I'm a big fan of Mark Gattiss, a very talented young man, writer, performer, film buff, amongst many other thinks. He was part of the team behind "The league of gentlemen" a tremendously dark comedy that started as a stage show before moving on to BBC2. The strange cast of grotesque characters were primarily played by the four protagonists with storylines roaming from incest to mass murder, sexual deviance to cannibalism. The story arc was concluded with the characters having to break out of their created world into our reality to try to kidnap the creators and force them to continue the story, a neat hommage to the earlier works of Mark Twain and the cartoonists of the 1970's. He also put in an excellent performance in the film "First men on the moon" playing a scatty genius creating a manned mission to the Moon by developing an ani-gravity formula.
His latest work is a three part documentary on the history of the horror film starting with the early work in the 1920's and '30's in Hollywood, working through the Hammer films of the 1960's and '70's to the horrot revival of the '70's and '80's with the independent slasher movies coming out of America. As a felow fan of the horror genre I have been highly appreciate of his work, and would very much like to take this opportunity to tip my hat to leading light of the new horror movement in the UK. Cheers, Mr. Gattiss, I raise a class to you and yours, and wish you a long and productive career.
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