Hammer House of Horror was a 1980 British anthology television series produced by the eponymous film studio. It was followed by
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense and there were a couple of other notable, similar themed, series around at the time,
Beasts and
West Country Tales. They might now seem a little crude and simplistic, but they employed an interesting array of writers, directors and actors and the best can still raise a definite chill
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posted by fearfulsymmetry
on Oct 31, 2012 -
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The Way They Were (SLYT... 1:07:45 'The tape fails there!')... an old Granada / Channel 4 program that was a compilation of Tony Wilson's
So It Goes a show that featured performances from some of the best British Punk and New Wave bands of the time.
posted by fearfulsymmetry
on Aug 29, 2012 -
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I'd like to welcome you all lords and ladies, gentlemen, ladies, time-ladies, time-lords, aliens and those of you in the cheap seats to a documentary produced and aired by WYES-TV New Orleans in 1986, focusing on Panopticon, the first US Doctor Who convention. (
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3) (MLYT, in authentic multi-copy VHS fuzz-o-vision!)
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posted by fearfulsymmetry
on Apr 14, 2011 -
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For many years the BBC had a tradition of showing a dramatisation of a classic ghost story at Christmas. This tradition is being continued this year with
Whistle and I'll Come to You being shown tonight staring John Hurt. An adaptation of the same classic
MR James story was shown in 1968 staring Michael Hordern beginning the tradition (
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posted by fearfulsymmetry
on Dec 24, 2010 -
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Q&A with
Duncan Jones, the director of the recent Hugo winner
Moon plus Gavin Rothery - concept designer and VFX supervisor, Barrett Heathcote - visual effects editor and Hideki Arichi - art director (MLYT) (
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posted by fearfulsymmetry
on Sep 10, 2010 -
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Breaking the Fourth Panel: Neonomicon and the Comic Book Frame (
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2) Alan Moore’s recent Lovecraftian comic dissected. (MLYT, Possibly NSFW language and SAN loss)
posted by fearfulsymmetry
on Aug 3, 2010 -
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