'A Coffin For The Bride' opens Thriller's third series with an exceptionally powerful piece of storytelling - a high standard which will continue throughout the remaining five parts of that series.
Mark Walker is a serial killer and is played with suitable menace by Michael Jayston (who also appears as the butler from hell Roger Masters in Ring Once For Death from series two). His speciality is to marry older, wealthy ladies and once he has settled down in matrimonial bliss, kill them off and inherit their fortunes.
He travels to a health resort after his latest killing whereupon he encounters Stella MacKenzie (played by an absolutely stunning Helen Mirren. Walker is anxious to curtain his dastardly activities and sees a relationship with Ms MacKenzie as being a way of keeping on the straight and narrow. Unfortunately he meets yet another wealthy and frumpish divorcée called Angie and resolves to add her to his deadly bedpost while simultaneously hoping to put Ms MacKenzie on the back burner.
The drama stakes are upped when Angie goes missing and the outrageous climax leaves one reeling.
Superb.
Mark Walker is a serial killer and is played with suitable menace by Michael Jayston (who also appears as the butler from hell Roger Masters in Ring Once For Death from series two). His speciality is to marry older, wealthy ladies and once he has settled down in matrimonial bliss, kill them off and inherit their fortunes.
He travels to a health resort after his latest killing whereupon he encounters Stella MacKenzie (played by an absolutely stunning Helen Mirren. Walker is anxious to curtain his dastardly activities and sees a relationship with Ms MacKenzie as being a way of keeping on the straight and narrow. Unfortunately he meets yet another wealthy and frumpish divorcée called Angie and resolves to add her to his deadly bedpost while simultaneously hoping to put Ms MacKenzie on the back burner.
The drama stakes are upped when Angie goes missing and the outrageous climax leaves one reeling.
Superb.