British Film Forever Magic, Murder and Monsters: The Story of British Horror and Fantasy (Season 1, Episode 5)
TV Episode | 88 min | Documentary, History

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British Film Forever

Magic, Murder and Monsters: The Story of British Horror and Fantasy (Season 1, Episode 5)

TV Episode | 88 min | Documentary, History

Director

Angus Cameron

Writer

Matthew Sweet (written by)

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Updated Aug 25, 2007

Release date

Aug 25, 2007 (United Kingdom)

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51 cast members

Name	Known for
Jessica Hynes Self - Narrator (voice) (as Jessica Stevenson) Self - Narrator (voice) (as Jessica Stevenson) See fewer	Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Simon Pegg Self Self See fewer	Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Danny Boyle Self Self See fewer	127 Hours (2010)
Anne Billson Self Self See fewer	The Media Show (1987)
Mark Gatiss Self Self See fewer	The League of Gentlemen (1999)
John Landis Self Self See fewer	The Blues Brothers (1980)
Sumit Bose Self Self See fewer	Broken News (2005)
Jenny Agutter Self Self See fewer	Logan's Run (1976)
Rufus Sewell Self Self See fewer	Dark City (1998)
Jonathan Rigby Self Self See fewer	Borley Rectory (2017)
Jimmy Sangster Self Self See fewer	Horror of Dracula (1958)
Kim Newman Self Self See fewer	A Place Among the Dead (2020)
Christopher Frayling Self (as Sir Christopher Frayling) Self (as Sir Christopher Frayling) See fewer	Nightmare: The Birth of Victorian Horror (1996)
Phill Jupitus Self Self See fewer	QI (2003)
Martin Scorsese Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
David McGillivray Self Self See fewer	Schizo (1976)
Martin Stephens Self Self See fewer	The Innocents (1961)
Barbara Shelley Self Self See fewer	Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Peter Cushing Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
John Hamilton Self Self See fewer	Legends of Hockey: The Second Season (2000)
Ken Russell Self Self See fewer	The Devils (1971)
Anna Massey Self Self See fewer	Peeping Tom (1960)
Michael Powell Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Peeping Tom (1960)
Stanley A. Long Self Self See fewer	Naughty! (1974)
Michael Winner Self Self See fewer	Death Wish (1974)
Roman Polanski Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Chinatown (1974)
Ian Ogilvy Self Self See fewer	I, Claudius (1976)
Steve Coogan Self Self See fewer	Philomena (2013)
Danny Baker Self Self See fewer	Wimbledon (2004)
Roy Ward Baker Self Self See fewer	A Night to Remember (1958)
Richard Todd Self Self See fewer	The Hasty Heart (1949)
Sylvia Syms Self (as Sylvia Syms OBE) Self (as Sylvia Syms OBE) See fewer	The Queen (2006)
Christopher Lee Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
James Carreras Self (archive footage) (as Sir James Carreras) Self (archive footage) (as Sir James Carreras) See fewer	Who Killed Van Loon? (1948)
Ingrid Pitt Self Self See fewer	The Wicker Man (1973)
Tudor Gates Self Self See fewer	Barbarella (1968)
Shauna Macdonald Self Self See fewer	The Descent (2005)
Madeline Smith Self Self See fewer	Live and Let Die (1973)
Yutte Stensgaard Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Lust for a Vampire (1971)
Pete Walker Self Self See fewer	Man of Violence (1970)
Terry Gilliam Self Self See fewer	Brazil (1985)
John Boorman Self Self See fewer	Hope and Glory (1987)
Rupert Grint Self Self See fewer	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Timothy Spall Self (as Timothy Spall OBE) Self (as Timothy Spall OBE) See fewer	Mr. Turner (2014)
Mischa Barton Self Self See fewer	The O.C. (2003)
Neil Marshall Self Self See fewer	Dog Soldiers (2002)
Jimi Mistry Self Self See fewer	RocknRolla (2008)
John Hurt Self (as John Hurt CBE) Self (as John Hurt CBE) See fewer	1984 (1984)
David Lynch Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Twin Peaks (1990)
Freddie Francis Self Self See fewer	The Straight Story (1999)
Anthony Hopkins Self (as Sir Anthony Hopkins) Self (as Sir Anthony Hopkins) See fewer	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)