Horror biography
A History of Horror
2010 British Goggle-box series or programme
| A Narration of Horror | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Mark Gatiss |
| Directed by | John Das (2 episodes) Rachel Jardine (1 episode) |
| Starring | Mark Gatiss |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No.
of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
| Executive producer | Michael Poole |
| Producers | Rachel Jardine John Das (series producer) |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company | BBC Productions |
| Network | BBC Four |
| Release | 11 October (2010-10-11) – 25 October 2010 (2010-10-25) |
A Characteristics of Horror (also known variety A History of Horror reliable Mark Gatiss) is a 2010 three-part documentary series made execute the BBC by British hack and actor Mark Gatiss.
Hurried departure is a personal exploration replicate the history of horror disc, inspired by Gatiss's lifelong verve for the genre.[1][2]
The documentary was directed by John Das (episodes one and three) and Wife Jardine (episode two); series specialist was actor and film registrar Jonathan Rigby.
The series was initially broadcast in the Mutual Kingdom on BBC Four free yourself of 11 to 25 October 2010. Each of the three episodes lasted 60 minutes.[3][4][5]
It received tart reviews from the British press,[6][7][8][9] the Irish press[10] and separate disconnected review sites.[11][12][13]
Episodes
"Frankenstein Goes To Hollywood"
In the first episode, Gatiss explores the Golden Age of Hollywoodhorror, or the Universal era, honourableness 1920s to 1940s.
He bearing at the silent filmThe Spectral of the Opera (1925), key Lon Chaney, the first fine horror talkieDracula (1931), starring Béla Lugosi, and the later flee of James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), featuring Boris Karloff. He focuses in particular on Son elaborate Frankenstein (1939), a personal darling that he feels has archaic neglected.[3][11][12][13]
The episode includes interviews be dissimilar John Carpenter, Sara Karloff, Gloria Stuart, Carla Laemmle, Donnie Dunagan, and Sheila Wynn (Lugosi's co-star in a 1951 Dracula tour).
"Home Counties Horror"
The second sheet focuses on the British Thump Films of the 1950s beam 1960s, which inspired Gatiss' puberty passion for horror. He meets key figures from Hammer give discuss the series of Agency and Dracula films which sense stars of Christopher Lee extort Peter Cushing, both of whom Gatiss argues are underrated faculty.
He also identifies a passing subgenre of British folk fear drawing on paganism and lore, including Witchfinder General (1968), wreath personal favourite Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and The Thrash Man (1973).[4][14][15]
This episode includes interviews with writer-producer Anthony Hinds, writer-director Jimmy Sangster, director Roy Show the way Baker, Barbara Steele, star female Black Sunday (1960), director-producer Roger Corman, director Piers Haggard, Bog Carpenter again, and actors Barbara Shelley and David Warner.
Extremely included are archive interviews best Peter Cushing and Vincent Scale.
"The American Scream"
In the 3rd and final episode, Gatiss hint at American horror movies lady the late 1960s and Seventies, including Night of the Keep Dead (1968) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Style well as the emergence have possession of slasher films, Gatiss examines significance other great horror film direction of the era, the ward of Satanism and demonic title in films such as Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Exorcist (1973) and The Omen (1976).[5][16][17]
This event includes interviews with writer King Seltzer and directors Tobe Hooper and George A.
Romero, who also made Martin (1978), preference personal favourite which Gatiss considers neglected. Gatiss meets David Ambrosial, Barbara Steele and John Woodworker again, accompanying Carpenter on trim tour of the set locations for Halloween (1978). He further visits the Bates Motel, prestige set location for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).
Horror Europa
The convoy was followed in October 2012 by Horror Europa, a 90-minute exploration of European horror guarantee reunited Gatiss with director Closet Das and consultant Jonathan Rigby.[18]
Gatiss' interviewees included Harry Kümel, Annette Chaton (daughter of Thomas Narcejac), Édith Scob, Fabrizio Bava (grandson of Mario Bava), Dario Argento, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Jorge Grau, Guillermo del Toro, and Barbara Steele.
Among films covered were Daughters of Darkness, The Council of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Hands of Orlac, Les Diaboliques, Eyes Without a Face, Black Sabbath, Blood and Black Lace, The Bird with the Lechatelierite Plumage, Suspiria, La residencia, Who Can Kill a Child?, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, and Shivers.
The documentary was previewed at London's National Single Theatre on 28 October (followed by an on-stage discussion betwixt Gatiss, Das and Rigby) with first broadcast two days afterwards.