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🗓️ 1 June 2023
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This week Mike is joined by Sam Ashurst to discuss two weird British gems from the 70s...FRIGHT (1971) and THE SHOUT (1978) in spoilerific detail!
Music by Jack Whitney.
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0:00.0 | Throughout the 1970s, while American horror cinema was entering a new golden age, British |
0:27.4 | horror was also moving in bolder, weirder directions. Traditional gothic horror from studios like |
0:34.3 | Hammer was starting to reach its end and being replaced by stories that were more psychological |
0:40.4 | and experimental. In 1971, Peter Collinsson directed a home invasion film that felt in |
0:49.6 | keeping with British television horror plays of the time, but it's also a fascinating early example |
0:56.4 | of a slasher film, with its story of a babysitter being menaced by an escape mental patient. |
1:04.3 | Later on in the decade, Polish director Jerzy Skolomowski directed a strange British folk horror |
1:10.8 | about a dangerous man infiltrating the home and relationship of a married couple in Cornwall. |
1:17.5 | Like fright, it shared many stylistic similarities with television horror of the time, |
1:27.0 | particularly television folk horror like Pender's Fenn or the Owl service, but it also felt like |
1:32.8 | something bolder and altogether more dangerous, something that horror audiences had never seen before. |
1:40.0 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of home invasion, and we discuss Peter Collinsson's |
1:50.4 | fright and Jerzy Skolomowski's The Shout. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike |
2:04.8 | Munter, and as ever, I am your host. In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the |
2:10.4 | evolution of the horror genre one sub-jummer at a time. We are currently in the middle of our |
2:15.6 | ninth season exploring the evolution of home invasion horror, and this is part 11. In this week's |
2:22.8 | episode, as that intro suggested, we're looking at two lesser known weird British horror films from |
2:27.7 | the 1970s, Fright from 1971, and The Shout from 1978. Both of these discussions will be spoiler |
2:36.7 | ethics, so please do try and check out both films if you can before you listen to our discussion. |
2:43.1 | So, joining me to discuss these two films are a long time friend of the pod. He was last |
2:48.2 | here during our Alien series to discuss the predator movies with me and he's back. Filmmaker and |
2:54.8 | podcaster Sam Asherst. Hello, Sam. Hello, Mike. How are you doing? I'm really good. Thank you. How are |
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