Simon Pegg & Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz)
"Keep it grisly!!"
amazing signed posters from Simon and Nick.
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Why does British Horror need saving?
For people who have grown up on a diet of American horror movies, it may come as a surprise to hear that Britain has one of the strongest horror film legacies of anywhere in the world. We want to Bring Back British Horror! Below is a timeline of the British Horror Film.
1931: English actor Boris Karloff plays The Monster in Universal Pictures’ Frankenstein.
1933: The Ghoul starring Karloff is released. It is the first British horror film ‘talkie’ and the first film to receive the rating H for ‘horrific’ from the British Board of Film Censors. Horror film makers are warned that their films should not be TOO horrific for fear of scaring the public.
1935: William Hinds, a businessman and comedian, founds Hammer Productions.
1936: Seventy one years before Tim Burton’s version, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is released.
1951: The H for ‘horrific’ certificate is replaced by an X, signifying that a film is only suitable for adults.
1955: The Quartermass Xperiment (renamed The Creeping Unknown in America) puts Hammer Film Productions on the map and becomes its most successful film to date.
Hammer follow up on the success of The Quartermass Xperiment by releasing a slew of films including The Gamma People (1956), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Night of the Demon (1957), Fiend Without A Face (1958), Horror of Dracula (1958) and The Mummy (1959). British Horror films rule the world!
1960: Psycho directed by British director Alfred Hitchcock and Peeping Tom directed by Michael Powell are released.
1966: Witchfinder General starring Vincent Price and directed by twenty-five year old Michael Reeves is released.
1973: The Wicker Man starring Christopher Lee, Britt Eckland and Edward Woodward is released - arguably the greatest British horror film of all time.
1979: Alien is released, directed by British director Ridley Scott.
1980: Stanley Kubrick’s film version of The Shining is released, having been filmed at Elstree and Pinewood Studios in England.
1984: The Company of Wolves is released.
1987: English author and film director Clive Barker writes and directs Hellraiser.
1990’s to Present Day: Shallow Grave and 28 Days Later by Danny Boyle, Dog Soldiers and The Descent by Neil Marshall, and Shaun of the Dead by Edgar Wright are released, marking a new wave of British horror films with a unique vision.
2010: The 10 Pound Horror Film is released. British Horror Films are back! (We hope…)
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