"England is known for several pop-culture exports spanning music, comedy, and film, but it doesn't have much of a reputation as a Mecca for horror films. Perhaps British propriety deems such exploits to be cheap and low.
This is despite the fact that England not only gave birth to the greatest horror director in film history and possibly the greatest director of all time Alfred Hitchcock, it also gave us Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and the endlessly beautiful girls in all of the famous Hammer Horror films of the 1960s and 1970s.
One theme that keeps cropping up in British horror, though, is the cultural tension between modern Middle Eastern religions and ancient indigenous pagan beliefs. This is illustrated in films below such as The Man Without a Soul, The Witches, Witchfinder General, Wicker Man, and Darklands.
Here are great examples of exemplary British horror films all the way from the Silent Era into the modern age."
