Paul Lewis explores the oddly prescient The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, Jorge Grau’s 1974 zombie film that explores both the urban and the rural, centre and periphery – the motivation for a significant proportion of English supernatural fiction…
American filmmaker Andy Milligan’s extremely low-budget work was consigned to his homeland until 1968 when he ventured to the UK and made five horror films over a two-year period. Paul Lewis examines Milligan’s films in detail…
In this in-depth essay on the work of José Ramón Larraz, Paul Lewis explores the director’s work, focusing on his early films made in 1970s Britain…
In this in-depth essay, Paul Lewis examines Tigon Productions’ penultimate film, Fred Burnley’s 1972 ‘coastal gothic’, Neither the Sea Nor the Sand…
Paul Lewis latest essay for Horrified is an extensive exploration of the work of director Pete Walker and his collaboration with screenwriter David McGillivray, focusing on three of the former’s best-known films…
Mark Gatiss took up the mantle of producing the first BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas for three years with an adaptation of M.R. James’ The Tractate Middoth. Paul Lewis discusses Gatiss’s 2013 effort…
Paul Lewis’ absorbing essay on Ghost Story (1974), takes an in-depth look at Stephen Weeks’ independent haunted house film and its profound sense of Englishness…
