Stephen Griffin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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That was The Mask of the Red Death.
And I think he discovered that there was a thing called the E.D.
Levy, which was a tax break that the Labour government had instigated.
And it meant that if a foreign film producer made his film in this country, he would get a tax break as long as he used predominantly British actors and a British crew.
So that's why they brought the Poe films from Hollywood to England.
Which Gary Oldman stole, I think, for his Dracula.
I think so.
Well, I adore Vincent Price, but I can see your point.
The problem was Vincent Price was a bona fide Hollywood star.
He was in The Private Life of Elizabethan Essex.
He's in Laura.
He's in The Ten Commandments.
But it was an acting style that went out of fashion in the late 50s and the 60s.
It was the method came in.
Yeah, it's Baroque.
And I think he realised that he was very lucky to discover that he was suddenly the godfather of goth, really.
He was the godfather of goth.
And he acknowledged that he wouldn't have had a career beyond the 60s had he not found his niche in horror.
But the trouble is, he was a bright man who...
really just thought, I've got to stick my tongue in my cheek here and kind of send it up.
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