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Writer: Stephen Volk
Cast: Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Mike Smith
Genre: Horror, Mystery
What an idea for a movie! Orson Welles would be proud...and it was originally shown on Halloween evening too, how cool is that! I would have loved to watch this on that night, I bet it would've been a very memorable viewing experience!
Ghostwatch originally aired on BBC in 1992 October 31st as a Halloween treat...or maybe as a Halloween prank on the viewers. It was a mockumentary presented as a live TV broadcast, where a team of investigate reporters spend the evening investigating paranormal activities at a reportedly haunted house.
I loved the way this was done, with the woman from Ghostwatch spending the night in the house along with a camera crew who are armed with spectral imaging equipment and the two little girls who had been terrorized by the poltergeist ghost nicknamed 'Pipes' are there. They're all stuck in that house, live on TV, as we watch mysterious noises and worse, happening right in front of our eyes.
Add to that the two anchor people back in the Ghostwatch studio, one a woman who's a true believer who too easily find reasons to believe the ghost is real. Then the older man who's the lead anchor of the show, he's more skeptical which throws the audience off balance and adds credibility that what we're watching is real. And then there's a reporter on the streets who's more of a light heartened comedian, which further clouds the real aim of the show...It's intentional misdirection, all well done.
I enjoyed it, just the spectacle of it and the way they pitted the shows team against each other so as to manipulate the feelings of the audience...I tell ya, this is just like Orson Welles' famous 1938 Halloween radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. Of course the great Orson did it first, but Ghostwatch did a helluva job with it.
BTW, Did you guys spot Pipes in the movie? The producer confirmed that there are 13 times that Pipes shows up...In that photo I used, I hid Pipes, can you see him?
Ghostwatch (1992)
Director: Lesley ManningWriter: Stephen Volk
Cast: Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Mike Smith
Genre: Horror, Mystery
A realistic spoof of a TV based news investigation by a BBC film crew of the most haunted house in Britain. CR
What an idea for a movie! Orson Welles would be proud...and it was originally shown on Halloween evening too, how cool is that! I would have loved to watch this on that night, I bet it would've been a very memorable viewing experience!
Ghostwatch originally aired on BBC in 1992 October 31st as a Halloween treat...or maybe as a Halloween prank on the viewers. It was a mockumentary presented as a live TV broadcast, where a team of investigate reporters spend the evening investigating paranormal activities at a reportedly haunted house.
I loved the way this was done, with the woman from Ghostwatch spending the night in the house along with a camera crew who are armed with spectral imaging equipment and the two little girls who had been terrorized by the poltergeist ghost nicknamed 'Pipes' are there. They're all stuck in that house, live on TV, as we watch mysterious noises and worse, happening right in front of our eyes.
Add to that the two anchor people back in the Ghostwatch studio, one a woman who's a true believer who too easily find reasons to believe the ghost is real. Then the older man who's the lead anchor of the show, he's more skeptical which throws the audience off balance and adds credibility that what we're watching is real. And then there's a reporter on the streets who's more of a light heartened comedian, which further clouds the real aim of the show...It's intentional misdirection, all well done.
I enjoyed it, just the spectacle of it and the way they pitted the shows team against each other so as to manipulate the feelings of the audience...I tell ya, this is just like Orson Welles' famous 1938 Halloween radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. Of course the great Orson did it first, but Ghostwatch did a helluva job with it.
BTW, Did you guys spot Pipes in the movie? The producer confirmed that there are 13 times that Pipes shows up...In that photo I used, I hid Pipes, can you see him?