Joe Dante Movies

A tribute to stopmotion supremo and special effects genius extraordinaire Ray Harryhausen, the man behind some of cinema's greatest fantasy films -...

Making-of featurette for 'The Howling' (1981)

Documentary on the making and impact of "House of Wax".

A series of interconnected stories explore the dark underbelly of the city of lights.

In this program, directors Larry Cohen (Special Effects) and Joe Dante recall their first experiences with Invasion of the Body Snatchers and discuss...

The ultimate deep dive into the world of shark cinema: filmmakers, critics, scholars and conservationists explore the weird, wild cinematic legacy of...

Join "Mr. Science Fiction", Forrest J. Ackerman, on a star-studded romp through 75 years of classic sci-fi and fantasy film magic.

The time is the 21st century, after the fall of the Galactic Republic. Technology is at a standstill, families have been dismantled, and those who...

In 1967, strait-laced exploitation movie king Roger Corman embarks on a life-changing attempt to capture the psychedelic world of LSD on film by...

Documentary short film about Robby the Robot; a $125,000 engineering marvel that advanced cinematic robotics and went on to become a film star & pop...

Documentary featuring director Joe Dante, screenwriter John Sayles, producer Mike Finnell, stars Dee Wallace Stone, Dick Miller, Robert Picardo, and...

A crew enters a mysterious maze buried underneath an abandoned Soviet research facility where supernatural disturbances occur.

A feature-length documentary about the troubled production and enduring cult legacy of Joe Dante's 1985 sci-fi film Explorers, utilizing rare...

An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact...

The conclusion to the ‘In Search of Darkness’ '80s trilogy. In this epic final chapter, our focus turns to the straight-to-video horror...

This documentary short explores the origins of the monster movie and how Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963) fits in the genre.

Explore the independent horror film scene that Florida has been vigorously pumping out since the invention of film. Jam-packed with Interviews,...

A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation)...

Part of the anthology series "Picture Windows," Joe Dante’s "Lightning" is a Gold Rush tale marking Brian Keith’s final screen role. As...

A Short Doc About the Short Form & Anthologies