Lot No. 249

TV Movie
2023
29m

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Kit Harington, Freddie Fox, and Colin Ryan in Lot No. 249 (2023)

Follows a group of Oxford students, one of them becomes the collegiate talk of the town by conducting study into the mysteries of Ancient Egypt. Can the horrible sack of bones known as Lot N... Read allFollows a group of Oxford students, one of them becomes the collegiate talk of the town by conducting study into the mysteries of Ancient Egypt. Can the horrible sack of bones known as Lot No. 249 come to life thanks to these experiments?Follows a group of Oxford students, one of them becomes the collegiate talk of the town by conducting study into the mysteries of Ancient Egypt. Can the horrible sack of bones known as Lot No. 249 come to life thanks to these experiments?

Director
- Mark Gatiss
Writers
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Mark Gatiss
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5.9/10

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Director
- Mark Gatiss
Writers
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Mark Gatiss
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination

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Trivia
When "The Friend" says, "I stand flat-footed upon the ground... No ghosts need apply," this refers to what Sherlock Holmes said in the story "The Sussex Vampire", where a man consults Holmes because he fears his own wife may be a vampire, and Holmes endeavours to show that there is a natural explanation for the wife's behaviour.

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Version of Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)

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3/10

Let somebody else have a go!

Another failure from the unenterprising pen of Mark Gatiss, whose monopoly of the whole 'Ghost Stories for Christmas' brand has long outstayed its welcome. This one eschews the usual M. R. James for an adaptation of one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's horror stories about a marauding mummy. I've read the story and loved it, but this is a pitiful attempt at an adaptation: there's no atmosphere, no depth and no workable scares at all, just a guy in bandages popping up to go boo. You can't fault the cast members, who work really hard at giving it their all, but you can fault the man response for writing and directing this tiresome nonsense.