Shakespeare & Hathaway News + Wednesday Watch Suggestions

Tomorrow marks 12 years since the premiere of the British comedy You, Me, & Them. Starring Anthony Head (Jonathan Creek, Ted Lasso) as Ed Walker and Eve Myles (Keeping Faith, The Crow Girl) as Lauren Grey, it follows a couple with a substantial age gap as they attempt to blend their lives and families.

It’s light, a bit zany, and occasionally predictable - but sometimes, that’s just what you need. If you haven’t already seen it, it’s a great palate cleanser between more serious crime dramas.

Though it’s no longer available on any of the mainstream paid British TV services, you can still check it out (for free with ads) on Tubi and Pluto TV.

For this set of recommendations, we’ve sought out films with are scary, creepy, or generally atmospheric - the perfect sort of thing to watch on a cool autumn night.

Amulet (2020) - Romola Garai (The Hour) wrote, directed, and starred in this film alongside Imelda Staunton (The Crown). When a homeless former soldier is invited to stay with a woman and her dying mother, there are signs that their London home might be home to something unnatural. (Also on Hulu)

Baghead (2024) - Freya Allan (The Witcher) inherits a crumbling pub and discovers a basement entity that lets the living speak to the dead—for a price—while Peter Mullan (Mum) and Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) circle the secret. Supernatural premise, more atmosphere than gore.

Blithe Spirit (2020) - Dame Judi Dench (Philomena) headlines as eccentric medium Madame Arcati, whose séance accidentally conjures a novelist’s late first wife and throws his new marriage into chaos. Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Isla Fisher, and Leslie Mann co-star in this sparkling adaptation of Noël Coward’s supernatural comedy. (Also on Tubi)

Starve Acre (2024) - Matt Smith (Doctor Who) and Morfydd Clark (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) play a 1970s Yorkshire couple whose grief draws them into eerie local folklore on a remote farm. It’s more of a slow-burn eerie folk horror than a typical slasher movie.

Raging Grace (2023) - Max Eigenmann and David Hayman (Trial & Retribution) lead this gothic tale about a live-in carer and her daughter in a grand British house where history and power games turn quietly menacing.

The Haunted Hotel (2021) - Reece Ritchie (Prince of Persia) joins Hugh Fraser (Poirot), Rob Jarvis (Hustle), and Paul Moriarty (The Bill) in an eight-part ghostly anthology set across decades in Ipswich’s storied Great White Horse Hotel, where brushes with the beyond range from eerie to darkly comic.

The Prestige (2006) - Hugh Jackman (X-Men) and Christian Bale (The Dark Knight) play rival Victorian magicians whose escalating feud becomes a deadly contest of obsession and deception. Scarlett Johansson and Michael Caine co-star in Christopher Nolan’s twisty period thriller.

The Lair of the White Worm (1988) - Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi uncover an ancient serpent cult after a strange fossil is found in rural Derbyshire, while Amanda Donohoe’s alluring aristocrat hides secrets.

The Wicker Man (1973) - Edward Woodward’s devout police sergeant investigates a missing girl on a remote Scottish island ruled by Christopher Lee’s pagan lord, where the case turns eerily ritualistic. It’s a cult classic that any British folk horror fan should watch at some point.

The Awakening (2012) – Rebecca Hall plays a skeptical ghost hunter called to a 1921 boys’ boarding school; as she probes the reported hauntings, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton help reveal truths that are more chilling than tricks.

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