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British Horror Movies

Scary Films From the United Kingdom and Ireland

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Lindsey Haun in Shrooms.

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Notable UK/Irish Horror Films:

  • The Ghoul (1933)
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
  • Dead of Night (1945)
  • A Place of One's Own (1945)
  • The Quartermass Xperiment (1955)
  • The Gamma People (1956)
  • The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
  • Night of the Demon (1957)
  • Fiend Without a Face (1958)
  • Horror of Dracula (1958)
  • The Mummy (1959)
  • Peeping Tom (1960)
  • Village of the Damned (1960)
  • Curse of the Werewolf (1960)
  • The Innocents (1961)
  • The Day of the Triffids (1962)
  • Night of the Eagle (1962)
  • Repulsion (1965)
  • Plague of the Zombies (1966)
  • Witchfinder General (1968)
  • And Soon the Darkness (1970)
  • Scream and Scream Again (1970)
  • The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
  • The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
  • The Devils (1971)
  • Raw Meat (1972)
  • Tale From the Crypt (1972)
  • And Now the Screaming Starts (1973)
  • The Creeping Flesh (1973)
  • Horror Express (1973)
  • The Legend of Hell House (1973)
  • The Wicker Man (1973)
  • Frightmare (1974)
  • Alien (1979)
  • The Awakening (1980)
  • Xtro (1983)
  • The Company of Wolves (1984)
  • The Bride (1985)
  • Lifeforce (1985)
  • Gothic (1986)
  • Link (1986)
  • Rawhead Rex (1986)
  • Hellraiser (1987)
  • The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
  • Paperhouse (1988)
  • Hardware (1990)
  • Proteus (1995)
  • Dead of Night (2000)
  • The Bunker (2001)
  • 28 Days Later (2002)
  • Dog Soldiers (2002)
  • Long Time Dead (2002)
  • House of 9 (2003)
  • The Last Horror Movie (2003)
  • Pulse (2003)
  • Creep (2004)
  • Dead Meat (2004)
  • Shaun of the Dead (2004)
  • Boy Eats Girl (2005)
  • Isolation (2005)
  • The Descent (2006)
  • Severance (2006)
  • Shrooms (2006)
  • Wilderness (2006)
  • Broken (2007)
  • Doomsday (2008)
  • Outpost (2008)

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