Oh yes! And whilst I was in the TV horror/transferring old tapes to DVD mood I revisited the superb and genuinely unsettling A Cold Night's Death which I had from a late 80s/early 90s Granada broadcast.
A brilliant film - American TV horror at its best with top notch turns from Robert Culp and Eli Wallach.
It could do with a proper release, but I suspect some of the treatment of animals would be questioned today. There are several scenes with primates who seem to have been genuinely drugged for the film and they are often roughly handled. There is also an animal corpse that looks far, far too realistic. I do not know the story behind the making though, just these scenes look dubious.
I must get around to transferring al my BBC A Ghost Story At Christmas stuff from VHS...'tis the season and all! Can't beat some MR James when it's cold outside!
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