Practical Special Effects Movies

Portrait of producer and special effects legend Stan Winston. Produced for the “Wrong Turn” DVD.

Tirana, 1997. In the chaos that followed the fall of the dictatorship, a boy hounded by the other children hides inside one of the concrete bunkers...

An in-depth, sad, and beautiful documentary about the stop motion and VFX artist Phil Tippett, a man who changed the landscape of visual effects in...

Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives. Adapted from the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name.

A traumatized cheer captain races to stop a masked killer and the new tourist attraction aimed to exploit her tragedy from a year earlier.

The sole survivor of a blood-drenched massacre must team up with a rag-tag bunch of rookie cops and lawbreakers to defend a police station from an...

Adem and Novak, two very different young men, escape from a desolate planet in a small, old spaceship in search of a new home in space.

Join the fluffy gentle giant, Motmot, as he navigates life through the bleak world of Strugart, until one day his life is drastically turned upside...

Alli, an antivax college student is bitten by a zombie at a party. Convinced that her homeopathics are the remedy, she must persuade her concerned...

After a robotics engineer loses his job and can't find a new one in time, he makes the robot he built work three jobs to help pay rent.

A man desperate to regain his lost edge becomes convinced that a grotesque new deodorant is the key to confidence, power, and success.

In the early morning hours of February 25, 1942, two young scientists, Clay and Sylvie, find what could be the greatest scientific discovery in...

Four fallen robot gladiators are rescued from the scrap pile, turned into an elite group of mercenaries and sent on a mission to bring about a new...

Five career criminals with cryptic pasts are forced into a deadly game of Russian roulette where only one will survive, and nothing is as it seems.

A legendary master of dark magic who possesses invincible skin, an powerful art that renders the body uncuttable and immune to fire. He lives in...

A lone rescue robot in a strange galaxy must reach a surviving astronaut before she's consumed by a looming black hole. A space adventure made...

A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making...

Two workers leave boxes of explosives with a push cart street vendor while they visit a bar. They return drunk and accidentally drop a box of nitro...

Four friends come to the vineyard to have a good time but sense that something sinister is coming. Is it something in the air, or in the ground, or...

A black market technician creates body augmentations in her basement.