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Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.220.19.195
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 02:46 pm: | |
Is 'Ghost Watch', the early 90's telemovie/mockumentary , worth buying on DVD? Any opinions would be appreciated. |
Des (Des)
Username: Des
Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.161.241.208
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 02:56 pm: | |
I saw this when it was first on TV. Michael Parkinson and Sarah Greene. Probably the scariest screen entertainment I've ever seen. But that was then, and I knew nothing about it, and believed it was what it said it was. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 05:23 pm: | |
Yeah, Sarah Greene was pretty scary. She looks very good now, though. For. Her. Age. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 05:30 pm: | |
Badoom-tish! |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 05:37 pm: | |
It's brilliant. I would not hesitate. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 05:39 pm: | |
In all seriousness, when it was originally aired I didn't watch it beyond the first ten minutes because it was opbviously a put-on. So I can't comment beyond that. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 05:47 pm: | |
That doesn't matter. It still delivers as a very disturbing and rather risque ghost story. |
Des (Des)
Username: Des
Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.161.241.208
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 06:00 pm: | |
I didn't watch it beyond the first ten minutes because it was opbviously a put-on ========== You're a smarter lad than I am, then. :-( It is actually brilliant. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 06:15 pm: | |
I agree with Gary and Des - it's brilliant (and I'm convinced it was a major influence on The Blair Witch Project). |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 06:19 pm: | |
Even the menu is scary. You can tell it's put on a bit, but once you accept it as drama it's really very, very effective. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 06:19 pm: | |
In a Kneale/Quatermass sense, too. |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.123.101
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 06:21 pm: | |
It scared the bejesus out of me at the time - I don't think it has been repeated because of the sheer willies it put up people. Highly recommended. And no, I had no idea it was a put up job. gcw |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 06:24 pm: | |
An autistic lad killed himself and it caused a bit of a fuss. He thought it was real. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 07:23 pm: | |
Really? You didn't see it was a fake? Mind, I had the advantage of being a surly teenager and seeing conspiracies everywhere. Especially on duff TV. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 07:24 pm: | |
Oh, hang on. Early 90s? I thought it was late 80s. I was a slow developer. Kodak hadn't been invented. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 07:24 pm: | |
I never saw it at the time, and when i saw it later I knew it was fake because I'd been told. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 07:28 pm: | |
Zed and I went to see this in Manchester with an interview afterwards with Stephen Volk. He said a woman had written to him and said that her elderly husband had soiled himself while watching Ghostwatch. Volk took great delight in claiming to be the only horror who'd ever actually made someone literally shit himself. Forgive my crudity. |
Des (Des)
Username: Des
Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.161.241.208
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 07:49 pm: | |
That was me. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 07:51 pm: | |
On the edge of your seat, were you? |
Des (Des)
Username: Des
Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.161.241.208
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 07:55 pm: | |
I was in a panic. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 08:01 pm: | |
A nappy might have been more useful. |
Des (Des)
Username: Des
Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.161.241.208
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 08:29 pm: | |
They don't call me Mr Poo Poo for nothing. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 08:47 pm: | |
I caught on about half way through, but only because I recognised the actress who played the mum from a TV advert. I also missed the first few minutes (and the opening credits), which helped convince me it might be real. I basically caught the show cold, having heard nothing about it. I was genuinely terrified for the first 40-45 minutes. It becomes obvious that it's a put-on as the play progresses, but the early scenes are very convincing. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 10:11 pm: | |
A similar thing happened to me when watching HUMAN REMAINS starring Rob Brydon as an obnoxious husband to be, Zed. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 10:12 pm: | |
I caught it halfway through. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 10:00 am: | |
It's funny, but out of context even ridiculous things can be unnerving. As a kid, I remember overhearing a report on telly (I couldn't see the screen) that England was at war with Spain and that the attack was due any day now. I was genuinely fearful until I got to the telly and saw John Craven dressed like Francis Drake; it was a Newsround special designed to report news from the past. |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67
| Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 12:53 pm: | |
He's a bastard that Craven. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 01:34 pm: | |
He isn't, isn't he? Now he's weaving his particular brand of malevolency on Farmers' Outlook. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.84.68
| Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 01:39 pm: | |
Echoes of The War of the Worlds and Orson Welles - almost, Gary. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 02:25 pm: | |
Craven is far sexier than Welles. |
Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 58.170.217.117
| Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 02:28 pm: | |
OK - sold! Where's the best place to order DVD's from in the UK? |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 02:40 pm: | |
Craven...weird jumpers...children... |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 03:08 pm: | |
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Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.123.101
| Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 09:35 pm: | |
I was the same as Zed...I remember it well...i had been out with my Girfriend of the time (yes! an earlier one....like Captain Pike in Star Trek!) and flipped it on 5 minutes in. Totally unaware. the best way to see it.Imagine my mounting horror. Marvellous. It's like that first fuck. You just can't get it back. gcw |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 09:43 pm: | |
We're not all dockers here, Gcw. |
Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 98.220.71.248
| Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 04:29 am: | |
What the *&$! is Ghost Watch? |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.180.119
| Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 04:34 am: | |
Here you go:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200659/ Ghostwatch (1992) (TV) |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.51.96
| Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 12:08 pm: | |
GC; I envy you that experience. Er, not a first f**k. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.51.96
| Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 12:12 pm: | |
Anyone from the north remember Friday Night Live? I think it was called that. It was someone like the guy off Clapperboard and this woman taking phone calls and stuff - every now and then they'd talk about ghosts, have articles on it. It was well creepy. Then there was the often incredibly scary radio show Nightowls with the Halloween phone ins. It sucks now, but every now and then something they have on still frightens. Other than Alan Robson that is. |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 12:18 pm: | |
I used to listen to Nightowls. But wasn't that Viking FM? A local station, for local people? |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.51.96
| Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 12:47 pm: | |
Did you get scared by these shows? That station sounds like it might be for vikings; advice on the best chicken legs, things like that. |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 12:52 pm: | |
Well, I think I did. It was more than 15 years ago. |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.123.101
| Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 06:11 pm: | |
"We're not all dockers here, Gcw." Still not over it Griff..? gcw |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 06:45 pm: | |
*Puts on Gloria Gaynor* |
John (John) Username: John
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.4.67
| Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 09:46 pm: | |
I remember it being terrifying at the time. I bought the DVD a few months ago but haven't gotten around to watching it since as my girlfriend panics everytime I say I'm going to put it on. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 09:54 pm: | |
Volk wanted a superior ending to the rather OTT one he was forced to do. [MINOR SPOILER] Even so, it's a particularly harrowing story with some brilliant moments. The call from the guy near the end revealing the true identity of the spook is seedy and terrifying. And what a name - Pipes. Readers may wish to know that Volk wrote a sequel to Ghostwatch and its only publication is in Dark Corners, his short story collection. |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.188.221
| Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 02:44 am: | |
31/10 - and a good story it is too! Published by Gray Friar Press, no less, and well worth buying. |
Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.92.216.182
| Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 04:03 am: | |
Don't think I've seen this. I remember there being this weird series where kids explored these supposedly haunted places on a gameshow dare. Mockumentary film with hauntings as its subject matter is good stuff. Must be lots of fun to construct that, with interviews and source material. |