| Overview: | Pagan forces unravel the ultimate fight for man's destiny. The cult BBC science fiction film.
David Rudkin's supernatural story was one of the most ambitious television series of its time. A futuristic fantasy with a powerful mythical charge, it featured a top class cast, a setting that ranged from a North Sea ferry to a twin-sunned alien planet and spine-chilling moments that bear a homage to the great Alfred Hitchcock.
Gideon Harlax, a successful young novelist of the paranormal and the supernatural, has found some exciting new material: a pagan statue stolen from a Danish museum has lead to the deaths of passengers on a North Sea ferry and an elderly musician, Von Drachenfels, is haunted by the idea that he is the subject of an apocalyptic curse.
As Gideon writes, coldly detached from the human tragedy of his stories, angry powers from Man's ancient past are gathering. The forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asraelare preparing to battle to the end--dragging Harlax into a struggle that threatens the survival of the planet...
|
tell us what you
