The New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema Podcast.

My name is Brian Sauer.

I'm joined, as always, by the wonderful Edward Kane.

And we are so honored to have a returning guest joining us this week, a special for October

we thought would be delightful for you. Director Edgar Wright is joining us. Hello, hello,

nice to be back. It's wonderful to have you back. And we were trying to figure out something

special to do for October, and we landed on British horror, and then we decided maybe some underrated British horror.

But, Alric, you were saying maybe talking about British horror in general at the top before we get into it.

Yeah, just a little bit, because, like, you know, even growing up where I grew up, where you had a lot of British influence,

the only horror we really would have seen from the UK was Hammer.

That would have been all I would have known about were the Lee and Cushing,

Dracula films and things like that.

So for you growing up,

where there are other key titles that aren't necessarily the B-side?

Yeah, I mean, growing up in the UK,

something that absolutely does not happen now,

I'm sure it's the same in the States where TV channels just don't play old movies.

But growing up when it used to be three channels and then in 1982 when I was eight, there was four channels and no cable, no cable in the UK until like they didn't really take off until

the sort of mid-90s. But BBC one and two would show a lot of older horror films and usually like late at night it would be a hammer movie

But then also beyond the hammer movies the amicus movies and then also the other sort of

Adjacent to hammer like Tygon movies and things so

That it's a big part of my upbringing that and also in those days where before the internet

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