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September 24, 2012 | 
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We couldn’t be more excited here at the Classic Horror Campaign today as we look forward to the brand new Mark Gatiss documentary for BBC Four, Horror Europa! A follow-up to the hugely successful Mark Gatiss’ A History Of Horror three-part series of 2010, Gatiss now takes a personal look at European horror films in this 90 minute documentary. From the silent days of Nosferatu (1922) to more recent Euro fright flicks The Devil’s Backbone and Cronos, Horror Europa will be screened on BBC Four this coming Halloween and includes interviews with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro as well as Dario Argento, Harry Kumel (Daughters of Darkness), Edith Scob (Les Yeux Sans Visage) and Roy Bava, son of legendary Mario Bava. It is rumoured that the documentary will be supported by some classic horror film screenings which may include Nosferatu and Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960) although the BBC is not confirming anything at present.
Mark Gatiss has acknowledged that it isn’t possible to include everyone’s favorites in just ninety minutes but has tried to give more of a general overview of the evolution of horror films in Europe over the decades. In an exclusive interview in the SFX magazine A-Z of Horror special edition now on sale, Gatiss admits that the films of Jess Franco and Lucio Fulci are given short shrift as “personally, they don’t do it for me”. However, there will still be plenty of other directors covered in more detail and many classic clips scattered amongst the interviews. Gatiss has also revealed that there are plans afoot for A History Of Horror 3 – this time covering Asian horror!
As soon as we get a confirmed screening time and date for Horror Europa and any other details we will let you know, but in the meantime you can help us in our continuing campaign to bring classic horror to the masses by signing our petition, emailing the BBC, tweeting about us using the hashtag #classichorrorcampaign and attending our monthly double bill screenings at the Roxy Bar and Screen in London!
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Fangtastic news emerged last night as Mark Gatiss announced on Twitter that he was filming a second series of A History of Horror for BBC4. Quote from @Markgatiss on Twitter last night -
“Very pleased to say I’m making a follow-up to my ‘History of Horror’ for BBC4: Euro Horror! At last ‘Nosferatu’ gets its due…”
News is very thin on the ground at the moment but the Classic Horror Campaign has its ears to the ground and will bring you more updates as we hear them! All we know for certain is that the series will have an emphasis on European horror films and that Gatiss is off to interview Dario Argento next week. There is also talk of a screening of the classic Nosferatu (1922) to complement the documentaries.
The first series of A History of Horror was first aired to great acclaim on BBC4 back in October 2010 and I was interviewed for BBC One’s Points of View series to discuss classic horror movies and the classic horror campaign at the time. The BBC crew I spoke to told me that there were a couple of producers at the Beeb who were very keen on making more classic horror-related documentaries so hopefully this is just the start of something more ongoing.
It seems that now could be the perfect time to really ramp up the signatures on our petition to bring back BBC2′s horror double bill seasons and present it to the BBC so if you haven’t already signed, please do it today and get your families and friends to do the same! You can also email the BBC at the details below.
Email BBC Points of View at pov@bbc.co.uk
Email Radio Times at radio.times@bbc.co.uk
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