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A science-fiction/horror television series produced by the BBC.
The four part series is based on the book "Child of Vodyanoi" by David Wiltshire, adapted by Robert Holmes (a man responsible for many of the best stories of the classic Doctor Who series) and directed by Douglaus Camfield (who also directed many memorable Doctor Who stories including the episode "Terror of the Zygons").
Each episode is 30 minutes long, making it a 2 hour show if watched all at once. The series also features some good British actors including James Warwick, Celia Imrie, Maurice Roëves and Jonathan Newth.
It focuses on a remote Scottish island whose tranquil atmosphere is shattered by a series of brutal and grisly killings.
As the police, aided by some of the island's inhabitants, try to figure out what is going on, their work is made more complicated by reports of other strange things happening around the island, including people seeing lights in the sky, animals been torn apart, traces of radioactivity been found at murder sites and the discovery of a a strange craft on the local beach covered in blood stains; leading them to believe there is more to their savage killer then they first expected.
As severe weather leaves the island cut off from outside help, its inhabitants are left alone to confront the 'Nightmare Man'...
It's a pretty solid effort, with a creepy theme tune, plenty of creepy/scary moments and a good number of twists to keep you guessing.
The show does a good job of keeping their killer in the shadows, with only slight glimpses and first-person perspective through the killer's eyes - leaving it up to you to come to your own ideas before all is revealed.
Despite having come out in the Eighties at a time when several big name horror movies were doing good at the cinema (such as The Thing, The Howling, Salem's Lot and Nightmare on Elm Street), the film still manages to hold it's own even today as a creepy gem of the small screen.
Hope you enjoy it.
The four part series is based on the book "Child of Vodyanoi" by David Wiltshire, adapted by Robert Holmes (a man responsible for many of the best stories of the classic Doctor Who series) and directed by Douglaus Camfield (who also directed many memorable Doctor Who stories including the episode "Terror of the Zygons").
Each episode is 30 minutes long, making it a 2 hour show if watched all at once. The series also features some good British actors including James Warwick, Celia Imrie, Maurice Roëves and Jonathan Newth.
It focuses on a remote Scottish island whose tranquil atmosphere is shattered by a series of brutal and grisly killings.
As the police, aided by some of the island's inhabitants, try to figure out what is going on, their work is made more complicated by reports of other strange things happening around the island, including people seeing lights in the sky, animals been torn apart, traces of radioactivity been found at murder sites and the discovery of a a strange craft on the local beach covered in blood stains; leading them to believe there is more to their savage killer then they first expected.
As severe weather leaves the island cut off from outside help, its inhabitants are left alone to confront the 'Nightmare Man'...
It's a pretty solid effort, with a creepy theme tune, plenty of creepy/scary moments and a good number of twists to keep you guessing.
The show does a good job of keeping their killer in the shadows, with only slight glimpses and first-person perspective through the killer's eyes - leaving it up to you to come to your own ideas before all is revealed.
Despite having come out in the Eighties at a time when several big name horror movies were doing good at the cinema (such as The Thing, The Howling, Salem's Lot and Nightmare on Elm Street), the film still manages to hold it's own even today as a creepy gem of the small screen.
Hope you enjoy it.
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