Fackham Hall
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Fackham Hall

Mar 05, 2026 Comedy 7.2/10 5 reviews

Fackham Hall parodies traditional period dramas like Downton Abbey and Gosford Park. The production has been described as "a continuation of the tradition of slapstick comedy classics like the Naked Gun series and Airplane!."   Fiennes Tiffany plays a new arrival, a mover, who develops an unexpected relationship with the youngest daughter (Mackenzie) of a prominent British family. Meanwhile, internal conflicts erupt within the Davenport family, with Lord and Lady Davenport (Waterston) facing the humiliating failure of their eldest daughter's (Layder) wedding to her unreliable cousin.

Writers Jimmy Carr / Patrick Carr / Andrew Dawson / Steve Dawson / Tim Inman
Cast Damian Lewis / Katherine Waterston / Thomasin McKenzie / Ben Radcliffe / Tom Felton / More...
Rating Count 4,060

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Funtreme Manor—fuck them all!

Please be happy, okay?

5.0/10 Jan 05, 2026

It's hilarious, absurd, and hilariously ridiculous! I laughed the whole time I watched it… You can't really think too much about these kinds of movies. If you think about the situation the lady of the manor and her daughters face—like Pride and Prejudice, where women have no inheritance rights and all the man's property automatically goes to his nephew after his death, leaving the lady and the girls to be kicked out (ugh, how immoral England is!), if you think about how everyone marries their cousins ​​to consolidate their family's wealth and status (that's how it is with superhumans; they'd rather have incestuous children who become mentally challenged or disabled than have impurities mixed into their noble bloodline), if you think about how the protagonist's efforts are all in vain, ultimately ending up in jail, only to reverse things through his bloodline advantage, if you think about how the two girls can't freely choose their own marriages and lives, and how they only end up living in their own house because of their cousin's charity, if you think about how the man and the housekeeper have many children but no legal status, only serving as his doormats… the absurdity masks a lot of injustice and oppression. But it's really funny! I started laughing from the moment Damian Louis appeared; he has that kind of serious yet unconsciously funny quality!! Whether it's his servant helping him smoke a cigar and scratch his chin, or the mother and daughter arguing while he almost died and then running around trying to perform Heinrich's knuckles on himself by grabbing a statue, it all cracked me up. And when he accidentally stabbed himself in the chest and did a flurry of first aid before finally dying, that was hilarious too! How come his nephew was shot several times and still didn't die? Then, when they built a statue of him and he furtively placed it behind the statue with a gun, that made me roll on the floor laughing. And the family's party was especially funny… Tolkien, the writer, constantly scouring for names and compiling them into a notebook—it felt like my own writing frenzy. And then, seriously calling out a guest's name as Lady Gaga was particularly clever, haha. In short, anyone who likes British dry humor should definitely watch this!

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Various parodies, but too vulgar.

Samsung

3.0/10 Feb 20, 2026

The plot is a cliché: a poor boy falls in love with a rich young lady, is wrongly accused of murder, and then, after many twists and turns, turns out the poor boy isn't so poor after all. The British-style humor is a bit hard to accept. The mix of various references is quite interesting, with elements from One Piece, Lord of the Rings, Hercule Poirot, and even Hitler. However, the constant shifts in the plot, with well-dressed nobles seriously appreciating the performances, create a somewhat absurd contrast. Also, the fact that the murder case doesn't require any deduction is ridiculous.

In terms of acting, the young man doesn't look handsome at first glance, but he becomes noticeably handsome when he's with a group of people. The female lead is so fair-skinned she practically glows.

The costumes in the images are gorgeous and the details are exquisite.

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The movie Fackham Hall (2025) has so many references!

muddle-headed scholar

5.0/10 Feb 05, 2026

The movie Fackham Hall (2025) is full of references; you have to listen carefully to every line, because there are so many jokes. Actually, there are many more references in the character introductions after the photo was taken: -------- After being humiliated a second time, Archibald felt his life was bleak, so he shot himself with a hunting rifle, but he missed (this corresponds to the reference to the previous two shots that failed to kill his future father-in-law). Bobby: Later, she abandoned 22 grooms at her wedding and finally broke family tradition by marrying her second cousin (now Bobby is Eric's next generation, each generation worse than the last). Mrs. Davenport dedicated the rest of her life to a movement—calling for the abolition of women's suffrage (women should remain silent). This pastor died in a bunker in Berlin in April 1945 (Hitler's bunker!, he is an image of Hitler). Dawish died in World War II at his home in Grossshire, clutching a photograph of Nightingale (who died in 1910) (his leg injury in World War I was caused by masturbation on the battlefield, so he probably attacked the nurse at home this time). After reading *The Hobbit*, Bilbo Baggins, convicted of sexually assaulting a donkey, sued author J.R.R. Tolkien, claiming the latter had tarnished his good reputation. Ross and Eric's wish finally came true; their honeymoon was in the most romantic place on earth—Blackpool (the two shared a remarkably similar worldview, insisting Blackpool was more romantic than Paris or Greece). Lord Davenport is truly dead... (Really dead, no bulletproof shield).

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The most brilliant comedy I've seen this year! How can so many British cultural references be crammed into a story reminiscent of Wuthering Heights?

Damian

4.0/10 Dec 17, 2025

The most brilliant comedy I've seen this year! How can so many British cultural references be crammed into a story reminiscent of Wuthering Heights? It's like a stand-up comedy rollercoaster interspersed with classic British comedy. The funniest jokes are the pastor's presiding, Lord of the Rings, and The Beatles. The chemistry between Thomasin and Joe Bebe is also excellent. Indeed, once the British's inner brooding passion is unleashed, no one can match it.

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This British humor is absolutely hilarious! A rare five-star slapstick comedy these days.

Rose

5.0/10 Dec 05, 2025

This British humor is absolutely hilarious! A rare five-star slapstick comedy these days. I highly recommend watching it. The priest, who's a master of punctuation, had me laughing so hard I was crowing. There are also tons of puns and overused jokes. Nobody cares about the Duke's life or death. At first, I was seriously deducing that it was a murder mystery game with several groups of people involved, but the truth behind the case is absolutely amazing—I won't spoil it for you.

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