American actress, Carla Laemmle (October 20, 1909 – June 12, 2014). On October 3, 2010, Laemmle appeared in the BBC Four documentary, A History of Horror, with Mark Gatiss, sharing memories of her early film work, with Lon Chaney and Bela Lugosi. She also recited her opening lines, from Dracula. Please find the full three episodes below, for your viewing pleasure: A History of Horror. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part One: Frankenstein Goes To Hollywood. In the first episode, Gatiss explores the Golden Age of Hollywood horror, or the Universal era, the 1920s, to 1940s. He looks at the silent film, The Phantom of the Opera (1925), starring Lon Chaney, the first great horror talkie, Dracula (1931), starring Béla Lugosi, and the later release of James Whales, Frankenstein (1931), featuring Boris Karloff. He focuses in particular, on Son of Frankenstein (1939), a personal favourite, which he feels has been neglected. The episode includes interviews with: John Carpenter, Sara Karloff, Gloria Stuart, Carla Laemmle, Donnie Dunagan, and Sheila Wynn (Lugosis co-star in a 1951, Dracula tour). Part One: https://youtube/watch?v=ZkZBJd4UTlM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part Two: Home Counties Horror. The second episode focuses on the British Hammer Films of the 1950s and 1960s, which inspired Gatiss childhood passion for horror. He meets key figures from Hammer to discuss the series of Frankenstein and Dracula films, which made stars of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, both of whom Gatiss argues, are underrated talents. He also identifies a short-lived subgenre of British folk horror, drawing on paganism and folklore, including Witchfinder General (1968), his personal favourite, Blood on Satans Claw (1970), and The Wicker Man (1973). This episode includes interviews with: Writer-producer Anthony Hinds, writer-director Jimmy Sangster, director Roy Ward Baker, Barbara Steele, star of Black Sunday (1960), director-producer Roger Corman, director Piers Haggard, John Carpenter again, and actors Barbara Shelley and David Warner. Also included, are archive interviews with Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. Part Two: https://youtube/watch?v=gaFNgHuYdPA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part Three: The American Scream. In the third and final episode, Gatiss looks at American horror movies of the late 1960s and 1970s, including Night Of The Living Dead (1968) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). As well as the emergence of slasher films, Gatiss examines the other great horror film trend of the era, the theme of Satanism and demonic possession in films, such as, Rosemarys Baby (1968), The Exorcist (1973) and The Omen (1976). This episode includes interviews with: Writer David Seltzer and directors Tobe Hooper and George A. Romero, who also made Martin (1978), another personal favourite, which Gatiss considers neglected. Gatiss meets David Warner, Barbara Steele and John Carpenter again, accompanying Carpenter on a tour of the set locations, for Halloween (1978). He also visits the Bates Motel, the set location, for Alfred Hitchcocks, Psycho (1960). Part Three: https://youtube/watch?v=5EH1FiToj4w -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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