ABSTRACT
Television horror is often seen as inferior to cinematic horror. The horror boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s is central to histories of cinematic horror. The release of Curse of Frankenstein in 1957 coincided with another crucial factor in the horror revival of the late 1950s, the US television syndication of a package of pre-1948 Universal horror films. Many people might object that Alfred Hitchcock Presents is not horror and that it is more usually discussed as a thriller series. The series is therefore a combination of medical drama, often associated with female audiences, and detective series, often identified with male audiences. Reported on Hitchcock's desire to film the Roald Dahl story, "Lamb to the Slaughter", in which a woman murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, which she then cooks and serves to the policemen investigating the killing. The story not only illustrates the preoccupation with domestic violence in the series but its profound ordinariness.
