"The day of the long knives" may sound like the latest Hollywood horror shocker but in civil service circles it is actually more likely to be a reference to last week's "slash and burn" budget.

Henry Farrell, the author of the Hollywood horror novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Another writer in this tradition was Henry Farrell whose best-known work was the Hollywood horror novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Real Hollywood horrors like a washed-up Bela Lugosi cruising Beverly Hills funeral homes for a fix of paraldehyde with the no-budget director Ed Wood Jr. are lightly touched upon.

However, Gifford had been deeply critical of Hammer Studios, especially the productions of its later years, preferring the more understated examples of early British and Hollywood horror.

It is inspired by Urban Legends (1998), while it is a remake of the Hollywood horror I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).

In the first episode, Gatiss explores the Golden Age of Hollywood horror, or the Universal era, the 1920s to 1940s.

Just to list the Ray films taken from him, re-cut without his permission and rendered less than he intended because "they" (the money people) were hostile would make a classic panorama of Hollywood horrors.

The rubber images of Hollywood horror who remained in the room with June stood facing her in her chair, but the postures of their bodies gave no clue as to what they might bethinking.

Reviewer Garry McConnachie of Scotland's Daily Record rated the film 4 of 5 stars, saying, "This is how Hollywood horror should be done... Sinister covers all its bases with aplomb."