Jonathan Rigby Movies

A series of interviews between film historians Jonathan Rigby, Kevin Lyons and John J. Johnston as they discuss the troubled production of the film...

It’s 1881, and Old College, Oxford plays host to three very different academics. Abercrombie Smith is a model of Victorian manhood, clean of...

An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British...

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic...

A documentary produced for Universal about their early Wolf Man film(s)

Documentary on the Hammer film

A series of interviews between film historians Jonathan Rigby, Kevin Lyons, John J. Johnston and several others that tracks the events which led to...

A documentary on The Revenge of Frankenstein

Documentary that chronicles the making of the third film in Hammer's Dracula series.

Diabolical. Seductive. Immortal. Vampires have been an icon of evil in folklore and popular culture for more than three centuries, yet only one name...

The untold story of Hammer at Warner Bros, and the relationship that produced some of the British company's finest films.

A documentary about the making of Brain Dead (1990)

Aristocratic Italian roots, a close family connection to James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, wartime experiences in the British and Finnish military,...

Filmmakers and historians discuss the 1942 cult classic Dr. Renault’s Secret.

Set in the last days of World War II, a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva, who is tasked with trafficking...

A documentary about the making of the movie "Dragonwyck"

A short documentary on the Hammer production of The Camp on Blood Island

An animated documentary chronicling famed paranormal investigator Harry Price’s research at Borley Rectory, renowned as the ‘most haunted...

A retrospective of actor Philip Madoc's many roles as a Doctor Who villain.

When P.R.O.B.E. is summoned to investigate the savage murder of a retired headmaster, Liz Shaw is disturbed to find evidence of satanic rite near the...