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Posted on 05/25/2026 1:45:43 AM PDT by Libloather
A film buff found a lost 1968 British TV movie about vampires that sparked a legend it was so terrifying it was marked for destruction, a preservation group announced.
“No Such Thing as a Vampire” — one of six episodes from the short-lived 1960s BBC anthology series “Late Night Horror” — has been missing for more than half a century after it scarred viewers and caused an uproar that prompted the network to not only kill the show.
But what is now believed to be the last surviving copy of the gory movie was recently discovered by English film-buff and cinematic engineer Darren Payne, the film preservation group Film is Fabulous! announced on Saturday.
“I am really passionate about this episode being seen again,” Payne said, according to the group.
The newly re-discovered horror film will screen publicly for the first time since 1969 at Europe’s “Grindfest” horror festival this September, the group said.
From the 1950s through the 1970s, BBC routinely erased old broadcasts to reuse expensive tapes, a cost-cutting policy that wiped out an estimated 70% of its programming throughout those two decades, according to an estimate by the British Film Institute.
But the total disappearance of Late Night Horror’s six episodes, which was canceled by the BBC after numerous viewers called in to the network complain it was far too horrific, fueled a darker theory that the network deliberately destroyed the copies because the content was too disturbing at the time, according to Atlas Obscura.
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Editors, NY Post?
Worse than Andy Warhol Dracula or Udo Kier?
That was some messed up stuff.
Count Floyd?
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It got past the spel chekker so it was OK to publish.
Editing be racist. Didn’t ya know?
“Editors, NY Post?”
There are SO MANY mistakes in that newspaper, all the time.
The other day they had “satin” for “satan”, I kid you not!
It can’t be any worse than Motel Hell.
“missing for more than half a century after it scarred viewers
Editors, NY Post?”
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They meant “skerred”.
Obviously AI written.
The Dracula storyline from the 70s Cliffhangers did a decent job of scaring me as a kid.
The same story was remade a few years later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_of_Night_(1977_film)#No_Such_Thing_as_a_Vampire
Doesn’t sound scarier than any random Night Gallery or Tales from the Crypt episode.
Or the one in Monty Python where his teeth fall out, and the woman says “Oh, you’re no fun anymore.”
At the current rate, the Taliban-in-Britain will eventually wipe out their tape and film archives to finish the job the cost-cutters started.
Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein, aka ‘Flesh for Frankenstein’ was indeed violent. Also it was released in 3D. Also starred Udo Kier.
It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent fritters.
Or the old Karl Kolchak: The Night Stalker show.
I see the problem here. The BBC should have used a wooden stake on the last copy of this film.
( since it was a vampire film. 😏 )
In fact, the remake I mentioned was by Kolchak creator Dan Curtis.
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