Rent Tales of Unease (1970)
3.7 of 5 from 46 ratings
3h 7min
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- Synopsis:
A rarely-seen anthology drama series featuring stories full of menace and black humour, 'Tales of Unease' avoids overt horror for a subtler and altogether more unsettling sense of the uncanny. This atmospheric series features stories from novelist John Burke, playwright Michael Hastings, 'A Bouquet of Barbed Wire's' Andrea Newman and James Leo Herlihy - author of 'Midnight Cowboy'.
1. Ride, Ride
A student takes a girl home on his motorbike, only for her to vanish en route.
2. Calculated Nightmare
An employee made redundant by automation uses the machines to exact revenge.
3. The Black GoddessA miner's belief in an implacable evil spirit becomes terrifyingly real.
4. It's Too Late Now
A downtrodden wife locks her writer husband in his windowless study.
5. Superstitious Ignorance
A couple persist in viewing a dilapidated old house, despite the tenant's protests.
6. Bad Bad Jo Jo
A screenwriter is shaken by a journalist's obsession with his violent scripts.
7. The Old Banger
A couple finally get rid of their old car - or so they believe.- Actors:
- Ronald Lewis, Ursula Mohan, Anthony Jackson, Larry Dann, Janet Lees-Price, David Lloyd Meredith, Michael Culver, James Hazeldine, David Davies, John Stratton, Myles Reithermann, Bryan Griffiths, Peter Madden, Talfryn Thomas, Louis Cabot, Kurt Christian, Arthur Jones, Susan George, Idris Williams, Fiona Gaunt
- Directors:
- David Askey, Derek Bennett, Gareth Davies, Quentin Lawrence, John Reardon, Henri Safran, Oscar Whitbread, Paul Knight
- Producers:
- Paul Knight
- Writers:
- John Burke, Michael Cornish, Jack Griffith, Michael Hastings, James Leo Herlihy, Richardson Morgan, Andrea Newman, Alun Richards
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Dramas, TV Horror
