Kenneth Branagh and his mustache are back — and this time they’re in a haunted house.

There’s something comforting about an old-fashioned murder mystery. You’ve got a colorful cast of characters, an intrepid detective, a puzzling premise, and the guarantee of a satisfying ending. It’s why Agatha Christie became a literary phenomenon and the reason starry murder mystery films helped form the backbone of the film industry. But somewhere along the line, the starry ensemble movie fell out of fashion — considered too predictable and generic to justify itself.

However, over the past few years, the murder mystery has crept back into pop culture’s good graces. It might be because when the world becomes more unpredictable and chaotic than ever, audiences want to flock to the comfortable predictability of a detective story. Or maybe it’s because of the enduring appeal of a silly little guy in a mustache. Whatever the case, no movie franchise has nailed the old-fashioned satisfaction of watching a silly mustache guy solve mysteries more than Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot series.

After three entries in the open-world RPG genre, Assassin’s Creed is looking to return to the franchise's roots with Mirage. Set in 9th-century Baghdad and telling the origin story of Valhalla’s Basim, Mirage brings back a focus on stealth and parkour.

But Narrative Director Sarah Beaulieu says one of the franchise’s most controversial story elements won’t be making a comeback in Mirage — the adventures of the modern-day Assassins.

“We chose early on not to put any of the modern-day story in Mirage,” says Beaulieu. But Ubisoft isn’t throwing out the science-fiction aspect of Assassin’s Creed altogether.