Maybe that explains why he seemed almost totally unperturbed by the fact that a woman who had been dead for 40 years was popping up for a chat, while the hand of an invisible ghostly child kept slipping into his. Adam had a lot on his plate, in the form of a secret affair with Alice (a client’s wife) and a brother struggling with mental health issues. He played Adam, an antiquarian book dealer who stumbled across a seemingly abandoned house that inexplicably drew him in. The first time we encountered the ghost of Denisa (Neve McIntosh) and her young son, it was mildly diverting by what felt like the 70th time, it was supremely irritating.ĭouglas Henshall, so good in the detective drama Shetland, was given nothing decent to work with in this unconvincing production. Here, my principal fear was that this adaptation would never end. An antique book dealer finds himself haunted by the ghost of a young boy. In her best books, such as The Woman in Black, Hill effectively builds a creeping sense of dread. All about cinema: directors and actors, rating, trailers, related news, stills. Regardless, the revised title wasn’t even close to being the clunkiest thing here. Perhaps the unfortunate association with Donald Trump, nicknamed “Tiny Hands”, prompted them to alter it. Susan Hill’s Ghost Story (Channel 5) was initially called The Small Hand, and based on her 2010 novel of the same name. Douglas Henshall (Adam Snow)Louise Lombard (Alice Merriman)Adrian Rawlins (Edward Merriman)Cal MacAninch (Hugo Snow)Paul Barber (Brother Thierry)Maryam.
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