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What’s good for the mongoose…

You wait ages for a review of Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose and then two come along at the same time… Daniel King and Richard Freeman offer very different views of Adam Sigal’s Gef film

Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose

Dir Adam Sigal, UK 2023 Streaming on Amazon Prime

Regular readers will be aware of Nandor Fodor and his investigation into reports of a talking mongoose. For the uninitiated, I would heartily recommend Chris Josiffe’s recent piece () to get up to speed. However, the bones of it are that in the 1930s, Nandor Fodor, a Hungarian parapsychologist, was encouraged by psychic researcher Harry Price to look into the case of the Irving family who claimed their remote farmhouse on the Isle of Man was regularly visited

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