Penny Dreadful...With Season 3 announced a while ago, we now have a trailer and you can check it out below. The season will commence on Showtime on 1 May (US).SynopsisSeason three includes a wealth of new and returning stars. Tony® Award winner LuPone (American Horror Story), who guest starred last season as the Cut-Wife, returns... Continue Reading →
TV Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful S02 E10 – And They Were Enemies (Season Finale)
@HellingsOnFilm reviews and recaps...CONTAINS FULL SPOILERSThe werewolf Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) rises angrily and bloody from the dead body of Sembene (Danny Sapani) to find himself still trapped in Madame Kali’s house, much to the relief of Hecate (Sarah Greene) who goes downstairs to watch her mother (Helen McCrory) and Vanessa Ives (Eva Green). Vanessa’s... Continue Reading →
Recap/review: Penny Dreadful S2 E09 – And Hell Itself My Only Foe
@HellingsOnFilm recaps...Nighttime at the Cut Woman’s cottage: Vanessa (Eva Green) and Ethan (Josh Hartnett) are asleep until the latter wakes at the striking of a match: it’s the disfigured Warren Roper (Stephen Lord), gun trained on Mr. Chandler. Roper wakes Vanessa and reveals his horribly scarred face, before making her chain Ethan’s hands behind the... Continue Reading →
TV Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful – Memento Mori – S02 E08
@HellingsOnFilm checks out Penny Dreadful - Memento Mori...Morning comes and Lily (Billie Piper) is in bed, kissing a man’s chest and telling him how silly it is that boys grow up. This ‘boy’ won’t. It’s the man she strangled in last week’s episode. Dressing, she deliberately knocks over the house of cards on a table,... Continue Reading →
TV Review/Recap: Penny Dreadful – Little Scorpion – S2 E07
@HellingsOnFilm declares Little Scorpion was the best episode of Season 2...CONTAINS FULL SPOILERSIn Sir Malcolm’s basement, Ethan (Josh Hartnett) and Sembene (Danny Sapani) experience the morning after the night before of Ethan’s transformation into a werewolf, with Sembene telling of the way animals consume and become that which they have consumed. He sees his friend... Continue Reading →
TV Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful – Glorious Horrors – S02 E06
@HellingsOnFilm finds this episode of Penny Dreadful a marked improvement...Contains FULL SPOILERSA maid finds the dead body of Sir Malcolm’s estranged wife Gladys, throat cut, after her Madame Kali induced suicide last week. Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway) awakes to see Lily (Billie Piper) making breakfast after their night of lovemaking and there is a rare... Continue Reading →
TV Review/Recap: Penny Dreadful Season 2 Ep 05 – Above The Vaulted Sky
@HellingsOnFilm gives us a recap/review of Penny Dreadful - Above the Vaulted SkyCONTAINS FULL SPOILERSAt the house of Madame Kali (aka Evelyn Poole played by Helen McCrory), the woman herself is tapping away in a ritual on one of her clay figure ventriloquist dummies (there’s the one of Vanessa close by also), breaking open the... Continue Reading →
TV Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful – Evil Spirits in Heavenly Places S2 EP04
@HellingsOnFilm recaps and review the latest Penny Dreadful - Evil Spirits in Heavenly Places...CONTAINS FULL SPOILERSVanessa Ives finishes telling the story of the tragic demise of the Cut Woman (from last week’s episode) to Sir Malcolm, Ethan Chandler, Victor Frankenstein, Sembene, and the spy in their ranks Ferdinand Lyle. They now know that the Nightcomers,... Continue Reading →
TV Review/Recap: Penny Dreadful S2 Ep03 – The Nightcomers
@HellingsOnFilm takes a look back at Penny Dreadful S2 EP3 - The Nightcomers...CONTAINS FULL SPOILERSVanessa Ives (Eva Green) finds Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) studying the scorpion sign of blood on the upstairs wooden floor, at Sir Malcolm’s, that Eva had created previously. Ethan understandably wants to know what it is, only to be met with the... Continue Reading →
TV Recap/Review – Penny Dreadful S2 Ep02 – Verbis Diablo
@HellingsOnFilm recaps and review Penny Dreadful S2 EP2...CONTAINS FULL SPOILERS.A scared Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) reveals to Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton) that the previous night ‘The Nightcomers’ (the witches serving Madame Kali) visited her and that even her dreams are no longer safe. She seeks reassurances that she deserves peace. Sir Malcolm cannot give her... Continue Reading →
Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful – Fresh Hell
David Paul Hellings checks out Ep 1, Season 2 of Penny Dreadful...The premise of "Penny Dreadful" Season One promised much, but didn't always deliver as it could have done, often falling into the trap that "Van Helsing" did by throwing in every Universal monster in the hope that the mix would work. There were moments... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Art and Making of Penny Dreadful
@omandoriginal falls for The Art of Penny Dreadful...I must start this with a confession... I haven’t actually watched Penny Dreadful series yet. So it was with some sense of trepidation that I approached the companion book from Titan Books, wondering if I would be totally lost with this companion book by not being a “dyed in... Continue Reading →
The Art & Making of Penny Dreadful
Titans Books to release this on the 17th April...Some of classic horror literature’s most iconic characters, including Doctor Victor Frankenstein, DorianGray and figures from Dracula, are stalking the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful weaves their stories together with those of original characters Sir Malcolm Murray, Ethan Chandler and Vanessa Ives as they confront their... Continue Reading →
First image from Penny Dreadful Season 2
First image sees enemies become friends...Check out the image below - According to reports This season will see Vanessa and Ethan form a deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm, Dr. Frankenstein, Sembene come together to fight the evil that wants to destroy them all. While Dorian Gray, the Creature & Brona are all fighting personal battles. Images: Wikipedia & Sky Altantic
TV Review – Penny Dreadful Season 1 Ep 8 (Finale)
@blackadder345 hopes the finale is better than the sum of its parts... Some of literature’s most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. PENNY DREADFUL is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into... Continue Reading →
TV Review – Penny Dreadful Season 1 Ep 7
@blackadder345 still doesn't like Penny Dreadful... Some of literature’s most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. PENNY DREADFUL is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.So after the... Continue Reading →
TV Review: Penny Dreadful Season 1 Ep 6
@blackadder345 thinks Penny Dreadful is living up to part of its title...No more let life divide/ what death can join together. Adonis: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats. Shelley, 1825Some of literature’s most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners... Continue Reading →
TV Review: Penny Dreadful Season 1 Episode 5
@blackadder345 gives us another review of the weird Penny Dreadful... Some of literature’s most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. PENNY DREADFUL is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.After... Continue Reading →
Penny Dreadful Season 1 Episode 4
@Blackadder345 gives us something to think about with his review of Penny Dreadful's 4th ep... Some of literature’s most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. PENNY DREADFUL is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror... Continue Reading →
TV Review – Penny Dreadful Season 1 – Episode 3
@blackadder345 is thoroughly unimpressed with Penny Dreadful's 3rd episode... Some of literature’s most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. PENNY DREADFUL is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult... Continue Reading →