The Tractate Middoth (2013 TV Movie)
6/10
Where there's a will
27 December 2013
From actor, writer and director Mark Gatiss is an adaptation of a short ghost story from M R James.

Gatiss better known as a performer with The League of Gentlemen and as a writer on Doctor Who and Sherlock. He is an aficionado on horror and Victorian literature.

This is short simple, spooky tale. It has very little by way of tricks or fancy visual gimmicks. There are familiar British stalwarts such as Roy Barraclough, Una Stubbs and John Castle.

Sacha Dhawan plays an earnest Librarian in the 1950s whose disposition gets rather nervous after a spectral encounter when looking for a book in Hebrew.

Some might find the adaptation flat or uninspiring but it misses the point. It is a throwback to the old days when you had a plain ghost story told in a straightforward manner and still provides a few chills.
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