Retrospectives

And Now The Screaming Starts!

Amicus

A Retrospective

In this Amicus Productions retrospective, we cover all 24 films from 1965’s Dr Terror’s House of Horrors to the company’s swansong, 1977’s The People That Time Forgot… 

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Inspiring Rewilding (2023)

08/02/2023
As the folk horror anthology Rewilding lands on Prime Video, its director Ric Rawlins discusses ten of its key inspirations – from Moomins to M.R James…

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Television

The unremitting terror of

Ghostwatch

Graham Williamson heads back to Halloween 1992 for the BBC’s broadcast of Ghostwatch and examines how Stephen Volk’s ghost story still endures despite only a single airing in over 30 years…

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The enduring terror of Alternative 3 (1977)

01/04/2021
Graham Williamson revisits 1977's fictional hoax, Alternative 3. 'One of the most intoxicatingly, terrifyingly paranoid programmes ever broadcast on British television...'​

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Yesterday's Entertainment:

The hauntological sounds of

Ghost Box Records

Alexander J. Zawacki explores the hauntological majesty of Ghost Box Recordings, and becomes immersed in music both familiar and strange…​

Bernard Cribbins

Bernard Cribbins: The Lost Interview

28/07/2022
A never before published interview with the late Bernard Cribbins, originally conducted almost 30 years ago by Adam Jezard, in which the actor discusses his work in the genres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction...
The Encyclopedia of Horror

Horrified…and loving it! – The Encyclopedia of Horror

23/06/2021
Welcome to the latest Horrified...and loving it! column in which people share the British horror moments that terrify and thrill them the most. This time, TC explores the rite of passage that was The Encyclopedia of Horror...​

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Retrospectives

Warnings to the Curious:

A Ghost Story for Christmas

A retrospective on the long-running BBC series, essaying every episode from Whistle and I’ll Come to You to Martin’s Close…

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Number 13 (2006)

22/11/2020
Relocating M.R. James' original story from Denmark to England, the BBC followed up the previous year's A View From a Hill with Number 13. Graham Williamson explores Pier Wilkie's 2006 adaptation...
The Signalman (1976)

The Signalman (1976)

20/09/2020
Following several M.R. James adaptations, Lawrence Gordon Clark turned to Charles Dickens for the sixth A Ghost Story for Christmas episode. Johnny Restall explores Dickens' classic haunted tale, The Signalman...
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The Dead Room (2018)

22/11/2020
Jon Dear looks at the 2018 episode of A Ghost Story for Christmas - this time eschewing the traditional M.R. James adaptation in favour of an original story, The Dead Room, written and directed by Mark Gatiss...

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Fiction

Tea with Mrs. Hindley

by Jez Conolly

Pages from the private journal of Derek, a fiftysomething loner who chronicles his afternoons spent in the company of Mrs. Hindley, a woman whose dark past Derek helps to keep hidden…

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The Night of Herne the Hunter

17/02/2022
Folk horror and political satire combine when a populist prime minister inveigles a royal invitation to boost his flagging poll ratings, only to invoke a revenge from history...
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You Reap What You Sow

08/02/2023
Negotiating with demons is not a young woman's game, as our character knows all too well. But staying out of Hell means it's a necessary evil...

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