Interview with a Poltergeist is a 2007 British documentary broadcast on Channel 4, examining the Enfield Poltergeist case thirty years after the events themselves. Running 45 minutes, it aired on 6 March 2007 — five months after the death of Maurice Grosse, the case's principal investigator, who had been interviewed for the documentary before he died, giving it a posthumous quality to his participation.
Format
The documentary is widely regarded as a balanced, well-made account of the case, drawing on interviews with all the central figures still living at the time — Janet and Margaret Hodgson, Maurice Grosse, and Guy Lyon Playfair — alongside SPR members, doctors involved in the original case, and a sceptical commentator. It also includes footage of the police officers who attended the Hodgson family's original 1977 call, along with archival material from the initial investigation.
In the documentary, Janet Hodgson reflected on the events three decades on, describing them as something that had lived off her own energy and stating she believed the presence remained with her in some sense, regardless of how others chose to interpret what happened.
Reception and legacy
The documentary is often cited by both proponents and sceptics of the case as one of the more even-handed treatments of Enfield, in contrast to some of the more sensationalised dramatisations that followed, including Sky Living's 2015 miniseries The Enfield Haunting and Apple TV+'s 2023 miniseries The Enfield Poltergeist.