Ghostwatch (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray]

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Written by Stephen Volk, and directed by Lesley Manning, the drama was produced for the BBC anthology series Screen One by Richard Broke, Ruth Baumgarten and Derek Nelson. Mutilated household objects are shown which were purportedly analysed by the Army and found to have been subjected to rapid temperature change. More recently the creative team behind the 2020 British Zoom-based computer screen horror film Host have credited Ghostwatch as an influence. They ruled that the programme was excessively distressing and graphic–referring to the scratches on the children and the reference to mutilated animals–and that it had aired too soon after the 9pm watershed. The scenes at the house and the street were all shot on location around 5–6 weeks before the recording of the studio scenes.

The presentation contained realistic elements which suggested to a casual viewer that it was an actual documentary. This was later confirmed by Brown himself whilst being interviewed for the BBC Four documentary Ghosts in the Machine.On 31 October 2011, the first official production still was uploaded to mark both Hallowe'en Night and the conclusion of National Séance 2011.

Pipes routinely possesses and harms Suzanne, and is said to dwell in the house’s basement, referred to as the “Glory Hole”. Eighteen-year-old factory worker Martin Denham, who suffered from learning difficulties and had a mental age of 13, took his own life five days after the programme aired. Greene is accompanied by her camera crew, Chris Miller and Mike Aiton, played by actual BBC technicians. The family home had suffered with a faulty central heating system which had caused the pipes to knock; Denham linked this to the activity in the show causing great worry. His eyes are missing and his face is badly mauled, owing to Tunstall locking himself up with his multiple pet cats prior to his suicide, and the cats having "gotten hungry" in the week prior to the discovery of Tunstall's body.The programme concludes with Pipes taking over the studio, causing all on-set save Parkinson to flee.

In 2002, the British Film Institute released a 10th Anniversary edition on VHS and DVD, and 101 Films issued a DVD release in 2011 and a 30th Anniversary Blu-ray release in 2022.

Drew Barrymore Breaks Down In Tears For The 2nd Time This Week On 'Drew Barrymore Show' — And It's Only Wednesday! Venturing into the previously sealed-off BBC studio space where the original show took place, he is accompanied by a small team of individuals whose lives were somehow affected by the broadcast, ten years previously.

The film was subsequently selected for inclusion in the BFI Mediatheque, for the upcoming Haunted collection, from December 2013-onwards. However, when producer Ruth Baumgarten doubted the viability of an entire mini-series and recommended instead a 90-minute TV special, Volk suggested that they "do the whole thing like Episode Six", portraying it as an actual "live" broadcast fronted by well-known TV personalities. In both alleged recordings and live segments of the show we see objects moving of their own accord–which, it is claimed, is a result of poltergeist activity–also, a perfectly round patch of water appears on the living room carpet, and animal scratch marks appear on Suzanne's face. This would have culminated in the final episode in a live TV broadcast from the property, in the vein of Nigel Kneale's The Quatermass Experiment and Quatermass and the Pit, in both of which "all hell breaks loose". Pamela Early ( Brid Brennan) and her daughters Suzanne (Michelle Wesson) and Kim (Cherise Wesson) are tormented by a poltergeist referred to by Kim as “Mr.Subsequent articles have included a special Hallowe'en message from Stephen Volk, and a link to a new Ghostwatch article written by lead actor, Michael Parkinson. The BBC, however, became concerned about the effect the broadcast would have on the public and very nearly pulled the show shortly before broadcast. Ghostwatch is a British horror mockumentary television film, first broadcast on BBC1 on Halloween night, 1992. The film's fictional villainous spectre, referred to by the children as "Pipes" and credited simply as "Ghost", is depicted as a merging of negative spiritual energies, which parapsychologist Dr. The programme has yet to be repeated in full on any UK-based television channel, following its initial broadcast.