Better Dead Than Bored: Urban Gothic
Andrew Screen encounters Channel Five’s early Millennium low-budget horror anthology, Urban Gothic…
Here, you’ll find writing including articles, essays, analyses, retrospectives, insights and love letters to everything British horror television…
Andrew Screen encounters Channel Five’s early Millennium low-budget horror anthology, Urban Gothic…
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 two-part masterpiece for Horrified…
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…
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 Hallowe’en special and ensuing Friday night frights…
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…
Revisiting Stephen Gallagher’s Chimera, an early 90s TV mini-series exploring the perilous consequences when scientific advancement meets government corruption…
Andrew Screen explores the little-seen 1994 BBC horror anthology, Siren Spirits, which explored family and race-relations in contemporary society.
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…
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…
Jason Brawn reflects on, Hammer House of Horror, one of the most important British television horror programmes of his childhood…