Person
Calum Waddell
Directing · Fife, Scotland, UK
Biography
Calum Waddell was born in Fife, Scotland. He is a producer and director, known for 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015), Scream Queens: Horror Heroines Exposed (2014) and Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film (2015).
Known for
Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema
Self
The Raven
Priest #2
The Hero of Heroic Bloodshed: A John Woo Documentary
Producer
American Grindhouse
Writer
Scream Queens: Horror Heroines Exposed
Director
All About the Girl: Memories of a Giallo Gem
Director
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
Writer
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
Director
Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei Konchalovsky
Director
Ladies of Italian Horror
Director
Filmography
- 2025The Hero of Heroic Bloodshed: A John Woo DocumentaryProducer
- 2025The Unassuming Journeyman: The Exploitation Express of Ferdinando BaldiProducer
- 2023Fine Archery: The Brave Archer FranchiseProducer
- 2023From Shaw to Snakes: The Venom and Violence of Early Chinese Language Horror Cinemaself
- 2022Marauders from the Mediterranean: The Macabre Magic of the Spanish Zombie FilmSelf
- 2022The Young General: Reflections on Michael ReevesDirector
- 2021Searching for Cannibal HolocaustSelf
- 2020Jorge Grau: Catalonia's Cult Film Kingself
- 2020An Italian Aenigma: Appraising Late Day FulciProducer
- 2020The Emmanuelle EffectSelf
- 2020From Rollerball to Rome - Reflection on a Sci-Fi ClassicSelf
- 2020A Very English Exploitation: Inseminoid and the Shock Cinema of Norman J. WarrenSelf
- 2020Tactics: Reflections on a Seventies Horror ClassicProducer
- 2019Prince: The Peach and Black TimesDirector
- 2019Franco-Philes: Musings on Madrid's B-Movie MaverickDirector
- 2019The Strange Story of the Eurocine Cannibal FilmDirector
- 2018Me Me Lai Bites BackSelf
- 2018Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation CinemaSelf
- 2018All Eyes on Lenzi: The Life and Times of the Italian Exploitation TitanHimself
- 2018The Last Supper: The Final Days of the Italian Cannibal Film
- 2018Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South AfricaDirector
- 2018Brain Food: Analysing Late Day FulciHimself
- 2017Grindhouse All-Stars: Notes from the Sleaze-Cinema UndergroundDirector
- 2017Seeding of a Trend: The Birth of Hong Kong Splatter CinemaSelf
- 2016Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the GialloDirector
- 201542nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious StreetWriter
- 2015Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal FilmDirector
- 2015Hallmark of the DevilDirector
- 2015Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of CinépixDirector
- 2015Terror in Times Square: A Guide To Nightmare's Grindhouse KingdomDirector
- 2014Screaming for a Sequel: The Delirious Legacy of Demons 2Director
- 2014A Soundtrack for Splatter: An Interview with Composer Simon BoswellDirector
- 2014The Demons Generation: Roy Bava Discusses a Legacy in LacerationsDirector
- 2014All About the Girl: Memories of a Giallo GemDirector
- 2014Scream Queens: Horror Heroines ExposedDirector
- 2014Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'Director
- 2014Mark of the Devil: Mark of the TimesDirector
- 2014There Goes the Neighborhood: The Making of The 'BurbsDirector
- 2014Remo, Rambo, Reagan and Reds: The Eighties Action Movie ExplosionDirector
- 2014Behind the Swinging BladeDirector
- 2014Can't Get Enough of The Stuff: Making Larry Cohen's Classic Creature FeatureDirector
- 2013Carnage at the Cinema: Lamberto Bava and his Splatter MasterpieceDirector
- 2013Dario and the Demons: Producing Monster MayhemDirector
- 2013Cannon Fodder: The Making of LifeforceDirector
- 2013Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei KonchalovskyDirector
- 2013Don't Go In The Backwoods - Rural Rampages and the Horror FilmDirector
- 2012From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie MovieDirector
- 2012Aliens, Cannibals and Zombies: A Trilogy of Italian TerrorDirector
- 2012Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film ForeverDirector
- 2012Ladies of Italian HorrorDirector
- 2012All Out of BulletsDirector
- 2012Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of FrankenhookerDirector
- 2011Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt CordellDirector
- 2011Naschy of the Full MoonDirector
- 2011All in the Head: Brian Yuzna on the Re-Animator ChroniclesDirector
- 2011AKA Sarah Keller: Cinzia Monreale Remembers 'The Beyond'Director
- 2011Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura ProtagonistDirector
- 2011One Step Beyond: Catriona MacColl Remembers a Spaghetti Splatter ClassicDirector
- 2011Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of PhenomenaProducer
- 2011American GrindhouseWriter
- 2010The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'Director
- 2010Joe of the Dead: Acting in a George Romero ClassicDirector
- 2009Fulci in the House: The Italian Master of SplatterProducer
- 2006The RavenPriest #2
- —The Forgotten War: Hollywood's Vietnam in the PhilippinesDirector
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