Marianne Dreams

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There’s a force in this place. You felt it in the cold wind and now it is in them. It pulls at you, pulls all the energy. I think it would pull the light from the sky if it could.’ It just seemed like an odd choice, because it seemed like it was moving the film from being about feelings about a genuinely threatening father, to then veer away from that a bit. Ali: And the book had more of a sense of being kind of an adventure. There’s the threat and they’re trapped in the house with the stones around watching them, but there’s also solving the problem of what to draw that’s going to enable them to escape. They come up with the idea of bicycles, and they make their escape — In the film there’s also a radio, although like a lot of the things that she’s drawn in the house, it doesn’t look hugely like a radio.

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This short weekly serial from ATV (airing at tea time on Wednesdays between 19 April and 24 May 1972) was an adaptation of Catherine Storr’s 1958 novel Marianne Dreams, about a young girl whose drawings come to life in her dreams. Adam:, in voiceover: Adam editor note. At this point in the recording, Ali and myself laugh in such a way that can only be described as hysterical and uproarious. You’re advised to turn your volume down now.) Townsend (1987), 246, " Marianne Dreams is strong stuff for children of the fairly low age-group (about nine to twelve) for which I have seen it suggested. But I would not say it is unsuitable. The realization that we all have power for evil must come some time, and could take far more disturbing forms than this."And it’s the distinctly unsaid that makes the story so potent: if the features of the nightmare world are dependent entirely on the drawings in Marianne’s sketchbook, then what exists beyond that? When Mark and Marianne escape the house, and set up a John Wyndham-esque “cosy apocalypse” homestead, barricaded into a lighthouse of her creation, what lies across the ocean that they wistfully gaze out upon? It’s a book filled with questions, and lesser authors might have unwisely attempted to provide logical, join-the-dots answers. Ren: The not-father is creeping down the stairs and Mark’s urging Anna to destroy just the part of the drawing with her father in it. But she’s asleep, so her sleeping self is reaching for this drawing, and she has a candle next to her bed, and she manages to set it on fire. I was very pleased to find that Escape into Night has been released on DVD. This is certainly one of those programmes which I remember only vaguely but that had a very lasting impact. Like others, I could not remember what it was called so it took some searching to find. I originally found the film Paper House and watched that as Escape into Night had not at that point been released. The Paper House film though was not as dark or sinister as I remembered the TV series.

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Their every movement is guarded by these menacing watchers that surround the solitary house. Together, in their dreams, Marianne and Mark must escape and save themselves. Adam: But then, I’m fond of the film but I can’t imagine many groups of adults going to the cinema and enjoying it. Ren: Yeah, I did wonder about that. Because they’re like ‘we could get down to the beach by drawing a ladder’ but then they think ‘oh, but you couldn’t draw a ladder that long’. Adam: I’ve only read The Weird Stone. He’s certainly got a good sense of the living world, or the world charged with animistic energy. Ren: The set of the outside of the paper house is very good. In the film, when you first see it it’s convincingly flat and eerie looking.Ren: So Anna’s mother is quite frazzled, and her father is away for long stretches of work. And Anna compared to Marianne is a much more rebellious kid. Marianne is in bed for weeks at a time, convalescing, whereas Anna doesn’t seem to spend more than a few minutes in bed before she’s up wandering around.