Feb 25, 2005 · Tod Slaughter made his film debut (at age 50!) directing and starring in the first of many cinematic renditions of the popular theater plays that he had been staging across Britain for many years. Murder in the Red Barn (1935) is the story …

May 18, 2020 · There is an undeniable relationship between the films of Tod Slaughter and those who will later become the notoriety of the Hammer. There's even an additional Slaughter-Hammer connection (if only tangentially): CRIMES AT THE DARK HOUSE was the first screen credit for Bernard Robinson, who later became Hammer's principal Production Designer.

Jun 12, 2020 · I discovered Tod Slaughter in the mid-Sixties, thanks to Forry Ackerman (I was the "foreign correspondent" of Famous Monsters of Filmland" since 1962) who sent me some US lobby cards, and immediately started extensive research on him. I wrote several articles on Tod, the first one in 1973 in France.

Aug 12, 2023 · A couple Tod Slaughter movie reviews on some website (long-ago expunged) + a Tod Slaughter article that was never published = When you hear the phone not ringing, that'll be Indicator! Is the CHFB's own TodMichel involved? I just checked and he hasn't been around since May. Gulp. I hope he's parlez-vous okay.

Aug 10, 2023 · The Tod Slaughter Repertory Company (2023): video essay on the regular players from Slaughter’s feature films Maria Marten and Sweeney Toddradio plays (1932): newly remastered from original 78 rpm shellac discs, these original recordings are presented with optional, newly recorded Current 93 scores

Mar 25, 2008 · The Classic Horror Film Board. For 29 years (!), the CHFB has been the essential site for classic horror news, research and enthusiasm.

Feb 25, 2023 · "East Lynne" was another example of lost Tod Slaughter work on radio. Some years ago a British pal asked for a TV series (I don't remember its title), an historical story that was a coproduction between UK and France.

Mar 23, 2021 · Tod Slaughter’s appearance in the Pathétone Weekly #314 (1936) posted above gives us an indication of what might have been had someone thought to build a horror-comedy around Slaughter. Speaking of what-if, it’s too bad some enterprising American studio did not see fit to bring Slaughter to the US and exploit “Europe’s Horror Man” in ...

Apr 17, 2006 · Just received on VHS the last three Tod Slaughter titles needed for my collection: "The Ticket Of Leave Man" (1937), "The Curse Of The Wraydons" (1946 Tod Slaughter - Three Rare Titles - The Classic Horror Film Board

Jan 29, 2007 · On Channel 47 Toronto they ahd ancient English Movies with Tod Slaughter, Old Mother Riley, Will Hays and Geoge Formby. I remember those well and wish I had taped a lot more. Tod Slaughter is due for a rediscovery with his sinsister, yet tongue in cheek approach to the horror in his films. But then again I really like George Formby and Arthur ...