Doctor Who:
Hide
By Neil Cross
“I'm sorry! I understand
now! I can take you to her! I can take you to a safe place far away from here!
You can be together! Well, come on, then. She's waiting!”
Haunted houses have been a
pretty good plot device for scary and horror movies for a long time. You just have to go back to last year for the
“The Woman in Black” with Daniel Radcliffe as proof to how well popular and if
done properly can be pretty scary and very enjoyable to watch. Doctor Who has dabbled with using haunted
houses with 1989’s “Ghost Light.” While
not a true haunted house story it was pretty effective in conveying the horror
of the house and the evil the resided in it.
So know we have “Hide” and the return to a haunted house style of a
story that is rare in Doctor Who. Did
“Hide” do the ghost story genre proud or did it fizzle like candles often do in
a haunted house. Read on to see what I thought of “Hide”.
First off I wasn’t too
enamored with Neil Cross’s earlier story ‘The Rings of Akhaten. So I went into “Hide” with a bit of
trepidation and hoped I would enjoy his new story. Well for the most part I did enjoy the Luthor
scribes latest entry. For the most part
it was pretty entertaining and I did enjoy what “Hide” was trying to
accomplish. But I wasn’t overly a fan of
it but I did not hate it as I did for the most part enjoy what I was
watching.
