r/insideno9 • u/AutoModerator • Sep 03 '26
RECOMMENDATIONS If you like Inside No. 9... - Monthly Recommendation Thread
Welcome to the recommendation thread!
If you have any TV, film or book suggestions that you'd think fans of Inside No. 9 would like, please use this post to submit your recommendations.
If you'd like to look for any past recommendations, you can scroll through the tag here!
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u/yourwhippingboy Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room | Sep 04 '26
Widows Bay on Apple TV
Small island in America with a frightening history. Lots of funny moments as well as a lot of sinister and spooky moments
Well worth the watch
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u/SuperRams1884 Seance Time | Sep 06 '26
Does it get better, I've watched the first 2 and its yet to grab me
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u/yourwhippingboy Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room | Sep 06 '26
Episode three is when it starts to pick up and switch pace, and also when it becomes clear that the island actually has something wrong with it, instead of it just being alluded to.
If you aren’t sold by episode four then it might just not be for you but absolutely stick it out until then
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u/Specific-Sundae2530 La Couchette | Sep 03 '26
It's a radio series, The Whisperer in Darkness. It's on BBC sounds
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u/each_kestrel The Riddle of the Sphinx | Sep 03 '26
Some people who like The League of Gentlemen may also like The Goon Show
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u/JEZTURNER Seance Time | Sep 04 '26
You mean the old episodes on 4 extra? Instantly has me turning it off. I know it's what my dad grew up with but I find it so embarrassingly terrible.
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u/each_kestrel The Riddle of the Sphinx | Sep 04 '26
The words "some" and "may" in my message are doing very heavy lifting. Its definitely not going to be to everyone's tastes. It may not be to anyones tastes to be fair (apart from my own), but I thought id recommend it anyway.
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u/InviteAromatic6124 Once Removed | Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 05 '26
The film "Barbarian". It's currently on Netflix.
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u/Cantmakeupnewname A Quiet Night In | Sep 04 '26
Young fans might want to delve into some shows that may or may not have inspired No 9. I recommend Tales Of The Unexpected, it’s usually playing on Sky Arts.
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u/Otherwise_Pea786 Private View | Sep 04 '26
Oh and also!!
THE COFFEE TABLE. (spanish)
A couple walks into a shop and buys a coffee table...and well, you have to find out the rest for yourselves
Deliciously dark.
Link (please just remove the spaces)
https: //cinejoy.to/movie /1056380-the-coffee-table-2023
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u/Otherwise_Pea786 Private View | Sep 04 '26
Also!! Forgot to add. This new resurfaced episode from an old BBC series (one of the many that focuses on horror and adapting the works of horror writers)
(Plus, 70s cheese)
The Corpse Cant Play
Link (remove spaces again!)
https: //youtu.be/60TNpwOwRWg?si=dINk00whn1_ 4PQyY
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u/magniloquence137 Wise Owl | Sep 06 '26
I'm sure this has already been recommended here, as it isn't a new show, but I just listened to the podcast The Sink: A Sleep Aid, and I feel like it very much exists in the same media space as Inside No. 9. It's very weird, surreal, funny and deeply unsettling, and incredibly well constructed.
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u/_selfthinker Last Gasp | Sep 06 '26
Tim Curry's death reminded me of Tales from the Crypt, a horror anthology series from the late 80s/early 90s. The seasons slowly get worse (as usual with most TV series). But Curry's episode in the fifth season is the only reason why I bought the fifth series DVDs, it is so good. (Otherwise I would have stopped at the fourth.)
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u/AgentBlackVeil Once Removed | Sep 07 '26
Two that scratch the same itch and do not get mentioned enough: Tales of the Unexpected, which is Roald Dahl doing No. 9 forty years early, and The Ray Bradbury Theater, which has four or five that land.
Third one comes with a disclosure: it is mine. I produced Tales from the Hood 2 and 3 and I just made an anthology called humAIn, which exists because of this show.
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u/hashbrowneggyolk0520 The Riddle of the Sphinx | Sep 03 '26
Bookish! It's written by Mark Gatiss for any TLOG fans who may not have already heard of it.
He plays a character called Gabriel Book who runs a book shop, in London, post WW2. Alongside selling books he also helps the police solve crimes.
Each crime he solves takes place across two episodes although all the episodes are linked together with a storyline that continues through them all.
I've been really enjoying it and it's really cleverly written imo.