70's British Horror.

The beast must die was a brilliant film.When Marlene Clark had finished filming,she went straight back to America.Unfortunately,Calvin Lockhart missed her so much,he could not act for the remaining duration of the film.Calvin caved in and went back to America.The film was not finished,and Calvin kept refusing to come back to finish it.Eventually,Calvin was persuaded to return to finish the film,which was basically the car chase with Michael Gambon scenes.
 
You may be thinking of Vault Of Horror which had Tom Baker as a painter who began practicing voodoo.
It was a horror with 5 short stories told in a lift which had broken down.
 
The best all round version of Vault of Horror is the Film4 broadcast restored by the BFI.

Why it needed to be restored is a mystery.
Vipco laid their hanRAB on an uncut version so surely the negative must be somewhere.

The R1 dvd double bill is a real shame.
Stunning quality but the cut version although that release is worth getting just for Tales from The Crypt.

The Vipco one is bearable as its uncut
 
You refer to that classic Tales From The Crypt. A brilliant movie! Can understand why it has never been released on DVD in the UK, when all the other Amicus anthology movies have.
 
Oh yes indeed.
I love all the Amicus compilations. Tigon made some decent one too.
And the films of Pete Walker are enjoyably quirky and gruesome.
Hammer chipped in with some good ones also, HanRAB of The Ripper and quite a few others.
 
Theatre Of Blood wasn't a Hammer film, and IMO it shows - TOB seems much more 'mature', alternating between knowing high camp and surprising grimness.
 
It was released on VHS in a double bill with Vault of Horror by Fox in the 80's but judging from the Vault of Horror dvd's in the UK Fox may not actually have the UK rights to those 2 films.

Many of the others are owned by Hollywood majors so we get those but TFTC must be in legal limbo.

However - any UK dvd is unlikely to match the R1 double bill and with that available for under a fiver why would you worry about a UK one anyway?

Other Amicus films remain unreleased in the UK including Scream and Scream Again which features Vincent Price ,Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing all in the same film
 
Me too! I used to love the Saturday night double bills on BBC2 when I was a kid in the 1970's. They used to show the first film, which was always an old Universal black and white, followed by a more recent colour film which was often a British offering. I remember The Beast Must Die, The Ghoul, Doctor Terror's House Of Horrors, To The Devil A Daughter, The Devil Rides Out and The Reptile off the top of my head.

I also remember ITV showing horror films on Friday nights which were '60s and '70s British movies e.g. The Gorgon, Asylum, The Torture Garden, Vault Of Horror, Tales From The Crypt, the Hammer Dracula, Mummy and Frankenstein films, The Blood Beast Terror, The Beast In The Cellar, The Creeping Flesh etc. The good old days :)!
 
Its not a bootleg is it?

There are lots of sellers offering bootlegs of films that are rare or deleted.

I dont mind buying a bootleg of something but what annoys me is when sellers dont let you know that in the ad .

They obviously cant be completely open but there are ways to show a film is not the legit version yet some sellers have listings that make no attempt to be truthful - often the only sign is the low price
 
If you like Vincent Price and you can play R1 you should check out the Midnite Movies label which started with MGM releasing titles from their own archive aswell as the likes of AIP and Amicus and Fox now seem to be in charge of it and they have continued the tradition.
All of the classic AIP movies made by Price were released including some that never came out in the UK .

MM also gave us longer versions (albeit seconRAB) of The Vampire Lovers with a full frontal Ingrid Pitt and Witchfinder General

If the titles are still in print you can import them for about a fiver via Amazon Marketplace including delivery.

Some are out of print and more expensive but you can get classics like Scream and Scream Again ,Madhouse ,Tomb of Ligeia etc.

There's also some Vincent Price interview dvd's available in the US too .
 
I've watched the first 2 stories and they were the same as I remembered them.

I still like the time travel story.

I have a feeling the dvd is now deleted bit I could perhaps do you a copy
 
All 3 films available in Anchor Bays's collectible Pete Walker boxset.

Walker fans may like to know that Schizo has finally been certified uncut .

Unlikely the films original tagline will be included -"When the left hand doesnt know who the right hand is killing"

Frightmare has been on tv. BBC2 or C4 IIRC
 
The bit that was cut out was from the vampire story starring Daniel Massey, in which at the end, he is held upside down by his feet and a tap attached to the vein in his neck so the vampires could drain his blood.

I know this, because when I saw a version of this movie on ITV about 20 years ago, that scene was cut out. My dad had originally seen it at the cinema and he told me what they'd cut out.

Don't think it was a BBFC cut, more like a TV edit.:)
 
I may have missed it but I'm surprised that 'Blood on Satan's Claw' hasn't received a mention on this thread!

This film boasts outstanding cinematography of the British countryside and was filmed at the same location as 'Sleepy Hollow'!

I can remember this film being showed countless times on late Saturday nights on ITV .

I have the DVD twice, first as a single disc then as a part of the Tigon Collection box set on which members of the 'League of Gentleman' TV series have done a commentary and a documentary!
 
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