Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror - Season 1

Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror - Season 1

Season 1

Network
DatesOct 4, 1997 - Jan 3, 1998

Episodes

American Psycho
Season 1Episode 160 min

American Psycho

Clive Barker explores the Wisconsin farmer Ed Gein, who graduated from grave-robbing to murder in the fifties. Gein's story inspired three films: Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. Directors and film stars explain how fiction fed off fact.
Oct 4, 1997
The Devil You Know
Season 1Episode 260 min

The Devil You Know

Clive Barker asks what made The Exorcist one of the scariest horror movies ever. He also looks at the work of New England writer Shirley Jackson and the film The Haunting, based on one of her novels. Also a sculptor, who captured the face of madness, and the hyping of horror B movies.
Oct 11, 1997
The Kingdom of the Dead
Season 1Episode 360 min

The Kingdom of the Dead

A look at the cult classic film Night of the Living Dead, made by George A. Romero and group of friends on a shoestring budget. Plus a visit to the home of film director Roger Corman, the connection between English castles and American novelist Edgar Allan Poe and the enduring imagery of blood.
Oct 18, 1997
Broken Homes
Season 1Episode 460 min

Broken Homes

John Carpenter, director of Halloween, explains how that night can turn the serenity of suburban streets into a scene of fear and carnage. Plus techno-horror movies in Japan and the subversive power of evil children in horror stories.
Oct 25, 1997
A Fate Worse Than Death
Season 1Episode 560 min

A Fate Worse Than Death

Clive Barker explores the work of Dennis Wheatley, where the supernatural is bound up with an unmistakeable Englishness. Plus the tragedy behind The Crow.
Nov 8, 1997
Beyond Good and Evil
Season 1Episode 660 min

Beyond Good and Evil

Clive Barker concludes the series by profiling horror-actress Barbara Steele. He also investigates the world of Ira Levin's 1967 novel Rosemary's Baby and Roman Polanski's 1968 film adaptation, and the links between novelist H. P. Lovecraft and a small town in New England.
Jan 3, 1998

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