Written by Jeremy Burnham, who was also responsible for the terrifying cult British folk horror childrens TV show ‘Children of the Stones’, and directed by Hammer Films regular Peter Sasdy (‘Taste the Blood of Dracula’, ‘Hands of the Ripper’, ‘Countess Dracula’), ‘The Thirteenth Reunion’ stars Julia Foster (‘Alfie’) and Gerard Kelly (‘Juliet Bravo’) as well as ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Braveheart’ favourite James Cosmo.
Reporter Ruth (Foster) is doing a piece on new miracle weight-loss programme ‘Think Thin’ following a tip off from a reader that it’s actually extremely mentally harmful. Ruth enrolls under false pretences and is immediately weirded out by the program coach (Cosmo) strangely recommending binge-eating and some mysterious pills...
Teaming up with Andrew (Kelly), an also-suspicious-of-the-scheme local funeral director, the pair's investigation leads to some horrifying discoveries and a jaw-dropping revelation that will make them both regret ever starting to snoop around ‘Think Thin’ in the first place.
‘Rude Awakening’ is the second of three episodes that are directed by Hammer Films alumn Peter Sasdy (‘Hands of the Ripper’, ‘Countess Dracula’), this time from a script by Gerald Savory - who had already written TV adaptations of ‘Dracula’ and ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ and would go on to write for...
Directed by Francis Megahy, who had already done an episode of ‘The Professionals’ and would go on to shepherd through eps of other classic British telly shows like ‘Minder’, ‘Lovejoy’ and ‘Dempsey and Makepeace’, ‘Growing Pains’ stars Barbara Kellerman (the nightmare fuel White Witch in the BBC ...
The Peters family move into a nice fixer-upper that would be a bargain if it wasn’t for walls that drip blood and it trying to kill them every five minutes. Recently vacated by a man who chopped his wife up into little pieces, the Peters’ have closed escrow on a suburban nightmare in a standout e...
