Marcus Hearn Movies

David Prowse is an eighty years old actor, who has lived behind Darth Vader's mask during three decades. A group of Star Wars fans find out why he has been apparently forgotten by Lucasfilm during thirty years, and decide to give him back the glory he never had. This is their last opportunity.

A 55-minute documentary, detailing the creation of Doctor Who, including a rare interview with creator Sydney Newman, and new interviews with producer Verity Lambert, directors Waris Hussein and Richard Martin, actors William Russell and Carole Ann Ford, title sequence designer Bernard Lodge, and...

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

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic monsters populated oppressive scenarios in provocative productions that shocked censorship and disgusted critics but fascinated the public. Movies in...

Cast, crew and critics discuss the BBC's 2005 remake of 'The Quatermass Experiment'.

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

Documentary on the making of Hammer's adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

A short retrospective documentary looking at the making of the final Hammer Films production of the 1970s, "To the Devil a Daughter."

Several key production personnel look at the making of K-9 and Company: A Girls Best Friend, plus K-9's subsequent life in books and comic strips is examined and explored.

A series of interviews between film historians Jonathan Rigby, Kevin Lyons, John J. Johnston and several others that tracks the events which led to the making of the film The Horror of Frankenstein and the state of the Hammer studio at the time.

A potted history of the many errant Gallifreyans to have appeared in the show.

A behind the scenes featurette focussed on Hammer Film Productions' 1971 film 'Doctor Jekyll & Sister Hyde.'

Film historians and members of Hammer studios talk about the making of Dracula and it's influence on pop culture and modern vampire films.

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

Documentary on the Hammer film

Documentary of the film Yesterdays Enemy

A short documentary on Hammer final film with Peter Cushing as the titular character Baron Frankenstein.

Dennis Wheatley biographer Phil Baker provides a brief history of author nearly 80 book career, covers the whole of Wheatley’s contentious relationship with Hammer studios, including his displeasure with The Lost Continent (1968) and his utter loathing of To the Devil a Daughter (1976). The...

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

This documentary features interviews with several leading ladies from Hammer's peak period, who share illuminating and amusing anecdotes about the various films they worked on.