Spectrum of Horror: from class to crass
Two disks illustrate the spectrum of British genre production in the ’70s and ’80s: Pete Walker’s cinematic horror Frightmare and David Rudkin’s epic BBC fantasy Artemis […]
Review: Artemis 81 (1981)
Director: Alastair Reid
Cast: Hywel Bennett, Dinah Stabb, Dan O'Herlihy, Sting, Anthony Steel,
Hywel Bennett
Dinah Stabb
Dan O'Herlihy
Sting
Anthony Steel
Plot: Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an alien planet, Harlax unwittingly becomes part of an ancient plot that may result in the destruction of Earth...
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