Had a chat with Daniel Kokotajlo for the BFI about Starve Acre and the upcoming Roots, Rituals and Phantasmagoira season at Southbank. bfi.org.uk/interviews/sta…

'It spoke to me on a kind of religious, spiritual level' Ahead of Starve Acre opening in cinemas next Friday, we sat down with director Daniel Kokotajlo to discuss the roots of rural folk horror. theb.fi/4e4voGZ

Best films watched in August: Hunter in the Dark (1979) – Hideo Gosha Last Holiday (1950) – Henry Cass Laburnum Grove (1936) – Carol Reed Frieda (1947) – Basil Dearden The Vampire of Dusseldorf (1965) – Robert Hossein

An unquiet place... 40 years ago, blood curdled across the land as Jerzy Skolimowski unleashed the sonic terror of his visionary British horror oddity The Shout. Here’s why it’s still ringing in our ears. theb.fi/4g3utIJ

Best read of August was easily Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the King’s of England (1136). So much background to references I’ve taken for granted for many years in more modern works (later exploration of Penda of Mercia particularly), but also beautifully written.

Does anybody fancy an evening of Darkness and Slime? Come and celebrate the anniversaries of the publication and the film of M.R. James' The Treasure of Abbot Thomas on 3 December at Picturehouse Crouch End. picturehouses.com/movie-details/…

Best TV of August was The Main Chance (1969-75). Its drama is often fiery and brutal, where the law is a weapon used by competing parties for gain. John Stride is incredibly compelling as he breaks apart his life simply for his obsession with solving legal conundrums.

On an ambitious series of location visits around East Anglia this week. Today, I finally managed to visit Cliff House seen in Jonathan Miller's M.R. James adaptation Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968). "There are more things in philosophy than are dreamt of in Heaven and Earth."

Today's epic location hunt included traipsing through fields figuring out where the opening hanging is in Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968). Trees now hide the view of the church in Kersey but you can still make out where the team dug out the land to make the drop...

Clapham and Streatham provide the setting for David Lean’s exquisite family drama This Happy Breed – one of Martin Scorsese’s hidden gems of British cinema. Would today’s south Londoners recognise them? theb.fi/4cY86BL

For the BFI, I revisited the locations from David Lean's This Happy Breed (1944) ahead of its screening as part of the upcoming Hidden Gems of British Cinema season. bfi.org.uk/features/david…

Last day of the East Anglian location jaunt today. Paid my respects to William Ager earlier in visiting locations from Lawrence Gordon Clark's A Warning to the Curious (1972). Happisburgh is one of my absolute favourite locations visited since starting this article series.

As you can tell from my posts over the weekend, I've been far more thorough with my A Warning to the Curious visits this time round, but the earlier trip here did include a few I didn't do this time and comparisons to locations that inspired M.R. James' original story as well.

That time when Ealing pretended Camden was Bethnal Green... We go in search of the streets where Robert Hamer’s classic man-hunt thriller It Always Rains on Sunday was filmed. theb.fi/3XOSGM1

Researching Gawain and Wirral stuff today, and surprised to see Storeton Hall, home of Sir John Stanley (possible patron of/the actual poet) has been show-homed. "In the wilderness of Wirral dwelt there but few That either God or man... Live Laugh Love!" pjlivesey-group.co.uk/project/storet…

For the BFI, I revisited the locations from the classic Ealing noir, It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) by Robert Hamer. bfi.org.uk/features/it-al…

We visit the melancholy Venetian locations found in Nicolas Roeg's classic occult thriller Don't Look Now, screening at BFI Southbank as part of our upcoming season Roots, Rituals and Phantasmagoria. theb.fi/3Xoc5BU

Some Quatermass fragments of a mostly vanished London visited yesterday; the first being a shot of Watling Street seen in the BBC Quatermass and the Pit (1958), the second a shot of Heath Road in Clapham used for the dystopia of Piers Haggard's The Quatermass Conclusion (1979).

Spent the day visiting the church used in the original 1989 Nigel Kneale adapted The Woman in Black. Even managed to go inside the church where there was no one about and no lights working (definitely wasn't in anyway spooky...).