BBC2 Horror Double Bill

I was going to suggest 'The Possessed'. I seem to remember some action taking place near a swimming pool, and the woman's mouth full of nails was very black and unnervingly wide!
 
I have to agree that some of the movies are worthier for their laugh factor than any actual horror!!

I recently heard that Hammer plans to remake Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires!! :eek:
 
I guess you already know this but... the print of VOH that's recently been appearing on C4/Film 4 is uncut -- as was the print of TFTC that also appeared on TV (can't remember if it was BBC) some time within the last year.
 
Talking of the Forbidden season don't forget C4's Banned season in 1991 which saw the broadcast of Sex and The Censors , a documentary that C4 got a severe bollocking for aswell as being told never to repeat it.

Not only did it include censored moments like an erection in a Derek Jarman film , it also included bits cut from Death Wish 2 ,Crimes of Passion and it also showed the bits that are still missing today from The New York Ripper although they played on a tv in the background .

I taped it and have copied it to dvd but as I don't have any films from that season I'm guessing they didn't show much of interest or that they are out on dvd anyway


Classic 70's horror fans should check out the superb new dvd of The Blood On Satans Claw from Odeon.

No extras unfortunately but it is anamorphic which makes it better than the old Anchor Bay discs but we can keep those for the extras.

It has the MGM logo at the start so I expect we'll see a Midnite Movies release at some point
 
I'm in my twenties and love all aspects of horror.

I can't remember specific things about the 80's double bills. But I do remember BBC2 showing a horror double bill season in the 90's. The season was called "It's scary out there." The films where introduced by a BBC2 logo in a foggy graveyard. Two films I remember from this season where Dawn Of The Dead (Which I'd seen coutless times before) and the original Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. Unfortunatly the season was quite short lived.

Also in the late 90s / early 00s BBC2 showed a Universal horror season at christmas.
 
Just a bump for The Horror Channel, who have got their hanRAB of a pair of Lucio Fulci zombie flicks - The Beyond (tomorrow night) and City of the Living Dead (tonight). Now wouldn't they made a creepy old double bill (or one half each, paired with say a something from the Brit scene)?
 
The History of Horror is not a "history" (blame BBC for the wrong title) its Mark Gatiss personal
overview, the stuff he has a particular interest in. So no silent gothic from Germany, no Italian giallo/zombies, no Japanese body horror and so on.
 
I remember Sex & The Censors! Talk about bringing back memories!!!

And I love Blood on Satan's Claw! A truly superb British classic. I remember when I was very young I saw a trailer for this film at my local cinema but I'm sure they referred to it as "Satan's Skin"?
I SO wanted to see this film and eventually caught it on my local ITV station. I wasn't disappointed!

Oh, and everyone please sign our petition to bring back BBC2's Horror Double Bills!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringclassichorrorfilmsbacktothebbc/
 
This might jog a few brain cells. Under the banner of 'Horror double bill' on the BBC:-

THE GHOUL/NIGHT OF THE DEMON - 28/6/80
CHAMBER OF HORRORS/THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS - 5/7/80
DR TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS/THE MAD GHOUL - 12/7/80
DAUGHTERS OF SATAN/THE DEVIL DOLL - 19/7/80
THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF/FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE - 26/7/80
PARANOIAC/CAPTAIN KRONOS-VAMPIRE HUNTER - 2/8/80
NIGHT OF THE LEPUS/THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS - 9/8/80
LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF/THE BAT - 16/8/80
THE SKULL/TOWER OF LONDON - 23/8/80
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE/ZOLTAN-HOUND OF DRACULA - 4/7/81
CAT PEOPLE/MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM - 11/7/81
THE SEVENTH VICTIM/RACE WITH THE DEVIL - 18/7/81
ISLE OF THE DEAD/THE CRAZIES - 25/7/81
BEDLAM/BUG - 1/8/81
THE SHUTTERED ROOM/THE LEOPARD MAN - 8/8/81
THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE/EYE OF THE CAT - 15/8/81
THATRE OF BLOOD/THE BODY SNATCHER - 22/8/81
DRACULA'S DAUGHTER/SON OF FRANKENSTEIN - 23/7/83
THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN - 30/7/83
FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN/THE WOLFMAN - 6/8/83
SON OF DRACULA/HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN - 13/8/83
THE MUMMY'S HAND/THE HOUSE OF DRACULA - 20/8/83

Don't blame me if you have nightmares!
 
i loved the old double bills. My friend used to stay over on a saturday night and we'd watch the b&w one in my bedroom and then the colour one downstairs after my mum and dad had gone to bed. We were only about 11 and were terrified at some of the films. One's I remember fondly were Bug, Trilogy of Terror (with that horrible voodoo doll chasing the woman around her apartment), From Beyond the Grave (with the mirror saying 'feed me'), Tales from the Crypt, and all the Vincent Price ones like Dr Phibes and Theatre of Blood.

There is one that I cannot remember the title of. It was another one of those trilogy ones made in the 70s. All I remember is the last story being called Bobby I think. It was the story of a boy called Bobby who died from falling from a cliff and was haunting the house. The ending scene was so terrifying and unexpected. I was turning the light back on near the TV and looked down. I think I leaped the full length of the living room!! It had the boy walking down the stairs saying "Bobby didn't like what you did to him so he sent me instead" and an evil face like the boy tapping on the window in Salems Lot.

Just found it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075917/

Night of Dead TV movie.
 
I'd love a dvd of "Vampire Circus". One of my favourite Hammer horrors. A really unique concept and some sexy vampires!
Ironically I think I originally saw it on late night ITV (probably Anglia Television) not the BBC2 Horror Double Bill season.
 
Vampire Circus was available in a 3 pack along with a couple of other films to form The Vampire Collection.

With possibly the longest pre-credits sequence of any Hammer film (either 12 or 17 minutes IIRC) Vampire Circus was re-released by Network and IIRC has a commentary and other bonus features.
 
You're right! I like the idea of pairing them with a cool British horror movie. Maybe City of the Living Dead with Hammer's Plague of the Zombies?
 
Noooooo! :eek::eek::eek:

That must be the scene I was thinking of and too scared to look at :p

SounRAB even more horrible than I imagined :eek:

I know it freaked my sisters out at the time :D
 
Yes, I had a dvd recording off the BBC of TFTC and their print was 4:3 and quite ropey so I was glad to replace it with the R1 disc.

The 2 UK Vipco releases of VOH on dvd were also uncut and I had both of those but replaced them with the Film4 presentation which was slightly better but not by a great deal but it seemed a good idea when I could get
 
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