The Horror Show (1979)

USA, 6 February 1979
100m
35mm film, Technicolor, 4:3
mono, English

An American television non-fiction special of genre interest directed by Richard Schickel.

Premise

Anthony Perkins looks at the history of the horror film.

Credits

Crew
Directed by: Richard Schickel
© MCMLXXIX [1979] by Universal City Studios, Inc.
A Heyday production
Produced by: Volney Howard, Richard Schickel
Written by: Richard Schickel
Director of Photography: Frank Thackery
Film Editors: Bob Kagey, Damian G. Gonzales
Music: Lex DeAzevedo
Sound: Dwight Mobley
Art Director: Raymond A. Brandt
Casting by: William J. Kenney

With
Anthony Perkins (host)

Includes extracts from
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Birds (1963)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Dracula (1931)
Dracula (1958)
Eye of the Cat (1969)
Frankenstein (1931)
House of Dracula (1945)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Jaws (1975)
King Kong (1933)
The Kiss of the Vampire (1962)
Metropolis (1927)
The Mummy (1932)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
The Omen (1976)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Psycho (1960)
Return of the Fly (1959)
Son of Dracula (1943)
WereWolf of London (1935)
Willard (1971)
The Wolf Man (1941)

References

Periodicals

  • Écran Fantastique no.14 (1980) p.69