Maelstrom

Please, I need somebody to help me! A very dear friend of mine loved this series (Maelstrom) and frankly can't shut up about it. who can help me find it on vhs or dvd (region 2) thanks a bunch, just e mail me with any info you might have.

I saw this mini series while I lived in Kuwait in 1989...I missed the end as I came back to the USA...It had bothered me for years on how the series ended and where I can get a DVD of it...I loved it! I have searched and searched the internet Long for Maelstrom...About 3 months ago I found the BBC CULT site..Thak goodness!! Can I write to the BBC to get a copy????

I found the series to be quite engrossing. It moved slow in the beginning, but after the first 2 airings I was completely into it. What was the significance of the dolls and what was the mystery? To this day in 2006 I am still wondering.

I watched this on TV back in 85, and later on when they did a re-run in the early nineties. I can safely say, no other thriller has made such an impact on me. The matters that are dealt with seems at first to be super-natural, but moves towards a scary insight of the disturbed human mind. The house on the island, the dolls and the woman in white standing at the balcony has burnt itself on my mind. However, the most chilling memory from the series is a very small but important moment in the first episode. The first appearance of Freya Jordahl on the coastal steamer. Creepy indeed. As a Norwegian, I do get annoyed by the moments of "visit-norway" footage, and Tusse Sliberg is at best stiff as Catherine Durell. But the basic mood of the series is so disturbing that it crawls under your skin. It is a thriller so intense you will never forget it, and with very little visual horror. What you don't see is the frightening part.. Special mentioning to the performances of Ann Todd and Susan Gilmore. Brilliant ! And there is of course Edita Brychta. Certainly among the most beautiful actresses ever, really ! ! BBC- we need this on DVD, please, please !!!

This is SO scary! And will be in Finnish TV again at 2005 in "YLE-teema" after many years of waiting from 1985. I'm wondering if it is as good as I remember...

Feeling in the series is like in "twin peaks" at the first time, but lot better. Maybe the familiar nordic surroundings are one reason why it was so scary for me.

My mom didn't let me watch this, but my stepmother did, and I had nightmares for many years. Sometimes I woke up screaming "Ingrid!"

This is something that everybody should see. And if it has gone too old, somebody should do a new version.

I am only afraid, that everything in this series is boring nowadays cause every element in the series has been used and maybe done better after 1985.

An Englishwoman inherits property from a Norwegian industrialist she's never met, and, and, see the other reviews, or take my word and watch it without knowing what to expect.