30 minSeason 1 • Episode 19
LatestFor 15 years, Roger Winstanley has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: an invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks and the figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life seem to finally collide when an invitation to the dreaded "room in the tower” becomes all too real…
A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.
Direction
Lawrence Gordon Clark's patient, almost cruel restraint
Cinematography
16mm film stock that looks like fever dreams
Production
BBC budgets somehow weaponized into atmosphere
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The iconic sheeted ghost design in 'A Warning to the Curious' was a last-minute improvisation when the planned skeleton costume looked unintentionally hilarious.
These films revived M.R. James's nearly forgotten ghost stories, creating the entire subgenre of 'Jamesian horror' that defines British supernatural fiction to this day.
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