Nigel Kneale

Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to an end, but after a dramatic crash landing Victor Carroon begins to metamorphose into a strange, deadly alien, setting off a race against time to save humanity.

Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to an end, but after a dramatic crash landing Victor Carroon begins to metamorphose into a strange, deadly alien, setting off a race against time to save humanity.

Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.

Advogado vai a uma pequena cidade para lidar com o funeral e os bens da fantasmagórica viúva Alice Drablow. Instalado na casa dela, ele passa a ser atormentado por barulhos e visitas terríveis. Gradualmente, junta as peças do quebra-cabeça que envolve o terrível segredo da família Drablow, que leva a um desfecho chocante.

Gerald and Susannah, an affluent young couple, inspect a shabby town house for sale. Gerald has plans to renovate it and sell it on for a big profit. But their expedition quickly turns into a nightmare when three criminals arrive, searching for the money they hid in the building years ago.

A tradition-bound gentlemen's club is thrown into chaos when women are allowed in during "ladies' night." One member resents the intrusion of women so much, he resorts to murder.

Uma história que tem a sua origem no culto através de mascaras mágicas que uma vez usadas pelas crianças ficam possuídas pelas forças do mal que se apoderam dos seus corpos e mentes.

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.

Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of their belongings. Even young Anna's pink toy rabbit has been confiscated along with the family's other possessions. Initially the family lives in Switzerland, but even here they come to feel the antisemitism. And when money becomes scarce, and Anna's father can't find work as a journalist and Jew, they move on to France, where they are no long submitted to racial discrimination, but struggle financially. Eventually the entire family manages to go to England.

A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

When a nightclub owner buys a derelict dolphinarium, he and a young woman seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddy Boy, the star attraction. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale's "Beasts" horror anthology miniseries.

A suburban couple are held under siege by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.

A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

When a mystery illness infects the pigs of a village farmer and a local boy is also taken ill, the villagers try to convince a veterinarian that it is caused by a curse from a woman they believe to be a witch.

A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...

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.

Um misterioso artefato é descoberto em Londres e o famoso cientista Bernard Quatermass é posto na missão para adivinhar suas origens e explicar seus efeitos estranhos nas pessoas. Ao escavar uma nova linha de metrô em Londres, uma equipe de construção descobre, em primeiro lugar: um esqueleto... então, o que eles acham que seria um míssil alemão velho da II Guerra Mundial. Após um exame mais detalhado, o tal "míssil" não parece ser desta terra! Este filme examina a questão da velhice de como chegamos a ser neste planeta. É surpreendentemente assustador.

Um misterioso artefato é descoberto em Londres e o famoso cientista Bernard Quatermass é posto na missão para adivinhar suas origens e explicar seus efeitos estranhos nas pessoas. Ao escavar uma nova linha de metrô em Londres, uma equipe de construção descobre, em primeiro lugar: um esqueleto... então, o que eles acham que seria um míssil alemão velho da II Guerra Mundial. Após um exame mais detalhado, o tal "míssil" não parece ser desta terra! Este filme examina a questão da velhice de como chegamos a ser neste planeta. É surpreendentemente assustador.

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.

Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.

A fantástica fábula sobre a vida na Lua está vividamente ilustrada na tela pelo mestre de efeitos especiais Ray Harryhausen neste surpreendente épico de ficção científica com representação de criaturas extraterrestres. O filme começa quando um grupo de astronautas das Nações Unidas está planejando uma nova missão à Lua. Os astronautas estão um tanto confusos e, sobretudo, intrigados com a experiência de um homem (Edward Judd). Este homem diz que quando sua noiva, um cientista e ele fizeram esta viagem à Lua há 65 anos, foram atacados pelos 'Selenitas', grotescas formigas com forma humana que vivem em imensas cavernas de cristal. Agora, cabe a essa equipe das Nações Unidas tentar esta alunissagem, uma missão que poderia ser mais aterrorizante do que se havia pensado.

The road through the wood is said to be haunted; but are the ghosts from the past or the future?

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?

Adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

Um gentil botânico inglês, acompanhado por um cientista americano chamado Shelley, decidiram conduzir uma expedição única aos Himalaias em busca do lendário Yeti, que o jovem escocês McNee, que tamém segue viagem com eles, afirma ter visto. Chegando lá, após encontrarem as pegadas, as verdadeiras intenções de alguns serão reveladas.

Um gentil botânico inglês, acompanhado por um cientista americano chamado Shelley, decidiram conduzir uma expedição única aos Himalaias em busca do lendário Yeti, que o jovem escocês McNee, que tamém segue viagem com eles, afirma ter visto. Chegando lá, após encontrarem as pegadas, as verdadeiras intenções de alguns serão reveladas.

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.

A primeira espaçonave tripulada, lançada de uma plataforma de lançamento inglesa, some do radar, depois de volta à Terra, cai no campo de um fazendeiro, e é encontrada com apenas um dos três tripulantes. Ele é incapaz de falar, mas parece estar passando por uma metamorfose física e mental torturante.

Um homem que trabalha para 'The Party' (O Partido) (um império todo poderoso liderado por um homem conhecido apenas como 'Big Brother' (Grande Irmão)) começa a ter pensamentos de rebelião e amor por um colega. Juntos, eles procuram ajudar a derrubar a festa.

Um homem que trabalha para 'The Party' (O Partido) (um império todo poderoso liderado por um homem conhecido apenas como 'Big Brother' (Grande Irmão)) começa a ter pensamentos de rebelião e amor por um colega. Juntos, eles procuram ajudar a derrubar a festa.

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.