Red Iron Road Season 1, Episode 6: No.8 Reporting

VRDLK: Family of Vurdulak

VRDLK (pronounced Vor-Du-Lac) centers around a traveling diplomat that is caught in a snowstorm and forced to take shelter with a poor Serbian family. When the family warns him of "beasts" that hunt in the night, he is quick to dismiss their fears as superstition and fairy tales - a mistake he may not have a chance to make twice. Based on acclaimed writer, Aleksey Tolstoy's 1839 gothic novella, "The Family of The Vourdulak"

The Forest King

Set in a suffocating over-commercialized future, a young boy's desire for success and status leads him into a terrifying and deadly new reality through the lens of a mysterious VR game. His desperate father must now race against both time and technology to save his dying son. But the boy is the only one who can save himself, and he must do it before becoming another faceless pawn of the Forest King. Adapted from the poem "The Forest Tsar" written in 1818 by Vasiliy Zhukovsky.

20 min

The Ratcatcher's Daughter

Using defining moments in history, rats are trying to seize power all over the world. 1920, in Petrograd, the rats decide it is time to rise from the underground.

13 min

The Undertaker

Adrian the Undertaker, a gloomy and silent man, doesn't have many friends. Nevertheless he decides to throw a party and invites only his favourite people: his deceased clientele.

Lord

Environmental disasters, wars, and epidemics led to the near destruction of human civilization. The survivors of the disaster have built new cities and settlements and battle mutant foes for supremacy.