Theatre Macabre

1971-10-01 | en

Christopher Lee

Drama Mystery Sci-Fi

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Seasons & Episodes

EP1 First Love

Oct. 01,1971

Vladimir, the teenage son of a local rich man, falls madly in love with his new neighbor's daughter Zina competing for her affections along with a host of her other suitors.

EP2 The Man Who Demoralized Hadleyburg

Oct. 08,1971

A stranger comes to town with a bag full of gold and a test for everyone.

EP3 The Tortures of Hope

Oct. 15,1971

A man is about to be executed by the Inquisition. Is hope enough to save him?

EP4 Mateo Falcone

Oct. 22,1971

A young Corsican boy defies local customs and dishonors his family when he turns in a bandit to police.

EP5 The Vampire

Oct. 29,1971

Intertwines multiple stories, including a framing device about a young man named Runevsky, and explores themes of obsession, the supernatural, and the line between reality and imagination.

EP6 The Swashbuckler

Nov. 05,1971

A psychological character study revolving around Luchkov, an aggressive, manipulative former military officer who lives for duels and social domination.

EP7 The Actress

Nov. 12,1971

A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.

EP8 The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether

Nov. 19,1971

A narrator visits a French mental asylum where the 'soothing system' of patient-led care has been overthrown by a new, more severe method, only for the narrator to discover the 'doctors' are actually the patients, and the 'keepers' are those locked away, tarred and feathered.

EP9 The Rajah's Diamond

Nov. 26,1971

Follows the journey of a cursed, valuable diamond as it passes through the hands of various characters, revealing their greed, folly, and the dark allure of wealth. The narrative links these tales through the diamond's movement from London to Paris, exploring themes of crime, deception, and morality.

EP10 The Nose

Dec. 03,1971

A government official's nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own.

EP11 Tell-Tale Hearts

Dec. 10,1971

A nameless man insists on his sanity while confessing to murdering an old man because of his 'vulture-like' eye.

EP12 Markheim

Dec. 17,1971

A man murders an antique dealer on Christmas Day to steal from him, only to be tormented by his own conscience, personified by a mysterious visitor who may be the Devil, forcing him to confront his evil and ultimately choose confession over further sin.

EP13 The Barrel Organ

Dec. 24,1971

Reclusive, cultured lawyer Mr Tomasz's solitary life is transformed by a blind orphan girl who moves in next door and her barrel organ, which he initially despises but comes to cherish as a source of joy and connection, ultimately leading him to help her.

EP14 The Canterville Ghost

Dec. 31,1971

A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the estate because of his cowardice. The only way he can escape is if one of his descendants performs an heroic act, something he intends to get the husband to do.

EP15 Decameron

Jan. 07,1972

From Giovanni Boccaccio's 'The Decameron No. 40.'

EP16 A Matter of Conscience

Jan. 14,1972

From Ambrose Bierce's 'A Matter of Conscience.'

EP17 The Husband Under the Bed

Jan. 21,1972

From Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed.'

EP18 Pavoncello

Jan. 28,1972

From Stefan Zeromski's 'Pavoncello.'

EP19 The Song of Triumphant Love

Feb. 04,1972

From Ivan Turgenev's 'The Song of Triumphant Love.'

EP20 The Postmaster

Feb. 11,1972

From Alexander Pushkin's 'The Postmaster.'

EP21 A Terribly Strange Bed

Feb. 18,1972

From William Wilkie Collins' 'A Terribly Strange Bed.'

EP22 The Fatalist

Feb. 25,1972

From Mikhail Lermontov's 'The Fatalist.'

EP23 Resurrection of the Offland

Mar. 03,1972

From Alexandre Dumas 'The Resurrection of the Offland.'

EP24 Boarded Window

Mar. 10,1972

From Ambrose Bierce's 'The Boarded Window.'

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Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts this anthology in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, each half-hour episode adapting a story from a classic author, with tales by Edgar Allen Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde.

Theatre Macabre Audience Reviews

Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Develiker terrible... so disappointed.

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.