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Maelstrom
Dir David Maloney, UK 1985
Eureka Entertainment Ltd. £24.99 (DVD)
Scary Scandinavian stories are a mainstay of today's TV - but they go back further than you think. Set in Norway, Maelstrom dates from 1985 and was the final BBC drama by Michael J Bird, better known for his four Mediterranean series, including Who Pays for the Ferryman ? and The Dark Side of the Sun. Before these he had worked on Journey to the Unknown and Out of the Unknown, which might account for the sense of the weird in his stories, the deliberate blurring between psychological and possibly supernatural elements. He's helped in Maelstrom by director David Maloney's background in some of the more disturbing episodes of Doctor Who.
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