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To think that a classic ghost story, with classic ingredients, DOES NOT INCLUDE A TOWER!

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:11

Towers with secret doors are FOR FAIRYTALES.

Not ghost stories.

FGS.

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Bimblepops · 14/06/2013 23:40

No damn linking, sorry.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0098061/

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:41

Well really Haunted (apt name) -no need to take usuals side...

And, actually, was it not a turret?

Hmm?

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usualsuspect · 14/06/2013 23:42

See, HauntedArmchair knows

Bimblepops · 14/06/2013 23:42

There needs to be a good long period of silence and nothing happening...to really ratchet up the tension

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:42

I refuse to click creepy links.

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HauntedArmchairOfDoom · 14/06/2013 23:43

It was a tower with a turret.

Am unanimous on this fact.

Also: GINGERS CANNOT BE TRUSTED, ghost-story-wise.

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:43

There should be rustling whispers of taffeta.

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LineRunner · 14/06/2013 23:43

There was never a tower in Turn of the Screw. That was a turret.

usualsuspect · 14/06/2013 23:43

There needs to be a bit of creeping about up the tower stairs.

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:44

A tower with a turret?

A bit superfluous surely?

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LineRunner · 14/06/2013 23:45

Actually it might have been a garret.

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:45

Hah!

Thank you Liney.

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usualsuspect · 14/06/2013 23:45

Turret, tower.

whose side are you on, Liney?

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:45

Creeping is essential.

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squoosh · 14/06/2013 23:46

A sinister housekeeper appears in every self respecting ghost story.

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:46

And the heroine/hero must poke their nose into Things That Don't Concern Them.

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:47

Oh God Yes!

The Sinister Housekeeper!

And possibly a hunchback?

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squoosh · 14/06/2013 23:47

Why are ghost stories never set in 1940s semi detatcheds?

The posh monopolise all the good stuff.

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:49

Well, that's the posh for you Sad

I expect its the availability of attics and turrets...

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Bimblepops · 14/06/2013 23:49

Or a creepy hostile butler

HauntedArmchairOfDoom · 14/06/2013 23:50

I just Googled "Quint tower Turn of the Screw"

AND MY COMPUTER CRASHED

Bimblepops · 14/06/2013 23:50

I reckon you could make a great horror film in a tower block, lots of creepy broken down lifts and echoing stair wells...

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:50

There should also be a secret door in the panelling.

Usually found in the library.

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usualsuspect · 14/06/2013 23:50

Or a creepy woman from the village

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:51

That's you screwed then Haunted...

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