It's been a while, but I just fancy another 70's horror anthology series to explore and a bit of research pushed me in the direction of "Tales of Unease" a short run produced by London Weekend Television that aired in the 1970's. I'm going to review each episode that I can find individually.
Derek (Anthony Jackson) is an art college student, but one more interested in his bike than in passing his course. He goes to a Friday night disco at the college and there sees a beautiful girl Sarah (Susan George) who is acting strangely and demands that he give her a lift home on his bike. She disappears from his bike on the way back, seemingly into thin air. A couple of days later, unable to get the incident out of his head, he makes another trip to her village and makes an unbelievable discovery.
There are some bits of this that perhaps time changes the perception of. None of the students at this college look particularly age appropriate, I've just looked it up and Anthony Jackson was 25 when he filmed this but if anything looks older. The rest of the students are around that age too. Only George was younger, at 19. Speaking of George, whilst I would never judge someone purely on their looks, she's beautiful here and it plays into the character that you can't take your eyes of her whenever she's on screen.
The plot though is a bit underwhelming and certainly more familiar now that it was then. I write my reviews spoiler free most of the time, but you'll get the first twist pretty quickly and the second unravels the more you think about it. The show is ultimately more interesting as a time capsule than in and of itself and whilst I didn't dislike it, there's not much to really recommend about it.
Derek (Anthony Jackson) is an art college student, but one more interested in his bike than in passing his course. He goes to a Friday night disco at the college and there sees a beautiful girl Sarah (Susan George) who is acting strangely and demands that he give her a lift home on his bike. She disappears from his bike on the way back, seemingly into thin air. A couple of days later, unable to get the incident out of his head, he makes another trip to her village and makes an unbelievable discovery.
There are some bits of this that perhaps time changes the perception of. None of the students at this college look particularly age appropriate, I've just looked it up and Anthony Jackson was 25 when he filmed this but if anything looks older. The rest of the students are around that age too. Only George was younger, at 19. Speaking of George, whilst I would never judge someone purely on their looks, she's beautiful here and it plays into the character that you can't take your eyes of her whenever she's on screen.
The plot though is a bit underwhelming and certainly more familiar now that it was then. I write my reviews spoiler free most of the time, but you'll get the first twist pretty quickly and the second unravels the more you think about it. The show is ultimately more interesting as a time capsule than in and of itself and whilst I didn't dislike it, there's not much to really recommend about it.
