Xavier Mendik

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.

A brand new feature-length documentary exploring the social contexts behind Canadian horror cinema from filmmakers and authors Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik.

The story behind the rise and fall of New York's 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the people, the crime and the rebirth of the block as "New 42nd Street" - this is the document of the world's most notorious movie strip.

The first feature-length documentary that fully explores how the toxic social and political Canadian context after 1968 created some of the most nihilistic and imaginative Canadian cult films of the 1970s and 80s and beyond.

Every Video Nasty from the DPP list of dropped 33 titles is critiqued and explored, followed by the original trailers.

In this fascinating and well executed documentary film theorist and cult expert Xavier Mendik places "Cannibal Holocaust" in a broader context.

Every Video Nasty from the DPP list of 39 is critiqued and explored, followed by the original trailers.

A short documentary about Suspiria by Dario Argento.

That’s la Morte: Italian Cult Cinema and the Years of Lead' is a new 80 minute documentary that considers how cult and horror film cycles came to reflect wider anxieties within 1970s Italy.