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“This isn’t like a séance, this is different,” Ed Blackwood tells his brother Harry and anyone watching at home thinking ‘hang on, they’ve done this one’. Inside No. 9 hasn’t done this one. Series 2’s ‘Séance Time’ was a frightening horror story about spectral vengeance that left us in no doubt we were witnessing the supernatural; ‘Mother’s Ruin’ is a jet-black gangster comedy about family that left us on a clever note of ambiguity.
Every few minutes of this half-hour from ‘The Bones of St. Nicolas’ director George Kane, there was a Rubik’s Cube twist that shifted the picture. First, we were watching a burglary, then a brotherly squabble, then an occult ritual, then a gangster torture session featuring this show’s goriest moment yet, and finally – maybe – a possession.
Did the necromancy ritual work and summon the spirit of Ed and...
“This isn’t like a séance, this is different,” Ed Blackwood tells his brother Harry and anyone watching at home thinking ‘hang on, they’ve done this one’. Inside No. 9 hasn’t done this one. Series 2’s ‘Séance Time’ was a frightening horror story about spectral vengeance that left us in no doubt we were witnessing the supernatural; ‘Mother’s Ruin’ is a jet-black gangster comedy about family that left us on a clever note of ambiguity.
Every few minutes of this half-hour from ‘The Bones of St. Nicolas’ director George Kane, there was a Rubik’s Cube twist that shifted the picture. First, we were watching a burglary, then a brotherly squabble, then an occult ritual, then a gangster torture session featuring this show’s goriest moment yet, and finally – maybe – a possession.
Did the necromancy ritual work and summon the spirit of Ed and...
- 4/27/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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