History of Horror

Lots of great cameos by influential film buffs, such as Tarantino, and actors show up regularly too. Each episode focuses on a different aspect of horror and moves along at a nice pace to fit as many movies in as they can. I can't picture myself watching this more than once but for what it is it's great.

The interviews with leading directors and actors of horror are great.

But having to listen to Eli Roth's insipid non-analysis and self-promotion in between makes it insufferable.

His movies have always been weak at best, so to hear him spout off as if an expert and try to place himself among horror's greats is just a total over-reach.

First off, I gotta oppose to those reviews that give 1/10's because "it's political". I understand exactly why they call it that, but the political stuff is ultimately not that biased & there's not much of it, it really does not "sit on the nose". As a life-long devoted horror cinema & literature fan, I can only enjoy 40 minutes of awesome, known horror people talking about their favorite thing passionately. I have to admit, that some of the information the series provide is already an average horror geek's general knowledge, but it does not lessen the excitement to watch the series. Each of the 40minutes-long episodes is dynamic and consistent enough for the episode to feel like it's only 20 minutes long. An easy, informing, entertaining, laid-back watch. And If you're not much into the horror genre, then, well, you won't find any of this interesting. My rating after seeing 4 episodes: A solid 7/10.

Most everything about the series is good: topics, interviews, clips. The only reason to remove a star is that each episode picked one film to do a deep-dive on, and it chewed up too much time for the episode.

This show is great! It's paced excellently, it looks awesome, it's got all of the people you would wanna hear talk about horror and it's got one of the best tv intros I've seen!

Edgar Wright, Tom Savini, Greg Nicotero, Elijah Wood, Quentin Tarantino, John Landis, are just some of the people talking about the horror genre. It's insightful, interesting, fun, and it's all made for the people who love the horror genre. So, watch it and enjoy the best show of horror out there!