Ghost Story

[tozzer56]

Pretty sure it was a UK film. Made 60s or early 70s. Set in a lunatic asylum in 1900s. Only thing I do remember is they have a sort of cupboard chair when they cut people's hair. Think they take it over at the end. The person who was in charge is put in one of those cupboard chairs and has his hair cut?

[will.15]

I've never seen it, so I'm not sure. It sounds like it could be Bedlam starring Boris Karloff from the 1940's.

[jaycad]

sounds a bit like 'ghost story'(aka 'madhouse mansion,1974)

Ghost Story (1974)

[Euryale]

name='jaycad']sounds a bit like 'ghost story'(aka 'madhouse mansion,1974)

Ghost Story (1974)

Definitely right, Jaycad



I remember the scene Tozzer describes. I think the film was made in India, although supposed to be set in the U.K.



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[batman]

name='Euryale'] I think the film was made in India, although supposed to be set in the U.K.



E.

It was, and I think it helped give the film it's strange and rather unique 'feel'.

[paul clifton]

deffo ghost story. watched it the other week

[Euryale]

name='batman']It was, and I think it helped give the film it's strange and rather unique 'feel'.

Yes, we saw a stage production of The Turn Of The Screw a few years back. They'd relocated the story to colonial India and I think had turned the character of Mrs. Gross into an ayah. It worked quite well - the sultry heat adding another dynamic to the brooding and oppressive atmosphere of the play.



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[paul clifton]

Nucleus dvd are supposed to be releasing it on dvd. check out this link as its been passed



GHOST STORY rated 12 by the BBFC

[Lord Brett]

Ghost Story has a sort of footnote in cinema history as the only known film featuring the actor on whom Withnail (from Withnail and I) was based. No idea who in the cast he is, though.

[tozzer56]

Sounds like it.



Did think Marianne Faithfull was in.

[paul clifton]

Due out in October as 2 dvd set with the following



2 DISC COLLECTOR'S EDITION - with booklet and essay by Darius Drew Shimmon



DVD Extras include:

Ghost Stories - an all-new 60 minute featurette including interviews with Director/Producer Stephen Weeks, Actors Larry Dann and Murray Melvin, British Horror Icon Barbara Shelley, composer (and Pink Floyd collaborator) Ron Geesin, with comments from UK critic Kim Newman.

Audio Commentary with Stephen Weeks, moderated by Professor Samuel Umland

Theatrical Trailer

The Chelsea Cobbler store commercial

Alternate opening credits sequence

Stephen Weeks' The Making of Ghost Story (.pdf)

7 early previously unseen short Stephen Weeks films:

Owen's War (1965 / B+W / 10m)

Deserted Station (1965 / B+W / 7m)

The Camp (1965 / B+W / 4m)

Moods of a Victorian Church (1967 / Colour / 9m)

Two At Thursday (1968 / B+W / 10m)

1917 (1968 / Colour / 35m)

Flesh (1969 / Colour / 3m)

[tozzer56]

Found a copy

[quippy]

Here's a link



Cinedelica: Ghost Story (1974) finally heads to DVD as two-disc Collector's Edition