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A Haunting in Venice

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A Haunting in Venice	comment	A Haunting in Venice is a 2023 American supernatural mystery thriller and the third film in Kenneth Branagh's Hercule Poirot film series after 2017's Murder on the Orient Express and 2022's Death on the Nile. It is an adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel Hallowe'en Party. Branagh stars once again as Hercule Poirot, with a screenplay by Michael Green, once again. It is the second adaptation of Hallowe'en Party after a 2010 episode of the Poirot television series.Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in Venice, must solve the murder of a guest at a sÃ©ance (spiritism session) he attended.Joining Branagh on this outing are Tina Fey (as Ariadne Oliver), Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Kelly Reilly and Riccardo Scamarcio.The film was released on September 15, 2023.Previews: Teaser, Trailer.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
A Haunting in Venice / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Alicia Drake, Maxime Gerard and Vitale Portfoglio are all created for the film and have no counterparts in the book.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
A Haunting in Venice / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Joyce Reynolds, the first murder victim in both the original story and the movie, was 13 in the original story. She is now a spiritual medium played by 61 year old Michelle Yeoh.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
A Haunting in Venice / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: While the film is still a murder mystery in proper Christie fashion, it's less traditional than the previous two films, with more supernatural elements. While the killings are shown to have rational explanations, there's enough strange goings-on that even Poirot concedes he can't explain it all.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_191535aa	type	Eiffel Tower Effect
A Haunting in Venice / int_191535aa	comment	Eiffel Tower Effect: The trailer has an aerial view over the most recognizable place in Venice, the Piazza San Marco.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_199f1681	type	Pet Positive Identification
A Haunting in Venice / int_199f1681	comment	Pet Positive Identification: Played with. Olga tells Poirot that Harry, Alicia's pet bird, used to talk but hasn't spoken since she diednote though one has to wonder if she's just not hearing him speak, given he's still being kept in his cage in Alicia's room, and apparently Olga is only allowed to enter for dusting, and presumably to feed him. During the sÃ©ance, guess what happens? Harry says Alicia's name - just before Joyce starts talking in Alicia's voice.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
A Haunting in Venice / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers for this film committed the sin of making it look like a paranormal thriller instead of a murder mystery. They also showcased a lot of the film's Jump Scare moments.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_1d2605eb	type	Adorably Precocious Child
A Haunting in Venice / int_1d2605eb	comment	Adorably Precocious Child: Leopold is a deconstruction, as it's clear he has grown up too soon in order to take care of his Shell-Shocked Veteran father. He also blackmailed Rowena about her daughter's death in order to gain financial security, with disastrous results when Rowena assumed his father was the culprit.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
A Haunting in Venice / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In the novel, the worst Joyce Reynolds was guilty of was being The Friend Nobody Likes and a Compulsive Liar. Her counterpart in the film however is a con woman preying on grieving people who have lost their loved ones, as well as a sexual predator harassing her young assistant.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
A Haunting in Venice / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The precariously perched teacup on the table in Alicia's room, which is eventually knocked over by Alicia's pet cockatoo. This cup contained the poisoned tea that killed Alicia. The cup also tips off Poirot to the fact that he has been hallucinating due to the poison being unknowingly placed in his own tea by Ariadne. The honey jar. When Poirot is recovering from his assault, Ariadne gives him some tea sweetened with honey she found in a cupboard. Maxime tastes a jar of it in the kitchen later and notes that it isn't honey from wildflowers like Rowena's usual mix. This honey turns out to have been the poison that Rowena was using to make Alicia sick.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_24067bb9	type	Related in the Adaptation
A Haunting in Venice / int_24067bb9	comment	Related in the Adaptation: Leopold is made Leslie Ferrier's son in the film, while they have not relation whatsoever in the novel. Nicholas Ransom and Desmond Holland were a couple of teenagers who attended the titular party in the book and were part of the game where the girls see the faces of their future husbands. In the movie they become the siblings Nicholas and Desdemona Holland.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_259064d9	type	Fowl-Mouthed Parrot
A Haunting in Venice / int_259064d9	comment	Fowl-Mouthed Parrot: Harry, Alicia's pet cockatoo, squawks out a "Holy shit" at the conclusion of the sÃ©ance.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
A Haunting in Venice / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: In the original novel Michael Garfield attempts to murder his daughter, Miranda Butler, with poison. While both these characters are Adapted Out in the film, there is a parallel with Rowena Drake being revealed to have inadvertently poisoned her daughter Alicia to death. In the original novel Rowena Drake murders Joyce Reynolds by drowning her in a bowl of water used to bob for apples. In the film, Rowena attempts to murder Poirot this way after mistaking him for Joyce. Poirot is shown to be growing vegetable marrows in his garden during his retirement at the start of the film, much as he did in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Also serves as a Call-Back to Death on the Nile (2022), in which Branagh's Poirot stated his desire to grow vegetable marrows in his retirement.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
A Haunting in Venice / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Ariadne is shown to be an old friend of Poirot who made a career out of writing books based on his cases. Due to their connection and her apparent alibi in Joyce's death, Poirot brings her on as his assistant. However, it turns out that she was in cahoots with both Joyce and Poirot's bodyguard to bring him to a seance that would stump the great Hercule Poirot, which would give Ariadne material for her next book. When the truth comes out, she bitterly states they were never truly friends and that Poirot only has the reputation he does because of her books.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
A Haunting in Venice / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Played with, as the killer is ultimately revealed to be Rowena Drake, Alicia's mother, though technically Olga unwittingly caused it. The film presents the former as being fully to blame since their manipulations led to this tragedy.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
A Haunting in Venice / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Almost exactly 24 hours. The movie starts on the morning of October 31, with the majority of the action unfolding over Halloween night, and ending on the morning of November 1, with Poirot arriving back at his apartment at almost exactly the time he had left it the previous morning, as evidenced by the pastry delivery.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_29e294a6	type	Stopped Clock
A Haunting in Venice / int_29e294a6	comment	Stopped Clock: Joyce's watch is broken at 12:02 AM when she gets impaled on that statue.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_2d717e11	type	Suicide, Not Murder
A Haunting in Venice / int_2d717e11	comment	Suicide, Not Murder: The guests find Dr. Ferrier with a knife lodged in his back and, naturally, assume that he has been murdered. It turns out that Rowena coerced Ferrier into committing suicide by threatening to murder Leopold if he didn't go through with it.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
A Haunting in Venice / int_33d5b7f2	comment	In the original novel Michael Garfield attempts to murder his daughter, Miranda Butler, with poison. While both these characters are Adapted Out in the film, there is a parallel with Rowena Drake being revealed to have inadvertently poisoned her daughter Alicia to death.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
A Haunting in Venice / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: Desdemona Holland, Joyce's female assistant, is loosely based on a supporting character from the original book named Desmond Holland, a 16 year old boy who helps set up the titular Halloween party.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
A Haunting in Venice / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: Narrowly avoided. The killer attempts to drown Poirot in the apple bobbing tub after mistaking him for Joyce Reynolds because he was wearing Joyce's cloak and mask. Upon realising their mistake, they release him and Vitale Portfoglio finds him and pulls him out of the water before he can drown.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
A Haunting in Venice / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Tina Fey's character, Ariadne Oliver, is an opportunistic mystery writer who has no qualms about manipulating and exploiting people smarter and more capable than herself, making her an early twentieth century equivalent of podcaster Cinda Canning.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_39d7954e	type	The Caretaker
A Haunting in Venice / int_39d7954e	comment	The Caretaker: Despite being a child, Leopold sometimes takes on this role for his PTSD-ridden father, offering him his medication and talking him down when his emotions are running high. Leopold's desire to help his father regain his footing financially leads to him blackmailing Rowena about Alicia's death, which ultimately leads to her killing Dr. Ferrier.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_3de32c52	type	Unrelated in the Adaptation
A Haunting in Venice / int_3de32c52	comment	Unrelated in the Adaptation: In the book, Leopold was Joyce Reynolds' younger brother, while they share no relation at all in the film. In fact, here she is old enough to be his grandmother.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
A Haunting in Venice / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Poirot delivers several of these throughout the film, particularly when exposing Joyce's sÃ©ance as a sham. He delivers another to his new client at the very end of the film, showing that he has decided to come out of retirement.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
A Haunting in Venice / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: While still a creepy child, Leopold isn't the budding sociopath he is in the novel and his blackmail scheme is presented in a significantly more sympathetic light. The tormented PTSD-ridden Dr. Leslie Ferrier from the film is a far cry from the novel's Leslie Ferrier, a lawyer's clerk who was complicit in forging a will to strip a poor immigrant from her rightful inheritance. Rowena Drake's original murder that she is trying to cover up was an accident, instead of the cold and calculated crime she and her accomplice commited in the novel. Also, unlike her literary counterpart, this version of Rowena doesn't murder a child (though she certainly threatened to).
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A Haunting in Venice / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
A Haunting in Venice / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Ariadne accuses Poirot to be this to her, since her books contributed to his fame as detective. However, she proves to be much worse than him, since not only did he comply with her invitation to the staged seance, but he also solved the mystery and let her go despite her involvement in Mrs Reynolds' scheme. Even after all this, she still has the gall to be bitter with him.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_40b98588	type	Adaptational Location Change
A Haunting in Venice / int_40b98588	comment	Adaptational Location Change: Hallowe'en Party takes place in the fictional village of Woodleigh Common, England, while this film takes place in an old palazzo in Venice, Italy.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
A Haunting in Venice / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Poirot solves the case and returns to his job as detective, but he has to cut ties with his once trusted bodyguard Vitale due to his involvement into Joyce Reynolds' scheme. For the same reason, his friendship with Mrs. Oliver is strained, although they part on speaking terms and there's still a chance for them to make up. While Leopold has lost his father, Olga is willing to accept him into her family, and she promises to help Nicholas and Desdemona make their way to America.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_4179d411	type	Spooky SÃ©ance
A Haunting in Venice / int_4179d411	comment	Spooky SÃ©ance: The crux of the early part of the film is Reynolds attempting to lead a very chilling sÃ©ance, with Poirot brought in to see if he can discredit her, not realising, she his friend Ariadne and his bodyguard Vitale are colluding to fool him. It ends... poorly, as while he rumbles some of what's happening, things begin to happen that nobody expected...
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A Haunting in Venice / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
A Haunting in Venice / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At first glance, Maxime seems to simply be a gold digging jackass who left Alicia when he learned that her mom wasn't as wealthy as he thought she was. In reality, he broke up with Alicia because Rowena was so possessive of her, and Alicia wouldn't set any boundaries. And even after their breakup, he immediately tried to reconcile with her, but Rowena blocked his every attempt. It becomes clear that even after Alicia's death and Maxime's marriage to another woman, he very much is still in love with her.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
A Haunting in Venice / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Vitale gives away that they have been in the palazzo before—despite claiming they haven't—when they need to make a phone call and go immediately to a concealed telephone despite no one telling them where it was.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
A Haunting in Venice / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Rowena tried to make all of the murders she committed look like they were committed by ghosts.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_4e70e128	type	Evil Stole My Faith
A Haunting in Venice / int_4e70e128	comment	The traditionally Catholic Poirot is confirmed to be an atheist in this film, with a case of Evil Stole My Faith.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_4e9fe57d	type	Trauma Button
A Haunting in Venice / int_4e9fe57d	comment	Trauma Button: The discovery of the secret basement chamber containing the skeletal remains of child plague victims triggers an intense dissociative episode for Ferrier, who had cared for concentration camp victims and had been unable to stop many of them from dying.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
A Haunting in Venice / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: One of the earliest scenes in the film is of Alicia's white-clad body floating in the canal following her supposed suicide. One of the last is the black-clad body of her mother floating in the same manner after being exposed as her killer and committing suicide out of guilt. At the beginning of the movie, a man tries to hire Poirot for a case, claiming that his parents and brother died because his family is "cursed", but Poirot isn't currently taking cases, so his bodyguard Vitale punches out the man. At the end of the movie, Poirot is taking cases again, so he takes the man's case and explains that the man's family isn't "cursed"; his parents and brother were murdered by the family doctor, who is next in line to inherit the brother's money (and the man himself could be the next target).
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A Haunting in Venice / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
A Haunting in Venice / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: The previous film in the series ended on a Maybe Ever After note for Poirot and Salome, the only thing keeping it from being a straight up Downer Ending. This film reveals that this relationship either never took off or is long ended by 1947.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
A Haunting in Venice / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Rowena falls to her death in the canal after seemingly being pulled down by Alicia's ghost.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
A Haunting in Venice / int_5c219298	comment	Phony Psychic: Joyce Reynolds is a phony medium who fakes her seances with the aid of her assistants Desdemona and Nicholas Holland. After examining Maxime's invitation, Poirot deduces Oliver sent it and is conspiring with Vitale. Vitale, who investigated Alicia's death, gave Joyce private details, while Oliver had hoped to use Poirot's incapability of explaining the supernatural as a plot for her next book.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
A Haunting in Venice / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The movie is set in 1947, ten years after the events of the previous film in the series.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
A Haunting in Venice / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: The majority of the movie takes place over one night in one house.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_6a4c6ec0	type	The Promised Land
A Haunting in Venice / int_6a4c6ec0	comment	The Promised Land: While being interviewed by Poirot, Nicholas and Desdemona reveal that they are Romani refugees, rescued by American troops. While in the care of the soldiers, the half siblings would repeatedly watch the only movie that the troops had with them: the first half of Meet Me in St. Louis. Entranced by the beauty of the town depicted in the film and after enduring the harsh realities of Europe during World War II, Desdemona and Nicholas have made it their goal to make it to the USA and begin a new life in St. Louis. Thanks to Olga and Leopold, they get their wish at the end of the film.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_6f40bc41	type	Junior Counterpart
A Haunting in Venice / int_6f40bc41	comment	Junior Counterpart: Leopold is this for Poirot, being observant and intelligent enough to solve Aliciaâ€™s murder. Poirot pointed out that, like himself, Leopold enjoys attention more than he would care to admit.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
A Haunting in Venice / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The film ends with with Poirot accepting the case of the young man who had been begging for his assistance at the start of the movie, and immediately expounding a theory about how the man's family doctor has been surreptitiously murdering the members of the family.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
A Haunting in Venice / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: Dr. Ferrier mentions that the trauma of what he saw in the war led to him shooting himself in the chest, which he obviously survived.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
A Haunting in Venice / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: As a longtime friend of Poirot's and the reason he was even at the seance at all, Ariadne Oliver serves as his assistant in solving Joyce's murder. At least until Poirot realizes that Ariadne was working with Joyce and Poirot's bodyguard to create a "case" that would stump the great Hercule Poirot, which would give Ariadne content to write a new book on. Once her betrayal is revealed, she is treated like as much of a suspect as everyone else there.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
A Haunting in Venice / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Alicia's dead body is dressed in white, symbolizing her purity and innocence. Her mother's is dressed in black, symbolizing her evilness. Likewise, Ariadne wears green, hinting at her greedy motives.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
A Haunting in Venice / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The film features two cases. In the novel Olga Seminoff is the person whose murder a year previous to the events of the novel leads to more cover-up murders. In the novel Leopold attempts to blackmail Rowena for Joyce's murder and is murdered in turn in a case of Blackmail Backfire.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
A Haunting in Venice / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: While it is not so certain that the palazzo is haunted by the ghosts of dead children locked away to die by the doctors who were supposed to care for them, it turns out the whole "children left to die by their caretakers" part actually is true. Their remains are found in a hidden basement beneath the house.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
A Haunting in Venice / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Dr. Ferrier reveals that he helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. What he witnessed there, and the way its victims continued to die even after they were rescued (including killing some of them himself on accident after giving them milk) has left him with some pretty intense PTSD.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
A Haunting in Venice / int_7b4cb802	comment	Bodyguard Betrayal: Downplayed. Vitale admits to working with Oliver to hoodwink Poirot in the seance, but neither of them intended the deaths that occurred. At the end of the film, Vitale is ready for his employer to turn him in to the police for fraud, but Poirot lets him off, though he also tells him his services are no longer required - however, this is as much due to the fact that Poirot is taking clients again and no longer needs a guard dog, as it is punishment for Vitale's betrayal.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_7b5c69c8	type	Dirty Old Woman
A Haunting in Venice / int_7b5c69c8	comment	Dirty Old Woman: It turns out Reynolds is a sexual predator who has been harassing her assistants.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
A Haunting in Venice / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: Rowena gets Dr. Ferrier to commit suicide by threatening to murder his son if he doesn't comply.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_8166890e	type	Faking Another Person's Illness
A Haunting in Venice / int_8166890e	comment	Faking Another Person's Illness: It's revealed that Rowena did this to Alicia by slipping her drugged tea so that her daughter would be too "haunted" to leave their home.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_81bdc398	type	He's Back!
A Haunting in Venice / int_81bdc398	comment	He's Back!: The retired Poirot does this twice over the course of the movie. First when he has Vitale call the police to tell them that he will be investigating the death of Joyce Renolds while the palazzo is cut off by the storm, and second when he returns home after solving the murder and decides to start taking cases from clients again.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
A Haunting in Venice / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: It's never explained what became of Salome Otterbourne, considering that the previous film in the series - Death on the Nile (2022) - ended with the possibility that she and Poirot might begin a relationship.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_8658cd14	type	Agent Scully
A Haunting in Venice / int_8658cd14	comment	Agent Scully: Maxime refuses to entertain the idea of ghosts for even a moment and a lot of his dialogue involves him attempting to debunk any of the supposed hauntings going on around the palazzo. Poirot also qualifies, being called to the party in the first place to supposedly find out if the self-proclaimed psychic Joyce Reynolds is a fake. He is usually quick to offer up a rational explanation for any strange occurrences going on. By the end of the film, however, while he still insists that there is a logical answer for everything, he admits that some of his encounters in the palazzo are not so easily explained.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_86c2950b	type	Murder by Suicide
A Haunting in Venice / int_86c2950b	comment	Murder by Suicide: Dr. Ferrier is coerced into taking his own life and making it look like a murder by Rowena, who will kill his son Leopold if he doesn't.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_86d4f985	type	Doing In the Wizard
A Haunting in Venice / int_86d4f985	comment	Doing In the Wizard: Partially, as while some supernatural happenings are explained, others are not. During the seance, when the typewriter appears to "talk by itself" and is apparently possessed by Alicia's spirit, this is a fake, as Poirot discovers Joyce Reynolds' assistant Nicholas hiding in the chimney and using a "magnetic switch" to type the keys so it looks like the typewriter is talking by itself. Similarly, the windows and doors "opening by themselves" are also fake, as Ariadne opened them by pulling ropes while everyone was watching Reynolds, and the ghosts Poirot sees and hears as the film goes on are the result of hallucinations, as Ariadne put honey in Poirot's tea, but didn't know the culprit had poisoned it. However, Reynolds apparently being possessed and speaking in Alicia's voice is never explained, because while Ariadne and Vitale fed Reynolds information about Alicia, that would not have included what her voice sounded like, and Alicia's ghost pulling Rowena into the canal might not be a hallucination by Poirot, as Rowena apparently saw the ghost too.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
A Haunting in Venice / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Poirot makes clear his disdain for people like Joyce Reynolds. She clearly believes he's referencing her ethnicity until, oblivious to this, he rants about her profession.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_8a8534fb	type	Chemically-Induced Insanity
A Haunting in Venice / int_8a8534fb	comment	Chemically-Induced Insanity: Alicia's madness was caused by Rowena regularly giving her tea sweetened with hallucinogen-laced honey.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
A Haunting in Venice / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Alicia Drake, who reportedly committed suicide after her fiancÃ©, chef Maxime Gerard, broke off their engagement. Rowena Drake hires psychic Joyce Reynolds to help her commune with Alicia, and this seance is what kicks off the plot.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_8ca6d01e	type	Green and Mean
A Haunting in Venice / int_8ca6d01e	comment	Green and Mean: Most of Ariadne's clothes are of different shades of green, and she's revealed to be a False Friend to Poirot.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
A Haunting in Venice / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Ariadne Oliver suggests that Poirot retired in Venice because the city, like Poirot, is a grand old relic sinking into obscurity. When we get a flashback of Alicia's dead body, she's dressed in white, symbolizing her purity and innocence. When her mother dies in the same manner that she used to fake Alicia's death, she's dressed in black, symbolizing her sinful nature.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_959a9947	type	Phone-In Detective
A Haunting in Venice / int_959a9947	comment	Phone-In Detective: In the epilogue, Poirot meets with a man who'd been pestering him about a family "curse". Poirot just rattles off the true nature of the crimes based just on the man's description of the events.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
A Haunting in Venice / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Ariadne refuses to apologise to Poirot for using him at the end, claiming that since her book was ruined and she doesnâ€™t stand to benefit so she shouldnâ€™t have to apologise. Even leaving aside the fact that she betrayed his trust, she doesnâ€™t acknowledge that her plot resulted directly in Reynoldsâ€™s death.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
A Haunting in Venice / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Rowena has kept all of Alicia's possessions untouched since her death with the most prominent being her favorite toy rabbit.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
A Haunting in Venice / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Poirot is told this by Reynolds (they're both presented with a death and come up with answers to reassure the living) and Ferrier (they're both traumatized veterans who see death everywhere).
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A Haunting in Venice / int_985f0a0f	type	Production Throwback
A Haunting in Venice / int_985f0a0f	comment	Production Throwback: The film includes a flipped ceiling shot, similar to the famous shot from Thor.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
A Haunting in Venice / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Leopold's blackmail of Rowena to help his struggling father pay the bills results in Rowena murdering two people (one of them Leopold's father) who she suspects might be the blackmailer. The entire plot is set in motion because Olga unwittingly overdoses Alicia with poisoned honey. Ariadne and Vitale feeding Joyce Reynolds inside knowledge about Alicia's death ends up convincing Rowena that Joyce might be the blackmailer, which gets her killed.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_9b7de69c	type	False Friend
A Haunting in Venice / int_9b7de69c	comment	False Friend: At first it appears that Ariadne set Hercule on the case in the belief that having him investigate something again would be for his own good. Then it turns out that she's just using him for inspiration for her next book, and ends up showing no remorse over the fact that her little plot indirectly resulted in three deaths.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
A Haunting in Venice / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Rowena dies by falling from the same balcony she used to fake Alicia's suicide, after being startled by an apparition of Alicia.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
A Haunting in Venice / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Vitale informs Poirot that a friend has come to visit, Poirot says he doesn't have any friends. He's right as both Ariadne and Vitale are working against him. During the orphans' party, Ariadne warns two teenagers to break up their makeout session because a nun is heading their way. The next person to appear is Olga, who turns out to be a former nun. Joyce taunts Poirot, asking if she is to be his "Next Famous Case" for poking holes in her seance act. She's right for the wrong reasons— she does indeed become his next case when she's murdered less than an hour later . At one point, Dr. Ferrier mentions how he and his fellow doctors accidentally killed some of the starving Holocaust survivors by feeding them milk, saying "We didn't know." Later it's revealed that Olga accidentally killed Alicia by feeding her too much of the poisoned honey, tearfully saying "I didn't know" when told the truth. While showing Poirot and Ariadne the rooftop garden, Rowena remarks that she and Alicia used to make honey from the colony of bees kept there. She remarks that the bees have vanished and she wonders where they had gone. The bees later appear nesting inside a child's corpse in the flooded basement of the palazzo. Leopold turns down Olga's offers of cake during the Halloween party because the cake was meant "for the orphans." By the end of the film, Leopold himself winds up an orphan. Early in the film, Rowena tells Poirot and Ariadne Oliver that she got her first big staring role, Aspasia in Mozart's Mithridate, re di Ponto, two months after Alicia was born, and credits Alicia for her star career and ability to sing. She then confirms to Poirot that she will not be returning to singing, saying that she can't do it knowing that her daughter will not be waiting for her in her dressing room. This becomes far more ominous in hindsight when Maxime reveals that Rowena threw a fit over Alicia's engagement because it meant her daughter would no longer be there with her, globetrotting for the sake of Rowena's career; he became exasperated enough to break up with Alicia over it, then when he regretted it and tried to get back in touch, Rowena blocked him from visiting and made sure Alicia never got his letters - anything to keep her daughter under control. Rowena's first role was Aspasia in Mozart's Mithridate, re di Ponto, and Alicia even nicknamed her mother Aspasia for the role. Later, Leopold says that this, combined with his father's list of symptoms, is how he figured out the cause of Alicia's death - he read about Mithridates' historical connection to poisoned honey in the library.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
A Haunting in Venice / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Joyce Reynolds alludes to the events of Death on the Nile (and Poriot's backstory explored in that film) by noting that Poirot has had to watch many people die in his life: "soldiers, friends... and Catherine".
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A Haunting in Venice / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
A Haunting in Venice / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: On Halloween, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver convinces Poirot to attend a sÃ©ance at the palazzo of famed opera singer Rowena Drake.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
A Haunting in Venice / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Olga is utterly distraught when Poirot reveals that she unwittingly gave Alicia the last drink of poisoned tea that caused her death by overdose. While Alicia's death is not Olga's fault at all, her horrified reaction and repeated cries of "I didn't know" shows how guilty she feels. Leopold feels guilty about the fact that his attempt to take care of his Shell-Shocked Veteran father by blackmailing Rowena, led to Rowena killing his father, and Joyce. Dr. Ferrier remains haunted by his attempts to save concentration camp victims, which inadvertently made their conditions worse and killed them.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_a3458bf2	type	More Deadly Than the Male
A Haunting in Venice / int_a3458bf2	comment	More Deadly Than the Male: Of the Holland siblings, Desdemona is the one more likely to resort to physical violence when cornered.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
A Haunting in Venice / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Desdemona calls the deceased Joyce "the duchess", claiming that's how she treated Desdemona and her brother. Lampshaded by Poirot:
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A Haunting in Venice / int_a3a4a800	type	Too Clever by Half
A Haunting in Venice / int_a3a4a800	comment	Too Clever by Half: Ariadne accuses Poirot of this, claiming that she built his reputation with her books and he has come to believe in his fictional reputation. Poirot being Poirot, he proves her wrong.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_a6baa3a7	type	Muse Abuse
A Haunting in Venice / int_a6baa3a7	comment	Muse Abuse: Poirot does not seem to appreciate Ariadne using his exploits as inspiration for her novels. He's even less pleased to discover she conspired with Reynolds and Vitale to deliberately present him with an unsolvable case to provide fodder for her next novel.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
A Haunting in Venice / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Beyond their fraud plan failing and Vitale losing his position as Poirot's bodyguard neither Ariadne Oliver nor Vitale suffer any serious consequences from their attempted fraud, despite it leading to multiple deaths and gaslighting a man who was at least nominally their friend. While Vitale at least has the grace to seem ashamed of his actions and indeed seems ready to be arrested for fraud, Ariadne is unrepentant and only upset and angry at being foiled. She and Poirot even part on relatively civil if cool terms when by all rights he should have handed her over to the police.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
A Haunting in Venice / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Aside from Tina Fey and Branagh himself, Michelle Yeoh is probably the most recognisable actor in the cast. She's the first to die.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
A Haunting in Venice / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: Ariadne Oliver was simply Poirot's friend in canon, but here, while Poirot acknowledges her as at least some kind of friend, she takes credit for making him so famous by writing about versions of his cases and manipulates him into attending the sÃ©ance just so that she can get new material for a new book.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_aa368af0	type	Two Scenes, One Dialogue
A Haunting in Venice / int_aa368af0	comment	Two Scenes, One Dialogue: Poirot interrogates the half siblings Nicholas and Desdemona separately, but the scene cuts back and forth between the two interviews, with the answers of one sometimes complimenting or contradicting the answers of the other.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_aabb956	type	Mirror Monster
A Haunting in Venice / int_aabb956	comment	Mirror Monster: The ghost of Alicia Drake pops up in the mirror when Poirot is trying to gather himself in the bathroom, wearing a chilling Death Glare on her face.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
A Haunting in Venice / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Poirot attempts to do so when Rowena is scared into falling off the balcony by Alicia's ghost.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Rowena kept poisoning Alicia so that they would never be apart. In the end, Alicia's ghost is seen dragging her into deep waters as Rowena is drowning, making them Together in Death.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_b333f02e	comment	Achilles in His Tent: Poirot has apparently been doing this since he arrived in Venice, going so far as to hire a bodyguard to keep away potential clients.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Rowena was extremely controlling of Alicia, even going so far as to destroy their flower garden and then go abroad when her daughter accepted Maxime's marriage proposal. Rowena is so controlling that she begins slowly poisoning her own daughter in order to have complete control over her.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: Poirot's love of pastry continues, to the point of having his favorite baker make deliveries twice a day. His sweet tooth is even plot-relevant here, as he has a cup of tea with honey at the palazzo during the case - the same hallucinogen-laced honey that caused Alicia's death.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the novel, Joyce Reynolds is drowned in an apple bobbing tub, while in this film she is pushed off a balcony and Impaled with Extreme Prejudice on a statue, with the apple bobbing drowning instead attempted on Poirot. While Leslie Ferrier dies from a knife in the back as he did in the book, this time it is self-inflicted, under duress. It also took place a year before the novel starts.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_c75061a3	comment	Notable Non Sequitur: After he cuts his finger, Ariadne tells to put some honey on it as it is a natural antiseptic. After he dips his finger in the jar, he sniffs it and comments that it's not wildflower honey but he can't place what it is. This is the first indication that the honey is poisonous. Rowena claimed that the honey from her rooftop garden was wildflower, but Maxim—who is a chef—would know the scent of wildflower honey. The honey is actually extracted from rhododendrons and is poisonous and hallucinogenic.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Rowena didn't get rid of the toxic honey she had used to poison Alicia, leading to Poirot accidentally consuming some of it himself and solving Alicia's murder a full year later.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Joyce Reynolds was white in the original story, while here she is played by Michelle Yeoh, who is Malaysian.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_dcaa8b35	comment	Locked Room Mystery: One is introduced midway through the film, when Dr. Ferrier is found stabbed in the back while locked in the music room, which has no other exits and only one key in Poirot's possession. It is later revealed that the solution to the mystery is that Ferrier was coerced into killing himself by someone outside the room.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: A storm rolls in during the sÃ©ance, preventing the police from coming after Joyce Reynolds is murdered. Poirot further enforces things by locking all the doors, so that the murderer can not leave even if they were willing to risk the storm.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: The majority of the movie takes place over a typical dark and stormy night before giving way to a sunny day as we get relatively happy resolutions for the remaining characters.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Miss Oliver shares a news story with Poirot that claims Joyce Reynolds is the last woman to be tried for witchcraft by the United Kingdom. In real life, Helen Duncan, a Scottish medium, was noted to be the last person tried under the Witchcraft Act of 1735 during World War II because she inadvertently revealed the outcome of several war tragedies that the United Kingdom was trying to keep secret, and, like Joyce Reynolds, she had assistants helping her demonstrate her impossible feats while she contacted the dead.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Ariadne Oliver, of Agatha Christie herself. In-universe, Ariadne's novels star a foreign detective who obsessively makes lists, who Olga realizes is based on Hercule himself.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_e8dca77c	comment	Adaptation Origin Connection: A mild example. In the novels, Poirot was already an internationally renowned and celebrated Private Detective long before he first met Mrs. Oliver. The film however suggests that it was Mrs. Oliver's Sven Hjerson novels, loosely based on Poirot's cases, that propelled both of them to stardom in their respective domains. As such, Mrs. Oliver considers herself to have played a vital role in Poirot's success.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_eb6ea560	comment	Convenient Photograph: Or rather, a pair of them, both featuring the rooftop garden. The change in the garden's contents alerts Poirot to the fact that the garden went from a mix of wildflowers to just one plant. The first photo is a couples' photo of Maxime and Alicia, taken during their engagement. The night of the breakup, Alicia tore the photo in half. She kept the half featuring Maxime (which is found in her room), and Maxime likewise is carrying the half of the photo with Alicia in his pocket, despite getting engaged to another woman who's very rich - a clue that he's still in love with the dead Alicia. In the background, the garden is planted entirely with rhododendrons, placing it after Rowena tore up the garden and concocted a plot to keep Alicia ill and under control. The second photo features Alicia as a child, in the rooftop garden, which holds a mixture of different wildflowers. At first glance, the photograph seems to be there to identify the child Poirot hallucinated, who matches Alicia in appearance, but in reality it's visual proof of what the now-dead garden held when it was actually used to make honey, suggesting the change to a single plant is sinister.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_ec4b148	comment	Old, Dark House: The majority of the film takes place inside Rowena Drake's crumbling palazzo in the centre of Venice. According to legend, the palazzo was an orphanage and when the plague swept the city, the doctors and nurses abandoned the orphanage and sealed the children inside; leaving them to die. The palazzo is supposedly haunted by the spirits of the children who hate all doctors and nurses.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_ed7817b2	comment	Shrine to the Fallen: Rowena has made sure that Alicia's room has remained exactly as it was since the night of her death. The state of the room ends up providing Poirot with a vital clue in solving the case.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_f247d841	comment	Intoxication Ensues: Ariadne makes Poirot a cup of tea and sweetens it with a jar of honey she finds in the linen press. The honey is actually a poisonous, hallucinogenic honey extracted from rhododendrons that Rowena had used to poison her daughter Alicia and causes Poirot to suffer hallucinations over the course of the night.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_f3b590a	comment	Vengeful Ghost: The palazzo is said to be haunted by the ghosts of orphaned children that had been locked away and left to die by their doctors and nurses during the plague. The legend is that the children's ghosts will seek revenge against any doctor or nurse who enters the palazzo. Rowena ends up using this legend to throw the guests off her trail, as her two victims (Reynolds and Ferrier) are a former war nurse and a doctor, respectively. While it could have been a hallucination, at the end it appears that Alicia's ghost drags her mother off a balcony and down into the canal.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Dr. Ferrier's son Leopold is a nice kid, but he's fairly stoic, dresses in a full suit, carries a copy of Edgar Allan Poe stories everywhere, and even hints that he can commune with the dead children supposedly haunting the palazzo. Desdemona even refers to him as "the creepy kid" at one point.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: As Rowena is drowning, she reunites with Alicia's ghost (or a near-death hallucination of it).
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A Haunting in Venice / int_f8730dfc	comment	Clock Tampering: Done to provide an alibi for the murderer of Joyce Reynolds. Specifically the clock of the nearly-soundproof music room, which means the other person who was asked to wait in the room won't hear the other clocks chiming and realize the correct time.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_fbec00a4	comment	Good Luck Charm: Rowena seems to have believed her daughter to be a living one when it came to her opera career, as early in the film, she tells Poirot and Ariadne Oliver that she got her first big staring role two months after Alicia was born. She then confirms to Poirot that she will not be returning to singing, saying that she can't do it without knowing that her daughter will be waiting for her in her dressing room. This becomes far more ominous in hindsight when Maxime reveals that Rowena threw a fit over Alicia's engagement because it meant her daughter would no longer be there with her.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Nicholas and Desdemona were starving orphans hiding from the Third Reich's ethnic cleansing during World War II. Desdemona mentions that both of them tolerated sexual exploitation and harassment while working for Joyce Reynolds because "[they] have dealt with worse."
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A Haunting in Venice / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Played with, for the detecting supernatural phenomena. Harry, Alicia's formerly pet parrot, has been stuck in the same room where she died, since his cage is part of the Shrine to the Fallen, and hasn't spoken since his owner's death. Then, moments before Joyce begins speaking in Alicia's voice, he calls his former owner's name.
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A Haunting in Venice / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: This film's version of Ariadne Oliver retains Tina Fey's American accent, implying that nationality for the character, rather than British like in previous Poirot adaptatationsnote since the character is meant to be Agatha Christie's Author Avatar.
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