The Secret of Crickley Hall

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Did anyone else watch this? Thoroughly creeped out.

Susan Hill film : The woman in Black.

Stefan was dead.

His body was in the well with Nancy´s.

I guess the point of it(?) was for them all to move on together & for the bodies of Nancy & Stefan to be found?

And it be acknowledged that they hadn´t died in the flood?

I am so scared. I am trying to go to sleep now. I should not watch this kind of thong however good it is.

thing even.

The voice wasn't Stefan, but one of the other orphans, a blonde lad in the TV version. How did Cribben get all the kids down to the cellar to gas them though? Was the food drugged? Even so, surely Maurice/Magda would have interrupted him, to get all those kids down there would take ages. And why kill them at all? Did he mean to kill himself afterwards?

Sideburns God yes what a farce that MR James adaptation was! The original was HORRIFIC it was so terrifying. They had NONE of that. Oh Whistle and I'll come to you my Lad wasn't it.

Stephan wasn't dead (in the well) in the series though.

Bit wierd if it was on of the orphans voices then why were they'll saying they weren't dead.

Hobbit that's right....they had a feast and then leaped about in their room....no explanation at all!

Also where did Cribben go at the end when the orphans & Nancy left? Back to the cellar? Hell? He didn't really seem to get his comeuppance!

Terrifying Mrs Mushroom! The original was so creepy. I was hoping for great things with John Hurt but it was crap.

I think the scariest bit for me was when Cribben attacked the Cayleigh girls. Brilliant actresses, both of them.

Christ that's horrible about Stefan being circumcised in the book. Not going to read it.

I thought it was crap the way they were so blase about the little one! The dad saying STAY THERE and trying to leave her in the film....the Mum looked so relived to see the older girl in her dads arms but no sign of her wondering about the little one...then she popped up! From nowhere...the last we'd seen of her was in the middle of the field!

Actually technically stefan wasn't dead when he was thrown down the well. The theory was he was just alive enough to crawl to a ledge where he then died and was perfectly preserved in basically a freezer which turned his hair pale. This is why eve thought it was cam talking to her but it was stefan

It made very uncomfortable reading toffee.

Though more horrible, it does sound like the plot of the book hangs together better.

It felt cheap...the way they explained Cam's voice away. I know it was in the book but I was disappointed. One should never feel disappointed at the end of a story like that.

Hmmmm

Deeply disappointed in the ending tbh :(

Yes...all a bit convenient.

Much preferred the ending of Marchlands. I don't remember that having an unsatisfying ending. Looking forward to Lightfields.

Our endings were much better mrs m !!!

I KNOW Blondes They SO were.

What is Lightfields Toffee??

I don't get the bit where Cribbens ghost just walked back down to the well...so is he going to continue to haunt people or is he at peace now??

No he is still haunting the place.