Special Effects Movies

As an actor, director and producer, Ray Harryhausen has been a vibrant figure in Hollywood, working on everything from family films to mind-bending...

An in-depth, sad, and beautiful documentary about the stop motion and VFX artist Phil Tippett, a man who changed the landscape of visual effects in...

Through the use of interviews (both vintage and new) with various cast and crew members, including Rick Baker, Bill Sturgeon, David Cronenberg, James...

Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams is a pioneer in computer animation. His digital dinosaurs of Jurassic Park transformed Hollywood in 1993, but an...

A look behind the scenes of the filming and special effects of the 1996 film 'Matilda'.

This one proves that it's all a big fake, and the myth of the Guinea Pig movies being actual snuff is not true. The girl from "Devil's Experiment"...

Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad.

THE ULTIMATE GORE MIXTAPE! 75 minutes of non-stop gore mayhem accompanied with plenty of death, grind and hardcore around the ears! This mixtape...

Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924).

There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that man is special effects maestro Ray...

During the production of my Jabba documentary short, Slimy Piece of Worm Ridden Filth, I was put in contact with Toby Philpott’s colleague and...

Little monsters run amok at a heavy metal festival.

A history of movie magic from 1895 to 1995, showing primitive effects used in such films as "A Trip to the Moon" up to the state of the art effects...

The story of how the classic epic "Ben-Hur" was made.

A poetic interlude between a reality and an abstraction, this experimental short was produced by artists from Pixar’s Effects team, working in...

This provocative and insightful film is the first in a series of documentaries that will reveal the secret knowledge embedded in the work of the...

The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an extraordinary influence on an entire genre of films. Throughout his career at the film studio in...

A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by...

A V-Cinema tokusatsu movie released by TOEI and Bandai Visual. Creature design by Keita Amemiya. It was originally planned to include Space Sheriff...