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Spine Chillers was a 1980 British children's supernatural television series produced by the Jackanory team and broadcast on BBC1. It featured readings of classic ghost and horror stories aimed at older children, and ran for 20 episodes of 10 minutes each.
Spine Chillers: With Mackenzie Crook, Bruce Mackinnon, Emma Pierson, Tim Plester. Anthology series of black comedies, which sets out to deliver excellent stories with a darkly comic twist. A second installment aired under the title, Twisted Tales.
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noun [ C ] (also spinechiller) uk / ˈspaɪnˌtʃɪl.ə r/ us / ˈspaɪnˌtʃɪl.ɚ / Add to word list. a frightening film, book, story, etc.: In the week before Halloween, we are broadcasting five spine-chillers from some of our best new writers. She was reading Bram Stoker's spine-chiller "Dracula".
Feb 9, 2022 · Directed by Peter Windows at BBC Birmingham. 84-02-28 Origami [by Jill Hyem] When Mr Shimojo takes a room in Helen Bestall's house, no one is prepared for the sequence of horrifying events which his presence seems to generate...
Spine Chillers: With Jonathan Pryce, Freddie Jones, John Woodvine, Michael Bryant. Readings of classic ghost and horror stories aimed at older children.
Dec 31, 2014 · Spine Chillers: four hair-raising tales of terror. In these four supernatural dramas, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1984, a house hides more than meets the eye; a B & B landlady helps her guests forget their troubles; a Japanese man inadvertently awakens a vengeful spirit; and a mother and baby become unsettled in remote mill. Figures.
Darren inherits from his great-aunt a jar with a human brain, the one from a brilliant doctor who died in 1793. Dr Hunsecker invented the device and had his brain stored in it upon his death.
