‘Here we are again!’ Bellows an, unusually charismatic, Douglas Booth throughout Juan Carlos Medina’s The Limehouse Golem. Booth is playing the real life figure of Dan Leno – a Victorian music hall star, renowned for his drag entertainments – and is one of many players in this, Penny Dreadful-esque, Victorian murder mystery whose delightful performance succeeds in elevating an otherwise fairly predictable film into something really rather smashing. Karl Marx shows up too.
A fear of the dark haunts humanity from birth to death. It is a fear of the unknown. A chill down the spine. The shadow in the corner of your eye. It has also proved itself to be an abundant gold mine of invention for storytellers across history.
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