(That was a surprise. I didn’t know that Hillary had a sideline job as a movie extra.)
Posted on 05/25/2026 11:15:52 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A film buff found a lost 1968 British TV movie about vampires that sparked a legend that 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.
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The newly rediscovered 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.
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The lost vampire episode, which was shot in color but preserved in a black-and-white copy, was written by legendary horror writer Richard Matheson, who is best known as the author of “I Am Legend” and roughly a dozen episodes of the classic series “The Twilight Zone.” Another missing episode of the series was written by the great Roald Dahl. One other episode, “The Corpse Can’t Play,” previously resurfaced, leaving four still missing.
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There’s so much lost media, it’s encouraging that things continue to be found.
Sounds like they were using good writers, might have been good stuff.
There was a time when I saw lots of horror movies in my movie buff days but those days have passed.
“it scarred viewers and caused an uproar that prompted the network to not only kill the show...”
Yeah in 1968.....I’d submit that with all the gore in movies nowadays it would probably be a yawnfest.
It’s probably a quality movie but as far as freaking people out.....I seriously doubt it.
You have to come up with some real creepy sht to move people now.
Here in the US they erased tapes of sporting events, even Super Bowls.
You still can’t find the live video of Jim O’Brien’s winning FG in SB V. The only footage was from when they replayed it, but not live as it happened, as most of the 4th quarter was erased.
I am guessing the writer miswrote this. It was over-he-air TV in 1968. I am guessing gore isn't what made it scary. Could be wrong.
I’d like to see that movie. I haven’t been really scared since Vietnam.
(That was a surprise. I didn’t know that Hillary had a sideline job as a movie extra.)
People should watch the first time the BBC ran their version of “1984” in 1954. It freaked the British people out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_(British_TV_programme)
That’s the stuff of nightmares. I almost feel pity for Bill, being married to that I mean.
Thank you for your service.
“It freaked the British people out.”
They sure got over it.
“It freaked the British people out.”
Too bad Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech, didn’t.
Thank you
Yup.
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I am going to take a wild guess and say its not that good but its cool that they found it
LOL, for a second there, I wondered if it was “Count Yorga, Vampire”!!!
But that came out a couple of years later!
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