The ghost‑hunting team · The Presenter · Mary Kelly
Eileen Daly
Four decades in British horror — Razor Blade Smile, Cradle of Fear, Pervirella, 25+ features and no permission asked for any of it. Here she fronts the ghost‑hunting show as its presenter, and steps back through time as Mary Kelly herself. Both ends of the story, one performer.
The ghost‑hunting team · The Priest
Nathan Head
A familiar face in British indie horror — Dracula: Rise of the Vampire, Hellriser, Theatre of Fear, The Toymaker. Off‑camera, a paranormal presenter who fronted Apparitions (Prime, Tubi) and Cold Blood. Here he plays the show’s resident priest, and a bit of a charlatan with it.
The ghost‑hunting team · Medium to the Stars
Peter Jakeson
Comedy or heavy drama, he’ll take either — but he thrives as the villain. Lead in the award‑winning The Hit, Gaffer in Cannes‑recognised The Take, Moriarty, and Dracula in Dracula: Rise of the Vampire, where he first met this crew. He plays the medium to the stars, the one who claims he can reach the other side.
The ghost‑hunting team · The Medium
Heather Waugh
Actor, former model, writer and voice artist. A national‑press glamour model at 19, retired at 36 — until a 40‑year friendship with Eileen pulled her back to the screen for She’s a Bitch. She returns as the team’s medium, reading the stones and the tarot.
The ghost‑hunting team · The Camera Girl
Tricia Blades
Thames Television, then crime reporting, then Teletext — where she ran Bamboozle. A childhood friend of Eileen’s, bonded young over true crime and Spiritualism. Camera Girl in She’s a Bitch, and camera girl again here. Calls herself a reluctant actress. She isn’t acting the Ripper obsession.
Cast · Jack the Ripper
Kurt Dirt
Filmmaker, composer, musician and actor. He started out scoring for Troma — Return to Nuke ’Em High among them — before moving in front of the camera, where he’s built a name playing memorable villains in independent horror: Dracula: Rise of the Vampire, One Night in Rila. He directed the cult shot‑on‑video feature Life is Cheap, and when he isn’t on a set he’s touring internationally with disco‑punk band Hot Pink Sewage. Here he’s the man in the top hat — the one still walking the corridor when everyone else has failed.
Cast · The Voodoo Spiritualist
Pauline Peart
Miss Jamaica, then England in 1966, and within a few years a Hammer basement with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing — a vampire bride in The Satanic Rites of Dracula, the last of the Lee Dracula run. The same year, Gloria Winch in Carry On Girls; later Arthur Lowe’s secretary in the Man About the House film, and Sean Connery’s girlfriend in Cuba. Gothic, comedy and thriller inside a single decade — and one of very few Jamaican‑born actresses of her era to take prominent roles in both British horror and British comedy, which is history whether the industry said so at the time or not. Here she’s the one they call when everything else has failed: a Voodoo spiritualist out of New Orleans, flown into a rotting Victorian house in East London because the priest, the medium and the tarot reader have all come up empty. She works the house. She cleanses it properly, room by room. And Jack is still there in the morning.
