Raven: The First Bird of Prey
Imagine a mixture of Hitchcock's Birds and Garner's Owls and you'll get the drift - a rivetingly gruesome story which begins in AD 842 with the execution, by stoning, then the burying alive of the magician, Gelert. Feared by the villagers, Gelert is accused of spreading plague to the Welsh village with his birds and of stealing their talisman, the wooden dove. Centuries later, following the flooding of the valley for a dam, Hugh Ellis is showing the borough surveyor the ruined walls and the chapel, and speaks of the curse that was supposed to be on the valley. The action then moves to 1992 when a corpse is discovered in a bog - curled up and foetus-like, 'a bit like a tandoori chicken'. Gelert's spirit begins to possess Hugh - and the ravens are always circling, watching...