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Calum Waddell

Calum Waddell

Director, producer and writer, also actor · Fife, Scotland, UK

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).

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Biography from TMDB.

From
Fife, Scotland, UK
Works as
Director, producer and writer, also actor
Titles
9 on MovieCove · 66 credits in all
Links
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Known for

TMDB popularity, last 39 days to Oct 28Down 30% in 30 days

What are Calum Waddell's films like?

Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Survival.

Genres

Documentary6 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 61st percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Documentary movies
Horror2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 40th percentile
: browse their Horror movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Society
30%
Survival
24%
Ideas
16%
Self
12%
Power
11%
Bonds
4%
Morality
3%
Art3 titles, browse their movies with this themeIsolation2 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival2 titles, browse their movies with this themeCommunity2 titles, browse their movies with this themeIdentity2 titles, browse their movies with this themeViolence2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 9 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 4 · Serious 3 · Dark 2

Grounded: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their grounded movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 7 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 3 · Charged 5 · Intense 1

Steady: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their steady movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 7 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 7 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0

Slow burn: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their slow burn movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 7 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0

Casual: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their casual movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

A split, not a type: Casual 3 · Engaged 6 · Full focus 0

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 7 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 1

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Contemplative
5
Tense
3
Warm
4
Dread
3
Joyful
1
Other
3

How their films linger

Thought-provoking4 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling4 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFeel-good2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteWistful2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteRousing2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end

  • Happy1
  • Bittersweet1
  • Tragic1
  • Ambiguous5
  • Cyclical1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Calum Waddell's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 9 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Calum Waddell's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

66 credits, 9 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • The Hero of Heroic Bloodshed: A John Woo Documentary(2025)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • The Unassuming Journeyman: The Exploitation Express of Ferdinando Baldi (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Producer

  • Fine Archery: The Brave Archer Franchise (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Producer

  • From Shaw to Snakes: The Venom and Violence of Early Chinese Language Horror Cinema (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Producer · as self

  • Marauders from the Mediterranean: The Macabre Magic of the Spanish Zombie Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)

    Producer · as Self

  • The Young General: Reflections on Michael Reeves (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)

    Director · Producer

  • Searching for Cannibal Holocaust (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Director · Writer · as Self

  • Jorge Grau: Catalonia's Cult Film King (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Producer · as self

  • An Italian Aenigma: Appraising Late Day Fulci (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Producer

  • From Rollerball to Rome - Reflection on a Sci-Fi Classic (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Producer · as Self

  • A Very English Exploitation: Inseminoid and the Shock Cinema of Norman J. Warren (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Director · as Self

  • Tactics: Reflections on a Seventies Horror Classic (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Producer

  • Prince: The Peach and Black Times(2019)

    Director · Producer

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • Franco-Philes: Musings on Madrid's B-Movie Maverick (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Director · Producer

  • The Strange Story of the Eurocine Cannibal Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Director

  • Fascism on a Thread- The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema(2019)

    Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films

  • Me Me Lai Bites Back (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Producer · as Self

  • Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema(2018)

    Director · Producer · as Self

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films

  • All Eyes on Lenzi: The Life and Times of the Italian Exploitation Titan (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Director · Producer · as Himself

  • The Last Supper: The Final Days of the Italian Cannibal Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Director · Actor

  • Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Director

  • Brain Food: Analysing Late Day Fulci (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Producer · as Himself

  • Grindhouse All-Stars: Notes from the Sleaze-Cinema Underground (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Director

  • Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Director

  • 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Director · Producer · Writer

  • Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Director · Producer · Writer

  • Hallmark of the Devil (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Director

  • Raw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Director · Producer

  • Terror in Times Square: A Guide To Nightmare's Grindhouse Kingdom (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Director

  • A Soundtrack for Splatter: An Interview with Composer Simon Boswell (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director · Producer

  • Screaming for a Sequel: The Delirious Legacy of Demons 2 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director · Producer

  • The Demons Generation: Roy Bava Discusses a Legacy in Lacerations (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director · Producer

  • All About the Girl: Memories of a Giallo Gem (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director · Producer · Writer

  • Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director · Producer

  • Scream Queens: Horror Heroines Exposed(2014)

    Director · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films

  • Mark of the Devil: Mark of the Times (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director · Writer

  • There Goes the Neighborhood: The Making of The 'Burbs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director · Producer

  • Remo, Rambo, Reagan and Reds: The Eighties Action Movie Explosion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director

  • Behind the Swinging Blade (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director · Producer

  • Can't Get Enough of The Stuff: Making Larry Cohen's Classic Creature Feature (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director

  • Carnage at the Cinema: Lamberto Bava and his Splatter Masterpiece (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    Director

  • Dario and the Demons: Producing Monster Mayhem (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    Director

  • Cannon Fodder: The Making of Lifeforce (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    Director

  • Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei Konchalovsky (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    Director

  • Don't Go In The Backwoods - Rural Rampages and the Horror Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    Director

  • Aliens, Cannibals and Zombies: A Trilogy of Italian Terror (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Director

  • From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Movie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Director · Producer

  • Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Director

  • Ladies of Italian Horror (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Director · Producer · Writer

  • All Out of Bullets (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Director

  • Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Director

  • Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Director

  • Naschy of the Full Moon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Director · Producer

  • All in the Head: Brian Yuzna on the Re-Animator Chronicles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Director

  • AKA Sarah Keller: Cinzia Monreale Remembers 'The Beyond' (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Director

  • Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Director

  • One Step Beyond: Catriona MacColl Remembers a Spaghetti Splatter Classic (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Director

  • Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Producer

  • American Grindhouse(2010)

    Co-Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films

  • The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat' (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

    Director · Producer

  • Joe of the Dead: Acting in a George Romero Classic (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

    Director · Producer

  • Fulci in the House: The Italian Master of Splatter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    Producer · Writer

  • Brotherhood of Blood(2007)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films

  • The Raven(2006)

    as Priest #2

    Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all films

  • The Collingswood Story(2002)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films

  • The Forgotten War: Hollywood's Vietnam in the Philippines (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director

Career shape

A full career of 63 titles, 62 of them dated from 2006 to 2025.

Biggest box office

American Grindhouse (2010)

$5.5K worldwide

Highest rated

American Grindhouse (2010)

Midcredits 81st

Most popular right now

Scream Queens: Horror Heroines Exposed (2014)

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting2 of 63: 1 only acting, 1 with another roleDirecting48 of 63: 25 only directing, 23 with another roleWriting8 of 63: 0 only writing, 8 with another roleProducing34 of 63: 12 only producing, 22 with another role

63 titles, 25 with more than one role — directing and producing overlap on 20 of them.

By decade

2000s2 · 1 acting · 1 crew2010s48 · 1 acting · 48 crew2020s12 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.

How do Calum Waddell's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 53rd percentile, the median of all 9; across their 9 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 64th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

64thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 9

Approval · how many liked their films

55thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 9

Reach · how many have seen their films

45thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 9

Midcredits score across 9 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up1
  • 50th to 74th4
  • 25th to 49th3
  • Below 25th1

Shape of the crowd

3 of their 9 titles are Cult Classics.

  • Universally Panned1
  • Cult Classic3
  • Crowd Pleaser2
  • Broadly Agreed1
  • Mixed2

Most divisive · producer

Brotherhood of Blood (2007)

88th percentile spread · 28% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · writer, producer

American Grindhouse (2010)

Midcredits 81st · 73% liked

Reviewers score the atmosphere 51/100 and the pacing 49/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Calum Waddell work with?

People who share at least 2 of Calum Waddell's MovieCove titles; Naomi Holwill shares the most, 5.