Christopher Lee
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Shortly after their hit collaboration on THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, Christopher Lee and director Terence Fisher returned for Lee's sole feature film portrayal of the world's greatest detective. Lee considered it to be "one of the best things I've ever done because I tried to play Holmes really as he was written - as a very intolerant, argumentative, difficult man."
2) Nemeton
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The year is 3002 B.C.E. For millennia, the Nemeton, a group of clandestine immortal beings, has kept the fragile truce between man and the Fae in the antediluvian world. After six thousand years, the race of men has tired of enduring subjugation under the iron fist of the Nemeton. Kings and peasants clamor and thrones tremble at whispers of war as the Nemeton declares the first Conclave in over two thousand years. As the wheel of the year turns toward...
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It's easy to underestimate the eccentric, quietly spoken Inspector James Boswell Hodge Leonard, with his bicycle and his tweeds, and his superiors who make the mistake of doing so soon discover he's not too keen on toeing the Establishment line.When the grisly corpse of a traveller is found outside a Roman bath, Leonard's orders are to clear up the mess with no fuss, but he begins to kick over Bath's social dustbins and out tumbles decades of secrets...
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1603 was the year that Queen Elizabeth I, the last of the Tudors, died. Her cousin, Robert Carey, immediately rode like a demon to Scotland to take the news to James VI. The cataclysmic time of the Stuart monarchy had come and the son of Mary Queen of Scots left Edinburgh for London to claim his throne as James I of England.
Diaries and notes written in 1603 describe how a resurgence of the plague killed nearly 40,000 people. Priests blamed the...
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'I went into the cloud and went flat out for a few minutes, turned, and as I dived out my luck was in and I got him head-on. He went straight into the sea and I am glad to say there were no survivors. A Dornier which had blown up came floating down in bits and another burnt up on land. It was a most spectacular show.'
Known as Pedro to his comrades and Tiggy to his family, Osgood Villiers Hanbury was a charismatic Eton schoolboy who, before his untimely...
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100 Years of Horror volume 6
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Of course there's Lon Chaney Jr. as The Wolf Man, but other films have featured werewolves in surprising ways over the years.
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100 Years of Horror volume 1
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There's more to Dracula than just Bela Lugosi, as the cinema's various incarnations of the carnal count are examined.
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100 Years of Horror volume 4
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Hammer Films "reanimated" the Frankenstein franchise in the 1950s with its terrifying teaming of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as doctor and "patient." Take a look at how this classic story changed in the '50s, '60s — and beyond.
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100 Years of Horror volume 21
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Karloff's parchment-skin portrayal of Imhotep set the standard for mummy movies, but many others have gotten "wrapped up" in their work over the years, as you'll see.
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100 Years of Horror volume 15
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King Kong's Fay Wray is probably the most famous scream queen of the horror genre, but you'll be surprised to see who else made the list!
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100 Years of Horror volume 14
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Horror films have been peppered with people who didn't need makeup and were actually born disfigured, most notably in the film Freaks. Take a look at those who managed to turn their misfortune into something of a career.
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100 Years of Horror volume 8
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Perhaps horror's greatest star, Karloff, of course, played the Frankenstein monster. But there's so much more to tell. Here's an affectionate look at this cultured Englishman.
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100 Years of Horror volume 7
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Lugosi was much more than Count Dracula, as you'll see in this fascinating salute to this complex Hungarian actor.
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100 Years of Horror volume 25
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Another idea borrowed from the world of fairy tales, giants have been found in stories from Jack and the Beanstalk to Jack the Giant Killer and beyond.
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100 Years of Horror volume 18
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An affectionate salute to the great showmen of yesteryear who figured out all sorts of gory gimmicks to keep audiences glued to their seats — and away from their TV sets!
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100 Years of Horror volume 20
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Creatures from "out there" have captured the imagination of everyone from H.G. Wells to Steven Spielberg. Here's a look at some out-of-this-world intergalactic beings.
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100 Years of Horror volume 13
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Abominable snowmen, mole people, creatures from black lagoons. All these half-human/half-beast "hybrids" are here — and more!
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100 Years of Horror volume 26
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Long before Jurassic Park, dinosaurs roamed thru a variety of horror films, going all the way back to The Lost World in 1925.
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100 Years of Horror volume 2
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Dracula wasn't the only blood-sucker immortalized on film. Here is some of his "competition."
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100 Years of Horror volume 3
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Karloff's career was defined by his sympathetic portrayal of "the monster," but others took on this challenging role over the years. This fascinating installment tells the story behind Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's timeless tale.