Oct 28, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min · 14 segments
On this, our first ever extra special Halloween Spook-tacular episode of Be Ghoul Solve Screams, we cower behind the sofa to watch the scariest Poirot film ever…
Lucy Rowan-HolmesHost
Mia MulderHostI really like doing Death on the Nile again, right? Partially because we knew that we would have to cover some of the same ground on this podcast.
Eventually, I think it's good to inoculate the listener now, much like the... place much like that stuff so i think the other thing is most british people experience your detective fiction as a kind of pantomime right where we've seen it before we've seen another version of death on the nile you're like you're all it's christmas let's say your uncle is going i Oh,
that's the bit with the guy where he shoots himself and he runs across the floor.
You're
not kind of being spoiled on this so much as it's just like a kind of folk legend everyone knows.
It's a little bit like a Greek tragedy, you know, like, they're all kind of rehashes of each other.
I think it is interesting to compare different adaptations, right, and see what they do differently.
At least, I fucking sure hope it is, because, you know, people have to listen to this to make money.
And it got really unlucky because I saw the Branagh Murder on the Orient Express, which was a perfectly adequate movie.
It fits into the same niche of detective coziness where it's like, I know the story, right? Nobody's running out of ideas and adapting Death in the Air or, you know, fucking any of Agatha Christie's B-sides and rarities.
where it's like oh it's the fuckington house murders or whatever this one's got a racial slur you can't say any more in it right skip skip this one nobody's going down the list it's like top of the playlist murder on the orient express pretty good i thought and i made the mistake of cursing the franchise because i said to myself aloud yeah give me one of these a year exactly
I really like doing Death on the Nile again, right? Partially because we knew that we would have to cover some of the same ground on this podcast.
Eventually, I think it's good to inoculate the listener now, much like the... place much like that stuff so i think the other thing is most british people experience your detective fiction as a kind of pantomime right where we've seen it before we've seen another version of death on the nile you're like you're all it's christmas let's say your uncle is going i Oh,
that's the bit with the guy where he shoots himself and he runs across the floor.
You're
not kind of being spoiled on this so much as it's just like a kind of folk legend everyone knows.
It's a little bit like a Greek tragedy, you know, like, they're all kind of rehashes of each other.
I think it is interesting to compare different adaptations, right, and see what they do differently.
At least, I fucking sure hope it is, because, you know, people have to listen to this to make money.
And it got really unlucky because I saw the Branagh Murder on the Orient Express, which was a perfectly adequate movie.
It fits into the same niche of detective coziness where it's like, I know the story, right? Nobody's running out of ideas and adapting Death in the Air or, you know, fucking any of Agatha Christie's B-sides and rarities.
where it's like oh it's the fuckington house murders or whatever this one's got a racial slur you can't say any more in it right skip skip this one nobody's going down the list it's like top of the playlist murder on the orient express pretty good i thought and i made the mistake of cursing the franchise because i said to myself aloud yeah give me one of these a year exactly
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