Whistle and I'll Come To You

[LetThereBeRock]

Is anyone else watching this? I love ghost stories at Christmas,and particuarly M.R James.

[4andnotout]

Me! Have been looking forward to it for ages.

[LetThereBeRock]

I didn't know that it was going to be shown, so it's a very pleasant surprise.

I hope there'll be others. I'd love to see Number 13 done again, and The Mezzotint.

[southeastastra]

love the older version so much but will watch this again after christmas.

[LetThereBeRock]

I'd love to see a new version of A Warning To The Curious too.
Much as I love the 1972 version I think we need a remake.

[purepurple]

I watched this, thought it was very atmospheric but when it finished I was left thinking eh?
Maybe it was the wine but could someone please explain the endig to me.

[LetThereBeRock]

I didn't get it either.

I must admit I was disappointed. It seemed to have little in common with the M.R James story.

To be fair I was up and down with the dog,who wanted in and out constantly,so I didn't get to see quite all of it,but even so I thought it was a letdown,and very confusing.

[domesticslattern]

I thought it was great until the end.

[pawsnclaws]

I liked it, thought it was very atmospheric - especially having a cast of only 4 or 5. I think the ending suggested he had imagined it all due to some kind of guilt thing about his wife. Preferred the old version with I think Michael Hordern (sp) and the whistle?

We watched A Warning To The Curious the other night on DVD, super creepy - what you don't see rather than what you do.

[LetThereBeRock]

A Warning To The Curious is excellent I agree. One of my favourite M R James stories. I'll have to watch it again.

[IngridFletcher]

It freaked me out a bit. I assumed it was what was left of his wife's locked in personality which wanted him dead so they could be together.

[DelFuller]

Agree with most of the comments here. The John Hurt re-make, fine actor though he is, did not capture the feel of the M. R. James original story. For one thing, I feel the modern setting does not work as well. The ending suggests there is no actual ghost involved at all; merely the subconscience of Hurt's sick wife, unable to communicate verbally and therefore reaching out to her husband in a final bid to be with him. Or is it all in his mind? Whatever the interpretaion, they both seem to end up dead and so are reunited in a sense. There seems to be little of M. R. James here. The Michael Hordern 1968 version is by far the superior of the two.

[milnercaroline]

I saw a theatre version of this in Guildford which was pretty good. But I agree with the above comment that nothing will beat the 1968 Michael Horndern version.