The Mezzotint Felirat Angol May 2026

A haunting half-hour adaptation of M.R. James’s classic tale, The Mezzotint is a standout entry in the BBC’s "A Ghost Story for Christmas" series. Written and directed by Mark Gatiss, it transforms a seemingly mundane scholarly pursuit into a chilling study of slow-burn dread. A Masterclass in Creeping Dread

Reviews of A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint (2021) The Mezzotint felirat Angol

At only 30 minutes, the film uses every second to build what critics at The Guardian call a "glittering half-hour nugget" of horror. A haunting half-hour adaptation of M

Gatiss weaves in dry, academic wit—particularly about Victorian golf and museum bureaucracy—which makes the eventual supernatural intrusion feel even more jarring. Perspectives from the Community A Masterclass in Creeping Dread Reviews of A

“You'll be in thrall to Mark Gatiss's smart, snappy and utterly hammy ghost story within seconds.” www.theguardian.com

Critics and viewers alike appreciate the "old-fashioned thrills" and Gatiss's loyalty to the source material.

The story follows Edward Williams (played with "understated" excellence by ), a university museum curator who receives a mysterious, nondescript engraving—a mezzotint—of an English country house. What starts as a boring acquisition soon becomes a nightmare: every time Williams looks at the picture, the scene has changed. A moon appears; a window opens; a skeletal figure begins to crawl across the lawn.