I remember I watched this with my parents. I remember the whole movie being a frightening and torturous build up. Every scary scene being scarier than the last. When it got to this scene and you see her at the end of the bed, no joke, I got so scared that I booted the coffee table over and my da jumped up and ran out of the room. My ma just called me an idiot and started yelling at me cos she thought I did it on purpose or something 🤣🤣🤣
This is one of the funniest comments I've ever read. Thank you for that! I completely understand - I can't watch this scene in a normal way, I have to minimize the size of the RUclips-window and turn the computer-screen away from me - otherwise it is too much. I've heard some criticism towards this newer version of the story, that it's not that scary or well-made. In my humble opinion it's as scary as the original was and much more. It amps up the scare-factor and the atmosphere to an unbearable level. When his wife appears at the end of the bed and comes closer and closer and then almost jumps into his face - Jesus frickin' Christ, that scared the living sh*t out of me when I first saw it.
@@theart8039 I liked the ending of the Hurt one more and found the 'not very special effects' in the Horden version lamentable. I think I'm in the minority.
This version is a brilliant update of the original. Yeah, it doesn't stick to James' written story but Horden's "dotty thumb-sucking academic playing golf" doesn't fly these days. This version is so much more disturbing and gets under your skin brilliantly.
I've always had a theory about the secret untold story of this version that perhaps the ghost was the spirit of his child who died Earlier in the story, he has a nightmare with imagery that to me allude to his wife falling pregnant and the child either was miscarried or died in some kind of accident The grief of this caused his wife to fall into her dementia-like state The ghostly woman screaming that she's still there could allude to how the spirit of their child has remained there since they initially died This is just my theory, but one I wanted to share
Not a patch on the 1968 Omnibus version with Michael Hordern, which is less screamy and hysterical, yet somehow more chilling to the bone. Hordern's dotty English professor is a brilliant, hilarious, portrayal which even the genius of John Hurt could not approach.
Remember watching this as a kid... Scared me for life 😂
I'm not surprised. Even as an adult I can't really watch this scene. It's horrifying and very sad at the same time.
The single scariest scene from anything, in my opinion. The moment when the finger start coming underneath the door-frame, specifically.
I love M.R. James ghost stories.
I remember I watched this with my parents. I remember the whole movie being a frightening and torturous build up. Every scary scene being scarier than the last. When it got to this scene and you see her at the end of the bed, no joke, I got so scared that I booted the coffee table over and my da jumped up and ran out of the room. My ma just called me an idiot and started yelling at me cos she thought I did it on purpose or something 🤣🤣🤣
This is one of the funniest comments I've ever read. Thank you for that! I completely understand - I can't watch this scene in a normal way, I have to minimize the size of the RUclips-window and turn the computer-screen away from me - otherwise it is too much. I've heard some criticism towards this newer version of the story, that it's not that scary or well-made. In my humble opinion it's as scary as the original was and much more. It amps up the scare-factor and the atmosphere to an unbearable level. When his wife appears at the end of the bed and comes closer and closer and then almost jumps into his face - Jesus frickin' Christ, that scared the living sh*t out of me when I first saw it.
John hurt, scream king lol 😂
The finest achievement of tension and perfection
I'll risk the wrath of the cognoscenti and say I found this far more chilling than the Michael Horden film. in B and W.
I didn't, I think this tried way too hard.
Michael Horden was far creepier, but that's just my opinion
@@theart8039 I liked the ending of the Hurt one more and found the 'not very special effects' in the Horden version lamentable. I think I'm in the minority.
I love MR James and I love this John Hurt version way more than the old one.
This version is a brilliant update of the original. Yeah, it doesn't stick to James' written story but Horden's "dotty thumb-sucking academic playing golf" doesn't fly these days. This version is so much more disturbing and gets under your skin brilliantly.
1968 is a slow burn, slow build of tension, and the dream sequence is tops for nightmare imagery.
So he loves her and cares for her, and she repays by haunting him to death?
I've always had a theory about the secret untold story of this version that perhaps the ghost was the spirit of his child who died
Earlier in the story, he has a nightmare with imagery that to me allude to his wife falling pregnant and the child either was miscarried or died in some kind of accident
The grief of this caused his wife to fall into her dementia-like state
The ghostly woman screaming that she's still there could allude to how the spirit of their child has remained there since they initially died
This is just my theory, but one I wanted to share
Not a patch on the 1968 Omnibus version with Michael Hordern, which is less screamy and hysterical, yet somehow more chilling to the bone.
Hordern's dotty English professor is a brilliant, hilarious, portrayal which even the genius of John Hurt could not approach.
Very good and scary ghost story from Xmas eve 2010
Not as creepy as the original version, but still good.
Very scary in parts, but where was the whistle? Also the ending was an anti-climax and made no sense.
Is not like I know everything John hurt is in. 10 rillington place, 1984, alien and this. Is there anything he’s in where he doesn’t play a poor sod
V for vendetta - he is a dictator there and quite merciless. An interesting reverse-meta-connection to his role in 1984.
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