Menu

Post image 1
Post image 2
Post image 3
Post image 4
Post image 5
Post image 6
Post image 7
Post image 8
Post image 9
Post image 10
Post image 11
1 / 11
0

'A Haunting in Venice' just landed on Hulu — and it's one of the best Agatha Christie adaptations…

Reading 0:00
15s threshold

(Image credit: Alamy) I rarely recommend whodunit movies. Every once in a while, one like "Knives Out" impresses me enough to give the genre another try, but then so many turn out to be predictable bores where the culprit practically has "killer" tattooed across the forehead from the moment they step on screen. Still, I'll watch anything with Tina Fey in it, so when "A Haunting in Venice," Kenneth Branagh's third run as Agatha Christie's iconic detective Hercule Poirot, returned to Hulu at the top of the month, it caught my eye. Its spooky vibes were what sealed the deal, as I'm a huge fan of horror movies. I wasn't disappointed. Branagh and his screenwriter, Michael Green, reimagine the cozy conventions of your typical detective story as a haunted-house thriller with scares that nearly made me jump out of my seat several times. Its central mystery takes a while to really get cooking, but once it does, I was glued to my seat.…

Continue reading — create a free account

Join HashtagPLUS to read full articles, follow hashtags, vote, and join the conversation.

Read More