Retrospectives

And Now The Screaming Starts!

Amicus

A Retrospective

In this Amicus Productions retrospective, we cover all 24 films from 1965’s Dr Terror’s House of Horrors to the company’s swansong, 1977’s The People That Time Forgot…

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Dead of Night (1945)

Dead of Night (1945)

23/02/2021
Nick Bartlett returns to one of the great British horror anthologies, 1945's Dead Of Night, in this article for Horrified...​
Digging Through Horror on the London Underground

Digging Through Horror on the London Underground

12/09/2021
In a companion piece to her absorbing exploration of The Thames and the horror film, Lauren Jane Barnett essays how London and its underground system are deeply intertwined, in life and cinema, from Quatermass and the Pit to Death Line…

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Television

The unremitting terror of

Ghostwatch

Graham Williamson heads back to Halloween 1992 for the BBC’s broadcast of Ghostwatch and examines how Stephen Volk’s ghost story still endures despite only a single airing in over 30 years…

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Inspiring Rewilding (2023)

08/02/2023
As the folk horror anthology Rewilding lands on Prime Video, its director Ric Rawlins discusses ten of its key inspirations – from Moomins to M.R James…
Bernard Cribbins

Bernard Cribbins: The Lost Interview

28/07/2022
A never before published interview with the late Bernard Cribbins, originally conducted almost 30 years ago by Adam Jezard, in which the actor discusses his work in the genres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction...

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Yesterday's Entertainment:

The hauntological sounds of

Ghost Box Records

Alexander J. Zawacki explores the hauntological majesty of Ghost Box Recordings, and becomes immersed in music both familiar and strange…​

The Encyclopedia of Horror

Horrified…and loving it! - The Encyclopedia of Horror

23/06/2021
Welcome to the latest Horrified...and loving it! column in which people share the British horror moments that terrify and thrill them the most. This time, TC explores the rite of passage that was The Encyclopedia of Horror...​

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Retrospectives

Warnings to the Curious:

A Ghost Story for Christmas

A retrospective on the long-running BBC series, essaying every episode from Whistle and I’ll Come to You to Martin’s Close…

The Dead Room 2018

The Dead Room (2018)

22/11/2020
Jon Dear looks at the 2018 episode of A Ghost Story for Christmas - this time eschewing the traditional M.R. James adaptation in favour of an original story, The Dead Room, written and directed by Mark Gatiss...

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Fiction

Tea with Mrs. Hindley

by Jez Conolly

Pages from the private journal of Derek, a fiftysomething loner who chronicles his afternoons spent in the company of Mrs. Hindley, a woman whose dark past Derek helps to keep hidden…

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The White Tree

04/10/2020
No one touches the White Tree. A forester, Sam Edwards, has been tasked with cutting it down. But what might happen when one crosses a line that ought not be crossed? Might nature take things into its own hands?

The Periphery

02/10/2020
Just what is it that Robert can see, elusive, in the corner of his eye? Who is the mysterious woman, captivating his thoughts and dreams? Who, or what, waits on The Periphery?
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Vinegar Tom

24/09/2020
The eerie sound of a fox in the night has been known to shred the nerves. In ‘Vinegar Tom’ that is only the beginning…

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