The scene in the hotel room, where Stevenson (aka Jack the Ripper) shows Wells how brutal the modern world is, contains one of the most quietly, devastatingly apt lines I can recall from a film, when Stevenson points out matter-of-factly 'In our time I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur.'

David Bradley as Bill Hartnell looks extraordinarily like him (and from what I could tell from the trailer, sounds and acts like him too). Funnily enough, the 1963 Peter Sellers movie Heavens Above is on in the living-room, and when I walked past a few minutes ago who should I see but Hartnell. I've seen him in a…

There was one doing the rounds right after Comic Con - someone at the screening filmed it, so the quality is pretty bad - but it hasn't had a legitimate airing anywhere I can see (and seems to have vanished from less legitimate sources). I'm surprised the Beeb hasn't released it yet, since they've confirmed the air…

You're right; I was thinking of Madigan as Virginia Reed. Too much haste and not enough thought).

Such a brilliant documentary from start to finish, with words, images, and voices combining perfectly. Donal McCann as Patrick Breen is absolutely chilling, calmly enunciating horrors: 'Mrs Murphy said yesterday that she thought she would commence on Milt and eat him. I don't think that she has done so yet. It is…

Someone does indeed. 'Only Edward Lionheart would have the temerity to rewrite Shakespeare.'

One of my favourite films. Price is brilliant, and while he (intentionally) overplays most of the Shakespearian scenes in the film, his take on Lear at the end is absolutely straight, and very good indeed. The film also has one of the best 'damning with (very faint) praise' quotes ever, when Milo O'Shea recalls that…

Does the Roald Dahl-inspired Tales of the Unexpected count as a horror series? Because if so there are quite a few candidates who qualify, including Julie Harris, Jose Ferrer, Denholm Elliott, Wendy Hiller, John Gielgud, John Mills, Ron Moody, Brenda Blethyn, Gloria Grahame, Jim Broadbent, and Nigel Hawthorne.

I love 'Martin's Close' for the spot-on pastiche of 17th century court transcripts, and the portrait of Judge Jeffreys. 'Mr. Humphries and His Inheritance' also contains a nice bit of pastiche - the parable about the maze - and gets points from me because mazes are just inherently creepy, and James does a great job…

The BBC version from 1973, directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, is chilling.

I have a copy of Beating the Devil right here. Earnshaw writes:

Oh yes, those are both solid picks, which I'd see and raise with 'Stalls of Barchester Cathedral' and 'Count Magnus' (or 'The Mezzotint' or 'Lost Hearts'). But really, you can't go wrong with just about anything by James.

Yes, I thought you'd be pointing out/commenting on this oversight. And it is an oversight; M.R. James and his tales are to ghost stories what Conan Doyle and the Holmes stories are to the mystery genre. 'Casting the Runes' is possibly his most famous tale, although not necessarily the best; I'd give the edge to 'A…

No one seems to have mentioned The Haunting (the great 1963 version, not the dire 1999 remake). The scene that scared me the most, when I first saw it (I was only 10), was when Lois Maxwell's character suddenly reappears after having vanished; but on subsequent viewings the scene that I find almost unbearably…

And long before Anthony Hopkins and his ventriloquist dummy in Magic there was Michael Redgrave and his ventriloquist dummy in Dead of Night (Ealing Studios, 1945). DoN is the original portmanteau horror movie (several short stories tied together with a linking narrative), about an architect who travels to a house in…

Me too. And when are we going to get to see the trailer for Adventure in Space and Time that was at Comic Con (or a trailer; I'd settle for anything, really)? Every time I see a new photo of David Bradley in character as Bill Hartnell I get excited all over again.

I think the Harry Dean Stanton doll just pauses for a few seconds and then tells you what a great person you are to work with.

I said 'Drinking problem' as soon as he walked past the bottles and then paused, and my teenaged son said 'You think so too?' Maybe you have to have seen it up close in your life to pick up the subtler signs.

Probably due to pacifist Rick not wanting the other kids to go the way Carl has. He's seen what knowing how to kill has done to his son, and is mourning the sense of childhood innocence lost, and wants to preserve it in other children. Or something.

At least someone's finally cottoned on to the fact that a good way to dispatch walkers who've congregated along the fence is to use rebar. Judging by the season 4 trailer, this becomes a popular pastime among the survivors.