范海辛博士(彼得·库欣 Peter Cushing 饰)和乔纳森(约翰·范艾森 John Van Eyssen 饰)是多年的好友,乔纳森死于非命死状可怖,范海辛开始着手调查好友死亡的真相,并且最终发现,他的死和蛰伏了千年的吸血鬼一族有关。之后,范海辛发现了一本神秘的日记,日记里的种种线索都将凶手锁定在了邪恶的德古拉伯爵(克里斯托弗·李 Christopher Lee 饰)身上。 随着调查的深入,范海辛震惊的发现,德国拉伯爵将下一个残害的目标,转移到了乔纳森的未婚妻露西(梅莉莎·斯特里布林 Melissa Stribling 饰)的身上。他通过各种古怪的方法试图折磨露西的精神,企图令其崩溃,方可趁虚而入,得到她的肉体。
Based on the internationally acclaimed Tudor murder mystery novels by C.J. Sansom, the four-part drama is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries. The series will follow the story of Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer with an acute sense of justice and one of the few honest men in a world beset with scheming and plots. Shardlake works for Thomas Cromwell, the dangerous and all-powerful right-hand man to Henry VIII. Despite Shardlake’s unwavering loyalty to Cromwell and the Crown, his position in society is unfavored due to his appearance, as a person living with scoliosis during the Tudor period, suffering the indignity of being abused as a “crookback” wherever he turns. As he investigates the murder of one of Cromwell’s commissioners at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea, he is accompanied by Jack Barak, a cocky and good-looking character who may be Cromwell’s spy.
Nothing is more frightening, as the narrator points out, than a ‘time-rich nosy person’. Exhibit A is Ahn Geo-ul (Gyeong Su-jin), who commits herself to social justice causes with terrifying tenacity. After temporarily renting a unit in the Baek-sae Apartment building, she discovers that a loud, hard to locate banging noise occurs from 4am every night, making the residents’ lives an insomniac hell – and so she determines to engage in her own disruption and to find the culprit of this acoustic assault, simultaneously eliminating her eccentric neighbours as suspects, and recruiting them to her cause. Focusing on a woman who is an unstoppable force for good, it is also a plea for community cohesion and solidarity.