
Dan Peterson
Himself
Dan Peterson
Himself
Christopher Roth
Christopher Roth
Himself
Christopher Roth
Himself
Similar Movies

In 2011, Maine State Prison launched a pioneering reform program to scale back its use of solitary confinement. Bafta and Emmy-winning film-maker Dan Edge and his co-director Lauren Mucciolo were given unprecedented access to the solitary unit - and filmed there for more than three years. The result is an extraordinary and harrowing portrait of life in solitary - and a unique document of a radical and risky experiment to reform a prison. The US is the world leader in solitary confinement. More than 80,000 American prisoners live in isolation, some have been there for years, even decades. Solitary is proven to cause mental illness, it is expensive, and it is condemned by many as torture. And yet for decades, it has been one of the central planks of the American criminal justice system.

In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: international markets were opened, the production was continuous, a small star-system was created, as well as a solid group of specialized directors. Although foreign trends were imitated, Spanish horror offered a particular approach to sex, blood and violence. It was an extremely unusual artistic movement in Franco's Spain.

The best known, "Weegee's New York" (1948), presents a surprisingly lyrical view of the city without a hint of crime or murder. Already this film gives evidence, here very restrained, of Weegee's interest in technical tricks: blur, speeded up or slowed-down film, a lens that makes the city's streets curve as if cars are driving over a rainbow. - The New York Times

Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). It offers songs, dances, stories, and religious rituals of the Southern Appalachians. Preachers, singers, fiddlers, banjo pickers, moonshiners, cloggers, and square dancers recount the good times and the hard times of rural life there. Performers include Tommy Jarrell, Janette Carter, Ray and Stanley Hicks, Frank Proffitt Jr., Sheila Kay Adams, Nimrod Workman and Phyllis Boyens, Raymond Fairchild, and others, with a bonus of a few African-Americans from the North Carolina Piedmont.













