The BBC's A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss

I hope so too, this sounds great. Gatiss is a really gifted and interesting person, who knows and loves his horror. Crooked House rocked!

Ooh, this sounds great. Will watch on first opportunity.

Clever dicks who can use proxies might be able to use this as well, but if you're in the UK you can watch it on Iplayer here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode..._to_Hollywood/

Just downloaded, will give it a watch tonight I think.

Donnie Dunagan creeped me out a bit. The first episode was good, it's the enthusiasm of Gatiss that made it a winner. John Carpenter dismissing Val Lewton so flippantly suprised me.

If any brits are interested in Bela Lugosi then it's worth keeping an eye out for Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire on Sky Arts, there's some quality interview footage of the Count and it delves more into his later life with his bouts of depression and drug addiction which makes it sound all doom and gloom but it's more a celebration of his life and work.

I'm looking forward to Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Well's The First Men in the Moon.

For those who like this, I recommend the 100 YEARS OF HORROR hosted by Christopher Lee series.
http://www.amazon.com/100-Years-Horr...=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

So, should I follow Mark Gatiss's advice and hunt down The Blood on Satan's Claw? I don't think I ever heard of it before, and I'm intrigued.

I put it onto my LoveFilm queue after the show ended. Seems really intriguing and I love Witchfinder General/The Wicker Man.

Loving this series so much, kind of hope it gets a DVD release or something. But that's unlikely.

Kind of frustrated by this episode. Loved the attention given to early Cronenberg, but it really feels like there should have been another episode after this one. Rather than sort of stopping at Halloween and then saying 'oh btw, there was some other stuff after that'. Also I was genuinely shocked at the lack of Argento and other Italian directors, especially considering how much League of Gentlemen was often inspired by those directors.

I watched the first episode yesterday and enjoyed it a lot. BBC 4 has been turning out a number of good multi-episode documentaries lately (especially the Legends of Rock series).

TBH, I think Gatiss is a better actor than writer (Moffatt is leagues ahead of him on Dr. Who). He delivered an absolutely haunting performance as Apsley Cherry-Garrard (member of the doomed Robert Falcon Scott expedition to Antarctica) in the Beeb's "The Worst Journey in the World".

I think Gatiss as a writer works vastly better in collaboration. His work with Moffat on Sherlock was some of his best writing and his work as part of the League of Gentlemen was fantastic. He is a great screen presence though, really enjoy seeing him in anything.

I was surprised to see a few things missed off (especially Argento, particularly as he talked about Bava, and - more directly - the theme from Suspiria was used for the end credits of the second episode), but Gatiss' Twitter feed said it was all about personal choice rather than an encompassing view. But I am hoping for a second series delving deeper.

However, it maybe does work as a gateway drug for the weirder movies like the Euro-horrors, and maybe a second series might work as a more hopeful postscript, instead of the grumpy old man view of American horror going far downhill (not that I don't agree with him), and how Asia particularly has freshened the genre up where it's become stale in the west.

Still, I enjoyed all of it thoroughly.