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Stephen Volk’s Typical Vibe
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Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Stephen Volk has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Ghostwatch.
Recurring themes
For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky (assisted by Mike Smith, Sarah Greene & Craig Charles) and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind the most haunted house in Britain. This ground-breaking live television experiment does not go as planned, however.
Dir. Lesley Manning · With Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Craig Charles
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
Dir. Nick Murphy · With Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
Dir. Ken Russell · With Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson
Phil and Kate select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child, but the seemingly lovely Camilla is not what she appears to be...
Dir. William Friedkin · With Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell
