恐怖真相 第一季

The Werewolf
　　We all know what to fear when the moon is full, but where did the werewolf legend come from? The villagers of 16th century Bedburg in Germany had always feared the forest that encircled them. This fear was heighened when young girls of the village started going missing. Footprints in the snow led to trails of blood. Superstitious minds wanted to believe this was the act of a wolf, or even worse, a demonic half-man, half-wolf. The villagers went looking for a beast in the woods, but the creature they were looking for was much closer to home.
　　Part whodunnit, part inside-the-mind-of-a-monster, Werewolf: True Horror dramatises the shocking story that provided the blueprint for cinema’s iconic werewolves.
　　Dracula
　　15th century Romania. Three monks find themselves chained to the wall of a dripping cell in the castle of Vlad Dracula, Voyvoyd of Wallachia, more commonly known as Vlad the Impaler.
　　Over time, Dracula would go down as one of the most terrifying rulers of Medieval Europe, a psychopathic mass-murderer, who stood between Christian Europe and the advancing armies of the Ottoman Turks.
　　From the outset the monks are tested, climaxing in a trial of brutality in which they are called to answer truthfully whether Vlad Dracula will be warmly received in Heaven. Waiting for them is a forest of wooden stakes, ends rounded to stop them puncturing internal organs, prolonging their gruesome effect. The most appallingly slow, painful death imaginable will be their fate if they choose the wrong response.
　　Dracula: True Horror dramatises the vicious story that gave birth to the Dracula of fact and fiction.
　　Frankenstein
　　19th century London, two decades before Mary Shelley wrote her acclaimed novel. Professor Giovanni Aldini is a pioneering scientific showman, who uses electricity to reanimate animals, sever human limbs and the corpses of recently beheaded criminals. But Aldini needs a whole body, a strong, male specimen, very recently killed by asphyxiation, to attempt his most ambitious experiment: a complete reanimation. In short, Aldini wants to play God.
　　Aided by Mr Pass, the man whose job it was to procure bodies for the surgeons to anatomise, an ideal specimen is identified - a strong young man accused of murdering his wife and child. The evidence against George Foster is flimsy, but Aldini and his assistant are determined to have their good clean hanging. Within the hour an electrified rectal probe is applied to try to bring this unfortunate man back to life. The experiment, like no other, has an extraordinary, lethal climax.
　　Frankenstein: True Horror dramatises the chilling story that inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.