In director Jim O’Hanlon’s comedy “Fackham Hall,” everything on screen is a picture-perfect recreation of classic English period dramas such as “Downton Abbey,” “Gosford Park,” or “Upstairs, Downstairs.”

Except for the dialogue and occasional sight gags, which hilariously parody the genre as thoroughly as “The Naked Gun” spoofed cop movies or “Blazing Saddles” skewered westerns or Monty Python mocked practically everything.

“It’s really funny you should say that, because in my initial pitch, I said I want this to look like – if you had the sound down – it would look like a brand-new $50 million high-end British period drama with Damian Lewis and Thomasin McKenzie and Katherine Waterston and Tom Felton.

“All these great dramatic actors looking beautiful in these amazing costume

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