A History Of Horror With Mark Gatiss Season 1 Episode 3 The American Scream

TV Show: A History Of Horror With Mark Gatiss

Aired on: 9:00 PM on October 25th, 2010 – Monday

Channel: BBC FOUR Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3

Episode Name: The American Scream

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Three-part series in which League of Gentleman star, Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Mark Gatiss celebrates the greatest achievements of horror cinema.
Mark explores the explosion of American films of the late 1960s and 70s which dragged horror kicking and screaming into the present day. With their contemporary settings and uncompromising content, films like Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre remain controversial. But Mark argues that these films – often regarded as only being for hardcore fans with strong stomachs – have much to offer. Made by pioneering independent filmmakers, they reflected the social upheavals of American society and brought fresh energy and imagination to the genre.
Mark gets the inside story from a roster of leading horror directors, including George A Romero, whose Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead turned zombies into A-list monsters; Tobe Hooper, director of the notorious Texas Chain Saw Massacre; and John Carpenter, whose smash hit Halloween triggered the slasher movie boom.

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A History Of Horror With Mark Gatiss Season 1 Episode 2 Home Counties Horror

TV Show: A History Of Horror With Mark Gatiss

Aired on: 9:00 PM on October 18th, 2010 – Monday

Channel: BBC FOUR Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2

Episode Name: Home Counties Horror

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Mark Gatiss continues his celebration of horror cinema by uncovering the stories behind the films of his favourite period, the 1950s and 60s, an era dominated by Hammer Films, who rewrote the horror rulebook with an infusion of sex and full-colour gore – all shot in the English Home Counties. Mark meets key Hammer figures to find out why their films conquered the world, looks at the new boom of horror that followed in Hammer’s wake and explores the cycle of British ‘folk horror’ films such as The Wicker Man.

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A History Of Horror With Mark Gatiss Season 1 Episode 1 Frankenstein Goes To Hollywood

TV Show: A History Of Horror With Mark Gatiss

Aired on: 9:00 PM on October 11th, 2010 – Monday

Channel: BBC FOUR Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 1

Episode Name: Frankenstein Goes To Hollywood

Preview:

Three-part series in which actor and writer Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who, Sherlock) celebrates the greatest achievements of horror cinema.A lifelong fan of the genre, Mark begins by exploring the golden age of Hollywood horror. From the late 1920s until the 1940s, a succession of classic pictures and unforgettable actors defined the horror genre – including The Phantom of the Opera starring Lon Chaney, Dracula with Bela Lugosi, and Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff.

Mark explains just how daring and pioneering these films were, and why they still send a chill down the spine today. He also traces how horror pictures evolved during this period, becoming camp and subversive (The Old Dark House and Bride of Frankenstein, both directed by Englishman James Whale), dark and perverse (films like Freaks, which used disabled performers), before a final flourish with the psychological horror of RKO Pictures’ films (Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie), which still influence directors today. However, by the early 1950s the monsters were facing their biggest threat – the rise of science fiction films in the post-war atomic era.

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