A History Of Horror With Mark Gatiss... Coming soon to BBC Four.

Yes. As per my earlier comment, I wasn't expecting there to be many revelations in the programme. However, some of the interviews very interesting, expecially the one with Carla Laemmle, who will be 101 years old on 20 Oct. I enjoyed the pan across Mark Gatiss's DVD collection near the beginning of the programme.

LOL at John Carpenter on Val Lewton: 'Jurassic Park done by Val Lewton would be nothing!'.
 
It wasn't very good.

For accompanying films, it would have been better to show the original Frankenstein & Dracula, I assume the BBC are prevented from showing these!

Part 2 is Hammer! But again, they're not showing any "key" films ........
 
They are showing Brides of Dracula and Dawn of the Dead.

I like the documentary; it has only 3 episodes,is openly subjective to Mark and features 3 main waves of horror.However,I'd like an episode focussing on the post 1970's - few documentaries have gone there.

There is enough material such as slashers take over Hollywood and die,the modern monster,the anti-hero,metafiction,late 90's tongue in cheek horror,mainstream extreme cinema,remakes craze etc.
 
I thought it was pretty good last night, pity it wasn't shown at the weekend, I might have managed to watch Bride of Frankenstein but there you go.

Pity it wasn't a four part series, with the late 70's/early 80's being covered, as this was a significant time for the horror film genre with the arrival of the video nasty.

Shame there aren't more programmes like this.
 
I know it's off topic but that director's hanRAB were gigantic:eek:!


I enjoyed the second episode and suppose Lee wasn't interviewed due to his age and the fact he's probably bored of hammer horror talk?
I know it sounRAB silly but I was wondering if people were really scared of Hammer Horrors when originally released. The scene with her blood oozing out after being Staked through the heart was quite realistic although the colour of the blood was off..
 
Blimey that last film looked truly disturbing, especially the rape scene :(

Can't wait until next week's program, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of only two films I simply cannot bring myself to sit through (the other being The Exorcist). Some day I will!:D
 
Yes - there's a lot indeed. Part of my fantasy TV horror documentary show would be to lead from Hammer's horror to Hammer's psychological thrillers (e.g., Taste of Fear, The Nanny) on to the Italian gialli and therefore bring in Mario Bava and then Dario Argento, amongst others/Euro-horror... then this (e.g., Bava's A Bay of Blood) would lead naturally further on to the slashers etc as mentioned above & the nasties as mentioned in the last post; you could also tie in what I've already mentioned with early & modern David Lynch.
 
SounRAB great but i'm lost for worRAB after reading people don't like Kermode! I remember a fantastic American programme about horror films one year , anyone remember it? The clips were fab and it was made in the mid 2000's?


Just remebered that it was probably "The American Nightmare"

I do like horror films but never feel scared by them , just real life:o
 
Just watched it, very good. And a decent horror film selection box tied in :)

Mention of Dario Argento earlier - the Horror Channel are screening 5 of his films they started with Bird of Crystal Plumage then Deep Red, Tenebae on friday then Phenomena and finaly Horror at the Opera. If you missed the first two they will be repeated in a few weeks.
 
saw it before on iplayer. quite good and enjoyed it,

looking forward to the hammer years next week and the John Carpenter interview later in the series.


be also intersting to hear about what he says about modern horror as well!
 
It is indeed good, a fairly studious essay jam-packed with great footage. It gained some minor notoriety for BBC2 broadcasting an unedited version, containing footage which the BBFC had cut from a DVD release (Last House On The Left - it's since been passed uncut, but in the meantime the BBC made the relevant edits to American Nightmare for their repeat showings).
 
Extremely good second part tonight - much better than last week, but it had much more to deal with. It actually dealt with much more in the allotted time than I thought it would. Well-deserved section for Peter Cushing, and so glad Mario Bava got a mention. It was great to see some of the contributors again - Barbara Steele was beguiling, resplendent in black against the white sofa, exuding a certain sensual frisson; Barbara Shelley still has that wonderful silky voice; Roger Corman looking just the same as ever.

Interesting that Blood on Satan's Claw was also singled out at the end of the piece - notable for featuring the young Michele Dotrice & Linda Hayden, as well as a post-Doctor Who Wendy Padbury (rape scene mentioned above).

There was a good choice of music used incidentally in the programme, though it would have been confusing for those unfamiliar with the films as the music didn't match what was being shown (e.g., music from Frankenstein Created Woman and The Devil Rides Out).

It played out with Goblin's Suspiria - I wonder will Argento be mentioned next week... looking forward to the final part, perchance to a further series.
 
A great programme - again like so many others I didn't know it was on and missed the first half. Tried to watch the Bride of Frankenstein - I know it's a horror classic etc and part of the dawn of horror films - but after 20 minutes I turned off because the acting was so poor and the film didn't grab me AT ALL.
 
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