# The Enfield Haunting (2015)

> A three-part British dramatization of a 1977 Enfield house haunting, told through two paranormal investigators drawn into a family's terrifying ordeal.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/55640

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 3
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, horror
- Created by: Guy Lyon Playfair
- Network: Sky Living
- Cast: Timothy Spall, Matthew Macfadyen, Juliet Stevenson, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Fern Deacon, Rosie Cavaliero, Joey Price, Karen Lewis
- TMDB rating: 7.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4036886/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: brooding, unsettling, eerie, tense, sober

## What critics say

Audiences rate the dramatization as a mixed but engaging retelling of the 1977 Enfield events, with strong performances from its leads.

## Synopsis

The Enfield Haunting (2015-2016) is a British three-part true events drama created by Guy Lyon Playfair for Sky Living. Timothy Spall plays psychic researcher Maurice Grosse and Matthew Macfadyen plays Guy Lyon Playfair, the two men who arrive at a modest council house in Enfield, London, where a single mother, Betty Grosse, is not the central figure but rather the family in the home: Peggy Hodgson (Fern Deacon) and her children, including Janet Hodgson (Eleanor Worthington-Cox), are struggling with frightening, bizarre disturbances that defy explanation. Juliet Stevenson plays Betty Grosse. The engine of the series is the investigators' urgent attempt to document and verify events that seem impossible while the household's nerves fray and neighbours grow suspicious. Each of the three feature-length episodes of roughly 45 minutes builds through eerie nights, moving furniture, and mounting dread, with the grounded, evidence-driven method of the case file keeping the horror tense rather than showy. Set in 1970s London, the story is steeped in the drab textures of suburban domestic life and the period's skepticism. Its tone is brooding and unsettling, a restrained British ghost story for viewers who enjoy the quiet menace of The Conjuring and the procedural weight of documentary-style inquiry.

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