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Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror

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Runtime: 45m episodes
Genre: Documentary
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Origin: GB

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Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror was a documentary series first broadcast on BBC2 in 1997. It was written and hosted by Clive Barker and explored the history of horror, from the cinema to art. A tie-in book was released featuring art work by Barker and film reviews by Stephen Jones.

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Director: Ursula Macfarlane
Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 4, 1997
Network: BBC Two
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

5 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Clive Barker

Self -- Host

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Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror

19971 Season45m episodes8.6

Documentary

TMDB8.6

Votes5

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Runtime: 45m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Certificate: NR
Origin: GB

About

Where to watch

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Oct 4, 1997
American Psycho
Clive Barker explores the Wisconsin farmer Ed Gein, who graduated from grave-robbing to murder in the fifties. Gein's story inspired three films: Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. Directors and film stars explain how fiction fed off fact.
E2 · Airs Oct 11, 1997
The Devil You Know
Clive Barker asks what made The Exorcist one of the scariest horror movies ever. He also looks at the work of New England writer Shirley Jackson and the film The Haunting, based on one of her novels. Also a sculptor, who captured the face of madness, and the hyping of horror B movies.
E3 · Airs Oct 18, 1997
The Kingdom of the Dead
A look at the cult classic film Night of the Living Dead, made by George A. Romero and group of friends on a shoestring budget. Plus a visit to the home of film director Roger Corman, the connection between English castles and American novelist Edgar Allan Poe and the enduring imagery of blood.
E4 · Airs Oct 25, 1997
Broken Homes
John Carpenter, director of Halloween, explains how that night can turn the serenity of suburban streets into a scene of fear and carnage. Plus techno-horror movies in Japan and the subversive power of evil children in horror stories.
E5 · Airs Nov 8, 1997
A Fate Worse Than Death
Clive Barker explores the work of Dennis Wheatley, where the supernatural is bound up with an unmistakeable Englishness. Plus the tragedy behind The Crow.
E6 · Airs Jan 3, 1998
Beyond Good and Evil
Clive Barker concludes the series by profiling horror-actress Barbara Steele. He also investigates the world of Ira Levin's 1967 novel Rosemary's Baby and Roman Polanski's 1968 film adaptation, and the links between novelist H. P. Lovecraft and a small town in New England.

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Director: Ursula Macfarlane
Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 4, 1997
Network: BBC Two
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

5 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Clive Barker

Self -- Host

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