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Post by Miranda on Oct 15, 2020 23:34:52 GMT
This is ..... odd.
It has moments of sheer brilliance that take your breath away. Surrounded by 15 mins of meh and WTF? IMO, it would have made a fantastic 3-hour film. Unfortunately ... it's not. Worth watching though, as long as you know to wait for the moments.
And it's a ghost story but it's not scary
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Post by geometryman on Oct 17, 2020 6:50:06 GMT
I wasn't going to bother with this but you've inspired me to start on it - intriguing so far, 2 episodes in.
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Post by Miranda on Oct 17, 2020 9:48:08 GMT
Let me know what you think
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Post by cakewalk on Oct 17, 2020 10:26:08 GMT
They featured this on Gogglebox last night. My goodness - they have some wussies on that!
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Post by Miranda on Oct 17, 2020 10:51:28 GMT
They found it scary? I didn't, not at all. There's a few jumpy moments but nothing to keep you awake. There's not even much violence in it.
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Post by cakewalk on Oct 17, 2020 11:02:13 GMT
Not all of them, but a few did.
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Post by pandaeyes on Oct 18, 2020 9:19:05 GMT
I too watched the Goggleboxers reactions. I suppose they have to 'over act' for the cameras. It seems to be based on the M. R. James novel The Turn of the Screw. There's also an opera version.
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Post by geometryman on Oct 29, 2020 16:23:24 GMT
Finished it now, and I thought it was good with some great moments. I agree it's longer than necessary and the repetition, although there's a point to it, is overdone. Not scary, and by the end - as the character who recounts the tale says - it had become something a bit different from a straightforward ghost story. I got pretty confused in the middle, but fortunately the last couple of episodes mostly cleared things up. I don't know how far it departs from The Turn of the Screw, but I notice in IMDB Henry James himself is only credited as a writer for 3 of the 9 episodes!
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Post by Miranda on Oct 29, 2020 16:27:42 GMT
I stopped watching once it went back into the past. But I might watch the last one just to find out the ending.
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Anymore to come?
