Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on March 3, 2013

Contemporary Hollywood has tried its best to bury the glorious art of movie posters in recent years substituting stunning artwork for bland photo-shopped “floating heads” lacking colour, creativity and imagination. Classic Horror Campaign and our sister site Cyberschizoid have always c   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on March 3, 2013

If you love the experience of being well and truly scared whilst watching a movie – as opposed to appreciating classic horror from Hammer et al for its “kitsch” nature – then you’ll love Deliverance. Deliverance is John Boorman’s classically dark 1972 thriller. Boorman both produced and directed the   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on March 2, 2013

Those wonderful folks at the London Film Memorabilia Convention have put together an event for Saturday 9th March that will appeal to fans of classic horror films and cult television alike! Taking place from 10am – 5pm at Central Hall, Westminster SW1H 9NH, the Cult and Classic TV Day has...   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on February 28, 2013

It’s the final day of Women In Horror Recognition Month and what better way to celebrate with one of Britain’s top classic horror scream queens, the beautiful Veronica Carlson. This lovely lady made a handful of historic horror appearances in the late sixties and early seventies includin   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on February 23, 2013

British director Ridley Scott’s landmark 1979 sci-fi thriller Alien is about seven charmers stuck on a mining ship out in deep space with a creature that they unknowingly pick up while futzing around on some planetoid. So it’s your typical “monster in the house” formula, but the sets are so creepy,   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on February 21, 2013

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Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on February 20, 2013

The best low budget horror films tend to be the ones that play to the strengths of the creative forces behind them. In the case of “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things” those strengths are almost entirely in the writing. I’ve seen better written horror films, yes –   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on February 19, 2013

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Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on February 12, 2013

February is Women In Horror Recognition Month and we are supporting this with our own Women In Classic Horror celebrations, taking a look at the feisty females who helped shape the horror genre in decades past. Born in 1918 to English parents, Evelyn Ankers became known as one of the...   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on February 9, 2013

As this is a website dedicated to horror films of a certain vintage, I thought I’d offer up a review of what may be the most classic of the classic horror films – the movie thought to be the first true example of the genre. Despite this being near the...   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on February 7, 2013

On Tuesday 26th February at 7:30pm, Certificate X presents a night of creepy-crawly, flesh-tingling, slug-slithering, bug-infested B-Movie madness with the best killer worm movie ever made – SQUIRM ! A whole hoard of wriggling worms, juiced into a lethal, carnivorous, mankind-devouring frenzie   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on February 6, 2013

Coming to London’s Rio Cinema on Saturday 16th February @11:30pm Cigarette Burns Cinema presents the Tigon horror classic Witchfinder General (1968). Starring Vincent Price as the dreaded Matthew Hopkins, whose sole task was to weed out the witches and the ungodly, this is one cult film that h   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on February 5, 2013

A huge thank you to all of you who voted in our poll to find the ultimate Caroline Munro fantasy movie. It was a close call, with trashy seventies sci-fi epic Starcrash leading the pack for much of the time but the final winner is….the iconic Ray Harryhausen stop-motion classic...   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on February 2, 2013

Women In Horror Recognition Month takes place every February and this year the Classic Horror Campaign has decided to show our support by celebrating the women from classic horror films – the actresses, directors, producers and more that helped shape the horror genre as we know it today. It&#8   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on January 31, 2013

Okay, so if you have a film called “Blood Beach”  I don’t think it’s particularly unreasonable to expect to see both some blood and a beach. You definitely get a beach in this film, but blood? Not so much. You can count the moments it’s seen on screen on one...   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on January 28, 2013

CULTure Babylon pops up at King’s Lynn Arts Centre on February 28, with its unique combination of cult film and fascinating speakers.  Zombies… they seem to be everywhere at the moment: in movies, major TV series and in ’flash mobs’.  The origin of zombies, however, lies in Voodoo. Vo   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on January 25, 2013

Giallo’s a bit of a problem genre for horror fans. Sometimes they’re crime films with a tendency towards horror and sometimes they’re horror films with a bit of crime added to the mix. Obviously a decent Giallo film will press buttons that are common to both genres, but there’s also...   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on January 24, 2013

The Visitor One of the reasons I love horror is because I love the freedom that working within the genre brings. As long as you pay attention to a certain amount of genre rules, you can bend the narrative to whatever end you want. So you get masters like Blatty...   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on January 15, 2013

The Classic Horror Campaign strives to bring you the beast in classic horror film reviews, news and features but we need your help to fill our webspace on a daily basis! If you are a budding or established writer or artist we would love to hear from you. We are...   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on January 12, 2013

Before Tim Burton got his dirty hands on it Dark Shadows was a successful daytime soap opera on television back in the sixties and early seventies which became a cult phenomenon to housewives and teenagers alike. With storylines focusing on vampires, werewolves and other gothic horror tropes this sh   read more