Dec 4, 2020
Chiller: Number Six (1.5, Yorkshire Television, 1995)
"What're we doing wrong, for Christ's sake? Five murders in two years. What else can I do?"
"You've done everything. You've got police blanketing the area; teachers, shopkeepers - everybody's looking for the bastard."
"Yeah, he's still getting in under our noses."
"He's been lucky."
"Luck of the devil."
#Chiller#horror tv#classic tv#Single play#number six#1995#Rob Walker#Anthony Horowitz#Kevin McNally#Maggie O'Neill#Barbara Ewing#John McEnery#Lorraine Ashbourne#Don Warrington#Victoria Scarborough#Kate Rutter#Gillian Bevan#Barrie Houghton#Eileen O'Brien#Sara Griffiths#Patrick McGuire#Lawrence Gordon Clark#And so this brief revival of the anthology format draws to a close. We finish on a real humdinger too; this very easily feels like it could#Have been expanded to feature length (indeed one of my only criticisms would be the abrubt nature of the final scenes). Like the other#Plays this treads familiar ground but here it more successfully shines new light on an old formula. Horowitz blends a straight serial#Killer narrative with a healthy dose of English folk horror and the result is something that's unsettlingly balanced between traditional#Thriller and something more supernatural and opaque. It's a deft blend tho and this is certainly one of the highlights of the series.#Another great cast is rounded out by some familiar faces from old TV (McEnery and Ewing etc) but it's Don Warrington in a small but pivotal#Role as a child psychologist who analyses children's drawings who really shines. In just a few brief scenes he creates a fascinating and#Fully rounded character; I'd genuinely watch a whole series of him solving crimes by parsing the images produced by missing kids
