A few years back I wrote about the subgenre of documentaries devoted to movies that never got made. Those movies include “Jodorowsky’s Dune,” “Lost in La Mancha” and “The Sweatbox.” (See related articles below.)
There’s also a category of documentaries about the making and cultural impact of certain movies, especially cult films. The most recent examples are “You Don’t Nomi” (2020) about the 1995 erotic drama “Showgirls” and “Wolfman’s Got Nards” (2020) about the 1987 comedy-horror flick “The Monster Squad.”
What follows is a list of recent feature documentaries about notable movies.
Documentaries about movies, with year of release and subject matter
- “The Shark Is Still Working” (2007) about “Jaws” (1975)
- “Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy” (2010) about “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984)
- “Room 237” (2013) about “The Shining” (1980)
- “Birth of the Living Dead” (2013) about “Night of the Living Dead” (1968)
- “Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th” (2013) about “Friday the 13th” (1980)
- “Back in Time” (2015) about “Back to the Future” (1985)
- “Shooting Clerks” (2016) about “Clerks” (1994)
- “78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene” (2017) about “Psycho” (1960)
- “Memory: The Origins of Alien” (2019) about “Alien” (1979)
- “Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street” (2019) about “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge” (1985)
- “Wolfman’s Got Nards” (2020) about “The Monster Squad” (1987)
- “You Don’t Nomi” (2020) about “Showgirls” (1995)
Related articles:
8 documentaries about notable movies that never happened (Tech-media-tainment; Jan. 29, 2015)
Documentaries about movies that were never made (Tech-media-tainment; July 16, 2015)
