#but then nothing much until Gatiss took over and started his run with The Tractate Middoth in 2013 (which i certainly did watch‚ it remains
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A Ghost Story for Christmas: A View from a Hill (BBC, 2005)
"Who's Baxter?"
"He was a watchmaker down in the village. Well before my time, of course. Fancied himself an archaeologist, like yourself."
"Well... I am an archaeologist. Actually, I'm a doctor."
"I'll have to get you to take a look at my feet."
#a ghost story for christmas#a view from a hill#bbc#horror tv#single play#m. r. james#luke watson#peter harness#2005#mark letheren#pip torrens#david burke#simon linnell#pier wilkie#harry escott#andy price#somehow my first ever viewing of this. when the ghost stories returned‚ some 27 years since the original strand wrapped up#at the end of the 70s‚ i was already a fan of Clark's films.. maybe tho i was too scared of New Horror to give this a go? i don't honestly#remember (and it is gulp nearly 20 years ago now). i dimly remember it being on tv but i didn't watch; there was another the following year#but then nothing much until Gatiss took over and started his run with The Tractate Middoth in 2013 (which i certainly did watch‚ it remains#a favourite of the newer plays). finally catching up to this and it's pretty good? not a stone cold classic‚ but a solid modern rendition#of a James tale. it does suffer just a little from the era in which it was made: like much early 2000s tv this was shot on standard def#video‚ a big step up from the video tapes of the 60s and 70s but inherently lacking the rich textures and hues of the og ghost stories#(thankfully shot on film) or even the polish and gloss of the Gatiss productions (presumably hd digital). it's not bad quality by any means#it just doesn't have that... lustre that adds so much to the visual ghost story. Letheren makes for a rather spiky and less genial Jamesian#protagonist than many‚ but he's good at selling the terror and the confusion in the latter half. always nice to have Burke pop up but#he is a little underused‚ or rather‚ his one big scene (relating a ghastly tale of old) is directed rather flatly and doesn't have the#impact it could or should have had. still‚ by no means a bad play‚ and a sincere treatment of the source
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