Twisted Tales Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Season 1 Episode 14: Fruitcake of the Living Dead

  Alison Steadman stars in the final tale of the series as a woman determined to win a home-made fruitcake competition. Overjoyed at the death of her main rival, she soon faces new competition when a national champion moves into the area, and turns to a voodoo priestess for help. With Jan Francis and Annette Badland

• Season 1 Episode 13: The Magister

  Aspiring film-maker Jessie Vasquez sets out to find legendary horror movie director Kurt Kindel, who has become a recluse since his most famous production caused several people to literally die from fright. While all prints of the film were supposedly destroyed, she remains convinced Kindel still has a copy, and hopes to persuade him to re-release it - but remains oblivious to the dark secret behind its creation. Starring Victoria Hamilton and John Bowe

• Season 1 Episode 12: Murder Me

  When Harry Nagra learns he is terminally ill, he can't face a slow, lingering demise so resorts to desperate measures - he hires a hit-man to murder him. However, when he discovers his diagnosis was a mistake and he isn't dying after all, he faces a struggle to avert his own assassination. Nitin Gantara, Raquel Cassidy and Keith Allen star

• Season 1 Episode 11: The Patter Of Tiny Feet

  A couple who move from the city to a quiet village in order to raise children are told they will never become parents. The pair despair until they meet a local witch with a strange but effective solution involving hillsides and mandrake roots. However, the child that arrives is not the expected blessing but a nightmare the new mother and father must learn to love. Catherine Tate and Sean Foley star

• Season 1 Episode 10: Cursed House

  Adrian Edmondson stars as a psychologist fallen on hard times who invites some old friends to a remote country house. While they all think they're in for a free luxury weekend, the truth is more sinister - their genial host intends to deprive them of all their creature comforts and see how long it takes for them to crack. Worse still, he plans to use the results of the test to sell his own reality TV show. With Robbie Gee and Doon MacKichan

• Season 1 Episode 9: Nothing to Fear

  A horror author with writer's block is persuaded by his layabout flatmate to visit Guesthouse Fear, supposedly the scariest B&B in Britain. The duo soon discover that behind the cheap, spray-on cobwebs and far from spooky owners, the establishment conceals real terror. David Mitchell and Robert Webb star

• Season 1 Episode 8: Whacked

  Four friends who run a computer game business receive a generous offer to sell up - but the company's founder considers this a betrayal. As his partners take part in an Internet-based game, they stumble across a website which seems to contain footage of their grisly deaths. Phil Cornwell stars

• Season 1 Episode 7: The Irredeemable Brain of Dr Heinrich Hunsecker

  An IT worker inherits a package, and finds it contains a human brain kept alive by a strange fluid. It belonged to one of his ancestors, megalomaniacal 18th-century scientist Heinrich Hunsecker, and even in his disembodied state, he still has sinister plans for his luckless descendant

• Season 1 Episode 6: Vacant Possession

  An unscrupulous property developer and his wife move into their new home and hire a builder to do a loft conversion - but the tradesman becomes the victim of a nasty accident, and the couple's unsavoury business practices start catching up with them. Marcus Brigstocke and Sandra Huggett star

• Season 1 Episode 5: Death Metal Chronicles

  A frustrated singer takes his death metal band in an unconventional new direction - but finds himself under suspicion when members of the group start mysteriously dying. Comic horror tale, starring Simon Woods, Rafe Spall, Paul Ready and Morwenna Banks

• Season 1 Episode 4: Guardian

  A woman is attacked while on her way to meet her ex-husband, and finds herself in a supernatural dimension between this world and the next. An angel called Trev helps her make a dramatic choice about her future as scenes from her past life flash before her eyes. Dark comedy, starring Mark Benton, Samantha Power and Lee Oakes

• Season 1 Episode 3: Charlie's Angel

  Matthew Delamere stars as a gay man in a long-term relationship with a twist - his partner is actually a ghost. Although he quite enjoys the company, things take a macabre turn when he meets a good-looking, live man - and his dead friend gets morbidly jealous. Comedy drama, with Antony Cotton and Philip Olivier

• Season 1 Episode 2: Flat Four

  Eerie comedy drama, starring Andrew Lee Potts as an up-and-coming businessman who suddenly finds his life in crisis after losing his briefcase on the train. Renting a room in a house, he is unsettled by his mysterious new neighbours, and soon gets drawn into the unusual world of the room's previous tenant, who vanished without a trace. With Neil Bell, Mary Tamm and Paul Darrow

• Season 1 Episode 1: Txt Msg Rcvd

  Alex is a sales trainer who appears to have everything going for him, successfully managing to juggle married life to Janet and an affair with work colleague Davina. However, his world is turned upside down when he receives a series of cryptic text messages that quickly cause events to spiral out of control