Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Ghostwatch - Lesley Manning - 1992

★ - Found footage night for the Nightmare on Film Street movie challenge. This is actually a mockumentary. Not streaming anywhere. Had to run down to Vulture Video, a local rental place that carries obscure, avant-garde films, to get it. Physical media, y’all! 

Gist is a bunch of BBC television personalities/broadcasters investigate a haunting that they present as live television. Gets progressively crazier until shit goes down, sort of. When it originally aired there was a short disclaimer at the beginning saying it was fake, but they obviously knew what they were doing. People lost their minds and called the number on the screen which supposedly said again that it was fake but over 1 million people called and no one got through. It’s never been rerun in the UK.

Found it to be pretty meh. However, the mother at the house they are investigating keeps talking about her ex-husband’s “gloryhole.” “I’m sorry, did you just say gloryhole?” It’s what he called his dark room. Things didn’t work out between you, you say. 😒

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