Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Jon Dear revisits 1995's Ghosts, the short-lived BBC anthology show set in modern Britain...

Duncan Gates examines the angry progressivism of the ghostly tale and explores BBC Play One's 1989 effort, Govan Ghost Story...​

The nightmare fuel of a generation of schoolchildren. Public Information Films of the 70s and 80s were mini horrors and warnings to the curious...

J.D. Collins resurrects 90s sitcom 2point4 Children, from the realm of cosy sitcom blandness, to explore its supernatural undercurrents and brooding production values.

Francis Young explores whether the distant past, in and of itself, can be a source of horror, leading to a distinct fear of the past: archaeophobia...

Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible, an affectionate pastiche of 70s horror anthologies enjoyed a single series in 2001. Andrew Screen rifles through the episodes...

Andrew Screen tackles Thames Television's early 70s anthology, Shadows of Fear, which eschewed the supernatural for more psychological horrors...​

Graham Williamson discusses Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, a staple of 90s television weirdness (and even weirder subjects)...​

David Evans-Powell takes a look at the 1972 anthology series Dead of Night and its particular delight in terrorising the middle-class...

J.D. Collins dissects what makes Mark Gatiss's BBC Horror documentaries so entertaining, and also how elements can be seen in his work...​

Andrew Screen explores the little-seen 1994 BBC horror anthology, Siren Spirits, which explored family and race-relations in contemporary society.

Sophia Adamowicz explores the distinctive blend of the macabre and the mundane in the work of The League of Gentlemen’s long-standing writing and acting partners...

Graham Williamson revisits 1977's fictional hoax, Alternative 3. 'One of the most intoxicatingly, terrifyingly paranoid programmes ever broadcast on British television...'​

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…

Jamie Evans ventures into darkest London for the 'pulpy, luridly compelling' ITV series, Whitechapel...​

Long-neglected anthology series, The Frighteners (1972), utilised cultural concerns of the period in telling its pitch-black horror tales. Andrew Screen takes a closer look at the series' 13 episode run...​

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 almost 30…

Author A.J. Black returns with the latest in his Horror in the Britcom series. This time, he explores the (Nor)folk horror lurking in and around Steve Coogan's hilariously appalling Alan…

Jon Dear peers westward toward two episodes from 1982-83's supernatural anthology series, West Country Tales...​

Why does The Woman In Black (1989) continue to cast a terrifying ghostly shadow over viewers more than 30 years after its first broadcast?

Time-travel or ghost story? Robert Taylor takes a look at Moondial, a classic children’s drama that puts the resilience of children, in the face of adversity, at its heart...​

K B Morris explores the conflict between fate and free will in John Bowen's 1970 folk horror television play, Robin Redbreast...​

A.J. Black's series looking at horror in British comedy discovers the 'not-so-hidden' horrors in one of Britain's most beloved sitcoms, Only Fools and Horses...​

Mark Anthony Ayling revisits Mark Gatiss's 2008 horror anthology, Crooked House, and the ordinary - and extraordinary - fears contained within...

Graham Le Neve Painter reopens The Vault of Horror with the creative team behind BBC horror host Dr. Terror; entering the mouldering tomb via a two-part retrospective on the 1992…

Andrew Screen encounters Channel Five's early Millennium low-budget horror anthology, Urban Gothic...​

A.J. Black explores the macabre lurking within the BBC comedy, One Foot in the Grave, in his series on horror in the Britcom...

Graham Williamson explores Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You, the hit BBC series, and finds ‘a recurrent thread of horror imagery around the edges of the show’...​

Jason Brawn reflects on, Hammer House of Horror, one of the most important British television horror programmes of his childhood...

Brontë Schiltz essays Charlie Brooker's Channel 4 zombie outbreak series, Dead Set, which exposes the very real horror at the heart of reality television programming...

David Evans-Powell explores haunted landscapes in 1970s British television and discovers not a warning to the curious, but instead perhaps a warning to the unvigilant...

Ivan Kirby looks back at ITV drama, Crown Court, a perennial of 1970s/80s daytime television programming that - in pursuit of justice - often featured horror-inflected episodes...​

Graham Williamson looks at the career of the great Tom Baker, including his tenure as the Doctor...

Hammer's forgotten horror anthology series, 1968's Journey to the Unknown, was broadcast over a decade before their House of Horror. But how does it stack up?

Andrew Screen, author of the forthcoming The Book of Beasts, explores a 'touchstone of folk horror and hauntology', the seminal 1976 series Beasts by Nigel Kneale…​

1988's Jack the Ripper was the very definition of event television and recently returned to public attention via re-broadcast on Talking Pictures TV. Dean Newman takes a scalpel to ITV's…

Scorpion Tales occupies a lower tier in the pantheon of great British horror television of the 1970s, but did it deserve more than a single series? Andrew Screen investigates the…

In a special festive edition of Horror in the Britcom, A.J. Black explores the singularly hilarious and disturbing portmanteau, The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special...

Robert Edgar celebrates the enduring warmth and weirdness of the BBC's 1984 Christmas children's series, The Box of Delights...

Sophia Adamowicz discusses how technology is used to simulate the horrors of hell in Charlie Brooker’s television drama, Black Mirror...

Robert Taylor explores the role of Keckwick and the landscape of The Woman in Black (1989) in a time when regional networks created event television....​

At once sublime and horrifying, the English countryside is increasingly the backdrop in horror that explores a growing unease about our place in the world. Melissa Elborn digs deeper into…

Following his final film for the BBC's A Ghost Stories for Christmas series, Lawrence Gordon Clark went freelance and landed at ITV where he turned his considerable talents toward directing…

Dean Newman explores the BBC's horrifying 1984 nuclear attack drama, Threads...

Revisiting Stephen Gallagher's Chimera, an early 90s TV mini-series exploring the perilous consequences when scientific advancement meets government corruption...

Jon Dear, writer and co-host of the Nigel Kneale podcast, Bergcast, takes a detailed look at the classic 1958 BBC television production of Kneale's Quatermass and the Pit...

Andrew Screen explores the BBC's chilling rabies outbreak serial, 1983's The Mad Death...​

Graham Le Neve Painter once again draws back the curtain on the BBC's The Vault of Horror with the creative team behind Dr Terror...

In this personal piece by Jamie Evans, he explores Roddy McDowall in 1969's Night Gallery, interprets the actor's performance and the writing of Rod Serling..

A decade before Brian Clemens' Thriller, NBC in the US broadcast an identically-titled anthology show of its very own, introduced British horror legend, Boris Karloff. Jane Nightshade takes us back…

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…

Author K B Morris examines the 1974's BBC Play for Today, David Rudkin's Penda's Fen, and its exploration of the notion of Englishness...

Exploring the potential influences and ways in which genre and horror fiction are used and referenced in the classic comedy/meta series, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace...

K B Morris essays the conflict between reason and superstition in Nigel Kneale's Murrain (1975), and the recurring theme of female suffering and trauma at the hands of men in…