Ghost Stories for Christmas - The Definitive Collection (5-DVD set)

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Ghost Stories for Christmas - The Definitive Collection (5-DVD set)

Ghost Stories for Christmas - The Definitive Collection (5-DVD set)

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Like the earlier Whistle and I'll Come to You, the production was listed as part of the long-running BBC arts series Omnibus. However, she notes that, unlike those adaptations, the sinister tone of the period pieces could lend itself the label of a "feel bad" heritage television drama. It may lack the narrative complexity and big surprise ending of more recent cinematic genre outings, but it still shines in its excellent central performance, its canny direction, its increasingly unsettling sense of foreboding, and a final scene that, while refusing to provide pat explanations or even a real conclusion, still manages to send serious shivers up my spine on every viewing. Released alongside it is a pairing of The Stalls of Barchester (1971), starring Robert Hardy and receiving its DVD premiere, and A Warning to the Curious (1972), with Peter Vaughan, both directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark.

When the Hollywood remake machine really got going a few years ago, I remember my partner asking me why they only ever chose to remake films that didn't need remaking instead of ones that had botched up a decent idea. This release includes; WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU, both the original 1968 and the new 2010 versions, Lawrence Gordon Clark's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic THE SIGNALMAN and many more.It's when Haynes starts hearing noises and having unusual visions that the consistency falters a little, although much of the blame for this can be laid at the feet of changing times and the repeated use of some of the elements here in subsequent genre films and TV. In 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' (1974) cynical Reverend Somerton (Michael Bryant) is completely close-minded when it comes to paranormal activity. R. James, Casting The Runes for the series ITV Playhouse, produced by Yorkshire Television and first broadcast on ITV on 24 April 1979.

Later locations include Ormsby Hall and the Pelham Mausoleum at Brocklesby, Lincolnshire for Lost Hearts, Wells Cathedral, the Orchardleigh Estate, Frome and its 13th century church for The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, [27] Prideaux Place near Padstow for The Ash-Tree [28] and the Severn Valley Railway near Kidderminster for The Signalman. Of Paxton's agitation all this time I can give you no adequate picture: he breathed like a hunted beast, and we could not either of us look at his face. The ghost stories of James, an English mediaeval scholar and Provost of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, were originally narrated as Christmas entertainments to friends and selected students.

Ghost Stories For Christmas with Christopher Lee (2000, 60 mins total): BBC Scotland’s ‘talking-head horror’ series starring the iconic actor as an MR James-like raconteur of fireside Christmas ghost stories. Partly because television is not best suited to carrying off big-screen pyrotechnics, but mainly because they want to keep faith with the notion of a ghost story in its literary rather than cinematic tradition. withholding the full revelation of the supernatural until the very last moment, and centring on the suggestion of a ghostly presence rather than the horror of visceral excess and abjection. In the story, he is a young innocent who stumbles across the legend by chance whilst making architectural studies of local churches, whereas in the film he is an older, more secretive man who arrives in Seaburg with the very specific intention of locating and retrieving the crown.

The first essay, by playwright, actor and theatre director Reggie Oliver, examines James’s story, Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad,before making the case for the strengths of Jonathan Miller’s film adaptation, which he describes as “one of the finest ghost story adaptations ever created. But there's still something oddly disconcerting about the idea of furniture carved out of wood from something known as The Hanging Tree by a man known as Austin the Twice-Born. Fanshawe (Mark Letheren) visits his friend, Squire Richard (Pip Torrens), and, having broken his own binoculars, borrows a pair through which he can see into the past. The second takes place the following evening when Paxton's room is plunged into darkness and the light from his rolling torch reveals the hunched figure of Ager, who slowly begins to rise to look back at Paxton before the room is once again plunged into blackness, as scary a sequence as I've seen in a made-for-TV ghost story.With a courage which I do not think can be common among boys of his age, he went to the door of the bathroom to ascertain if the figure of his dreams were really there.



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