Movies: Practical special effects

American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body....

After witnessing a grotesque murder at a party in her new town, a teenager starts having strange visions and bizarre desires....

A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through the making of part of one of the films, including the hurricane during the shooting of the first film, and how advances in CGI for Jurassic Park helped ch...

A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring interviews with cast and crew from the twelve films spanning 3 decades....

There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that man is special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. Focusing on the man behind the landmark effects on films like Clash Of The Titans, One Million Years B....

Adem and Novak, two very different young men, escape from a desolate planet in a small, old spaceship in search of a new home in space....

Wally, an artist, draws what others refuse to see in sin. When his artwork is discovered, he is cast out by those he trusts, left alone with his work and the darkness. But the darkness is not empty. It watches, it whispers, and something is waiting....

When a man is killed by a drunk driving, his son wants revenge, which starts a big battle that will continue for years....

Host Paul Davis takes a trip through some of the iconic backdrops of John Landis' 1981 werewolf classic An American Werewolf In London. The original cast and crew tell the story of how the film was made over a quarter of a century ago featuring rare ...

A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing his sources of inspiration and his revolutionary filming techniques....

Four fallen robot gladiators are rescued from the scrap pile, turned into an elite group of mercenaries and sent on a mission to bring about a new age of enlightenment in a post-apocalyptic universe....

A lone rescue robot in a strange galaxy must reach a surviving astronaut before she's consumed by a looming black hole. A space adventure made entirely with practical effects....

A persuasive Leech wreaks havoc on rural Provinstate, ‘98...

Bj, somewhat confident in his faith, attends a yearly retreat to hang himself to spend his life in eternity. However, he can't tie a noose and begins to have doubts....

The sole survivor of a blood-drenched massacre must team up with a rag-tag bunch of rookie cops and lawbreakers to defend a police station from an invasion of monsters from another dimension....

A black market technician creates body augmentations in her basement....

Two workers leave boxes of explosives with a push cart street vendor while they visit a bar. They return drunk and accidentally drop a box of nitro powder, causing an explosion that wrecks the block and blows off the vendors arm. A policeman shows up...

Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. takes you underwater on the trail of the great white shark and behind the scenes on the production of Jaws 3-D....

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A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making film with stop motion technique is Nukufilm located in Tallinn, Estland. Here we can follow the work...