10 Movies You Didn't Know Were Made In Britain

4 & 3. Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II

hellraiser By the late 1980s there was something of a stigma attached to British horror films (parodied by Edgar Wright in the Grindhouse (2007) faux-trailer Don€™t, where Will Arnett talks over the silent cast the whole time). So, rather than drawing attention to being filmed in Britain (an early scene features Battersea Power Station, memorably trashed by Daleks in a 1964 Doctor Who episode), there€™s an incredibly half-hearted effort to suggest that Clive Barker€™s macabre masterpiece is set in America. Supporting actors are dubbed with Yankee tones, and the only unadulterated English people are villains Clare Higgins (literal stepmother from hell, Julia) and Doug Bradley€™s Lead Cenobite €˜Pinhead€™. It€™s still weird seeing New York cops in Hellraiser II going over the British-looking Cenobite-haunted house (actually in Dollis Hill). It€™s about as convincing as the red phone box stuck on a California highway in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). So maybe it shouldn€™t be on this list€”but please don€™t tear my soul apart over it. hellraiser 2Giveaway British Character Actor: Aside from Higgins and Bradley, the second one features a truly bravura demented performance from Kenneth Cranham.
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Hamish Crawford writes fiction more easily than fact. His first volume of short fiction, “A Madhouse, Only With More Elegant Jackets”, was published in 2011 from First Edition Publishing. He has an English degree from the University of Calgary and a Screenwriting M.A. from the University of Westminster, which leaves little space on the wall for his several PhD. rejection letters. His stories and articles have appeared in such publications as NoD and the Cult Britannia website (www.cultbritannia.co.uk). In September he will be speaking at a Doctor Who 50th anniversary conference in Hertfordsire. The owner of far more hats than heads, Hamish currently lives in Canada, and is disappointed that the preceding biography contains so few factual errors. Visit his website: http://hamish-crawford.weebly.com