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Browse 32 movies from Ballyhoo Motion Pictures
All-new retrospective documentary produced by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures about the unforgettable films released in the summer of 1982.
Oct 2017
A brand new feature-length documentary by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures exploring the making of the film, featuring dozens of new and archive interviews with cast and crew.
Oct 2021
The feature-length documentary about the making of the cult film favourite, "Donnie Darko".
Dec 2016
Nov 2020
A newly produced, feature-length documentary by filmmaker Daniel Griffith, featuring interviews with John Landis, David Naughton, Joe Dante and more
Oct 2019
A retrospective of director Roland Joffé’s first four films.
Dec 2022
Discussion about David Allen's "The Primevals" at Industrial Light and Magic in San Francisco.
Jun 2024
Behind-the-scenes retrospective on the cult classic horror film.
Mar 2019
Split into three parts and featuring interviews with the crew of SOUTHLAND TALES, including Richard Kelly, the story of how this film was made, screwed over in post-production and still technically is unfinished is told.
Jan 2021
Retrospective documentary about Rock 'N' Roll High School.
Nov 2019
A brand new retrospective documentary produced by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures and featuring interviews with Cinematographer Gary Kibbe, actor Peter Jason, actor Alice Cooper, composer Alan Howarth, script supervisor Sandy King, visual effects supervisor Robert Grasmere, stunt coordinator Jeff Imada, Carpenter biographer John Muir, film historian C. Courtney Joyner, music historian Daniel Schweiger and Producer Larry Carpenters.
Oct 2018
A brand new retrospective documentary produced by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures and featuring interviews with writer Nick Castle, cinematographer Dean Cundey, composer Alan Howarth, production designer Joe Alves, special visual effects artist/model maker Gene Rizzardi, production assistant David De Coteau, photographer Kim Gottleib-Walker, Carpenter biographer John Muir, visual effects historian Justin Humphreys, and music historian Daniel Schweiger.
Nov 2018
A brand new retrospective documentary produced by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures and featuring interviews with Associate producer Sandy King, cinematographer Gary Kibbe, actor Peter Jason, actor Robert Grasmere, composer Alan Howarth, stunt coordinator/Ghoul Jeff Imada, author Jonathan Letham, music historian Daniel Schweiger, Blumhouse editor Rebekah McKendry, and visual effects historian Justin Humphreys.
Documentary about the 30-year long process of David Allen's The Primevals.
May 2024
Feature-length documentary about the early history of American International Pictures.
Dec 2015
A documentary about the career of director Jack Arnold at Universal-International Studios. (An early version of this film, only 20 minutes in length, was screened in 2012.)
Dec 2012
A brand new retrospective documentary produced by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures and featuring interviews with cinematographer Dean Cundey, production designer/editor Tommy Lee Wallace, photographer Kim Gottleib-Walker, make-up effects artist Steve Johnson, Carpenter biographer John Muir, music historian Daniel Schweiger, visual effects historian Justin Humphreys and assistant Larry Franco
Feature-legnth documentary on the various hicksploitation hitting drive-in screens during the 60s and 70s.
An all-new documentary about filmmaker Anthony Mann and his time making films for Universal Studios in the 1950's.
A deep dive into the history of shark films with author/film journalist Michael Gingold.