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Precious things: a local list for local people

A list of films referenced in The League of Gentlemen. Note that TLoG also harks back a lot of TV shows, notably Doctor Who and The Railway Children.

Notes contain spoilers.

Suggestions welcome.
In particularly looking for a scarecrow film (not Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow, possibly Endless Night).


To be added to Letterboxd:
"Climbing Pylons Can Kill"

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  • An American Werewolf in London
  • Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • The Wicker Man
  • Lust for a Vampire
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • The Shining
  • The Exorcist
  • The Elephant Man
  • Delicatessen
  • Deliverance
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • The Monkey's Paw
  • Tales from the Crypt
  • Diamonds Are Forever
  • The Innocents
  • The Shout
  • Planet of the Apes
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Jaws
  • Death in Venice
  • Kiss Me Deadly
  • 10 Rillington Place
  • The Jungle Book
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  • Live and Let Die
  • Don't Look Now
  • The Masque of the Red Death
  • Freaks
  • Village of the Damned
  • Citizen Kane
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • The Blood on Satan's Claw
  • Lifeforce
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Night of the Demon
  • The Loved One
  • A Simple Plan
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • A Warning to the Curious
  • Marathon Man
  • Misery
  • Kes
  • Frankenstein
  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Nosferatu
  • The Beast in the Cellar
  • From Beyond the Grave
  • Funny Bones
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • The Oblong Box
  • The Woman in Black
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Tenderness of the Wolves
  • Nosferatu the Vampyre
  • Psycho
  • Trilogy of Terror
  • Salem's Lot
  • Withnail & I
  • Dracula
  • The Flesh and the Fiends
  • Marnie
  • On the Town
  • The Plague of the Zombies
  • Sliver
  • Se7en
  • A Change of Sex
  • American Psycho
  • Lost in New York
  • Murrain
  • The Unseen
  • Revenge
  • Quatermass 2
  • Psychomania
  • Secret Ceremony
  • Don't Hang Up!