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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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Probably considered a comedy now...
I thought that Jack Palance made a scary vampire in Bram Stoker’s Dracula - 1973 television movie directed by Dan Curtis
they could mean emotionally scarred viewers.
Not “scared viewers”
I’m sure it’s a hype marketing ploy/LARP like Blair Witch. I hope it does well.
I knew a guy once who had SATIN tattooed across his forehead. Meant to be SATAN.
Well, maybe they were scarred! Scarred for life!.................
Steered - damn, can’t anyone spell? 😜
Skeered- damn, can’t anyone spell? 😜
“they could mean emotionally scarred viewers.”
Just let em’ roll man.
scarred is fine. Now maybe they meant scared. But Plenty of scary things leave people scarred.
Sounds like it might get a PG today
(Tongue in cheek, of course.)
Sounds like a publicity stunt to me.
The episode called "The Wendigo" was the scariest thing I have ever seen or could imagine. The show was live, there are no tapes. I was 11, but people who watched that episode still remember it.
“The episode called “The Wendigo” was the scariest thing I have ever seen or could imagine. The show was live, there are no tapes. I was 11, but people who watched that episode still remember it.”
I saw it still remember it. Also one or two other episodes I remember. One I think was called the “Monkey’s Paw”
Careful. You may have a touch of the wendigo psychosis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
Back in the day, ‘Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things’ was true horror. Watched it again. Too much fluff and overacting. Gotta wait for the end.
Looks like it scared ‘em too.
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