The latest in the reboot of the Agatha Christie murder mystery adaptations lands in our in box with the arrival of A Haunting in Venice trailer. Once again Kenneth Branagh stars as the outrageously moustachioed detective Hercule Poirot (though from the trailer it looks like its been trimmed a fair bit!). An like the previous two films, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile he also returns to direct.
The chilling teaser trailer and poster for Kenneth Branagh’s “A Haunting in Venice,” which just screened for convention attendees at the 2023 CinemaCon Convention in Las Vegas is an unsettling supernatural thriller based upon the novel “Hallowe’en Party” by Agatha Christie
“A Haunting in Venice” is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve and is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Reuniting many of the filmmakers behind 2017’s “Murder on the Orient Express” and 2022’s “Death on the Nile,” the film is directed by Kenneth Branagh with a screenplay by Oscar® nominee Michael Green (“Logan”) based upon Agatha Christie’s novel Hallowe’en Party.
A Haunting in Venice will open in cinemas on 15th September 2023.
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Here’s the A Haunting in Venice trailer……
