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Post by Charley Says... on Jun 29, 2015 23:46:02 GMT
Not a TV programme but a film currently being shown on Sky...
Based on a true story in the 60s & 70s... It's set in Pontefract in Yorkshire and it centres on a council house which is haunted by a poltergeist of the Black Monk of Pontefract... The most violent poltergeist in European history...
No special effects, no jump out of your skin moments but for me, a spine chilling sensation all the way through... I really enjoyed it... so much so I've done some digging...
The guy who produced the film, Bil Bungay has bought the real life house and rents it out to anyone who is brave enough to want to stay... Here is his website and if your interested in this kind of thing it's well worth a look, especially the Visitors Images page... www.30eastdrive.com/introductions
I went on a ghost hunt a few years back with a company called Simply Paranormal... It was really interesting and looking at their website they are doing tours to this house... www.simplyparanormal.co.uk/collections/paranormal-events/products/poltergeist-house-30-east-drive-pontefract-west-yorkshire-simply-13-thursday-16th-july-2015
Really thinking of going...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2015 2:57:22 GMT
Looks brilliant....wish I could watch it
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Post by Lotty27 on Jul 4, 2015 16:40:05 GMT
Oooooh I had no idea this was on. Sounds really good and right up my street. I wonder if I can get it on demand or am I too late?
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Post by Charley Says... on Jul 4, 2015 16:50:19 GMT
Oooooh I had no idea this was on. Sounds really good and right up my street. I wonder if I can get it on demand or am I too late? It's till on the sky movies on demand service for free download if you have it... |
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Post by Lotty27 on Jul 5, 2015 5:51:10 GMT
Oooooh I had no idea this was on. Sounds really good and right up my street. I wonder if I can get it on demand or am I too late? It's till on the sky movies on demand service for free download if you have it... Ah dammit! I thought it was on one of the other sky channels. I got shot of the movie channels because we had them for years but they never got watched so it was a waste of money. Just got the sports package now (the lads would wail like banshees if I tried to get rid of that smiley-biglaugh ) I'll have to look out for a DVD of it, or see if it's on one of the kids Netflix or summat. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 23:35:34 GMT
Y`know what Lotty? We subscribe to a monthly VPN that lets us watch tv online all over the world. We also have Netflix. Hubby noticed that if he puts the VPN on for the UK< he can watch Brit tv shows on Netflix streaming. We can probably do with Canadian and Australian Netflix too  |
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Post by markxist on Jul 15, 2015 18:12:25 GMT
Yeah I caught this when it premiered on Sky Movies back in Jan, I gave up Sky Movies recently (economy drive!) so was glad to have caught this. It's not a great film, but its very watchable. In fact, here's a review I wrote for another site....
I think largely because I was brought up on Hammer horror, I've always been predisposed to low budget horror movies made here in the UK. Recent years have seen a glut of them, including the revival of Hammer studios. Some have been fairly dreadful and some have been pretty good, a lot of them have been average and yet I still find I like these a little more than I perhaps ought to.
When The Lights Went Out (made in 2012 and receiving its premiere on Sky Movies this week - I don't think it troubled the cinemas) is loosely based on a real poltergeist haunting known as 'The Black Monk of Pontefract', said to have occurred in the home of the Pritchard family at 30 East Drive Chequerfield Estate in Pontefract, West Yorkshire in 1974. There, supernatural disturbances by a poltergeist given the nickname 'Fred' terrorised the family including throwing objects around the room, dropping room temperature and, in one particularly distressing circumstance, dragging the daughter Diane upstairs by her neck. In 1981, Colin Wilson wrote a book about the haunting which gained notoriety in paranormal circles and it is this that one imagines the film is largely based upon.
Writer and Director Pat Holden nicely evokes the 1974 setting with a strong design recreation of the hairstyles, fashions and gaudy wallpaper. Plus its not every day you see a horror film that features extensive use of the children's game Buckaroo! Equally he captures the dry humour of the north ensuring this is a horror film with laughs; I especially liked the exchange between daughter Sally and her outcast friend who gets picked on for smelling of urine. "Are you incontinent?" "I used to have to wear a nappy" "So did I" "Not when you were 10!" and the use of "Soft arse" as an insult. However, he relies a little too heavily on the basic modern horror tropes of sudden jumps which makes for a predictable and somewhat cheesy affair and, though its clearly for plot expediency sake, I did find the quick acceptance of the ghost from the family a little too pat. Still, there's a strong cast on display including Kate Ashfield and Steven Waddington as the parents, renamed the Maynards here, and a promising debut from Tasha Connor as their troubled daughter Sally. Playing friends of the family are the excellent Craig Parkinson and Andrea Lowe and there's also a trio of actors who have previously appeared in Ken Loach movies, Tony Pitts (Looks and Smiles) Gary Lewis (from many of Loach's Scottish films) and Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen) though it's fair to say that Compston's 70s helmet of hair is perhaps the scariest thing you'll see in the whole movie!
Though flawed in places this is still a mildly successful and entertaining way to pass 80 or so minutes.
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Post by Charley Says... on Jul 15, 2015 18:26:48 GMT
I was working in Pontefract yesterday as it happens... so I decided to take a little trip to 30 East Drive...
It does look like just another council estate semi but knowing what went on gave it a sinister touch...
I'm still trying to get a group together to go on the all night vigil to see if "Fred" comes out to play...
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