In a "live" broadcast on Halloween night, a BBC team investigate a reported poltergeist in an ordinary London home.In a "live" broadcast on Halloween night, a BBC team investigate a reported poltergeist in an ordinary London home.In a "live" broadcast on Halloween night, a BBC team investigate a reported poltergeist in an ordinary London home.
- Pamela Early
- (as Bríd Brennan)
- Emma Stableford
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- TriviaIt earned the dubious honour of being the first TV programme to be cited in the British Medical Journal as having caused Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children.
- GoofsWhen the Policewoman enters the house you can see her smiling like shes out of character.
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[last lines]
Michael Parkinson: The studio's... completely dark. Just... just blackness. All the lights have failed. The... the power's gone off.
[phosphorescent glow rises]
Michael Parkinson: We've... got some lights in the studio. I don't know... there's cameras, but I don't know which one's working... I mean... there are no... No camermen! I mean... it's difficult to know even if anybody's still... still with us, but if they are, this is the scene in this studio... this totally deserted studio.
[cats start to shriek in background]
Michael Parkinson: Autocue's still working...!..."Round and round the garden... like a teddy bear?"
[stiffens]
Ghost: [speaking through Parkinson] Didn't believe that story about Mother Seddons, did you? Fee... fie... foe... fum.
[cats shriek as camera dies]
- ConnectionsEdited into Screen One: Ghostwatch (1992)
The first time I watched it I was fifteen and had missed the initial credits, and was well suckered in. Not quite daft enough to believe it was real, but there was still a pure sense of dread as cheesy TV presenters like Mike Smith and Sarah Greene seemingly got involved in a live Halloween broadcast that got out of hand. I did sit there thinking 'is this real or not?' - can't imagine what I would have though had I been younger, though.
Tons of subtleties abound, as the tension builds and things move from the cheery British documentary to full-blown paranormal chaos. I won't go into the details here because it's worth watching fresh. My wife didn't think it was that scary (although she enjoyed it) but she said that was down to knowing it was a hoax.
Still a classic though. A definite must-watch for any horror fan.
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- Oct 11, 2012
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