A 19th century doctor with a mentally unstable personality is moved by avarice and fear to the vicious murder of local women..
Is it worth your time? Honestly, if you dig old-school British suspense, yeah. It’s got that heavy, stage-bound feeling where you can almost smell the velvet curtains and damp fog. If you need fast pacing or modern jump scares, you’re going to be bored out of your mind. This is for the folks who like watching a slow br...
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Albert de Courville
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"Is it worth your time? Honestly, if you dig old-school British suspense, yeah. It’s got that heavy, stage-bound feeling where you can almost smell the velvet curtains and damp fog. If you need fast pacing or modern jump scares, you’re going to be bored out of your mind. This is for the folks who like watching a slow breakdown in real-time. Rodney Ackland plays this doctor like a man who’s constantly trying to keep his own skin from crawling off his back. It’s a strange, twitchy performance. He’..."
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