The BBC adaptation bears little relation to the original story, in which there is no reference to the issue of women in universities that has been inexplicably shoehorned in. Nor is there anything in the story resembling the frankly ridiculous events in the last five minutes of the adaptation, which wouldn't make it into a Scooby Doo episode. The narration of Mezzotint by Robert Powell, one of a series of MR James short stories from a few years back, is a far more effective fright.
Review of The Mezzotint
The Mezzotint
(2021 TV Movie)
Bears little relation to the original terrifying story
27 December 2021