Old School British Horror Movie Night

Greetings fiends and ghouls! This is the second in a bi-monthly Old School Horror Movie series. Twice a month I'm going to be showing a double feature of classic horror films from a particular country at my apartment. It's going to be a kind of educational around the world with horror trip so we can get a taste of how other other countries do scary movie. They will be from all over time (from the silent era to the 21st century) and I will always shoot for the original aspect ratio and original language if they are available. They'll usually be some weird shorts and trailers thrown in for good measure too! If you've been to any of my movie nights you'll know my apartment is kinda small so I'm limiting attendance so we can all fit in the living room and be comfortable for a few hours. I'll have drinks and some munchies but please feel free to bring anything you'd like to eat and/or share with the group. Please take these last two items into consideration before RSVPing and PLEASE if you RSVP and can not make it, change your RSVP! I went British this early in the series just because it is coming up on Thanksgiving and we wouldn't have Thanksgiving if it weren't for the British! For Old School British night we're going to watch: Ken Russell's Gothic (1986) On a stormy night in 1816, four friends gathered together at the Villa Diodati in Switzerland for a night of drinking, sex and spooky fun. During the night they decided to have a contest: who can come up with the scariest story? Since the participants included the reigning kings of British poetry Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) and Percy Shelley (Julian Sands), you'd think they would have won. But in reality, Lord Bryon's lover and doctor John Polidori (Timothy Spall) and Percy's fiancee Mary Godwin (Natasha Richardson) stole the prize with his story "The Vampyre" (regarded as the first vampire story ever written in English) and her little tale called "Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus". This is Ken Russell's wild and trippy look at that one night long ago that changed forever what literary horror is. On the same bill.... Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers (2002) Well since we have vampires and Frankenstein covered in GOTHIC, we just need some werewolves for a full house of monsters. This is probably the best werewolf movie of this century (yes, I know we're only 9 years into it but doesn't that sound impressive?) This is an absolutely awesome, kick-ass monster movie about a band of soldiers deep in the woods playing war games. When they find their opponents slaughtered they soon find out they aren't the biggest and baddest in the forest. This is by Neil Marshall who would next make a little movie that is quite awesome as well called THE DESCENT.