Shown as part of Channel 4's Video Fantasies series, a selection of four innovative dramas deploying state-of-the-art visual and electronic effects. This was the only one of the four that had a futuristic basis. It was set perhaps a couple of decades ahead in a world being slowly drowned by technology, a world in which traffic jams are the norm instead of the exception, and where the people avoid getting caught in the rain for better reasons than simply not wanting to get wet. The Rachel of the title is the younger sister of an up-and-coming marketing executive who has just secured a contract with a wealthy but repulsive millionaire who is into toxic waste, which he stores in secret for large sums of money. Rachel finds that, through a large bank of video screens in her sister's apartment, her wishes can come true when she brings to life the image on an anti-pollution poster. This new friend helps her to make up her mind about her own future. The style of the production was fresh and colourful, the pace slow and mo
2046. The air has become unbreathable and the planet is suffering from a lack of oxygen. Green Militias are in power and have been denying people all contact with Nature for years in order to heal it. In NUR, in Sardinia, stretches one of the few remaining surviving forests, bordered by an impassable wall and guarded by drones. Five teenagers, who grew up without ever having touched a tree or taken a swim in the sea, decide to enter the forest, risking their lives, to discover the truth about their parents’ disappearance and take back their future.
The Spider 1973 is an Egyptian black and white TV series based on a story by Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud and starring Mahmoud El Meligy and Ezzat El Alaili. It is one of the few Egyptian TV series that dealt with a science fiction story.
A driven elite lawyer, estranged from her fearful daughter and cheating husband, teams up with her rival to prevent her child's fatal accident by unraveling a 15-year-old mystery that reveals chilling ties between her family's collapse and the tragedy she's desperate to stop.
This five-part docuseries explores the facts and fiction behind the world's most creepy, strange and inexplicable legends, mysteries, and creatures. From Japanese horror to tales of Cryptids and the supernatural, Spectral Shadows delves deep for answers.
After a failed operation to capture the infamous drug dealer, Jiang, Investigator Techit finds himself traveling to his friend Sritang's resort in order to take a break. There, he meets a sweet-voiced ghost who haunts his room and can not remember anything about her past. He decides to call her Siangwaan because of her pretty voice, and the two then begin to find out her real identity.
“Oh! Dear Half-Basement Goddesses” will tell the story of four Greek goddesses who come to Korea to spread love and peace. However, they are faced with the reality of high rent and living costs in Seoul. Putting their grandiose dreams aside, they hide their true identities and live together in a half-basement apartment
High schooler Sara wakes up pregnant…with an alien baby. Now she’ll have to team up with her ex-best friend Hayley to fight the extraterrestrial threat and save the world.
They were once just ordinary people. He was a local police inspector, and she was a journalist writing about all things unusual. But ever since they became agents of a top-secret agency dealing with anomalous phenomena, their lives seemed to shift into another world. Their only connection to the normal world was through the Courier, while their assignments came from the Curator—who also received their reports.
In the past, the Agency had many employees. Everyone felt the importance and uniqueness of the missions they carried out. But after a time of upheaval—when funding dried up and the future became uncertain—only four people remained from the original team. Yet neither the budget nor the headcount can influence the unknown forces that give rise to anomalies. These factors only determine the risk and burden placed on the agents who continue doing everything they can to keep anomalous phenomena from disrupting everyday life.
A Web Anime based on Takara Tomy's Tomica Heroes Toy Cars toyline of the same name. The anime will feature "Braver" units, which combine job-related robots called "Jobroids" with "Armor Tomica" automobiles related to police, fire fighters, emergency medical personnel, trash collecting, and construction.