Touching Evil 1 - What Amathus Wants

Starring:Touching Evil 1
Studio: Wgbh Boston
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
Someone has developed a Web site that manipulates young users into committing violent crimes: Amathus, the site's featured gothic fantasy game, coaches players through a series of violent "tests"from mutilating horses to homicide.

Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green, Reckless and Me & Mrs. Jones) and his partner D.I. Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker, Four Weddings and a Funeral) zero in on a group of local college students when murder becomes the name of the game. Examining a bizarre manner in which the bodies of their victims have been mutilated, Creegan realizes it mirrors a notorious case of fifteen years ago involving a now-incarcerated prostitute, Justine Barber (Linda Henry). He suspects that the elusive Amathus Webmaster (Toby Salaman) is obsessed with Justine and enlists her support as decoy to catch him. Meanwhile, another member of the OSC team, D.S. Jonathan Kreitman (Adam Kotz), struggles to face down his own personal demons, and chooses his own brand of justice over the law.

Special DVD features include: link to the Mystery! Web site; scene selections; and closed captions.

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This three-volume set captures a police force totally unlike the ones U.S. television and film audiences regularly see. Gone are the gunshots and widespread violence that afflict characters on NYPD Blue and Homicide. This dark British miniseries has an unflinching focus on the pensive, slightly spooked but always confident Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green). Of course the caseload isn't entirely alien to a pop culture audience, weaned as it is on crime novels and American television-style plots. There's an aging geneticist who is possessed by an odd infatuation--apparently not a sexual one--with children, keeping them penned in an all-white room while watching them on a remote video cam, and other deviants just interesting enough to capture extended interest. Touching Evil's pacing is intricately slow, such that evidence gathering can be seen from an inchworm-like perspective (showing tweezers extracting a single hair, for example). Green's role is structured like Fox Mulder and other U.S. television creations. Moody and a bit inscrutable, Creegan comes to the Organized and Serial Crime Unit after a long sabbatical, triggered (no pun, really!) by his getting shot in the head. Rather than give up police work after meeting with the bullet, however, he recommits to the job, treating cases as if they're his personal obsession. And they are. Creegan violates all the conventions his American TV-cop counterparts break in their unbridled passion to solve crimes, but he does it with unforced and unhurried relish. The plots in each of these episodes are singular, allowing the story lines to develop like good mysteries, even driving the viewer to suspect that Creegan's passions are leading him waywardly away from the cases. Shot with mostly stoic camera angles, the show's energy changes significantly when Creegan's heart begins to pound, the camera catches in halted visuals, and the drama builds and builds until, well, until it avoids resolution time and again, much to the viewer's delight. --Andrew Bartlett

Description

Robson Green (Reckless) stars as the smart, sexy, brash, and slightly mysterious Detective Inspector Dave Creegan in these three gripping and gritty mysteries that follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit.

Maverick police detective Creegan is the newest member of London's Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC), an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their diverse crime-fighting skills to bring justice to society. Along with his stalwart partner D.I. Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker, Four Weddings and a Funeral), Creegan squares off against some of England's most dangerous criminals-a serial murderer of children, a killer intent on murdering hospital patients, and a cyber-criminal who lures young Web-surfers with a gothic fantasy game and manipulates them into committing violent crimes.

Special DVD features include: link to the Mystery! Web site; scene selections; and closed captions.

Description

Someone has developed a Web site that manipulates young users into committing violent crimes: Amathus, the site's featured gothic fantasy game, coaches players through a series of violent "tests"—from mutilating horses to homicide.

Special DVD features include: link to the Mystery! Web site; scene selections; and closed captions.

On three DVD5 discs. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: 4 x 3 full frame.

Customer Reviews:

Edgy.......2006-08-03

This was my first exposure to Touching Evil, and I'm delighted to be warned. This is an "edgy" detective story, meaning violent, ugly, obscene, soap opera like, and without a trace of humor or wit. I'll take Jack Frost, thanks. Buyer beware.

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