Well no longer a documentary you can see unfortunately, but a few years back before Halloween there was the Bob Burns several-part video documentary that was assembled and run online with new weekly segments that ran probably an hour or so each. Somewhere on the forum should be a thread on it. Bob Burns if you don't know is a famous Hollywood sci-fi prop creator and the documentary took you through his past sci-fi work and from his earliest home haunts to the many years of totally cool and over the top themed home haunt creations. They put the documentary up as a gift for halloween to fans and then it was pulled with the hopes it could be sold as a documentary to a cable network or such or maybe released on DVS, etc. Unfortunately they ran into issues (assume involving releases on copyright issues as many of the themes were based off of movies like
The Thing,
Alien, etc.) and this fabulous compilation went no where. While the documentary isn't online you can see some of the work that was featured in his
The Thing home haunt on the Bob Burns website. Here's the link:
http://bobburns.mycottage.com
Don't miss out clicking on all the items in the Photo Album Index, in particular the "Trick 'r Treat" section from his home haunts! Their online documentary included a walking tour of their set up for
The Thing and it was great to see how they created the frozen sections. I remember some gorilla footage from another one, the
Alien ship walk thru and the
Creature From the Black Lagoon too I think. It's been a couple of years but all I could think of was "Wow, I would have loved to live in his neighborhood all those years".
If you are thinking of spending some time reading you might want to check out "It Came From Bob's Basement". Also check out the
various segments on You Tube entitled "Bob Burns' Special Effects Collection", not sure how many parts there are of it. Here's part 1 (link directly to You Tube for the others). About 4:10 into this segment he talk about his home haunts and how they grew in size. Imagine having Walter Koenig as one of your haunt actors! So many great people got involved in his home haunts.
Anyway that's a haunt documentary that came immediately to mind for me! I'm sure those here that got to watch it will remember it well.