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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They sure got over it.
Not only got over it, but decided that it sounded like a good idea.
Cool!
History has a long arc. Enoch Powell, Pat Buchanan etc get proven right after it’s too late.
You are correct.
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