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
- (voice)
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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.
- Quotes
[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)
Ghostwatch is a film that is made in what is similar to the "found footage" style of films. It is essentially made to look like a TV special where they investigate a haunted house, and things get very crazy. It's full of many creepy and subtle spooky scenes, and it really creates that scary vibe that a lot of films are missing. What is most unique about this film is its idea of television and how it is incorporated into the haunting. It adds another layer of creepy, and perhaps even is saying something about television and how it is incorporated into peoples everyday lives and can even be a big part of them.
In the end, I would say this is a must see for horror fans. It's spooky and should be seen alone for the fact that it has a place in history as a TV movie that seemed so real that it tricked thousands of people into believing it's content.
- TheFilmGuy1
- Aug 27, 2014
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