Recensie 'A Haunting in Venice' - FilmVandaag.nl (2024)

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A darker and spookier spin on Branagh's Poirot, A Haunting in Venice is a decent Halloween snack whose undemanding mystery gets a lift from nifty visuals and an all-star cast.

Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver persuades Poirot to attend a Halloween party and séance at the palazzo of famed opera singer Rowena Drake, wishing to expose Joyce Reynolds—a World War I army nurse turned medium—as a fraud.

How Does A Haunting in Venice End? In the final scenes of A Haunting in Venice, Poirot reveals that Rowena Drake (Kelly Reilly from Yellowstone) murdered her daughter Alicia (Rowan Robinson). She felt abandoned when Alicia got engaged to the chef Maxime Gerard (Kyle Allen from American Horror Story: Apocalypse).

There are four deaths in A Haunting in Venice, three of which are murders. Through his incredible detective skills, Poirot solves the murders, and while the film ends on an ambiguous note about whether ghosts are real, the murders are solved by real-world clues.

The movie has some morally uplifting, Christian content and references. For example, one suspect turns out to be a still devout former nun who does a good deed. However, A HAUNTING IN VENICE also has some atheist doubt, two or so unexplained occult moments, brief foul language, and scary situations.

A Haunting in Venice presents Alicia as a metaphorical representation of what western society lost following the war. Beaten down by society's “cruel indifference”, Poirot has retreated into his Venice palazzo, shaken by humanity's evil.

In the end of the movie, Poirot's own teacup is on the edge of his table. When he notices it, he swiftly pushes it to the centre. This could mean the detective now accepts there are realities beyond his understanding, but he insists on being in control as much as he can.

Ariadne admits to wanting to base her next book on a case that she thought would stump him and to inviting Maxine to the séance to stir up drama, but denies being involved in any of the murders. As it turns out, the killer among them is actually Rowena.

Leopold makes appearance in the 2023 film A Haunting in Venice, which is a loose adaptation of Hallowe'en Party. In this adaptation, he is renamed as Leopold Ferrier, with his last name comes from Leslie Ferrier (who is presumably the basis of Leopold's father in this version).

The pet bird does not die! You see it, barely, peeking out of a covered birdcage, on its way to a new home at the end. In a deleted scene there's a spider shown in Poirot's garden.

Who is Vitale in Haunting in Venice? ›

In A Haunting in Venice, Vitale Portfoglio is an ex-officer of the Italian police who came from a family of policemen. In this adaptation, Poirot has retired and is living the life of a recluse in Venice and has employed Vitale as a bodyguard.

When asked if mystery fans have another Christie adaptation to look forward to, Prichard said: If Ken wants to do more, and Michael [Green] wants to write more, we'll certainly do another. There's a lot of material still to go, so we're not going to run out of inspiration.

While the location, Venice, is a real place, the 2023 supernatural mystery movie is based on a fictional story. What is A Haunting in Venice about? The events go down in the World War II aftermath and see Poirot joining a séance at a haunted palazzo in Venice.

Indeed, all the typical ghost fare turns out to be a sham, and indeed, Poirot can rationally chalk the mystic visions he had in the house to hallucinogenic honey. But he still submits that it was his subconscious that pieced together facts that manifested in the supposedly prescient specters he saw.

But Rowena's deception only spelled the beginning of trouble. It turns out Dr. Ferrier's son, Leopold (Jude Hill), saw his father's notes and realized the truth of Alicia's death. To benefit from his knowledge, he anonymously blackmailed Rowena to help pay his father's bills.

Older kid/preteen and up are fine, some definitely scary/jumpy type of elements and it is a murder mystery. In my case both my preteen and teenager were fine watching it with me, but if your kid is sensitive to that scary/jumpy scenes and sometimes scary images don't take them.

The Haunting, if you have seen the original, you know a great ghost story, it's perfection on film. It's a haunting tale of 4 people who go into a haunted house and with the simple trick of sound and movements, it terrified people. It still remains effective to this day if you appreciate film.

A Haunting in Venice draws inspiration from the original novel, but will diverge significantly when it comes to plot. It's not set in one of Christie's classic English villages, but in post–World War II Venice.

The Big Picture. A Haunting in Venice, the latest installment in Kenneth Branagh's murder mystery series, is struggling with domestic audiences but finding success internationally. Despite its lower box office earnings, the film has surpassed $100 million globally.