![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes these plays come across as just that – plays – with the actors seeming like they’re acting to fill a stage and be seen all the way from the back row, which, when seen on the small screen, does start to border on the hammy. The classic teleplays of the ‘70s and ‘80s are a far cry from modern TV, but what they lack in terms of budget they usually make up for with their imaginative and dramatic performances, of which this is a great example.īut that’s not to say they’re without flaws. There’s something genuinely unsettling about the restraints in his vivisection lab, and the notion of a mad old scientist injecting himself with lupine DNA in the hope of triggering a transformation. Leo insists that wolves are humanity’s genetic ancestors, going so far as to suggest that the beast in Little Red Riding Hood is not merely a wolf in an old woman’s clothing, but that the grandmother actually became the wolf. Magee will be familiar to Amicus fans in his equally unnerving roles as Dr Rutherford in 1972’s Asylum, and George in 1973’s Tales from The Crypt, in which he plays a mistreated patient in a home for the blind who exacts a brutal revenge upon the home’s militant director. What Big Eyes is a slow burning episode, with a payoff that doesn’t quite deliver, but it manages to be nothing short of captivating throughout, largely due to the terrifyingly intense Patrick Magee in his role as Leo, whose facial features alone are enough to suggest madness, and that’s even before he starts howling. “Don’t you talk to me, I was an animal trader when you couldn’t spell C-A-T!” Jebb scoffs.Ĭurry’s investigation leads him to a seemingly ordinary pet shop, where the shopkeeper’s aged father, Leo Raymount, is vivisecting wolves as part of his lifelong scientific study of lycanthropy. ![]()
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