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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This is brought home through Miller's refusal to over-dramatise key moments, with the discovery of the whistle and the reading of its inscription presented in an almost everyday manner, and no dramatic music or creepy camera movements to hammer home their significance. The critical reception of the films has been varied, but several are regarded as classic television ghost stories.

The black cat that scratches and cries in the night is the key offender here, having been recycled since by any number of giallo and Poe-influenced films, while the voices that Haynes hears at night would probably have been more unsettling if they didn't consist solely of dialogue from early scenes, making them play more like memories than hauntings. The image is once again crisper in some shots than others, but at its best it impresses, and once again a noticeable upgrade on the previous DVD. 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. But of the TV adaptations, for many of us the 1968 version of Whistle and I'll Come to You still stands as the finest. R. James, the film version of A Warning to the Curious makes some significant changes to the original text, particularly in the character and intentions of Paxton.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. On the plus side, John Hurt expertly captures the loneliness of a man facing a future without the woman who has been his companion for most of his adult life.

A number of the adaptations were made available in Region 4 format in Australia in 2011 and The Signalman is included as an extra on the Region 1 American DVD release of the 1995 BBC production of Hard Times. I saw most of these programmes when they were originally broadcast and have always wanted to see them again. These range from the terrifying rustling of sheets in a supposedly unoccupied bed, to the sharp noise that pulls Parkins out of his nightmare, a trick that was effectively repurposed five years later to equally jarring effect in William Friedkin's standard-setting The Exorcist. The passing of time, of course, has provided some pointers here, and there will surely be few for whom the prospect of an old man inviting wayward young orphans back to his isolated house to stay does not set off a small bell of alarm.Neil Brand provides a nicely animated reading of the story on which Miller’s film is based, and unless you have a major aversion to someone else supplying voices to characters you prefer to create in your head, this is most enjoyable listen. R. James for the screen than Jonathan Miller, and highlighting the strengths of this first official film in the series, which he clearly holds in high regard. Each instalment is a separate adaptation of a short story, ranges between 30 and 50 minutes in duration, and features well-known British actors such as Clive Swift, Robert Hardy, Peter Vaughan, Edward Petherbridge and Denholm Elliott.

In 'Stigma' (1977) Katherine Delgado (Kate Binchy) and her family move into a new home but have difficulty removing a menhir from their garden.McCusker, Eamonn, " A Warning to the Curious - DVD review Archived 1 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine". This may explain why he is seated so that his face is in shadow, and the sound was appears to have been recorded with the on-camera mic – the acoustics of the room are less than ideal, and there is the sort of hum running quietly in the background that I tend to associate with camera noise.



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