Written with Stephen Volk. An original story, then, set in 1921, and initially focusing on Rebecca Hall's pursuit of fake mediums and man-made ghosts. She's summoned to a boys' school by initially stammering Dominic West, where there's been a death. Imelda Staunton, Shaun Dooley and Joseph Mawle may or may not be involved. The after effects of the war are nicely caught: the pupils are like 'orphans', West has PTSD, Dooley appears to have been gassed, Mawle didn't fight and is reviled.
Not really into films about the supernatural, but this was quite pleasing, especially with the repressed memory twist, though thought Staunton trying to poison her a step too far, really. Difficult to write your way out of things like this satisfactorily. Hall good. Eduard Grau fittingly shoots everything really sombre (Grau German for Gray). Vic Boydell has fun cutting spooky scenes and thrills. A massive departure for the director of Occupation. Isaac Hempstead Wright is the boy, since in Game of Thrones.
You just can't help thinking of The Shining when you see stuff like this.
Filmed in Gosford House, East Lothian.
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