The Assassins' Lover

Double-bill of cult horror from controversial director Jess Franco. In 'Devil's Island Lovers', a young couple are framed for murder and and imprisoned in a sadistic camp somewhere in South America, where they have to face the sinister attentions of the brutal prison warden. In 'Night of the Assassins', a group of relatives have arrived at a dark and sinister mansion for the reading of a will, little knowing that there is a crazed, masked killer hiding in the shadows.

The age ruled by darkness and sorcery is drawing to an end, and the new state is emerging. Silla, led by Park Hyeokgeose wipe out the Auta tribe, who worshipped the Sacred Tree. Their blood and resentment fill the place where the Sacred Tree was standing, and turns into a lake. To seal off the Auta tribe’s force of sorcery, he drives his Holy Sword deep into the Sacred Tree. A thousand years later, Silla is in the brink of collapse…

An insight into the criminal mind, this is a major series of the most extraordinary stories behind the greatest crimes and trials of the century. Serial killers, gangsters, assassins and war criminals - Great Crimes and Trials sheds light on 26 crimes that shocked the world, bringing back memories of some of the most notorious cases of the twentieth century.
True stories carefully researched and reconstructed with actual archive footage are all covered here in exacting detail, alongside other shocking stories of murder and mayhem.