Ghost Stories for Christmas - The Definitive Collection (5-DVD set)

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It’s a consistently fascinating and informative listen, but my favourite moments come when Dear momentarily breaks from his unwritten script to emotionally respond to the film or his reference material. Of Paxton's agitation all this time I can give you no adequate picture: he breathed like a hunted beast, and we could not either of us look at his face. add little, and the introduction of an oscillating sinister synthesiser note is equally ineffective. A Warning to the Curious showcases the BBC's Ghost Stories for Christmas slot at the top of its game.

No definite image presented itself, but I was pursued by the very vivid impression that wet lips were whispering into my ear with great rapidity and emphasis for some time together. Dolby Digital, Booklet, Interviews: Jonathan Miller, Christopher Frayling, Introduction to 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' (1968) by Ramsey Campbell, 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' reading by Neil Brand, Ramsey Campbell reads his M.Two very short clips of interviews with Jonathan Miller and Christopher Frayling – for my money two of the most intelligent and compelling interviewees on the planet – that were not used in David Thompson's BBC Arena profile of Miller, which was first broadcast in March of 2010.

The episodes comprise: 'The Mezzotint', 'The Ash Tree', 'Wailing Well', 'The Rose Garden' and 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'. Also accompanying the set is a 38-page Bookletcontaining five fascinating articles and credits for all four films and the special features. An overuse of a signature high-pitched electronic crescendo from avant-garde composer Gyorgi Ligerti's Atmospheres does come close to overstating the threat, but in the end never seriously detracts from what, even all these years after it was first screened, remains a gripping and genuinely chilling slice of supernatural storytelling. Abney, combining a boffin's eccentricity with the warmth of a lively uncle to create a character seemingly incapable of harming another being, but who is clearly up to something from the moment we first meet him.The first occurs when a train guard opens the door to Paxton's compartment for a boarding passenger, only to then realise that there is no-one there after all, a moment that is later revisited in the splendidly foreboding final scene. The BFI released the complete set of Ghost Story for Christmas films plus related works such as both versions of Whistle and I'll Come to You on Region 2 DVD in 2012, in five volumes as well as a box set, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of M. The later adaptation uses more conventional scare tactics, its night-time sequences well constructed, the Cinemascope frame stretching out its space, diminishing the lone figure at the mercy of its unnerving elements. A bold move perhaps, but what makes the written word and Miller's adaptation work as well as it does is not down solely to a few key components, but the manner in which they combine and unfold, and the unsettling ambiguity of the possible threat. The result is a coarser and more visible film grain, which does take the edge off the sharpness when compared to the fine grain image of Whistle and I’ll Come to You, but this is still a significant upgrade over the SD image on the previous DVD.

As his carriage approaches the hall, Stephen briefly sees two wan-looking children (Christopher Davis and Michelle Foster) standing in a field, their arms slowly arching in a synchronised wave. A university museum curator is intrigued by the unfolding tale of horror told by an otherwise unprepossessing 19th century mezzotint. So far no cause whatever for the fear of the runner had been shown; but now there began to be seen, far up the shore, a little flicker of something light-coloured moving to and fro with great swiftness and irregularity.withholding the full revelation of the supernatural until the very last moment, and centring on the suggestion of a ghostly presence rather than the horror of visceral excess and abjection. In 'A Warning to the Curious' (1972) Mr Paxton (Peter Vaughan) travels to the English seaside town of Seaburg hoping to find the last of three Anglo Saxon crowns belonging to the Agers family whose last descendant has recently died. His shocked regression into childhood thumb-sucking and the very way he stares ahead, shakes his head and repeats the words, “Oh no…” feel more like the reaction of a man for whom all logic and the scientific certainty – the very foundations on which his life has been built – have just collapsed before his very eyes. Young Simon Gipps-Kent does rather well as Stephen, but it's Joseph O'Conor who effectively steals the film as the cheerful Mr. With a courage which I do not think can be common among boys of his age, he went to the door of the bathroom to ascertain if the figure of his dreams were really there.