‘I kind of lost the ability to sleep on this job,” Jessica Raine says of her role in The Devil’s Hour, the skin-crawling new horror-thriller series from Amazon. “There’s really, really nasty stuff that goes on.” The star of Call the Midwife plays Lucy, a single mother who wakes up at 3.33am every night, scared silly by a nightmare of shotguns and thumbscrews. Lucy’s waking life isn’t much better: she has a schizophrenic mother, a mysterious connection to a serial killer played by Peter Capaldi and a creepy young son who “never cries, never laughs, never gets mad” and stands over her bed while she sleeps.
During the shoot in Hampshire, Amazon, which clearly has more money than it knows what to do with,
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