Ghostwatch [Blu-ray]

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A retrospective documentary, Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains, based on the film's lasting impact, was released on DVD in 2013 (having been in production between 2007 and 2012), featuring interviews with many of the original cast and crew. It too was made available as part of the BBC Store Frightmares collection, and shortly after release, the BFI Mediatheque. Limited Edition Booklet: Includes ‘Extra Sensory Perception Management’ by Sarah Appleton, ‘Ghostwatch – As it Happened’ by Tim Murray and short story ‘31/10’ by Ghostwatch writer Stephen Volk https://web.archive.org/web/20101214115633/https://www.stephenvolk.net/31-10.pdf PDF file of '31/10' – the sequel to Ghostwatch Greene) an actress named Gillian Bevan, appearing as a supposed expert in paranormal phenomena named Dr. Lin Pascoe, here commenting

Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains DVD – NOW AVAILABLE". Lawmanproductions.co.uk. 31 October 2012 . Retrieved 31 October 2017. The film followed a paranormal investigation presented as a live TV broadcast, a unique idea at the time, and was aired on the BBC on 31st October 1992. To say that audiences were unprepared for it is a grand understatement. We'll be here with updates right through the... year?". Ghostwatchbtc.com. 1 October 2013 . Retrieved 31 October 2017. What if Ghostwatch wasn’t a hoax? That those events millions of us witnessed were real? What if Ghostwatch depicted a real-life haunting but the BBC had to cover it up as a drama? A show they were not ashamed of, as the public perception of it was, but, terrified of – of the very real monster it had created.For many this Halloween TV special from 1992 has remained ingrained in their memory. Was it real or pure fiction many asked at the time? Fogarty, Y; Morrison, F; Fulton, J D (12 March 1994). "The terror of television. Made worse by family stress". British Medical Journal. 308 (6930): 714. doi: 10.1016/S0378-7206(96)01068-3. PMC 2539415. PMID 8142802. Orson Welles' infamous Halloween radio broadcast of that other Wells' The War of the Worlds remains perhaps the single most famous example of a fictional media event being perceived as reality. There I was only 10 when Ghostwatch aired, just the right age to watch and be impacted by the film, but I didn’t actually see it. I distinctly remember everyone talking about it afterwards at school though. It became legendary and I’ve wanted to watch it ever since, though the over-inflated playground talk about the film has made me a little wary of approaching this reportedly terrifying piece of television.

viewed on a smaller screen. Some may feel I'm being overly generous with even a middling 3.0 score, but after having seen several seasons of However, with publicity such as a Radio Times article that the cast conducted as though they were about to conduct a real investigation, and those trusted celebrities – who had played the investigation for jovial laughs before the tone terrifyingly shifted mid-show – appeared to truly fear for their lives as strange things rumbled in the Northolt night, millions wondered if a real life haunting was going on. Hundreds of thousands of calls were made to complain or enquire following the broadcast, and school playgrounds the next day were filled with pupils wondering if Parky really had been possessed and if the beloved Sarah Greene really had been captured by a malevolent spirit in the cupboard under the stairs. Midway through the production, Craig Charles has a natter with other residents of Foxhill Drive by the neighbourhood haunted playground that’s previously played host to a pregnant Labrador’s butchering (‘The kids weren’t right for weeks’), before going for a chat with Arthur Lacey, professional exorcist. Lacey can’t be that good at his job because, in among the crowd behind him, there stands Raymond Tunstall in all his partially eaten glory in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it manifestation. Ghostwatch is presented as a live broadcast, hosted by Michael Parkinson, in an attempt to present concrete evidence of paranormal phenomena. To achieve this, the programme launches an on-air investigation into a house in the fictional Foxhill Drive, Northolt, Greater London. Pamela Early ( Brid Brennan) and her daughters Suzanne (Michelle Wesson) and Kim (Cherise Wesson) are tormented by a poltergeist referred to by Kim as “Mr. Pipes”, his name originating from the noises made by the house’s plumbing. Pipes routinely possesses and harms Suzanne, and is said to dwell in the house’s basement, referred to as the “Glory Hole”.

This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Included in this limited edition are a 30th anniversary documentary and a new booklet. You can see the full list of extras below. The premise of the thing is pretty sneaky - take a handful of recognizable and respected British news personalities such as Michael Parkinson, Sarah Green, Mike Smith and Craig Charles (all playing themselves), set some of them up in the studio and send a team out to a haunted house to investigate the supposed hauntings that occur there on a regular basis. Broadcast the entire thing over live TV and unleash some extremely frightening imagery onto an unsuspecting and surprisingly gullible populace and voila, you’ve got yourself a bit of a horror classic.