UK-based teacher, actor, musician and fearful film enthusiast Nigel Parkin presents a new SHOCK column charting covert perversion in classic horror films.
Back in 1957 Hammer’s first foray into Gothic horror, Terrence Fishers THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, pushed the envelope of cinematic disgust as far as possible. Critics and censors found it ‘repulsive’, ‘degrading’ and ‘horrendously…
