my favorite British horrors

[John Bernhard]

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.

[Richard--W]

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?

[John Bernhard]

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.

[Scott]

Tower of Evil

[Lalala76]

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?

[Richard--W]

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?

[Robert W]

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

[Paul L]

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?

[Wllm Clys]

You forgot Killer's Moon :)

[Richard--W]

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.