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When tragedy strikes, 13-year-old Minty goes to stay with her Aunt Mary and discovers a magical secret within the grounds of the local old mansion. When night time comes and the light of the moon falls on a sundial, Minty is transported back through time where she discovers two children, Tom and Sarah, who have been troubled by evil forces and severe cruelty. Minty must overcome the spirits and possibly the devil himself in order to save the children. - Director:
- Colin Cant
- Cast:
- Siri Neal, Tony Sands, Valerie Lush
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Children of the Stones (1977)Los chicos de Stone
What is the powerful force that seems to have taken hold of the village of Milbury? Why are the people acting so strangely and why do they greet each other with a trancelike "happy day"? These are the questions facing Matthew and his father soon after their arrival. The answers lie in the giant ancient stones that surround the village - a circle from which there may be no escape.
Gareth Thomas (Blake's 7) stars in this cult tale of the supernatural, originally broadcast in 1977.
Episodes Comprise:
- Into the Circle
- Circle of Fear
- Serpent in the Circle
- Narrowing Circle
- Charmed Circle
- Squaring the Circle
- Full Circle- Director:
- Peter Graham Scott
- Cast:
- Gareth Thomas, Veronica Strong, Peter Demin
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A year after her little boy goes missing, Eve takes her family to Crickley Hall to escape the past. She discovers their new refuge has a past even more disturbing. Unseen children are pursued by a frenzied spectre wielding a cane. As Eve prepares to move out, she hears her missing son who tells her the children know where he is. In order to find him, Eve has to unravel the mystery of what happened in Crickley Hall in 1943. But as she searches, the evil that stalks Crickley Hall reaches for her other children. - Director:
- Joe Ahearne
- Cast:
- Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall
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Featuring all-star casts, Mark Gatiss presents four ghost stories for Christmas inspired by the short stories of M.R. James.
The Tractate Middoth (2013)In search of a very particular book, John Eldred (John Castle) arrives at a university library. Here, an unassuming student called Garret (Sacha Dhawan) is about to have his life turned upside down by a family feud and the lost will of the terrifying Dr. Rant (David Ryall)…
The Dead Room (2018)
Veteran presenter Aubrey Judd pines for the good old days of radio horror and especially the 'rules' of the genre as set out by the master - M.R. James! But he soon realises that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he had hoped…
Martin's Close (2019)
1684. John Martin (Wilf Scolding) is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge' George Jeffreys (Elliot Levey). However, this is not a cut-and-dried murder case. For the hapless victim has been seen walking after her death…
The Mezzotint (2021)
"For sale: Interesting mezzotint: View of a manor-house, early part of last century". In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams (Rory Kinnear) receives an engraving of an unknown country house. An imposing facade. A sweeping lawn. And, just perhaps, something else...?- Director:
- Mark Gatiss
- Cast:
- Peter Capaldi, Mark Gatiss, Elliot Levey
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Norah Palmer (Anna Cropper) is a television script editor who temporarily moves to a remote English country village to rebuild her life after a bad break-up. At first, she finds that the villagers are friendly, if a little eccentric. When she becomes pregnant to the handsome gamekeeper Rob, she begins to suspect the locals of conspiring against her, preventing her from leaving the village for her home in London. - Director:
- James MacTaggart
- Cast:
- Anna Cropper, Amanda Walker, Julian Holloway
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Young teacher Ben finds an ancient door-knocker in the garden of his new home. According to the local museum curator, it comes from the recently demolished Geap Manor – a sinister old place which seemed to attract… unpleasantness. So begin three stories from the dark history of this crooked house… Ghastly, strangled whispers haunt the dreams of an Eighteenth Century businessman. A 'Roaring Twenties' couple come face to face with their family's scandalous past and with a terrifying, ghostly bride. And, in the present day, the door knocker itself seems to have unfinished business, leading Ben on a journey back into Geap Manor's blood-drenched past, and a confrontation with its original owner, the devilish Sir Roger Widdowson. - Director:
- Damon Thomas
- Cast:
- Lee Ingleby, Mark Gatiss, Derren Brown
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Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)Priklyucheniya Sherloka Kholmsa i doktora Vatsona: Sobaka Baskerviley
Sir Charles Baskerville's sudden passing leaves the estate in the care of his nephew Sir Henry (Nikita Mihalkov). In light of suspicious circumstances surrounding his uncle's death, detectives Sherlock Holmes (Vasily Livonov) and Dr. Watson (Vitaly Solomin) are appointed to safeguard him. Holmes is exhorted by threatening letters to keep away, diverting the legendary detective. He follows leads in London while Watson accompanies Sir Henry to the Baskerville estate in Devonshire. Although tranquil in daytime, the countryside proves highly treacherous at night when the wind is drowned by the howling of an unseen beast. For both scholars and fans, the definitive Holmes is Vasily Livonov, who received an OBE for his portrayal of the Victorian sleuth in the much loved Russian TV-series that has remained a perennial cult favorite for its wit, style and period detail. Part of that same series, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' is a faithful feature length adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan's Doyle's novel. In other words, it's grandly entertaining. - Director:
- Igor Maslennikov
- Cast:
- Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Nikita Mikhalkov
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Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC's 'A Ghost Story for Christmas' series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales, which terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come. Included in this release are the remaining original instalments - 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas', 'The Ash Tree', 'The Signalman', 'Stigma', and 'The Ice House' - all newly remastered from original film materials and presented for the first time. Also included are the later adaptations 'A View From a Hill' and 'Number 13', plus new and archive extras. - Director:
- Lawrence Gordon Clark
- Cast:
- Sheila Dunn, Anne Blake, Frank Mills
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The Scarlet Blade (1963)The Crimson Blade
In 1648 during the height of the English Civil War, the deposed King Charles I has been forced into hiding. When round headed forces led by the fearsome Col Judd (Lionel Jeffries) and Capt. Tom Sylvester (Oliver Reed) capture the King it seems like there is no hope for his loyal supporters. However, so fierce is their belief and servitude that an unlikely group of loyal supporters led by The Scarlet Blade (Jack Hedley) band together to try and rescue their King. - Director:
- John Gilling
- Cast:
- Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed, Jack Hedley
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Two brothers return to the hometown they left eight years earlier, to find it still run by the same game of small-time drug dealers and petty thugs. Their purpose, it soon becomes clear, is not reunion, but revenge - a quest of particular significance for Richard (Paddy Considine), the leader of the two, whose obsessive desire to even the score will lead them into dangerous territory. - Director:
- Shane Meadows
- Cast:
- Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell
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Ghost Stories for Christmas: Vol.1 (1973)Whistle and I'll Come to You / The Stalls of Barchester / A Warning to the Curious / Lost Hearts
Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC's 'A Ghost Story for Christmas' series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales that terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come. Included in this release are the first four instalments - 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' , 'The Stalls of Barchester', 'A Warning to the Curious' and 'Lost Hearts'... Also included is 2010's 'Whistle and I'll Come to You', plus a selection of new and archive extras. - Director:
- Lawrence Gordon Clark
- Cast:
- Simon Gipps-Kent, Joseph O'Conor, James Mellor
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Bernard Quatermass (John Mills), former head of the British Rocket Group, lives in seclusion in western Scotland, watching in appalled silence as Britain slowly turns into a vision of violence, gang rule and governmental collapse. A desperate search for his missing granddaughter plunges him into a terrifying situation when he comes to realise that the mass disappearance of thousands of youths is nothing less than the culling of the human species by an unknown alien intelligence... - Director:
- Piers Haggard
- Cast:
- John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale, Ralph Arliss
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At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard (Richard Burton) rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control. - Director:
- Anthony Page
- Cast:
- Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley
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San Jerome in France's Camargue region. A young woman is snatched from the road by a predatory creep who has his way with her, an act that riles up some of the locals, one of whom blowtorches the guy to death. Four years later, American artist Jeff Farrell (Kerwin Mathews) arrives in the town on vacation. Having just split up with his girlfriend, he becomes attracted to both Eve Beynat (Nadia Gray), the owner of the inn where he's staying at, and her daughter Annette (Liliane Brousse), and both of them seem to want him too. Jeff seems to prefer Eve, causing great jealousy in Annette, but Eve is actually married, though her husband Georges is in an asylum. It was he who killed the child molester four years before and Annette was the victim. Jeff agrees to assist Eve in springing Georges from the asylum…. - Director:
- Michael Carreras
- Cast:
- André Maranne, Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray
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Spirits of the Dead (1968)Histoires extraordinaires
Three titans of European cinema team up for a stylish film based on the works of macabre author Edgar Allen Poe. Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini direct Jane and Peter Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, and Terence Stamp in three separate stories of souls tormented by their own phantasmal visions of guilt, lust and greed. Vadim directs the first segment, 'Metzengerstein', with Jane Fonda portraying the spoiled, vicious Frederique. Malle takes the middle slot with 'William Wilson', featuring Alain Delon as the troubled hero, a man who has been haunted since childhood by a man with his exact name. Fellini's segment, 'Toby Dammit', features Terence Stamp as a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. 'Spirits of the Dead' is a real gem for those who enjoy the surreal and grotesque. - Director:
- Federico Fellini
- Cast:
- Jane Fonda, Maurice Ronet, Brigitte Bardot
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