Mark Kermode previews Gothic

Broadcaster and film critic Mark Kermode previews our blockbuster Gothic programme, recalling how a viewing of The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) so terrified his father that he refused to watch another horror film again. With this, Mark’s lifelong passion for horror cinema was born. 

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