You’ve potentially heard the phrase ‘mad as a box of frogs’ – but probably not ‘mad as a Hungarian parapsychologist chasing down a talking mongoose called Gef’.
Welp, you’re in luck, because that’s exactly what Simon Pegg’s Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose is all about.
The film has a fantastic cast line-up, including Simon Pegg, Christopher Llyod, and Minnie Driver – along with the voice of Neil Gaiman as Gef!
Pegg stars as Dr. Nandor Fodor, “a real-life, famed Hungarian-American psychoanalyst, author, journalist and ‘parapsychologist’ who was a leading authority on poltergeists, hauntings and other paranormal phenomena and in the 1930s advanced the theory that such hauntings could be the result of past unresolved mental tensions.”
And it’s actually based on a true story! Gef was allegedly talking mongoose who had apparently moved in with a family on the Isle of Man in the 1930s. The story got the attention of ghost hunters, as well as the British tabloids at the time!
Why had I never heard of this?! Do you ever get mongoose’s in Britain?
Aaaaaanyway, here’s the synopsis:
When famed paranormal psychologist Dr. Nandor Fodor investigates a family’s claims of a talking animal, he uncovers a mysterious web of hidden motives. Soon, everyone becomes a suspect in Dr. Fodor’s relentless pursuit of the truth.
Lloyd takes on the role of Doctor Price, a renowned psychic researcher and author who’s also… been somehow swept into this madness. Nandor’s assistant is played by Driver, and Paul Kaye plays Maurice.
Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose is out in cinemas on September 1st.
Source: GeekTyrant
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