100 YEARS OF HORROR is a 26-episode TV series made in 1996 and featuring the delightful Christopher Lee as host, his sonorous narration exploring the history of horror cinema in the 20th century. Each themed episode contains plentiful clips from the films mentioned along with brief interview footage seemingly culled from other documentaries as well as TV shows and the like.
MANIACS is a stand-out episode of the show as it covers psycho-killers in depth whereas most of the episode concentrate on classic and monster horror. There's a real wealth of clips used here to discuss all kinds of films, with gruesome footage illustrating the 1930s MANIAC and, even more surprisingly, the 1980 banned version with Joe Spinell. Along the way we get discussion of PEEPING TOM and LES DIABOLIQUES, although Hitchcock's PSYCHO is too expensive to get the rights for footage, thus it isn't discussed much. I particularly enjoyed Jimmy Sangster's thoughts on his career writing psycho-thrillers for Hammer.
MANIACS is a stand-out episode of the show as it covers psycho-killers in depth whereas most of the episode concentrate on classic and monster horror. There's a real wealth of clips used here to discuss all kinds of films, with gruesome footage illustrating the 1930s MANIAC and, even more surprisingly, the 1980 banned version with Joe Spinell. Along the way we get discussion of PEEPING TOM and LES DIABOLIQUES, although Hitchcock's PSYCHO is too expensive to get the rights for footage, thus it isn't discussed much. I particularly enjoyed Jimmy Sangster's thoughts on his career writing psycho-thrillers for Hammer.
