Tag Archives: British Horror

I’m not sure I planned on being weird, but growing up in the seventies and eighties meant I was groomed by lax parenting, barely existent health and safety, and televisual content, which was either spewed through the psychedelic filter of ex-hippies or curiously wizened old men.

Disc Details Scream Factory. Region A. Feature: 91 mins. Aspect ratio 1.85:1.  The Movie In the ‘70s when Hammer Films were desperately heading in new directions in search of box office gold in an increasingly competitive genre film landscape, scribe and ...

From the mid-sixties to the early seventies, if you wanted to lose yourself in the world of the portmanteau horror film, Amicus, ‘the studio that dripped blood’, was the where it was at. Formed by American duo Max Rosenberg and ...

Shout Factory’s new 4k restoration of Hammer’s Dracula: Prince of Darkness looks markedly different from Studio Canal’s 2k restoration, from some years ago. Originally released in 1966, Terence Fisher’s sequel to his own groundbreaking Horror of Dracula (1958) was shot back to ...

Films, like music, belong to a certain time and place, and those that are immediately successful, as opposed to finding success gradually in aging like fine wine, tend to come out at the perfect time, when audiences are ready for ...

“Transylvania, land of dark forests, dread mountains and black unfathomable lakes. Still the home of magic and devilry as the nineteenth century draws to its close. Count Dracula, monarch of all vampires is dead. But his disciples live on to ...

After Fantastic Fest’s screening of The Boat (2018), there was a Q&A with the film’s writer, producer and lone actor, Joe Azzopardi. Joe’s dad, Winston Azzopardi, co-wrote, produced and directs the film and the two apparently didn’t always see eye to ...

Prano Bailey-Bond is an award-winning British filmmaker and writer who according to her online biography, ‘grew up on a diet of Twin Peaks in the depths of a strange Welsh community’. She cut her filmmaking teeth directing music videos for ...

Believe the hype – gripping, thrilling, and brilliant. Ghost Stories is perhaps one of the most noted plays of the last decade. Premiering in 2010, the brainchild of Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, the play gained notoriety for both distressing ...

Essentially unknown aside more popular British studios that had an emphasis on genre films, like Hammer, Amicus, or Tigon, Anglo-Amalgamated ran only for a few decades, from 1945 until the early ‘70s, but should forever be remembered for their unforgettable ...