The pantheon of British comics which really struck the right notes of interest for your host were 2000AD, Eagle and the very shortlived Scream! Regrettably, the latter only lasted for fifteen issues because of a printers strike. Thankfully, a couple of the stories lived on by continuing in Eagle later on.
Scream! was a contemporary British take on the infamous EC Comics stories which achieved notoriety in the 1950s thanks to Dr. Frederick Wortham's scaremongering book, The Seduction of the Innocent. As a young 'un, Scream! was a great accompaniment to all the Hammer and Amicus films I would stay up late for with stories like The Dracula File, Monster and best of all The Thirteenth Floor.
Would love to grab the new collected hardback celebrating the comic's fortieth anniversary, but the price keeps yo-yoing up and down, putting me off. This time around, I hope it stays in print long enough to cop it.