I read that Dorian Grey will be making an appearance. It creates a platform where well-known characters and stereotypes from popular fiction come together to do battle with evil. He certainly breaks up the tension with his bizarre performance, giving us a break from all the doom, gloom and morbidity. My favourite character so far is eccentric Egyptologist Ferdinand Lyle (Simon Russell Beale). Yes, you’ve guessed it, this is Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway) and he has a much more pressing project on his mind and a patchwork corpse nearby that needs reviving. Unfortunately he has other projects in mind like bringing the dead back to life. They bring the body to a young surgeon for inspection and try to convince him to work with them. In their quest for truth our newly formed band of supernatural searchers confront some unsavoury vampires and an inhuman corpse with hieroglyphics branded on its skin. The attacks and the kidnappings are on the increase but the police and the public put it down to Jack the Ripper, unaware of a more sinister cause. Bodies are found decapitated and devoured. Meanwhile monsters and Egyptian vampires wreak havoc in the city of London. Does this augur a possible love between the two? I’d bet my gothic corset on it. And when asked to turn over cards himself Ethan picks out The Lovers. She begins taking cards from the spread as if reading Ethan’s future. It’s a true gothic romance scene as she delicately spreads the cards in a wide arc across the table, flickering fingers teasing each card out into a curved line. This negotiation takes place while Vanessa shuffles and spreads a deck of Tarot cards. Ethan is a sharpshooter in an Old West themed carnival and Vanessa persuades him to join them and put his potentially deadly marksmanship to better use. But it’s going to take a lot more than just the two of them.Įthan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) is first to be recruited to their supernatural quest. With the help of clairvoyant Vanessa Ives (Eva Green), the two try and locate the kidnappers. The story is set in the Victorian era, Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton), a well to do explorer is on a quest to find his daughter who has been kidnapped by a supernatural force. The quality of the production is first class and no doubt influenced by its cinematic producer, Sam Mendes, the man behind Sky Fall and American Beauty. I’m a fan of horror TV title sequences, American Horror Story’s Coven and Asylum being my favourites, and was thrilled to see the beautiful and stylistic opening for Penny Dreadful. It has everything a horror story should have: mystery, suspense and screams. The opening was promising and the first episode delivers. She’s scared but not for long because misfortune soon puts an end to that. A young mother creeps nervously through a rickety house, aware of strange noises as she makes her way to the toilet. Penny Dreadful manages two satisfying scares within three minutes of the start. It hooked me in the first minute and had sitting on the edge of the seat wondering what was to follow. This week saw the premiere of British horror series Penny Dreadful on Sky Atlantic.
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