Tales to Keep You Awake
Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.
Episodes
Episode 1: El cumpleaños. The day of his 50th birthday, a man plots to kill his wife and rob the bank he works for.
Episode 2: La Mano. In the future the Earth has been invaded by an extraterrestrial race called Kyben. Unable to cope with its technological and weapo...
Episode 3: La bodega (1ª parte). First part of the adaptation made by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador of the story "Come Into My Cellar" by Ray Bradbury.
Episode 4: La bodega (2ª parte). The seeds grow like huge mushrooms in the winery, and the son's attitude has changed dramatically.
Episode 5: El tonel. In a village in Burgundy a peddler arrives and abusing the hospitality of a man has a relationship with his wife which will be te...
Episode 6: La oferta. A gangsters tale in which the protagonist seems to have everything organized, even his own death.
Episode 7: El doble. A man buys a robot that is a double of himself to replace him with his wife while he pretends to go to the South Seas. But the do...
Episode 8: El pacto. A hypnotist pretends that a mentally ill person recovers sanity and a dead person does not die. Everything will go wrong.
Episode 9: El muñeco. Apparently a girl is mistreated by her father and an uncle of hers investigates why. The reason is very different because the gi...
Episode 10: El cohete. An old man dreams of traveling into space. Faced with the impossibility, think of a way to do it and satisfy the grandchildren.
Episode 11: La broma. A woman and her lover plan to murder her husband who is a prank but until the last moment he will continue to play the prank.
Episode 12: La cabaña. Two female friend hikers are isolated in a mountain refuge. One of them died and her companion buries her under the snow. But h...
Episode 13: El aniversario. A police commissioner tells his daughter's boyfriend how he rose to the job by shooting a known gangster. What he doesn't...
Episode 14: La espera. The last family of colonists on Mars receive, after many years, the visit of crew from Earth. They knew that family but found t...
Episode 15: La alarma (1ª parte). The press announces the arrival of an alien invasion. At the same time, a professor investigates a series of phenome...
Episode 16: La alarma (2ª parte). The radiation that the Geiger counter detects always indicates to the cabaret actress. The centuries-old mystery she...
Episode 17: La sonrisa. In the future, after a nuclear catastrophe, the inhabitants hate the previous civilization to the point of having a monthly pa...
Episode 18: El asfalto. A man walks down the street and is stuck to the asphalt without being able to move. It is useless to ask for help to those who...
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9 years ago
We all grew up hearing the same classic horror stories written by famous authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Ray Bradbury. Yet... we don't seem to get tired of them, do we?. Well, 'Historias para no dormir' demonstrates that even if we have already seen these stories before, that doesn't really mean that we won't find any interest in seeing them again. The main reason why this show can captivate many horror lovers nowadays, is mostly because of the beautiful display of Gothic imagery. It's a fact that sometimes it's all about the right atmosphere and imagery. Narciso Ibañez Serrador, the creator of the show, achieves admirable results with some of the most famous horror tales such as 'The Raven', 'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar' among others. The music composed by Pedro Baldie and Waldo de los Rios creates the perfect dark and sinister atmosphere that should accompany what is seen on the screen. The background music is repeated in several different episodes, which could be considered as a lack of effort by some people. Personally, I think that is not exactly a bad thing. It is in some way emblematic and why not use the same music for different episodes when it is so well composed?.
"Historias para no dormir" is the right choice for anyone who is in the mood to sit back, relax and enjoy a nice display of dark imagery, atmospheric, bone-chilling music and simple stories that will reach you, even though you have probably heard about them before. Science fiction and comedy lovers are welcome to give it a chance as well, since this show also has room for them in many episodes.
