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 Whistle And I'll Come To You (BBC Ghost Story For Christmas) (DVD)
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1968 / Director: Jonathan Miller / Actors: Michael Hordern, Ambrose Coghill ... / ... more  Whistle And I'll Come To You (BBC Ghost Story For Christmas) (DVD) ... DVD released 17 September, 2001 at Bfi Video / Features of the DVD: Black & White, PAL / Based on M.R. James's supernatural short story Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, this black-and-white BBC film from 1968 tells the chilling tale of a hapless professor (Michael Hordern) on a winter holiday on the Norfolk coast. When he finds a mysterious whistle, an impending sense of dread soon follows.Newest Review: ... man, and there’s a strong implication that the ghostly happenings all take place in the professor’s tightly-buttoned mind. ... more ... While this is certainly not what MR James intended, it’s still a successful adaptation, as it’s appropriately scary.
The frightening bits are genuinely very good. A few of the visual effects are a little disappointing, but they’re not seen for long enough to spoil things. But the sense of dread it builds up, and especially the sound effects, are superb. The professor lies in his hotel room drifting in and out of a brilliantly realised nightmare, which uses sudden, shocking, feral grunts to great effect. And Horde...more |
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Whistle And I'll Come To You (BBC Ghost Story For Christmas) (DVD): Fear of the dark (1034 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 26.08.06 (Very useful, 415 readings)
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This is a review of the British Film Institute DVD release. Oh Whistle and I’ll Come To You My Lad is a short ghost story written by the great MR James. It was adapted by the BBC, oddly being broadcast as an episode of their arts show Omnibus, in 1968. It’s absolutely great. An eccentric middle-aged professor (Michael Hordern) goes on holiday to Norfolk. He finds an ancient whistle while walking along some cliffs. He (naturally enough) blows it, and is subsequently persecuted by unpleasant supernatural happenings. And that’s the entire plot. The short story is rather different – the professor in the story is actually out looking for ...
