Based on the gothic novella of the same name (first published in the 2010 collection Full Dark, No Stars), 1922 tells the story of Wilfred James, a farmer grimly clinging to his family land in 1920s Nebraska.

When his free-spirited wife Arlette (Molly Parker) inherits a significant plot of farmland, Wilfred (Thomas Jane) assumes that she’ll hand the money over to him so that he can keep the farm he’s worked on all his life. Arlette, though, has dreams of her own: she wants to sell so the family can move to Omaha, “or even St. Louis!”

All she wants is to throw off the drudgery of their country life, head to the big city and carve out a new future for herself and her family. One which doesn’t involve her slaving away in the kitchen every single day. One which might see her make something of herself. And, above all else, one which doesn’t see her cut off from her friends, family and the rest of the world on an isolated plot of land.

Wilf, however, is disgusted by the idea of city living. In his eyes, Arlette’s plan to sell her acreage to a hog-farming combine would pollute his land, and giving in would mean either living in the city or divorcing her – and probably losing their 14-year-old son, Henry (Dylan Schmid), to her custody.

So Wilf quietly plans to murder his wife, and to bring Henry in on the act to assure the boy’s silence and lock him to the land.

This Netflix horror about beyond-the-grave ex revenge is perfect Halloween TV