The British TV series "Thriller" is a collection of TV movie of the week length mysteries that featured an international cast and ran for 3 years and 6 seasons. American movie of the week star Donna Mills appeared in several of these, and in the second of those co-stars with Jeremy Brett as a model who purchases a beautiful old car that she had stopped by to see everyday, and when she gets it home and shows it to her photographer boyfriend Brett, discovers that there is a horrifying secret to it through the scream of a woman that she hears when she gets into drive.
Researching the history of the car, she's mystified by events that occur surrounding her ownership, and that leads her to a horrifying discovery that makes her realize that something unworldly drove her literally to purchase the vehicle. This is very similar to many American movies of the week from the '70s which I have become familiar with through research. The series itself had a running time of over an hour so they are feature length, and the "Thriller" title is there to entice the viewer for the type of atmosphere they know they are going to get.
As the first of these movie of the week length episodes I've watched, I found this one to be intriguing but somehow predictable. It's not how it concludes that's the mystery, but the path that Mills takes to drive the story to that conclusion. Still, it was intriguing enough to get me interested in the series of films to make me want to see more. Mills as always is a great heroine, and Brett is quite good as well.
Researching the history of the car, she's mystified by events that occur surrounding her ownership, and that leads her to a horrifying discovery that makes her realize that something unworldly drove her literally to purchase the vehicle. This is very similar to many American movies of the week from the '70s which I have become familiar with through research. The series itself had a running time of over an hour so they are feature length, and the "Thriller" title is there to entice the viewer for the type of atmosphere they know they are going to get.
As the first of these movie of the week length episodes I've watched, I found this one to be intriguing but somehow predictable. It's not how it concludes that's the mystery, but the path that Mills takes to drive the story to that conclusion. Still, it was intriguing enough to get me interested in the series of films to make me want to see more. Mills as always is a great heroine, and Brett is quite good as well.