A Haunting in Venice is an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1969 detective story, Halloween Party, that shifts the story from England to an eerie post WW2 Venice.
It is a supernatural thriller that infuses the expected murder mystery with a gothic horror atmosphere.
Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) reluctantly attends a séance in a decaying and haunted palazzo.
He soon gets thrust into a sinister world of shadows, secrets and spooky tales of mischievous children when one of the guests is murdered.
“Great cast and plenty of suspense” – Rotten Tomatoes