A gripping and stylish thriller movie is on TV tonight

The 2023 film has a star-studded cast.

A follow-up to 2017's Murder on the Orient Express and 2022's Death on the Nile, Branagh also stars in the 2023 mystery thriller as legendary gentleman sleuth Hercule Poirot.

Adapting Christie's novel Hallowe'en Party but shifting the action to the titular Italian city a couple of years after WWII, the standalone sequel's story sees a retired Poirot reluctantly attend a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo.

"When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets," the plot synopsis adds.

Alongside Branagh, the cast of the mystery thriller includes Camille Cottin (Call My Agent), Jamie Dornan (Anthropoid), Jude Hill (Belfast), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Tina Fey (30 Rock).

A Haunting in Venice is easily the best of Branagh's adaptations of Christie.

This is thanks to the movie's gorgeous setting, as well as its more stylised, horror-influenced atmosphere and direction, an unexpected creative choice that actually fits perfectly with the sequel's story, as it flirts with the supernatural.

A Haunting in Venice is on TV tonight on RTÉ One at 9.30pm. It is also streaming on Disney+.

For JOE's list of the other films airing this evening, click here.