Hira Talfrey

Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.

Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite control the media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme which will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television.

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.

A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge ransom is paid. The question for the government is whether he will set it off anyway?

드라큘라와 프랑켄슈타인 시리즈를 간판으로 내걸었던 해머가 새롭게 수혈한 장르. 유니버설사의 (1941)을 변형한 이 영화는 인간에서 늑대인간으로 변하는 청년의 비극적 사랑을 그린 괴수물이다. 선천적으로 늑대인간의 저주를 받고 태어났다는 설정이 과는 다르다. 인상적인 괴수 분장은 물론 긴장감을 조성하는 분위기 연출이 뛰어나다.