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Crowds mill listlessly around a disused Shredded Wheat factory in Welwyn Garden City. A besuited Julian Barratt prowls the crumbling concrete floor with intent. As Nick Frost whispers in the ear of director Jim Field Smith, Malcolm McDowell wanders over. “I’ve never been that keen on Shredded Wheat myself,” he confides. “I found it rather dry.”

It’s an appropriately surreal, unsettling and wryly funny introduction to , Amazon Prime’s horror comedy following odd-couple broadband engineers Gus (Frost) and Elton (Samson Kayo). Their sideline in amateur paranormal investigation sends them

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