The Enfield Haunting (West End) London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (99)
See it if you’re okay with enjoying the journey more than the destination.
Don't see it if you’d mind that a show that felt like it was building to an interesting or at least satisfactory climax just… didn’t. Read more
See it if you like listening to the drama and thinking over the story and characters. This is a quiet production compared to spectacular entertainment
Don't see it if you are expecting to see lots of poltergeist sequences. You only see bit of flash lights in darkness and turned over tables. Read more
See it if You like thrillers and are ok with little explanation
Don't see it if You want something fast paced with a plot
See it if You like short plays and a jump scare or 2.
Don't see it if You want a play that has a story that develops more. This one is quite slow and doesn't go very far in terms of plot.
See it if You really like the celeb actors maybe?
Don't see it if You dont want to have your time wasted, at an hour and 15 this is too long. Bad script and bad writing
See it if You're interested in spooky shows
Don't see it if If you're looking for something light hearted
See it if Good cast. Makes sense if you already know what happened.
Don't see it if Short production and quite slow. Story doesn't really translate well to the stage.
See it if You enjoy being scared.
Don't see it if You don't enjoy long blackouts and sudden noises.
Critic Reviews (15)
" Angus Jackson directs a sloppy script that goes nowhere."
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“Director Angus Jackson hasn’t exactly covered himself in glory, but I can’t help but feel that the RSC veteran has been left fighting a desperate rear-guard action with a terrible script. He salvages a couple of scares from this mess, but the most terrifying thing about ‘The Enfield Haunting’ is that nobody stepped in to stop it before it reached the West End.”
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"This production may not be for those who have come for the jump scares but, as a diehard fan of the genre, it works for me in its low-level creepiness. It will doubtless bring in a different crowd to the theatre too which can only be refreshing."
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"In theory the play, less a whodunnit than a whoisdoingit, straddles the threshold between the rationally explicable and the unfathomable, but it never quite crosses over from the watchable into the spine-tinglingly compelling."
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“The problem here is that the drama utterly fails to build tension; it’s as if every other page of dialogue has gone missing. Unwin and the director Angus Jackson throw us into the middle of an already tangled narrative”
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"The audience was ready to be scared and thrilled – but the entire show is as disappointing as a wet Halloween."
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"..its current, trimmed state, Unwin’s script cries out for further elaboration on virtually every front. It’s great to pare away excess padding but this is one example where less is in fact less, and the climax – when it arrives – seems comparatively arbitrary and not grounded in what has come before."
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“Coarse, clumsy and fright-free”
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