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Brian Clemens' Thriller (1973 - 1976)
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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 217426" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Episode 37.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]21078[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The daughter of a writer/professor/writer suffers from sleepwalking (I assume that is the right terminology).</p><p>In her sleep she goes to the attic and then enters a mysterious room where an old man is murdered, although it appears to be a murder from the past, like, 18th century.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]21079[/ATTACH]</p><p>She thinks it was all a dream and that she hadn't been there at all, but the whole point of sleepwalking is that you not <em>just dream</em> it but actually go to another place, in or outside the room or house.</p><p>And as it turns out, there <em>is</em> a hidden passage, to be entered via a closet (!). If buildings are connected then he must be a neighbour of the writer/professor.</p><p>But the only one who knows him is the boyfriend of the maid, and he's also discovered the room (??) and he's after the old man's hidden treasure.</p><p>I think at this point I lost the plot, but anyway he killed the old man but couldn't find the treasure. The final mini-twist - the only thing I really liked - is that the treasure is a valuable stamp collection, not money or gold.</p><p></p><p>Many of these THRILLER stories depend on the strength of the twist, but if the best stuff happens in the last 10 minutes then it also means I've been watching 50 minutes of film that wasn't particularly entertaining.</p><p>Nightmare sequences (even if they turn out to be real, like in this story) is also <em>not</em> what makes a good thriller because there's nothing extraordinary about nightmares being frightening.</p><p></p><p><strong>4/10</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 217426, member: 8"] Episode 37. [ATTACH=full]21078[/ATTACH] The daughter of a writer/professor/writer suffers from sleepwalking (I assume that is the right terminology). In her sleep she goes to the attic and then enters a mysterious room where an old man is murdered, although it appears to be a murder from the past, like, 18th century. [ATTACH=full]21079[/ATTACH] She thinks it was all a dream and that she hadn't been there at all, but the whole point of sleepwalking is that you not [I]just dream[/I] it but actually go to another place, in or outside the room or house. And as it turns out, there [I]is[/I] a hidden passage, to be entered via a closet (!). If buildings are connected then he must be a neighbour of the writer/professor. But the only one who knows him is the boyfriend of the maid, and he's also discovered the room (??) and he's after the old man's hidden treasure. I think at this point I lost the plot, but anyway he killed the old man but couldn't find the treasure. The final mini-twist - the only thing I really liked - is that the treasure is a valuable stamp collection, not money or gold. Many of these THRILLER stories depend on the strength of the twist, but if the best stuff happens in the last 10 minutes then it also means I've been watching 50 minutes of film that wasn't particularly entertaining. Nightmare sequences (even if they turn out to be real, like in this story) is also [I]not[/I] what makes a good thriller because there's nothing extraordinary about nightmares being frightening. [B]4/10[/B] [/QUOTE]
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