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jackhammer · 10-12-2010, 06:13 PM

A history of Horror with Mark Gatiss (League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who)
TV Pixie | A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss | TV Review

I had high expectations for this but I found it dissapointing and learned nothing new apart from a James Whale (director- Frankenstein) curio from 1933 that looked like it merited a viewing (The hat or something like that was in the title). To not mention Nosferatu is quite simple blasphemy when talking about the early days of horror.

I caught this when it originally aired around 4-5 years ago and loved it and was absolutely stoked to find it online a couple of nights ago:
The Adventure of English | Watch Free Documentary Online
(if you click on the episode links you get the full episodes and not yt fractured 8 parters of one episode)
what I loved about this series that it doubles as a concise history of Britain after 500 AD without it becoming too 'university stuffy' and can answer many questions about why the English language is so damn huge and although it doesn't mention it explicitally, it also goes some way to answer questions about the 'English' mentality and why we have a ridiculous sense of pride.

10-12-2010, 06:13 PM	#126 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	A history of Horror with Mark Gatiss (League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who) TV Pixie \| A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss \| TV Review I had high expectations for this but I found it dissapointing and learned nothing new apart from a James Whale (director- Frankenstein) curio from 1933 that looked like it merited a viewing (The hat or something like that was in the title). To not mention Nosferatu is quite simple blasphemy when talking about the early days of horror. I caught this when it originally aired around 4-5 years ago and loved it and was absolutely stoked to find it online a couple of nights ago: The Adventure of English \| Watch Free Documentary Online (if you click on the episode links you get the full episodes and not yt fractured 8 parters of one episode) what I loved about this series that it doubles as a concise history of Britain after 500 AD without it becoming too 'university stuffy' and can answer many questions about why the English language is so damn huge and although it doesn't mention it explicitally, it also goes some way to answer questions about the 'English' mentality and why we have a ridiculous sense of pride. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”