(He’s also an orphan, of course.) Then she gets to work setting up tripwires, cameras and other detection equipment, although her stated aim is to detect not a ghostly presence but the human one that is trying to deceive people. Article contentįlorence is also introduced to Maud (Imelda Staunton), the starchy housekeeper and Tom ( Game of Thrones’ Isaac Hempstead Wright), a preternaturally serious student. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Throw in the school uniforms, and the general effect is Hogwarts with twice the chills and half the fun. There’s a squinty, limping groundskeeper who dodged conscription but now carries a shotgun a consumptive professor of languages and a still, gloomy pond that Shakespeare would have declared an Ophelia magnet. The school, formerly a manor house, seems a creepy enough place whether haunted or not. At the very least, it has a gruesome mystery - a student has died. “You can’t hunt what doesn’t exist,” she informs him sharply, but he replies that the boys’ school where he teaches may have one that does. (This also explains the popularity of Adam Sandler.)Īfter the bad guys have been hauled away, Florence is approached by Robert Mallory (Dominic West), who calls her a ghost hunter. Though quietly nursing her own loss of a lover in the conflict, Florence has written a book debunking supernatural claims and the charlatans who perpetrate them.Īs the story opens, we find this Georgian-era ghostbuster busting a seance, helpfully demonstrating how dim lighting, special effects and audience expectations help the con artists ply their trade. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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