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Horror Movie Club

Ghostwatch (1992)

Horror Movie Club

Ashvin and Brian

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.4767 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Join us in the glory hole for an intimate discussion on the British film that had folks in a mild panic - Ghostwatch.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I know someone's out there.

0:07.0

Hey there, listeners.

0:19.0

Welcome to Horror Movie Club. The show where two dudes, who are not quite nerds but not quite nudes. Choose a horror movie each week to rate and review. I'm Brian. I'm on the phone with Ashvin. And today we are discussing Ghost Watch from 1992, directed by Leslie Manning, written by Stephen Volk, starring Michael Parkinson, Sarah Green, Brid Brennan, Michelle Wesson,

0:39.5

Cherise Wesson, and Jillian Bavon in this film on Halloween night,

0:44.8

a news crew investigates a young family's haunted house as a live television event.

0:50.8

If you're new to the show, we're going to discuss some spoiler-free background info on this movie for the first 15 or 20 minutes, but after that, we'll play some transition music and get into spoiler mode, where we walk through the plot in detail, reviewing it as we go, and then we'll rate the movie 0 to 5.

1:07.6

This was a request by Marco G and Nick L, And this movie is unique. I wanted to cover it because

1:15.8

it was aired by an actual British newscast on BBC 1 on Halloween night, or at least by people

1:23.8

that were familiar as broadcasters to the British public. It was presented as a real live broadcast, so basically people turn on their TV and assume

1:33.2

they're watching a spooky news broadcast, like themed in Halloween, and then it's actually

1:39.1

scary, haunted shit starts happening, and the viewers think it's real, and it sparked a minor panic.

1:45.6

People were calling into the station and droves about it, and it gets compared to the 1938

1:51.1

War of the World's Panic, which was a 1938 broadcast directed and narrated over the radio

1:57.4

by Orson Wells, that talked about a Martian invasion as if it was actually

2:02.7

happening.

2:03.4

And that, you know, supposedly caused a decent amount of radio listeners to panic that this

2:09.2

was something actually happening in the world.

2:12.7

You know, so it's kind of a notable historic event.

2:17.9

And it often gets brought up in discussions of the history of found footage

2:23.3

because it is an early example of the found footage and or mockumentary and or pseudo-documentary formats of filmmaking.

2:35.0

Had you heard of this one?

2:36.3

I hadn't heard about this at all, so yeah, thanks for the suggestion there.

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