Hurrah - A ghost story for Xmas

Nice one. :cool:

I recall BB2 showing a series of ghost stories in the mid-90s, but for the life of me, I can't remember the name of the series. There was only three episodes.
 
My favourite ghost story (and BBC have made it twice) is a young couple in a flat waking up at the same time every morning to see a Victorian dressed man murdering his wife (the blind woman from Dont Look Now) and each room in the flat has a scene from the murder. They cant stay and put the flat up for sale....only to find the buyers are the Victorian dressed man and his wife.
 
The Woman In Black was shown twice. I have it on DVD, and it's rarer then hen's teeth. It's brilliant. Terrifying. Hercule Poirot's secretary plays The Woman, and the atmosphere of dread and doom steadily builRAB, going past a couple of HUGE scares, to a horrible conclusion. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Adapted by Nigel Kneale, who could do no wrong.

Hammer is remaking, with Harry Potter as the young solicitor who gets haunted.

The West End stage version seemed a bit tired, when i saw it a few years back. Not a patch on the scary film.
 
SounRAB like it will be good. One of my favourite Ghost stories on the beeb was the signalman (I've mentioned it before on RAB). I was lucky enough to a get a copy of it on DVD through ebay for my brother last year.
 
That was an 'Out of the unknown' episode called 'The Uninvited'.
It was remade as an episode of 'The Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense', called 'In Possession'.

My favourite M.R.James 'Ghost story for Christmas' is 'A warning to the curious'.
Very atmospheric.
 
John Hurt is to do the remake of Whistle and I'll come to you.
I remember when it was first shown with Sir Michael Hordern, I thought it was really scary.
 
Cor! That sounRAB good!

Very pleased there's a new Ghost Story For Christmas coming. They did A View From A Hill a couple of years ago on BBC4, and that was very spooky.

I haven't seen A Warning To the Curious, but some of the others (The Signalman, The Stone Tape, Whistle And I'll Come To You) are excellent.
 
I remember that one. I thought it was a Hammer House of Horror thing. I seem to remember they have a birdcage as well? I think it was symbolically used but I was only very young when I saw the film.
 
My favourite, and I can't for the life of me remember the name of it, involved an American family moving into an old English estate, resident ghost was very funny but it turned out he'd been bricked in a room for some reason. I know the BBC remade it not that long ago, but I didn't watch and my memories are from the first time, when I was quite young - anyone who can supply an name from that vague description gets a cyber cup cake from me :o

Looking forward to the John Hurt one :D:cool:
 
I think they must have used elements of the plot for one of the episodes of that series a few years back with Lesley Sharp as a medium - she sees a murder but the facts don't tie up and it enRAB with her setting in train the actions for the murder to take place in the future.

Pauline Moran as the Woman in Black, saw it once 20 years ago, never forgotten...
 
The Signalman - wonderful! :)

As for "John Hurt at Christmas" - I thought "I'll die happy"... then I followed the link and saw written by Luther creator Neil Cross :cry:

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