A History Of Horror With Mark Gatiss

SounRAB like just the sort of thing they could have tied in with Gatiss series and then shown a season of Hammers. Hmm that sounRAB like a good idea.
 
Top class stuff! It was always going to be with it being Mark Gatiss and on BBC4. I loved all the references to classic horror in The League of Gentlemen series (can't believe the amazing Christmas Special will be 10 years old this Christmas!).

I've never seen that cut scene from Frankenstein where the monster throws the little girl in the lake!! Like Mark said, that would be bad enough now let alone all those years ago! I don't remember if I've actually seen the whole of the classic Frankenstein tbh or Dracula. Seen the later versions.

Brilliant job from Gatiss and all involved. Really looking forward to the other two episodes.
 
I recently bought The Haunting as a DVD. It's still wonderfully atmospheric and the acting is superb. I wish I could recreate the terror I first felt when I watched it alone as child! It was a seriously scary film for me!

The remake had us all giggling in the cinema! "it's all about the family, granpa!" :D
 
Great series ... and I found out in episode 2 that the hotel that was used as the location for many of the hammer films and also 'The Rock Horror Picture Show' is where I will be eating/staying over for the works Christmas do. :eek:

Can't wait.
 
Loved it, roll on part two. Sure its far from exhaustive but thats okay as its clearly a personal project rather than a formal "history" as such they proably should have come up with a better name.
 
Thanks for your Region 1 recommendations Knowitall I have ordered 3 Hammer films off the US Amazon, site. Dracula (Known in other countries as 'The Horror of Dracula'), The Curse of Frankenstein and The Mummy. It's only about
 
But like i said in another post, scream is way to hollywood and polished, the slashers of the 70's/80's had a more real and gritty feel to them
 
The absence of Devil Rides Out will certainly have been a concession to the running time. Gatiss has mentioned in the past his love of the story, and indeed he wrote a whole book in tribute to the genre, the second Lucifer Box novel. I think it was caller The Devil in Amber, but I might be confusing it with something else.
 
No, it's fixed now, but early versions they had that puppet from the 90s 'Tales from the Crypt' show on there even though it made no sense (people verify this on the Amazon reviews) or had any relevance to this film. I'll see if i can find the old box art
 
I loved this.

This is one of those types of programmes that pop up on BBC 4 now and again and make television that much richer for it.

I feel a bit disappointed that Nosferatu wasn't covered though, and that The Wolfman and The Mummy didn't get more than their brief mention.

Looking forward to part 2.
 
Bizarrely Lionel was only 38 when he made the original. Gatiss was 44 on 17/10.

Famously, Lionel was a year younger than Dick van Dyke, who played his son in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
 
Thanks, I did just check, saw a clip that they go to the locations of where Halloween was filmed, do they do the same for The Fog? I love that film, would be more interested in seeing the Fog's locations, prefrebly both actually as well as Christine's, another great John Carpenter Film! :)
 
Have to say I am pleased that the BBC is making some effort in regarRAB to Halloween this year with this history of horror program and the films they are putting on

Brides of Dracula and Quatermass on this past week

Witchfinder General on earlier
Original (and better) Dawn of the Dead on later today (Monday)
Scanners on Wednesday
Original Night of the Living Dead on Saturday

Halloween on Halloween night
 
Fantastic cast. I love the bit when Arthur Lowe's severed head falls off the bed and onto the carpet leaving Joan Hickson still in bed screaming like a banshee. Think of it: Captain Mannering and Miss Marple in bed together....oooh matron !
 
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