Aaryk Noctivagus

If only they would give it a proper UK (or even USA) DVD release rather than cropped to 4.3

Aaryk Noctivagus

I'd say 'The Decent' was brilliant. Make sure you see the UK cut, rather than the USA cut which removed its real ending.

christoph404

Its been out on a region 1 DVD for yonks (night of the demon) 70% of the DVDs I buy are region1 from amazon.com, I bought a superb sony multi region DVD player from Richer Sounds for £49.00!! everyone should have one, why wait for a DVD to become available on region 2? some of them never will!!

Aaryk Noctivagus

Yes, I know... but I'd sooner wait for the UK release, even though I have a multi-region player.

I prefer Region 2 because I find the NTSC to PAL flicker somewhat irritating. I will put up with it for movies that have not a PAL version due.

christoph404

I have never noticed a flicker or anything like that from my region 1 DVDs, is there really a difference? maybe I have to look at them more closley on my big telly! either that or my eyesight is not what it used to be! I would have thought modern DVD technology would eliminate those kind of glitches?

Aaryk Noctivagus

It shows up most when the camera pans.

Basically, as I understand it, the NTSC to PAL conversion flicker is caused by the fact that NTSC runs at 30 frames per second whereas PAL TVs run at 25 fps and therefore a conversion has to take place. (Film runs at 24 fps). Its not a glitch, but a fact of conversion.

As for noticing it. Lots of people do without it being annoying to them. I happen to be Autistic and, like a lot of Autistics (A disorder often associated with sensory sensitivities), I have very sensitive sight and find the 'flicker' or 'stutter' quite uncomfortable.

How big is your big TV? Mine is a 50 incher plasma widescreen - Because I use it mostly for movies, I went for the largest I could afford. Its a beautiful TV (LG, though not a status symbol make, has a great picture quality - I felt better than the Sonys and Panasonics(?) I saw). I only bought it in January. Previously I only had a 32" CRT widescreen TV beast.

My discomfort at the flicker may be partially pedantic... rather like my hate of cropped picture... I want the DVD to play as perfectly as possible... and that flicker is distracting. I only buy NTSC if I have no alternative.

Hanseat

Just a few additions to the great films already mentioned:

"And Now the Screaming Starts" and "Fright" - although I was a lot younger when I first saw them and was impressed by them, I still find that they are sadly neglected in any discussion about horror films or thrillers.

Also, for some reason I like the rather flawed "Ghost Rig". And, yes, I know, I really should raise my standards ;)

In the 80' there used to be a horror film double-bill every Friday? Saturday? night on TV. I would love to have that back. They mainly showed B-movies and below, but it was a unmissable chance to see many, many British productions which never made it onto DVD (or video, back then, or even the late night repeats slot on TV nowadays) and are, to all intents and purposes, lost.

Foster twelvetrees

In case anybody wants a listing of these BBC2 Horror Double Bills:

FANTASTIC DOUBLE BILL 1975



Saturday 2 August 1975


22.55.00.05 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Decla 1919)

00.05-01.20 Quatermass II (Hammer 1957)


Saturday 9 August 1975


22.45-00.00 The Tell Tale Heart (Danziger 1963)
Also titled. The Hidden Room of 1000 Horrors, Ernest Morris directs Laurence Payne and Adrienne Corri in this version of Poe's tale.

00.00-01.20 The Premature Burial (AlP 1961 )


Saturday 23 August 1975


22.40-00.05 This Island Earth (Universal I955)

00.05-01.25 Barbarella (US 1968)


Saturday 30 August 1975

22.55-00.05 The Cat and The Canary (Paramount 1939)
00.05-01.25 The Comedy of Terrors (AlP 1963)


Saturday 6 September 1975


22.35-00.00 The Beast With Five Fingers (Warner 1947)
00.00-01.20 The Maze (US 1954)
Hideous man frog at the centre of a castle maze turns out to be the hero's 200 year old ancestor. 3D chiller starring Richard Carlson directed by William Cameron Menzies.



MASTERS OF TERROR 1976



Saturday 14 August 1976

22.55-00.10 The Phantom of the Opera (Universal 1925)
00.10-01.40 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Paramount 1932)


Saturday 21 August 1976

22.00-23.20 Devil Doll (MGM 1932)
A.A. Merill' s story Bum Witch, Burn provided the inspiration for the Tod Browning script starring Lionel Barrymore.

23.20-00.50 Frankenstein Created Woman (Hammer 1967)

Saturday 28 August 1976

22.00-00.00 The Hounds of Zaroff (RKO 1932)
00.00-01.25 Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)


Saturday 5 September 1976

22.55-00.10 The Mad Genius (Warner 1931 )
Lionel Barrymore as the club footed mesmerist and master of a ballet troupe.

00.10-01.30 The Pit and The Pendulum (AlP 1961)


Saturday 14 August 1976

22.50.23.55 The Walking Dead (Warner 1936)

23.55.01.20 Dracula Prince of Darkness (Hammer 1966)




DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN AND FRIENDS 1977



Saturday 2 July 1977

23.05-00.25 Dracula (Universal1931)
00.25-01.35 Frankenstein (Universal 1931)


Saturday 9 July 1977

22.50-00.00 Bride of Frankenstein (Universal1935)
00.00-01.25 Brides of Dracula (Hammer 1960)


Saturday 16 July 1977

22.45-00.15 The Mummy (Universal1932)
00.15-01.05 The Wolfman (Universal 1940)


Saturday 23 July 1977

22.10-23.45 Son of Frankenstein (Universal 1938)
23.45-01.10 Kiss of the Vampire (Hammer 1964 )


Saturday 30 July 1977

22.35.00.05 Dracula's Daughter (Universal1936}
00.05-01.30 Plague of the Zombies (Hammer 1966}


Saturday 6 August 1977

22.50-23.55 The Ghost of Frankenstein (Universal 1942}
22.55-01.10 The Premature Burial (AlP 1961)


Saturday 13 August 1977

23.05-00.05 The Raven (Universal1935}
00.05.01.10 The Black Cat (Universal1933}


Saturday 20 August 1977

22.00-23.15 Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (Univ 1943)
00.05-01.35 The Raven (AlP 1963)


Saturday 27 August 1977

22.20-23.10 House of Frankenstein (Universal 1944)
00.05-01.35 The Reptile (Hammer 1966)


Saturday 3 September 1977

21.55-23-10 Son of Dracula (Universal 1943)
23.45-01.10 Evil of Frankenstein (Hammer 1964)


Saturday 10 September 1977

22.05-23.15 House of Dracula (Universal 1945)
23.20-00.35 Fall of the House of Usher (AlP 1960)




MONSTER DOUBLE BILL 1978



Saturday 8 July 1978

22.55-23.55 Murders in the Rue Morgue (Universal 1933)
23.55.01.25 The Man Who Could Cheat Death (Hammer1959)


Saturday 15 July 1978

22.40-23.55 The Fantastic Disappearing Man (1958)
Francis Lederer as Count Dracula taking on the identity of a painter and turning up in a smaIl American town.

00.00-01.15 X-The Man With X-Ray Eyes (AlP 1963)


Saturday 22 July 1978

22.00-23.20 The Quatermass Xperiment (Hammer 1955)


23.50-01.35 The Crazies (Cambist 1973 )


Saturday 29 July 1978

23.15-00.15 Man Made Monster (Universal 1940)

00.15-01.15 The Mummy's Curse (Universal 1945)


Saturday 5 August 1978

22.40-23.55 White Zombie (Halperin 1932)
00.00-01.25 House of Wax (Warner 1953)


Saturday 12 August 1978

21.40-23.10 Them (UniversalI954)
23.45-01.05 The Incredible Shrinking Man (Univ 1957)


Saturday 19 August 1978

22.00-23.15 Voodoo Island (Bel Air 1957)

23.20-00.45 Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1953)


Saturday 26 August 1978

22.00.23.35 King Kong (RKO 1933)
23.40-01.10 Superbeast (1972)
Mad scientist trying to create serum to rehabilitate psychotic criminals fails and they go on rampage in jungle. Cross between Island of Lost Souls and The Hounds of Zaroff.




MASTERS OF TERROR 1979


Saturday 14 July 1979

22.35-23.50 Doctor X (1932)
23.55-01.20 The Curse of Frankenstein (Hammer 1956)


Saturday 21 July 1979

22.30-23.30 Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman (1944)

00.00-01.30 The Hound of the Baskervilles (Hammer 1959)


Saturday 28 July 1979

22.15-23.25 Night Monster (UniversalI942)

23.30.01.10 The Devil Rides Out (Hammer 1968)


Saturday 4 August 1979

23.00.00.05 Black Friday (Universal 1940)
00.05.01.35 The Mummy (Hammer 1959)


Saturday 11 August 1979

22.05.23.25 The Strange Door (US 1951)
Boris Karloff plays opposite Charles Laughton in the adaption of The Sire de Maletroit’s Door.

23.25-01.00 Blood From The Mummy's Tomb (Hammer 1971)


Saturday 18 August 1979

22.35-23.40 The Mummy's Hand (Universal1944)
00.10-01.35 The Satanic Rites of Dracula (Hammer 1973 )


Saturday 25 August 1979

22.00-23.20 It Came From Outer Space (Universal1953)
23.25-01.05 Quatermass and the Pit (Hammer 1967)



HORROR DOUBLE BILL 1980


Saturday 28 June 1980

22.30.00.00 Night of the Demon (Sabre 1957)
00.02-01.35 The Ghoul (Tyburn 1975)


Saturday 5 July 1980

10.10-11.35 The Beast With Five Fingers (Warner 1947)
23.50-01.30 Chamber of Horrors (Warner 1966)


Saturday 12 July 1980
22.40-23.45 The Mad Ghoul (Universal1943)
23.50-01.30 Dr. Terrors House of Horrors (Amicus 1964)


Saturday 19 July 1980
22.35-23.50 The Devil Doll (MGM 1936)


23.55-01.25 Daughters of Satan (UA 1972)
Tom Sellick as an art collector living in the Phillapines who buys a painting of three witches burnt at the stake. one of whom resembles his wife, who starts to behave strangely.

Saturday 26 July 1980

22.10-23.40 Curse of the Werewolf (Hammer 1960)
23.55-01.35 From Beyond The Grave (Amicus 1974)


Saturday 2 August 1980

22.35-23.50 Paranoiac (Hammer 1963)
12.00-01.35 Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter (Hammer 1973)


Saturday 9 August 1980

22.35-23.55 The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
00.00-01.20 Night of the Lepus (1972)
Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh and a bunch of horse sized carniverous rabbits loose in Arizona. Dir. William F. Caxton.

Saturday 16 August 1980

22.20-23.40 The Bat (UA 1959
23.45-01.20 Legend of the Werewolf (Tybum 1974)



Saturday 23 August 1980

22.40.00.00 Tower of London (Universal 1939)
00.00-01.20 The Skull (Amicus 1965)


Saturday 30 August 1980

00.00-01.35 The Beast Must Die (Amicus 1974)







HORROR DOUBLE BILL 1981


Saturday 4 July 1981

22.35-23.10 I Walked With A Zombie (RKO 1943)

00.10.01.10 Zoltan Hound of Dracula (US 1976)


Saturday 11 July 1981

23.05-00.15 Cat People (RKO 1945)

00.15-01.35 Mystery of the Wax Museum (Warner 1933)


Saturday 18 July 1981

22.55-00.05 The Seventh Victim (RKO 1943 )


00.05-01.35 Race With The Devil (Saber 1970)


Saturday 25 July 1981

21.20-22.30 Isle of the Dead (RKO 1940)
23.40-01.25 The Crazies (1973)

Saturday 1 August 1981

22.30-23.45 Bedlam (RKO 1946)

23.45-01.30 Bug (Paramount 1975)
Produced by William Castle. directed by Jeannot Zwark and starring Bradford Dillman in a mainstream and slightly old fashioned story of fire raising bugs.

Saturday 8 August 1981

22.50-23.55 The Leopard Man (RKO 1943)


23.55-01.35 The Shuttered Room (Warner 1966)
Oliver Reed, Gig Young and Flora Robson. Young couple inherit a home in New England and are menaced by local show offs and an invisible entity.

Saturday 15 August 1981

22.35-23.40 The Curse of the Cat People (RKO 1943)

23.40-01.10 The Eye of the Cat (UniversalI969)


Saturday 22 August 1981

22.30-23.40 The Body Snatchers (RKO 1945)
23.40-01.25 Theatre of Blood (AlP 1973)

Mescalero

From memory of seeing it as a child, Dr Terrors House of Horrors. More recently Dead Mans Shoes, which I found chilling, although don't know if it constitutes horror.

smudge

Great listings !

Those bring back a few memories. With some of them I can even recall where I was on the day...

Smudge

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

SirHenry

Dear Lord, those listings take me back!

"If I could have all the money I've spent on drink.....I'd spend it on drink"

dogstar

It would be hard to omit either Night of the Demon or Wicker Man from any best Brit horror film discussion - all three original Quatermass films also for should also qualify ( Quatermass 2 is actually my personal favourite ) plus Night Must Fall, Theatre of Blood, The Dr Phibes Films and Witchfinder General. I have always been very fond of another 17th period horror, Blood on Satan's Claw, my enthusiasm for which has absolutely nothing at all to do with Linda Hayden's nude scenes.

Deanodrome

These have always been my favourites:

From Beyond the Grave.
Night of the Demon.
Blood on Satan's Claw.
Dead of Night.
Theatre of Blood.
The Plague of the Zombies.
The Devil Rides Out.
The Wicker Man (1973) ...not that awful 2006 version !!
Vault of Horror
The Vampire Lovers, ....but that's probably just down to Madeline Smith

dogstar

I have absolutely no idea what you mean about Madeline Smith...cough, cough..... :-)

Carmel

Those listing certainly did bring back memories i to can remember where i was on some of them. My list of favourites are;
1.The haunted black and white version
2.Frankeinstein the old version in black and white with Boris Karlof
3.From beyond the Grave
4.Dark Places with Joan Collins a good one thats never mentioned.
5.Blood on Satans claw.