The Dead Room review

It’s not often that I watch BBC4, but I make sure to tune in every year on Christmas Eve for a night of ghost stories.  Since Dickens, hauntings and spectres have been a Christmas staple, and there seems something incredibly fitting about knuckling down and enjoying a bit of fright. This year, Mark Gatiss has written a new ghost story for the channel - The Dead Room is a wonderful homage to the classic ghost story, powered by a fantastic performance by Simon Callow, if not necessarily by its scares. 
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