Full Of It #175 - Ghostwatch
Added 2021-10-04 15:25:24 +0000 UTCFirst broadcast on BBC1 on Halloween night, 1992, Ghostwatch is a horror mockumentary starring British TV presenters Michael Parkinson and Sarah Greene as show hosts investigating paranormal activity in a home on a West London council estate. Traumatising an entire generation of children and parents alike, the show would become infamous for its realistic and terrifying depiction of the haunting of a mother and her two daughters. The BBC would go on to receive so many complaints that to this day, it has never been broadcast again.
I would recommend that you watch the show in full before listening (if you haven't seen it) but the pod does not contain spoilers if you want to get the backstory first. I've listed a link to the video below. While there are parts of the film that remain scary today, it's largely very dated and reads like a particularly smart episode of Most Haunted should you need reassurance before clicking play.
This pod features strong language and references to suicide.
Watch Ghostwatch: https://archive.org/details/Ghostwatch
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwatch
Comments
Damn it I’m almost 40 and just bringing up the documentary makes me feel like I’m no longer alone in my bedroom / home and I’m too scared to listen to your podcast 😂
Brad Clarke
2022-04-18 13:09:26 +0000 UTCAs a child I distinctly remember being obsessed with Ghostwatch for a summer or two (even though I was A: American and B: Born in 1998). The idea of a banned ghost documentary that traumatized swaths of children was so creepily fascinating! Just one of those odd childhood discoveries I guess. I paused the pod to watch it with that link you gave and I actually did find it rather scary, but I think it might be due to me finally seeing the scenes that I’d read about and imagined as a child. But it’s also true what you said about older things just having a creepier look to them. ***Spoilers*** The last 30 minutes had me totally on edge. I also really loved the moment when Craig Charles is faced with the injured people and finally starts to take it seriously. I’ve got to ask, what was the movie that ripped off the ending? You mentioned it but didn’t name it! As for Halloween Full of It ideas, how about Hellraiser, The Grudge, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or The Keepers?
2021-10-09 00:52:13 +0000 UTCI was finally able to watch Ghostwatch a few years ago and I loved it. I live in the US and in the 70s and 80s, we regularly had horror/thriller Tv movies, usually starring older TV actors, and movie actors slumming it for the money. We got to see such classics as The Initiation of Sarah (aka) Carrie on a budget, Summer of Fear starring an extremely permed Linda Blair, and of course the classic, Satan's School For Girls starring everyone's least favorite angel Kate Jackson. Sam Pancake has a podcast called Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Morning Afternoon Movie, he and a guest discuss all the classics, and it's hilarious.
Gary McCoy
2021-10-08 17:02:39 +0000 UTCAlso would you ever do a pod featuring icon legend Char?
Chelsea Shapcott
2021-10-08 06:32:42 +0000 UTCFunny you mentioned craig charles as I'm going to a funk and soul dj set of his this evening in Bristol! Lovely pod as always lymp. Would love to hear you read Carrie for a spooky season treat. All the best xxx
Chelsea Shapcott
2021-10-08 03:09:18 +0000 UTCi remember watching this at home with my granny in my 20s , even tho we saw the disclaimers we were still convinced it was real especially at the end with sarah so she made us say the rosary nd go 2 bed as she got spooked
Pat Scannell
2021-10-07 15:11:27 +0000 UTCTo quote a scared Blu Hydrangea "Is this real? 👀"
Rider
2021-10-06 22:56:34 +0000 UTCI was going to message you and ask you if you have seen it. And then you do a podcast about it. Love the podcast and the videos
2021-10-06 13:37:44 +0000 UTCHiya pet, I feel I should have provided more info for the Fine Romance bit. In the stage show, there’s a flashback scene where Bernadette goes on about her days as a show girl, and I played young Bernadette. The number I did was a jazzier, more upbeat version of Fine Romance. Not a dry seat in the house by the time I was done 😏 I’m defo adding Ghost Watch to the Halloween watching list, because very like you I wasn’t allowed to watch anything after the watershed so I missed it first time around. 100% need the Yvette Fielding parody, can you even imagine 😂 “Down my eeeaarrrhoolle”. Xxx
Gerard Purvis
2021-10-06 09:45:10 +0000 UTCChar as Derek would floor me 😂
2021-10-05 17:20:02 +0000 UTCAlso Yvette Fielding/Most Haunted parody when? 4 tubes of mascara and get Char in as Derek Acorah
Tara Harrison
2021-10-05 09:01:05 +0000 UTCListening to this in the car with my mum in the passenger seat. Olympia: I’m not gonna sing Madonna, she’s a buttface My mum and I, in unison: A-fucking-men Olympia Avalanche - bringing families together since 2021
Tara Harrison
2021-10-05 08:35:20 +0000 UTC
