THE SMALL HAND is a Channel 5 television movie adaptation of a Susan Hill novel, the author of course being most famous for writing THE WOMAN IN BLACK. Given the obscurity of the source material, it was actually broadcast as SUSAN HILL'S GHOST STORY. It's a bog standard affair about a boring and introspective Scottish guy who moves into the usual dilapidated house and finds himself menaced by the spooky apparition of a little boy. What follows is entirely pedestrian and stagey, with monotonous flashbacks and jump scares playing out with mundane regularly. The actors' hearts aren't in it, and neither is the viewer's. One to forget, if you haven't done so already.
Review of The Small Hand (Ghost Story)
