BBC2 Horror Double Bill

I don't remember that season at all although I do remember watching Dawn of the Dead on BBC2. I think it was part of Moviedrome though.

It's fascinating when I hear from those like yourself about horror seasons and showings on tv that I really didn't have a clue about.

ITV4 actually had a pretty good horror movie season some months ago that included a few good 80's movies and some old Hammer classics.
 
Doesn't Mark Gatiss interview Corman in the series? I'm certain I saw clips of him being interviewed in the preview. Let's hope he talks about Sharktopuss too!
 
Well I could have gone for the obvious choices but we've all mentioned the Universal classics, RKO, Hammer et al right from the first post.

I was just highlighting older horror and monster movies that I'd like to see and thought would be fun to show as part of a Horror Double Bill on BBC2.

In fact, I'll continue ...

"The Green Slime" (1968)
"The Astounding She Monster" (1957)
"Let's Scare Jessica to Death" (1971)
"Blacula" (1972)
"Frogs" (1972)
"The Devil-Doll" (1936)
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945)

One man's meat and all that.

What films would everyone else like to see when BBC2 brings back their Horror Double Bill?
 
That film terrified my Mum for years afterwarRAB - and a friend of mine too! :D:D:D

Something to do with sticking coathangers out to trip people up - going down the stairs? :confused:

And little people hiding in pot plants? :o

Luckily I never actually watched that film either - just witnessed the terror of those who did :p

Just checked and you can watch it on YouTube :eek: But I won't be :sleep:

And Hope Lange in Crowhaven Farm is on YT too :eek:
 
ITV4 appear to have done a deal with Studio Canal so all their Hammer films keep appearing.

Dracula Prince of Darkness
Devil Rides Out
Quatermass and The Pit

Not seen many others on ITV4 but I wonder if they also have:

She
The Plague of the Zombies
The Reptile
The Witches
Scars of Dracula
Horror of Frankenstein
Lust for a Vampire

And if they have the non gothic horror ones they might also have:

Straight on Til Morning (hardly ever shown on tv since it was made in the early 70's)
Demons of the Mind
 
LOL Sharktopus!!!

I'd love to host a horror show and discuss some of the really dumb monster and horror movies over the years!

Mega Piranha
The Giant Claw
From Hell It Came
Godzilla vs The Smog Monster
Night of the Lepus
Reptilicus
Wrestling Women vs The Aztec Mummy

Look them up! Some seriously funny movies there! :eek:
 
If I ever become a rich man I am sooooo gonna commission one of those Boris Karloff 'Frankenstein's Monster' statues (that featured in ep1 of the Gatiss programme). It really is very cool.
 
I love all those old "omnibus" horror films -
Asylum
Vault of Horror
Tales From the Crypt
Torture Garden
From Beyond the Grave

Brilliant! :D
 
That's a real shame that such a wonderful classic horror film like this one should have been screened cut to ribbons for no apparent reason!

In reference to the Bring Back the BBC2 Horror Double Bills campaign, I emailed a complaint to the BBC about the lack of classic old horror films on the BBC and asking for the return of the Horror Double Bill.

I received this response, which indicates to me that it is worthwhile emailing the tv companies and that the more people who do the same, the better chance we have of achieving our aim. So please email the BBC today and let them know we want to see the return of BBC2's Horror Double Bills!

"Thanks for your email.

I understand that you would like to see the return of double bills of films from the horror genre. I note that you feel that we don't screen enough classic horror, sci-fi or monster films.

I appreciate your feelings and I can assure you that your comments have been fully registered on our audience log. This is the internal report of audience feedback which we compile daily for all channel and scheduling executives within the BBC, and also their senior management.

It's very helpful to us to hear the opinions of our audience, whether positive or negative and I'm glad you've been in touch with your opinion.

Thank you again for taking the time to contact us with your thoughts.

RegarRAB"
 
Good news for horror fans is that BBC4 will be airing a three-part documentary History of Horror possibly near Halloween!

A History Of Horror With Mark Gatiss

League Of Gentlemen star and Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss celebrates the horror film in a new three-part series for BBC Four.

Mark begins his exploration of the genre by looking at the golden age of Hollywood horror of the Thirties and Forties and examines some iconic pictures directed by Englishman James Whale (Frankenstein, The Old Dark House and Bride Of Frankenstein), who lent the films a camp sensibility, and populated them with a largely British ex-pat cast.

The second episode concentrates on the complete reinterpretation of the genre. In the 1958 remake of Dracula, the original vampire with heavy face and foul breath was gone and along came the Byronic Count in the shape of Christopher Lee, a blooRABucker of almost gentlemanly proportions. It was at this time that horror films turned from black and white to colour and began to feature an element of sex, tapping into an increasingly permissive society.

The last programme in the series explores the gritty and graphic new wave of horror cinema from Night Of The Living Dead in 1968 to the movie Halloween ten years later, the first of the great slew of slasher films which were to dominate the next decade. Mark details the shifts in the horror genre, and meets leading film-makers from the era.

Don't forget to sign our petition to Bring Back BBC2's Horror Double Bills!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringclassichorrorfilmsbacktothebbc/
 
That was part of a season of "transgression and ultimate horrors" type movies I can't remember the official title as you can tell. :)

Petition signed by the way.

Oh yeah, I mentioned Film24 earlier in this thread as being in the market for more british Horror, well they are in administration right now so dunno what the outlook is there. BBC2 and a bit of ITV4 could be our only hope.
 
I'll wait and see the Blu-ray reviews first. I am Blu-Ray enabled at the moment but the problem i'm having is a lot of companies are rushing out their movies on Blu-Ray with minimal effort at doing a good crisp version, so the fans buy it....only for them to release the proper 'worthy' proper HD version 12 months down the line. Therefore fleecing the fans.

Yes, Film 4 seems to be obsessed with 'Vault'. They must show it at least 6 times a year. I've always liked Vault. Other fans don't rate it as highly as 'Asylum' and 'Tales', but I really like the sense of fun in Vault.

You gotta love the vampires attaching a bar tap on that guys neck and having a knees up whilst drinking his blood, in the first story. But the thing I love most about Vault is the Terry Thomas story...and his poor wife's demented revenge*.

*although I always found it harsh in that movie that Terry Thomas was assigned to that limbo hell of the Vault when really he hadn't done anything that badly wrong. The other guests in the movie were murderers/would be murderers, but all Thomas' character was, was a petty tidy freak who nagged his wife a bit too much ;)
 
A fine example for me of a double bill would start with Karloff followed by
Cushing and Lee as the main course.

Washed down with a full bodied red (wine.)


great that the double bills are so fondly remembered.
 
There's an Amicus boxset with 5 of their movies on , although only 3 anthologies but lots of extras including documentaries and commentaries.

They are all out on dvd and if you buy Region 1 aswell even more Amicus films are available - all in their correct ratios too
 
Some other watchable 1970's horror movies are Burnt Offerings,Let's Scare Jessica To Death and The Car.I haven't see the influential 1960's movie - Carnival of Souls shown on TV in quite some time.

I'd love to see BBC2 do a weekly horror double bill,but I think Film 4 would be a better bet.Surely the rights to all these horror movies,mostly over 30 years and often made for television,wouldn't be that high.
 
I believe the Dawn of the Dead broadcast within Moviedrome was the pointless censored version that was a joke.

Its been shown several times uncut since then.

Back in the early 80's the thought that BBC2 would show Dawn of the Dead uncut at any point in the future would have been met with laughter
 
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