A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower

Name: A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower
Director: Mark Gatiss
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Tobias Menzies, Joanna Lumley, Nancy Carroll, Ben Mansfield, Polly Walker

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Thriller

Mark Gatiss

Summary

For 15 years, Roger Winstanley has been haunted by an unsettling dream - an invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks, and figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life appear to collide when an invitation to the dreaded 'room in the tower' becomes all too real. Writer-director Mark Gatiss's adaptation of the EF Benson story, starring Tobias Menzies and Joanna Lumley

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David Brown

Recurring nightmares are often attributed to the mind’s attempts to make sense of stress. But what if they weren’t a reflection of unresolved issues, but prophecies? In this adaptation by Mark Gatiss of a story by EF Benson, Roger Winstanley (Tobias Menzies) fears a haunting dream is turning real. While asleep, Roger imagines spending the night at a friend’s house, only to be sent by its matriarch (Joanna Lumley) to a “room in the tower” where an unseen threat resides. But when his waking life begins to resemble his slumbers, viewers will be left fearing that fate is exerting its grip.