Behind Door 7 of the Christmas Advent Calendar we discover the dark festive fable Whoever Slew Auntie Roo (1971)

Door 6 in the Christmas Horror Advent Calendar reveals Finnish folk horror The White Reindeer (1952) and a little known fright-filled Christmas movie from Hammer - Cash on Demand (1961) starring Peter Cushing!

Door 5 in the Christmas Horror Advent Calendar opens, looking at seminal slices of festive fear - Dead of Night from Ealing Studios (1945) and macabre noir Beware My Lovely (1952)

Door 04 of the Christmas Horror Advent Calendar open revealing classic Val Lewton chiller - Curse of the Cat People!

Door 3 of the Christmas Horror Advent Calendar opens, and we look at early Yuletide horrors The Mystery in the Wax Museum and The Devil-Doll

Door 2 of the Christmas Horror advent calendar opens!, looking at assort silent festive frights!

In this special advent calendar, every day we will be tracing the history of the Christmas horror film, from silent terrors to present day festive frights!

In a special episode, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the first screening of The Box of Delights TV series, the classic BBC adaption of John Masefield's novel that first aired back in 1984. We take a look at the new revised and expanded edition of the book Opening the Box of Delights by Dr Philip W. Errington, and report on the wonderful remastered Blu-ray edition of the series, which includes the brand new feature length documentary Time and Tide - The Making of the Box of Delights! Splendiferous!

In this chapter we learn how Roger Corman and Richard Matheson devised a second cinematic foray in the world of Edgar Allan Poe, this time plunging horror icons Vincent Price and Barbara Steele in the the nightmares of The Pit and Pendulum (1961).

In this chapter we explore Hallowe'en in the mid-nineties, and chart the rise of The Crow, Angela returns from Hell in Night of the Demons 2, go trick or treating with Richie, Eddie and a cattle prod, and suffer Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.