Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 22, 2017 12:22:34 GMT 2
So this was an unexpected treat; I found, buried at the bottom of some list on Amazon Prime, a multi-part horror documentary presented by Christopher Lee. 100 Years of Horror.
It's a fairly low budget affair made in the mid-90's, so the CGI intro looks as old as the movies they begin the show talking about. But it's surprisingly in-depth, going into great detail about the horror standards (the Universal series, the Hammer series) and some real obscure gems that I'd never even heard of.
Every week is a different theme, some of the major players get two weeks dedicated to them, but it goes from vampires, werewolves and ghosts to the likes of mad scientists, zombies and giant creatures.
Lee himself is reliably great, talking with passion about a lot of the films in question, and giving bone dry comments like "I was only in one werewolf picture... the Howling Part 2, which.. the least said about that the better."
So if you're looking for a fairly meaty horror project to get involved with, 100 Years of Horror is about twenty episodes long and well worth a look. Hunt it down.
It's a fairly low budget affair made in the mid-90's, so the CGI intro looks as old as the movies they begin the show talking about. But it's surprisingly in-depth, going into great detail about the horror standards (the Universal series, the Hammer series) and some real obscure gems that I'd never even heard of.
Every week is a different theme, some of the major players get two weeks dedicated to them, but it goes from vampires, werewolves and ghosts to the likes of mad scientists, zombies and giant creatures.
Lee himself is reliably great, talking with passion about a lot of the films in question, and giving bone dry comments like "I was only in one werewolf picture... the Howling Part 2, which.. the least said about that the better."
So if you're looking for a fairly meaty horror project to get involved with, 100 Years of Horror is about twenty episodes long and well worth a look. Hunt it down.
