The Secret of Crickley Hall 

A year after their son goes missing, a family moves to Crickley Hall. When supernatural events begin to take place, Eve feels the house is somehow connected to her lost son.

Stars:

Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall

Cast

Series cast summary:
Suranne Jones	...	Eve Caleigh 3 episodes, 2012
Tom Ellis	...	Gabe Caleigh 3 episodes, 2012
Douglas Henshall	...	Augustus Cribben 3 episodes, 2012
David Warner	...	Percy Judd 3 episodes, 2012
Sarah Smart	...	Magda Cribben 3 episodes, 2012
Iain De Caestecker	...	Young Percy 3 episodes, 2012
Olivia Cooke	...	Nancy Linnet 3 episodes, 2012
Maisie Williams	...	Loren Caleigh 3 episodes, 2012
Bill Milner	...	Maurice Stafford 3 episodes, 2012
Pixie Davies	...	Cally Caleigh 3 episodes, 2012
Kian Schmidt	...	Stefan Rosenbaum 3 episodes, 2012
Fern Deacon	...	Susan Trainer 3 episodes, 2012
Susan Lynch	...	Lili Peel 2 episodes, 2012
Donald Sumpter	...	Gordon Pyke 2 episodes, 2012
Craig Parkinson	...	Reverend Horace 2 episodes, 2012
Julia Ford	...	Irene Judd 2 episodes, 2012
Nicholas Sidi	...	Reverend Andrew 2 episodes, 2012
Elliot Kerley	...	Cam Caleigh 2 episodes, 2012
Shannon Beer	...	Bully 2 episodes, 2012

Storyline

2012: Nearly a year after their son goes missing, Londoners Gabe and Eve Caleigh and their two daughters move to Crickley Hall. Gabe hopes a few months away from the city will help his family heal. But it soon becomes apparent, their new home is haunted. 1943: Crickley Hall is an orphanage run by Augustus Cribben and his sister Magda. The orphans live in terror of the Cribbens, especially Augustus, whose brutality knows no bounds. Nancy, the children's new tutor, is appalled by the abuse and determined to find a way to save them - Can these dark secrets of the past help the Caleighs find their son?

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Plot Keywords:

orphanage | world war two | 1940s | secret | orphan | 

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Taglines:

They came to escape the past, the past had other ideas.

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Genres:

Drama | Horror | Mystery

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English German

Release Date:

28 October 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Secret of Crickley Hall

Filming Locations:

Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

BBC Manchester

Technical Specs

Runtime:

59 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

Suranne Jones (Eve Caleigh) & Olivia Cooke (Nancy Linnet) also worked together on Vanity Fair (2018) as Miss Pinkerton & Becky Sharp respectively.

User Reviews

Herbert's haunt

The Secret of Crickley Hall is a clichéd but creepy Haunted House story.

Eve (Suranne Jones) and her husband Gabe (Tom Ellis) to move to a house in the country with teenage daughter Loren (Maisie Williams) for a short time some months after their young son went missing.

Crickley Hall past the village of Devil's Cleave harbours its own secrets. An orphanage in the past, we learn via flashbacks to 1943 when it was run by the cruel and sadistic Augustus Cribben (Douglas Henshall) and his sister Magda (Sarah Smart). The orphans lived in dread.

Eve hopes that Crickley Hall will heal their grieving but its dark past brings it own haunts and there is a malevolent presence.

The opening episode certainly showed a lot of promise and creepiness but the subsequent episodes started to get silly and the plot more hokey. Suranne Jones is very effective as the grieving mother and there was a lot of melancholy with the climax but the series never excelled.