Murder on the Blackpool Express

Murder on the Blackpool Express
Directed by Simon Delaney
Produced by Jim Poyser
Written by Jason Cook
Starring Johnny Vegas
Sian Gibson
Nigel Havers
Una Stubbs
Susie Blake
Sheila Reid
Kimberley Nixon
Nina Wadia
Griff Rhys Jones
Katy Cavanagh
Kevin Eldon
Release date
 11 November 2017
Running time
 91 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Murder on the Blackpool Express is a 2017 comedy drama television film created by Jason Cook. Starring Johnny Vegas, Sian Gibson, Nigel Havers, Una Stubbs, Griff Rhys Jones, Nina Wadia, Sheila Reid, Kimberley Nixon, and Kevin Eldon.[1][2][3]

Synopsis

When a Murder Mystery Tour goes horribly wrong with a murder of an OAP, it is up to the bus driver to solve the murder before all of the passengers are killed.

Plot

The film begins when Drapers Literart Tours pick up the passengers at their first stop, we meet the different characters as they get on the bus, Gemma gets confronted by her ex-boyfriend before driving off to the first location, a cathedral, at the location however Marge becomes the first murder victim as she is choked to death with a Coronation Chicken bap shoved into her mouth, when trying to find a restroom.

However instead of stopping the tour, David allows the tour to the next location. At a gorge, Moira gets mad at her carer who forgot her watercolours.She becomes the next victim when she gets pushed off a gorge cliff face. After being questioned by police the tour head off to another location, however the murderer gets onto bus, they make it to their next location at a lodge, where it's a costumed dinner party where everyone dressed as character from murder books. Thinking that they're safe from death, they see David supposedly dead however he was only knocked out. As tensions mount, everyone begins accusing Graham on being the murder, though in the scuffle, his bag falls and an urn containing ashes of his wife fall out. Terry decides on keeping everyone around as he tells everyone to head to their rooms. As everyone sleeps for the night, Kevin the mentally challenge passenger ends up going out for a smoke, when the killer using the missing axe, beheads him in the night.

Terry decides that enough is enough and comes up with the plan of having the tour ending prematurely deciding to skip ahead to Blackpool. As the tour get set to leave, the killer calls the Blackpool police ahead of the tour.Doc decides to stay back with the recently killed Kevin as respect. As they get to Blackpool, Terry gets falsely arrested, the tour heads onwards to the Blackpool Tower, as Gemma's boyfriend comes out from the luggage area of the coach. After Terry leaves the police station, he confronts Gemma's ex in the bus, revealing he was the one who was stalking Gemma and not the killer, having evidence of the attack of David, turning out David clubbed himself with a brick as he is known as the "killer". As everyone goes after the writer, it turns out that he only clubbed himself in the head to get the tour back on track. David reveals that he was not the actual writer as it was written by a woman called Mary Bishop. It turns out that Laura Bishop, Moira's carer was the murder all along. She confronts Gemma as she looks to murder her as she talks about how David stole her mothers work and she got revenge killing those about her, she attacks Gemma however is stopped by Terry but she escapes, she then chases after David confronting him in an arcade, as Terry is almost killed, George saves the day and hits Laura in the back of the head with a Blackpool Tower statue.

By the end, Laura is arrested by the police,Terry gets praised for his work saving everyone else as we see Graham sending his wife's ashes over the end of the pier as we finish the film with Graham stating he killed his wife when one of the tour passengers asked how she died as we zoom out from the survivors of the murder mystery.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Guide, British Comedy. "Murder On The Blackpool Express - Gold Comedy Drama - British Comedy Guide". British Comedy Guide.
  2. ↑ Guide, British Comedy (10 July 2017). "Johnny Vegas and Sian Gibson star in Murder On The Blackpool Express".
  3. ↑ Morris, Sophie (10 July 2017). "Johnny Vegas and Sian Gibson to star in new murder mystery comedy show".

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