KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

ThiefHott Too much of everything

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

filthydeeds I don't know why so many people have such a problem with this TV show as it was fantastic, it personally taught me an in depth history of Horror, and gave me a whole new outlook on movies I now see.People who say he is a snob and whatever probably just don't like his taste in movies. It was a shame this was originally aired on BBC 4, and it deserved to be moved to BBC 1 or 2 around Halloween.The only problem I had was that he should have done 2 more episodes, one of the horror movies of the 80's and early 90's and a final episode on horror movies of the mid 90's up until today.In conclusion this is a highly underrated and wonderful TV show and I would give it 9/10.

elvisatan This 3 part series about the history of horror is quite entertaining, but it fails in 2 different aspects: 1. Like so many other documentaries about movies in general (even "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies" makes this annoying mistake) it spoils a lot about the movies by revealing the ending. 2. A history of horror without even mentioning "Nosferatu" and the influence of early German cinema (movies like "Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam ","Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari") on later productions like Frankenstein etc. ...please, you must be kidding me. It also leaves out other great early "horrific" movies like "Häxan", "The Unknown" or the great "The Man Who Laughs" (who later became a great influence on the "Joker" character of the infamous "Batman" comics). This series feels like it doesn't consists on part 1,2 and 3. But on part 2,4 and 5 leaving out part 1 (early films like "nosferatu" etc), part 3 (classic and highly influential 50ies horror/sf like tarantula( only shortly mentionend),"Creature from the Black Lagoon","The Thing from Another World", "It Came from Outer Space","Them!","The Bad Seed" or "Invasion of the Body Snatchers")and part 6 (80ies horror like "The Fog", "Cannibal Holocaust", "The Evil Dead", "Poltergeist", "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Hellraiser" or "The Thing". And maybe some 90ies horror ("Ôdishon", "Braindead", "Nightbreed"...) and recent horror like "Versus", "Eight Legged Freaks", "28 Days Later", "(Rec)" ... would have been nice too. Also, what about classic movies like "King Kong","Carnival of Souls","Village of the Damned", "Two Thousand Maniacs!", "Phase IV" or "Alien"...? A better history of horror is "Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film"

Jackson Booth-Millard I am a big fan of horror films, and from the opening of this three part series I could see that the host was obsessional about them too, so with Halloween approaching, I wasn't going to miss this. Presented by Mark Gatiss, best known for spoofing horror films with the guys behind The League of Gentlemen and Psychoville, these programmes gave us an insight into creating many of the greatest horror films. Starting from the beginning, to what is considered almost the last great horror to use the simplest scares without resorting to loads of blood, Gatiss goes through all the decades and themes to show us how these great films came to be. Gatiss goes to all the sets where stars like Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Sir Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Anthony Perkins, and many others filmed the scariest moments of cinema, sees some of the props and tricks to create the frights, and really gives us an insight into how much horror films mean to him. With contributions from some of the people behind and involved in the horror films featured, including John Carpenter, Sara Karloff (Boris's daughter), Roger Corman, Donnie Dunagan, Tobe Hooper, George A. Romero, Barbara Shelley, Barbara Steele, Gloria Stuart, David Warner and many more. Films featured and mentioned in the series of programmes included The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein, Mystery of the Wax Museum, The Old Dark House, Bride of Frankenstein, The Black Cat, Freaks, Son of Frankenstein, Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, The Body Snatcher, The Quatermass Experiment, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Horror of Dracula, The Revenge of Frankenstein, Black Sunday, The Masque of the Red Death, Night of the Deomn, The Haunting, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Dead of Night, The Wicker Man, Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen, Shivers, Dawn of the Dead, Halloween and many more. Very good!

carolyn thorburn This series is absolutely essential for anyone who has a love of horror movies which Mr Gatiss obviously has. It is honest, respectful and informative, has excellent interviews with some huge names involved in the genre and brilliant film clips. The interviews with Barbara Steele and Roger Corman were outstanding. Although in three hours it only skims the surface of the subject, I still find, after years of being totally obsessed by horror films, I'm learning something new with each episode and now have a long list of more DVDs to buy. I hope there will be more episodes in the future and that it is released on DVD, there must be some excellent stuff not included in the current TV programme.