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  • my favorite British horrors

    Yes, another list.
    The short list.
    I'm a compulsive list-maker.


    1989 The Woman In Black -- made-for-tv
    1988 The Lair of the White Worm
    1987 The Sign of Four -- made-for-tv
    1985 Lifeforce
    1985 The Doctor and the Devils
    1984 A Christmas Carol -- made-for-tv
    1977 Count Dracula -- made-for-tv
    1973 Frankenstein the True Story -- made-for-tv
    1973 Don't Look Now
    1972 A Warning to the Curious -- made-for-tv
    1972 The Stone Tape -- made-for-tv
    1972 The Ruling Class
    1972 Hands of the Ripper
    1972 Frenzy
    1971 Macbeth aka Roman Polanski's Macbeth
    1971 The Devils
    1971 Blood On Satan's Claw aka Satan's Skin
    1970 Wuthering Heights
    1970 When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
    1970 The Vampire Lovers
    1970 Jane Eyre -- theatrical / made-for-TV
    1970 The House That Dripped Blood
    1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
    1969 Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
    1968 Whistle and I'll Come To You -- made-for-tv
    1968 The Witchfinder General
    1968 The Devil Rides Out
    1967 Quatermass and the Pit
    1967 The Fearless Vampire Killers
    1966 Plague of the Zombies
    1966 One Million Years B.C.
    1965 The Tomb of Ligiea
    1965 A Study In Terror
    1965 The Skull
    1965 The Nanny
    1964 The Unearthly Stranger
    1963 Dr Syn Alias the Scarecrow (Disney)
    1962 Captain Clegg aka Night Creatures
    1961 The Innocents
    1961 Day the Earth Caught Fire
    1960 Village of the Damned
    1960 The Curse of the Werewolf
    1960 The City of the Dead aka Horror Hotel
    1959 The Hound of the Baskervilles
    1959 The Flesh and the Fiends
    1958 Revenge of Frankenstein
    1958 Quatermass and the Pit -- live-for-tv
    1958 Night of the Demon aka Curse of the Demon
    1958 Dracula aka Horror of Dracula
    1958 Corridors of Blood
    1957 The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas
    1955 Quatermass 2 -- live-for-tv
    1954 1984
    1951 A Christmas Carol


    The above are all the reasons I love British genre films.
    Richard--W
    a straight arrow
    Last edited by Richard--W; 12-23-2012, 01:25 PM.
    "I've been to college, but I can still speak English when business demands it."
    - Raymond Chandler, 1939.

  • #2
    You forgot Killer's Moon :)

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    • #3
      There's a lot of telly stuff I'd add to this list: for example, one of my favourite adaptations of FRANKENSTEIN, for the series MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION in 1968.

      Have you seen the surviving episodes of the BBC's 1972 series DEAD OF NIGHT, Richard?
      'You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow'

      http://www.paul-a-j-lewis.com (my photography website)
      'All explaining in movies can be thrown out, I think': Elmore Leonard

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      • #4
        The Stone Tapes is a very underrated made-for-tv flick, imo.

        There have been so many high water marks with British horror cinema, but if I were to pick some immediate favourites they'd be Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Quartermass and the Pit, The Vampire Lovers, The Curse of the Werewolf, and the Legend of Hell House. Guess I should mention Hellraiser as well
        Robert W
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        Last edited by Robert W; 12-25-2012, 08:10 PM.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Paul L View Post
          There's a lot of telly stuff I'd add to this list: for example, one of my favourite adaptations of FRANKENSTEIN, for the series MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION in 1968.

          Have you seen the surviving episodes of the BBC's 1972 series DEAD OF NIGHT, Richard?
          The eps on utube? Not yet. I've been meaning to. I'm way behind in my to-watch-stack.

          What else would you add, Paul?

          I've just heard of a British film called INVASION (1965) which seems all but unobtainable. Have you heard of it?
          "I've been to college, but I can still speak English when business demands it."
          - Raymond Chandler, 1939.

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          • #6
            Woman in Black. Man that still gives me nightmares!!! I watched this when it was originally broadcast and its stuck in my head all these years. Thats agood list you have going there. I love Hammer films too. Have you seen BBcs Crooked house or all the ghost stories for xmas btw?

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            • #7
              Tower of Evil
              "When I die, I hope to go to Accra"

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Richard--W View Post
                I've just heard of a British film called INVASION (1965) which seems all but unobtainable. Have you heard of it?

                It's out there. There was a VHS in the UK and I found a french subbbed English copy online.
                Here is a post I made a few years ago about it @ Latarnia
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                This B & W sci-fi thriller concerns low budget aliens who crash on Earth and look asian. Before they can leave they have to finish an important job, and this requires the aliens to place an invisible force field around a rural hospital, and the temperature begins to climb. If it keeps up. the patients will start dropping. Can the staff figure out what to do in time?
                Directed by Alan Bridges ( who would later make the interesting OUT OF SEASON ) INVASION moves along briskly, and the cast plays it straight.

                https://rosalbaneri.blogspot.com/

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                • #9
                  Nice discovery.

                  I really want to see this.

                  Can you put that on a DVD-R, John?

                  I wonder if some U.K. forum member has the VHS and can make transfers?
                  "I've been to college, but I can still speak English when business demands it."
                  - Raymond Chandler, 1939.

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                  • #10
                    I can do that for you, I'll dig it out tonight.
                    I remember thinking it was a nice slow burner, low budget but that wonderful straight faced British approach helps sell the story.
                    https://rosalbaneri.blogspot.com/

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