Movie Review: A Haunting In Venice

October 16, 2023

Seeing the trailers for this movie, I was not so sure I would like it, but it was so good. I love me a good thriller that I don’t know how things will end up until we are there at the end, and this really leaned into that.

This is the third movie that is in the Orient Express and Death on a Nile series and they are everything I love in a thriller – they are are twisty and turn-y and through provoking but also come to a conclusion at the end. Simply lovely.

The premise of this movie is that there is a haunted home in Venice that claimed the life of its current owners daughter. The owner claims that the souls of the children who haunt the home are what drove her daughter to madness and, ultimately, her death. The grieving mother hires a medium to speak to her daughter and invites quite a few people to be guests during the seance, which all seem to be relatively random.

As the story progresses you learn that the people involved are not random at all, but all connected in some way. This how the other films have been, but still I did not expect the connections that came out of the woodworks while everything seemed to be falling apart.

I won’t give anymore away, but this is for sure a must watch, but I will warn those of you who are a little more sensitive to sound, to maybe bring some earplugs or be ready to cover your ears, because it got very loud at multiple points.