Visiting a friend to watch the Mark Williams and Judd Trump snooker final on the TV,he suggested we watch a movie before the match started. Missing it over Christmas due to being ill, this felt like the best time to meet.
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Following The Mezzotint (2021-also reviewed) writer/director Mark Gatiss returns to the pages of M. R. James, & with cinematographer Sonja Huttunen takes a less is more approach, with eerie splintered sightings of the entity coming out of wide-shot deep shadows, which Gatiss snaps with black and white tinted flashbacks.
Travelling out of his comfort zone, Jason Watkins gives a jolly turn as Mr. Wraxhall, whose warm curiosity, breaks to a hard cold shock of fear, while MyAnna Buring curls her lips with unsettling, lingering glances as Gardie.
Gazing with Wraxhall into the tomb of Count Magnus, the screenplay by Gatiss ties creepy flashbacks into the life of the restless Count with a chilly, growing unease charged by Wraxhall wandering the corridors, looking in each of the deadly silent rooms, until he finally meets Count Magnus.
View on the film:
Following The Mezzotint (2021-also reviewed) writer/director Mark Gatiss returns to the pages of M. R. James, & with cinematographer Sonja Huttunen takes a less is more approach, with eerie splintered sightings of the entity coming out of wide-shot deep shadows, which Gatiss snaps with black and white tinted flashbacks.
Travelling out of his comfort zone, Jason Watkins gives a jolly turn as Mr. Wraxhall, whose warm curiosity, breaks to a hard cold shock of fear, while MyAnna Buring curls her lips with unsettling, lingering glances as Gardie.
Gazing with Wraxhall into the tomb of Count Magnus, the screenplay by Gatiss ties creepy flashbacks into the life of the restless Count with a chilly, growing unease charged by Wraxhall wandering the corridors, looking in each of the deadly silent rooms, until he finally meets Count Magnus.