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Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value psychologically intimate crime dramas where domestic claustrophobia and emotional instability matter more than procedural thrills.
- Tone
- eerie, tense, melancholic
- Payoff
- unease, revelation
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- grief, delusion, marriage, class aspiration, crime
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, cramped working-class London home and suburban streets
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