Teacher Craig Miller is taking a lesson when pupil Rodney Blake is involved in an altercation with another boy . The other boy then leaps through a window . Does Rodney have supernatural powers ?
JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN was produced by Hammer Films and the better episodes of the show show their Hammer roots and this is certainly one of the better episodes . The one problem viwers might find with it is that the " demonic child " plot became overused after the success of THE OMEN in the mid 1970s therefore the plot would have been much fresher on this episode's initial broadcast
The audience are one step ahead of the Miller so the story is in danger of becoming staid and insipid but thankfully it mutates in to something slightly different in the second half which contains all the hallmarks of a traditional Hammer horror film with Michael Ripper in the role of an Innkeeper who effectively says " Strangers sir ? We don't get many strangers here sir "
If you found any charm or hold any affection for those old corny Hammer horror movies then you'll like this episode
JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN was produced by Hammer Films and the better episodes of the show show their Hammer roots and this is certainly one of the better episodes . The one problem viwers might find with it is that the " demonic child " plot became overused after the success of THE OMEN in the mid 1970s therefore the plot would have been much fresher on this episode's initial broadcast
The audience are one step ahead of the Miller so the story is in danger of becoming staid and insipid but thankfully it mutates in to something slightly different in the second half which contains all the hallmarks of a traditional Hammer horror film with Michael Ripper in the role of an Innkeeper who effectively says " Strangers sir ? We don't get many strangers here sir "
If you found any charm or hold any affection for those old corny Hammer horror movies then you'll like this episode