It’s that time of year again where sweet sales rocket and goblins and ghouls are as far as the eye can see but if you’re like most people dressing up isn’t that much fun, without a drink in hand and as much as I would love to go door to door asking for sweets, I don’t feel it would be welcomed. Then there is the customary barrage of horror films, which they play every year much like how Back to the future is always on at any given holiday.....typical Halloween then.
Cue Mark Gatiss and his BBC documentary A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss, an entertaining and interesting series, with a true horror fan and connoisseur. Mark Gatiss begins his journey by celebrating the achievements of horror cinema, beginning by exploring the early era of Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, continuing his celebration of horror cinema by uncovering the stories behind the films of the 1950s and 60s, an era dominated by Hammer Films. He then ends his three part series with the US films of the late 1960s and 70s which dragged horror cinema kicking and screaming into the present with their uncompromising content.
A truly interesting documentary, which is still available to watch on iPlayer.
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