A History Of Horror With Mark Gatiss... Coming soon to BBC Four.
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This looks like it could be a good series to watch. 
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Mark Gatiss celebrates the horror film in a new three-part series for BBC Four.
Mark begins his exploration of the genre by looking at the golden age of Hollywood horror of the Thirties and Forties and examines some iconic pictures directed by Englishman James Whale (Frankenstein, The Old Dark House and Bride Of Frankenstein), who lent the films a camp sensibility, and populated them with a largely British ex-pat cast.
The second episode concentrates on the complete reinterpretation of the genre. In the 1958 remake of Dracula, the original vampire with heavy face and foul breath was gone and along came the Byronic Count in the shape of Christopher Lee, a bloodsucker of almost gentlemanly proportions. It was at this time that horror films turned from black and white to colour and began to feature an element of sex, tapping into an increasingly permissive society.
The last programme in the series explores the gritty and graphic new wave of horror cinema from Night Of The Living Dead in 1968 to the movie Halloween ten years later, the first of the great slew of slasher films which were to dominate the next decade. Mark details the shifts in the horror genre, and meets leading film-makers from the era.
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Mark Gatiss celebrates the horror film in a new three-part series for BBC Four.
Mark begins his exploration of the genre by looking at the golden age of Hollywood horror of the Thirties and Forties and examines some iconic pictures directed by Englishman James Whale (Frankenstein, The Old Dark House and Bride Of Frankenstein), who lent the films a camp sensibility, and populated them with a largely British ex-pat cast.
The second episode concentrates on the complete reinterpretation of the genre. In the 1958 remake of Dracula, the original vampire with heavy face and foul breath was gone and along came the Byronic Count in the shape of Christopher Lee, a bloodsucker of almost gentlemanly proportions. It was at this time that horror films turned from black and white to colour and began to feature an element of sex, tapping into an increasingly permissive society.
The last programme in the series explores the gritty and graphic new wave of horror cinema from Night Of The Living Dead in 1968 to the movie Halloween ten years later, the first of the great slew of slasher films which were to dominate the next decade. Mark details the shifts in the horror genre, and meets leading film-makers from the era.
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Any info on when it will be shown??
Nope sorry!:(
I copy and pasted everything it had on the BBC coming soon page for it.
Using logic I would say over the Halloween weekend perhaps.
One can only hope so as I can't stand Mark Kermode
Just remebered that it was probably "The American Nightmare"
I do like horror films but never feel scared by them , just real life:o
It is indeed good, a fairly studious essay jam-packed with great footage. It gained some minor notoriety for BBC2 broadcasting an unedited version, containing footage which the BBFC had cut from a DVD release (Last House On The Left - it's since been passed uncut, but in the meantime the BBC made the relevant edits to American Nightmare for their repeat showings).
I remember wondering at the time why it had so many graphic clips in! I caught it by mistake one late night while in bed.
The BBFC have made some strange cuts in the past I hope the BBC shows the programme again with the cuts restored. My memory is awful so I can't remember much about the content or the year it was on:o
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vcwm7
The phrase I would use is "up himself"
I fear though there may well be nothing new in this series, but I hope not. I've read the press releases and each show looks as though it will be dealing with the 'usual suspects': Universal B&W, Hammer & then the 1970s ending with Halloween in 1978. There's certainly no mention therein of either Mario Bava or Drio Argento (and it's probably an impossibility to expect Jean Rollin or Jess Franco to get even a mention). If so, then it will be disappointing for this viewer.
Tenebrae is on the Horror Channel (Sky 319) at 10:55PM Friday night
From what I've seen of him over the years he seems to suffer from the same afflication as most critics ie "My opinion is the only one that counts and thus is far more important than yours"
I would not have had a clue this programme was on if not for the OP, so thanks for bringing it to attention with this thread. Why don't the BBC advertise these programmes more? I bet many more people would watch if they had a clue they were on.
Looking forward to next week's programme.
It's good they're showing Tenebrae - don't think it gets shown much. Suspiria is really the only one that gets an outing. Looking forward to the blu-ray release of Tenebrae to add to Suspirai & Inferno + the other forthcoming releases.
Hopefully I will now be able to watch tonight's programme earlier than I thought, at the time of the repeat transmission. From the above comments, it seems to have been OK.
BBC4 in particular suffers terribly from lack of publicity by the BBC itself. A BBC4 programme about horror probably ranks as low as it gets in terms of media-promotability. Sad but true.