Ghost Stories For Christmas Volume 2 Blu-Ray
The BBC series A Ghost Story for Christmas aired during the final hours of Christmas Eve and was a fixture of the Christmas schedule throughout the 1970s, giving rise to a long tradition of terrifying tales that frightened Christmas viewers for decades to come.
Following the best-selling release of Volume One last year, this eagerly awaited sequel gives five more festive landmarks their Blu-ray debut, recently remastered by the BFI from the original film material. In addition to two MR James adaptations, the series includes the acclaimed version of Charles Dickens' The Signalman starring Denholm Elliott, as well as specially written stories set in the modern 1970s. These influential films, all but one directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, were written by some of the best screenwriters working in British television in the 1970s: John Bowen, David Rudkin, Andrew Davies, and Clive Exton.
The films:
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974, 37 min)
The Ash Tree (1975, 32 min)
The Signalman (1976, 39 min)
Stigma (1977, 32 min)
The Ice House (1978, 34 min)
Extras:
Presented in High Definition
A View From a Hill (2005, 39 min, standard definition): Fanshawe, a young museum curator, gets hold of a pair of binoculars that give him a strange new ability. Fanshawe ignores all warnings about their necromantic creator and conducts his research, but the bloody past of the area is best left untouched...Number 13 (2006, 40 min): Professor Anderson becomes upset about the eerie sounds his neighbor hears every night and is soon forced to investigate the diabolical secrets of the old hotel and the mysteriously vanished Room 13.p>
Newly recorded audio commentary on The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by author and TV historian Simon Farquhar
Newly recorded audio commentary on The Ash Tree by author and TV historian Jon Dear, with material from author and editor Johnny Mains
Newly recorded audio commentary on The Signalman by television historian Jon Dear and actor and author Mark Gatiss
Newly recorded audio commentaries on Stigma and The Ice House by Kim Newman and Sean Hogan
Ghosts, spirits, and haunted treasures: Adapting MR James (2023, 17 min): a newly commissioned video essay by Nic Wassell exploring some of the classic BBC adaptations of MR James's work. Ronald Frame's adaptation is brought to life by the master of horror. Introductions by Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012, 39 min): the director introduces The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The Ash Tree, The Signalman, and Stigma
Illustrated booklet with archival essays by Alex Davidson, Dick Fiddy, Simon Farquhar, and Helen Wheatley. Review: "In the silent monasteries and the gloomy expanses of the desolate coast, there is a timelessness that runs counter to practically everything that has been written or broadcast, before or since." --The Guardian
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