Calum Waddell
Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 11 (Director), 5 (Writer)
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A celebration of slasher cinema - from PSYCHO to the present day, with a focus on highlighting many of the genre's forgotten cult classics, deconstructing how to survive a slice and dice movie and meditating upon why it is almost always a final girl and rarely a final guy. (Calum Waddell)
An in depth look at the rise of Italian cannibal film as a result of the success of Cannibal Holocaust. (Filmaffinity)
The history of Italian zombie cinema, beginning with the breakout worldwide influence and success of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and continuing through to Lucio Fulci's trend-setting Zombie Flesh-Eaters (Zombi 2) and its many imitators. (imdb)
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo (2016) - Direct-to-Video
A look into the giallo film genre, its antecedents, and its legacy.
Meir Zarchi remembers his controversial 1978 shocker I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE - including its release in the UK which resulted it being banned as a "video nasty" back in the 1980s. (imdb)
Larry Cohen remembers the genesis of Maniac Cop and his part in the creation of the film in this documentary.
Hallmark of the Devil (2015) - Direct-to-Video
Author and critic Michael Gingold looks back at Hallmark Releasing, the controversial and confrontational distributor that introduced Mark of the Devil to American cinemas.
An insightful look at the history of Hong Kong's exploitation cinema, from the early days of the Shaw Brothers and such shockers as "Killer Snakes" through to the advent of the Category III rating in 1988 and then the June 4th massacre in Beijing. The latter led to a panic in Hong Kong, before the Handover of the former UK colony to Mainland China, and a number of motion pictures proceeded to take freedom of speech (and sometimes political symbolism) to the extreme...
Remo, Rambo, Reagan and Reds: The Eighties Action Movie Explosion (2014) - Direct-to-Video
This feature-length documentary takes a close look at some of the most popular action movies from the '80s and the different political overtones in them.
Italian horror fan and academic Calum Waddell speaks with some of the original makers of the controversial horror classic "Cannibal Holocaust" before venturing into the Amazon jungle and surrounding city port, Leticia, to uncover some of the local stories behind the making of the motion picture. What is uncovered, however, leads to a wider and unexpected "true crime" story.