简介:Several young couples travel to a private island for a mysterious training retreat that promises to strengthen their relationship. However, during the Retreat, the heroes encounter an ancient demon - a Succubus. This monster feeds on the life energy of people, taking on someone else's appearance and provoking victims to show the worst qualities and do terrible things.
简介:After the mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a child with mysterious powers awash on their shores, the once peaceful community devolves into civil war, torn over the belief that the child is the next saviour.
简介:The Mrs Bradley Mysteries is, in many ways, an archetypal English television whodunit, with Adela Bradley, criminologist and amateur sleuth, solving crimes with the assistance of her chauffeur, George. The distinguishing dramatic device in the series is the regular asides from Mrs Bradley to the camera, which often highlight the comedic elements of the story.
简介:改编自维克多.雨果(Victor Hugo)小说"笑面人(L’Homme qui rit,1869)"。 主人公格温普兰是贵族后裔,从小落入人贩子之手,被毁容摧残,脸上始终像在怪笑。好心的江湖艺人于苏斯把他收为义子,并把格温普兰从雪地上救起的盲姑娘蒂也收养了下来。他们几个四海飘泊,靠卖艺为生。后来由于偶然的因素和英国政坛的需要,格温普兰得以重获爵位,但他拒绝了这一肮脏的恩赐,宁愿回到他的患难伙伴那里;这时蒂已身患重病。在盲姑娘离开人世后,格温普兰悲痛万分,投海自杀。
简介:Chandler and Miles attend the launch of Buchan’s book on murders in Whitechapel where they are baffled by cryptic remarks made by an eccentric old lady Louise Iver. At the same time elderly vagrant Alexander Zukanov is lured to a house with strange markings on the wall where he is pressed to death, giving the name Dorothy Cade to his killer before he dies. Miles and Chandler visit Zukanov’s doss-house and learn that the other occupants were frightened of him and regarded him as a warlock. Buchan confirms that he was a member of the Bulgarian secret service and Stella Knight from MI6 names him as having been an interrogator of former British spy Crispin Wingfield. Wingfield is questioned but released though he tells the police that the manner of Zukanov’s death was a punishment for witches in the sixteenth century. Meanwhile Dorothy Cade, living with her sister Cecilia, is also murdered, burnt at the stake like a medieval witch.