An ordinary house is gripped by extraordinary events in this three-part psychological thriller starring BAFTA nominee Timothy Spall (Mr Turner), Matthew Macfadyen (Ripper Street), Juliet Stevenson (The Village), Rosie Cavaliero (Hunderby) and TV newcomer Eleanor Worthington-Cox. The Killing’s Kristoffer Nyholm directs from a script by Joshua St Johnston (Walking on Sunshine).
that he and wife Betty (Stevenson) are struggling with the loss of a daughter in a motorcycle accident. Is this why Maurice is so desperate to help Janet? However, everything changes when Guy confronts the malevolent forces at work, a poltergeist by no means ready to move on. Adapted from Guy Lyon Playfair’s book This House is Haunted.
Amateur paranormal investigator Maurice Grosse (Spall) has more than a passing interest in ghostly goings-on and the unexplainable, so he’s instantly intrigued when he receives a phone call from the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) asking him to look into a potential new case. It’s a phone call that turns his world upside down. A North London council house has apparently been hit by a series of inexplicable oddities, from incessant knocking to furniture with a life of its own. Fascinated, Maurice heads over to meet the family who live there, single mum Peggy Hodgson (Cavaliero) and her four children, including 11-yearold Janet (Worthington-Cox), the youngster at the centre of the happenings. Photographic evidence captured by a pair of journalists from the Daily Mirror point to the presence of a poltergeist, but, spending the night, Maurice doesn’t witness anything abnormal and he starts to wonder whether theentire hubbub is simply the creation of an imaginative child. Then he experiences the handiwork of the home’s unwelcome guest. Assistance arrives in the form of old-school supernatural sleuth Guy Lyon Playfair (Macfadyen), who smells a sham. His scepticism only grows when he learns more about Maurice’s personal life, the fact
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