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{{ShowInfobox
|name=The Enfield Haunting
|type=Supernatural drama miniseries
|network=Sky Living
|presenter=Timothy Spall, Matthew Macfadyen
|first_aired=3 May 2015
|status=Ended
}}

'''The Enfield Haunting''' is a 2015 British three-part drama miniseries broadcast on Sky Living, dramatising the real-world [[Enfield Poltergeist]] case of 1977–1979. Directed by Kristoffer Nyholm, it stars Timothy Spall as [[Maurice Grosse]] and Matthew Macfadyen as [[Guy Lyon Playfair]], the two [[Society for Psychical Research]] investigators who led the original case.

== Format ==
Loosely based on Playfair's 1980 book ''[[This House Is Haunted: The True Story of a Poltergeist]]'', the series follows Grosse and Playfair's investigation of the Hodgson family's council house in [[Enfield]], [[:Category:North London|North London]], while weaving in Grosse's own recent bereavement — the death of his daughter, also named Janet, in a motorcycle accident the previous year — as emotional backdrop to his dedication to the case. The series takes the dramatisation further into horror territory than a strictly documentary account, drawing comparisons to ''The Exorcist'' in its later episodes.

== Reception ==
The Enfield Haunting drew a generally positive response for its performances, particularly Spall's portrayal of Grosse's grief-driven investment in the case, alongside criticism for its heightened, increasingly horror-inflected treatment of events compared to more restrained documentary accounts such as Channel 4's ''[[Interview with a Poltergeist]]''.

== Legacy ==
The series is one of several screen dramatisations of the Enfield case, alongside the 2016 film ''[[The Conjuring 2]]'' and the 2007 documentary ''[[Interview with a Poltergeist]]''. Unlike ''The Conjuring 2'', which frames the case through American investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, The Enfield Haunting centres the real British investigators who led the original case.

== See also ==
* [[Enfield Poltergeist]]
* [[Maurice Grosse]]
* [[The Conjuring 2]]
* [[Interview with a Poltergeist]]

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