Its grainy images have fed Shearsmith’s nightmares since he saw it as a teenager late one night at home. “It is written and directed by Benjamin Christensen, and the first 15 minutes are quite a convincing filmed lecture. The chimera of mankind.” Strong stuff perhaps, but meat and drink to the man who played League of Gentlemen grotesque villain Papa Lazarou. “Don’t Look Now, for example, you would not even deem as horror,” he says, referring to Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 thriller. A series of “disposable little black jokes”, according to Shearsmith, although he also hopes the episodes stand up to repeat viewing.

Source: The Guardian April 08, 2018 06:00 UTC