The trigger warning at the start of this “headphone horror” reminds us that its ghost is not real. All we have to do, if we become overwhelmed, is take off our headphones and the ghost will go away. You don’t really want to, though, because writer Jamie Armitage’s chiller really does delight in giving you the creeps through sound, words, and insinuation.
The audience enters a dark auditorium, stumbling up the stairs in my case. Headphones hang on the back of each seat, enabling you to access this haunting, which has flecks of MR James: a man’s estranged father has just died. When he goes to his remote home to clear it out, it begins to stir with past menace.
