Requiem (2018 series)

Summary

An ambitious musician and talented cellist, has her life suddenly turned upside down when her mother commits suicide. While going through her deceased mom's possessions, the cellist finds an old box filled with newspaper cuttings about the disappearance of a young girl from a small Welsh village more than 20 years ago. With her trusted friend by her side, she travels to Wales to see if the case of the missing girl and her own mother's death are in any way related. What she finds out, however, leads her to question her own identity and reality.

Details

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• Release Date: 2018
• Country/Language: UK, English
• Genres/Technical: Horror, Mystery, miniseries
• Setting: Modern Wales
• Runtime: 6 hr
• Starring: Lydia Wilson, James Frecheville, Sian Reese-Williams
• Creator: Kris Mrksa
• Producer/Production Co: Netflix, All3Media International, BBC One, New Pictures
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Ratings

MPAA Ratings

• Rated: TV-MA (mild Profanity and Adult Content, and probably Violence)

Tentacle Ratings

A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:

• SSs__ (Two and a Half Tentacles: Almost Lovecraftian; similar in tone)

The gothic secrets at the heart of the plot hinge upon a group of cultists practicing Enochian magick to contact a strange race of alien/supernatural "angelic" beings from another dimension.

Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.

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An ambitious musician and talented cellist, has her life suddenly turned upside down when her mother commits suicide. While going through her deceased mom's possessions, the cellist finds an old box filled with newspaper cuttings about the disappearance of a young girl from a small Welsh village more than 20 years ago. With her trusted friend by her side, she travels to Wales to see if the case of the missing girl and her own mother's death are in any way related. What she finds out, however, leads her to question her own identity and reality. The gothic secrets at the heart of the plot hinge upon a group of cultists practicing Enochian magick to contact a strange race of alien/supernatural "angelic" beings from another dimension.

Notes

Comments, Trivia, Dedication

• The symbol carved on the stone in episode 2 is the Monas Hieroglyphica (or Hieroglyphic Monad), an esoteric symbol invented and designed by Dr. John Dee, the Elizabethan Magus and Court Astrologer of Elizabeth I of England.

Associated Mythos Elements

• tome: if the shoebox of clippings doesn't count after a fashion, then at least the walls of unearthly music/ritual recordings in the hidden room should
• artifact: black mirror
• symbol: Monas Hieroglyphica, an invention of John Dee
• races:
  • Elementals
  • Human Cultists