Sean Pertwee stares into the abyss for 88 minutes—and the abyss blinks first.
Acting
Pertwee's Macbeth unravels like a man who invited evil in for tea.
Direction
Bogdanov strips Shakespeare bare—no castle grandeur, just corridors of dread.
Director
Michael Bogdanov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was part of a Channel 4 initiative to film all Shakespeare plays with 'name' actors on shoestring budgets—hence the 88-minute sprint.
Released the same year as Polanski's 1971 version finally hit DVD, this TV movie became the 'other' Macbeth nobody asked for but some prefer.
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