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The Appointment - 1981
Something evil threatens a family in this strange chiller. Recommended
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Edward Woodward, Jane Merrow, Samantha Weysom, John Judd
The Blue Boy - 1994
Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck they end up at the hotel Joe uses for his other activities. An eerie tale of love and deception
Quality: 7.5/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Emma Thompson, Adrian Dunbar, Eleanor Bron
Britain's Most Terrifying Ghost Stories - 2001
Ian McShane narrates some entertainingly re-enacted spooky ghost stories that are fun on a cold Winter's night by the fire
Quality 8/10, 50 minutes (Euro/PAL disc)
Chillers - 1990-1992 (3 discs)
The Cat Brought It In; Sauce For The Goose; Old Folks At Home; The Thrill Seeker; The Day Of Reckoning; Puzzle; Slowly Slowly In The Wind; A Curious Suicide; A Bird Poised To Fly; The Stuff Of Madness; Under A Dark Angel's Eye; Something You Have To Live With
Twelve chilling stories based on the Patricia Highsmith short stories, introduced by Anthony Perkins
Quality: 7-8/10, 3 discs, 12 episodes
The Cormorant - 1993 (Screen Two)
Inheriting a remote house in Snowdonia seems like a dream come true, but the dream becomes a nightmare for a family who discover it's not the Cormorant that comes with the house, but vice versa
Quality: 8.5/10, UK tv
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Helen Schlesinger, Thomas Williams
Do Not Disturb - 1991 (Screen Two)
When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writer Eleanor Mont, other forces start to stir
Quality: 8.5/10. Excellent stuff
Stars: Frances Barber, Peter Capaldi, Éva Darlan
The Enchanted Castle - 1979
Rare Children's adventure series set in a haunted Castle
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Candida Beveridge, Georgia Slowe, Simon Sheard, Diane Mercer
Gawain And The Green Knight - 1973
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him
Quality: 8/10 (occasional logo, uk/euro disc)
Stars: Murray Head, Ciaran Madden, Nigel Green, Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Bayldon
*TV documentary also available, please ask
The Ghost Of Rashmon Hall - 1947
A doctor is summoned to an old dark house to rid it of evil spirits
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Valentine Dyall, Anne Howard, Alec Faversham, Beatrice Marsden, David Keir
Ghosts - 1995 (3 discs)
Six ghost stories from BBC's Screen Two series, 1995
Three Miles Up
Blood and Water
The Shadowy Third
The Chemistry Lesson
Massage
I'll Be Watching You
Quality: circa 7.5-8/10
Stars: Paul Rhys, Moira Brooker, Douglas Henshall, Anita Dobson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Samantha Bond, Derrick O'connor, Cheryl Campbell, Alan Cumming
Ghosts On The Underground - 2005
More than one billion people use the London Underground annually, yet few of them know just how haunted the tube really is. This hair-raising documentary investigates the supernatural secrets of the oldest underground network in the world, exploring the graves, church crypts and plague pits that tube tunnels have disrupted
Quality: 9/10, 47 minutes
Stars: Karen Collett, Maurice Grosse, Paul McGann
The Haunting Of M - 1979
A turn of the Century ghost story in which a woman is haunted by a spectre whom roams the corridors of her shadowy mansion
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Sheelagh Gilbey, Nini Pitt, Alan Hay, Eric Garratt
The Haunting Of Julia - 1977
After the death of her daughter a wealthy housewife restarts her life in London where she becomes haunted by the ghosts of other lost children
Quality: 8.5+/10 (Can/UK)
Stars: Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti, Jill Bennett
Haunting Harmony - 1993
A young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in an English Church school
Quality: 8/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Nathaniel Moreau, Jean-Marc Perret, Frank Middlemass, Francesca Annis
Leap In The Dark - Supernatural Docu-Drama Series 1973-77 (3 discs)
Fantastic, rare time-capsule series investigating real life cases of the Supernatural. Amazing stuff. Quality: 7-8/10
1. Pilot (9th Jan 1973) (S1)
2. The Vandy Case (10th Oct 1973) Written by Anne Owen (S2)
3. Dream Me a Winner (14th Jan 1977) Written by Colin Godman (S3)
4. 2. The Fetch (21st Jan 1977) Written by Anne Owen (S3)
5. The Ghost of Ardachie Lodge (28th Jan 1977, time-coded) Written by Colin Godman (S3)
6. Undercurrents (4th Feb 1977) (S3)
7. Parlour Games (11th Feb 1977) Written by Anne Owen (S3
The Lorelei - 1990 (Screen Two)
A lonely schoolteacher has a strange experience on her walking holiday. It haunts her and threatens to wreck her growing romance with a colleague. A brilliantly weird tale.
Quality: 8/10, UK tv film (time-coding onscreen throughout, but don't let it put you off)
Stars: Amanda Redman, Michael Maloney, Ellie Haddington
The Satanists - 1970 aka Angeli Bianchi
A mondo style docu-report of satanic rites from around the world. Includes devil worshipping, voodoo cults, church of satan, black magic, naked exorcism and pagan rituals
Quality: 6-7/10, Italy, English soundtrack, 'not for commercial use' onscreen throughout. Jolly good
Narrated by Edward Purdom
Shades Of Darkness - 1983/1986 (2 discs)
THE LADY MAID'S BELL (S1, EP 2)
AFTERWARD (S1 EP 4)
THE MAZE (S1 EP 5)
BEWITCHED (S1 EP 7)
THE INTERCESSOR (S1 EP2)
THE DEMON LOVER (S2 EP 1)
Quality: 8.5+/10
Miss Morison's Ghosts - 1981
The highly regarded and compelling true Victorian ghost story
Quality: 8/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Wendy Hiller, Hannah Gordon, Niall Toibin, Antonia Pemberton
Voices - 1973
A former mental patient starts hearing voices in her inherited Georgian home
Quality: 6.5/10 (low-fi vhs source)
Stars: David Hemmings, Gayle HunnicuttLynn Farleigh, Russell Lewis, Eva Griffiths
West Country Tales - 1982/3 (2 discs)
West Country Tales was an early 1980s supernatural drama series based on real-life experiences sent in by viewers in response to a BBC appeal. These two discs contain nine of the thirteen surviving episodes from the two series
Quality: 7/10 variable
Narration: Keith Barron, Jack Watson
Massive cast includes: Wendy Richard, Nanette Newman, Jenny Hanley, Anita Harris
Menace Unseen - 1988
A gripping three part tv mini series about a nuclear power industry conspiracy
Quality: 7.5/10, UK tv
Stars: Judi Bowker, Ian Ogilvy, John Sessions, Brenda Bruce
The Witches Of Pendle - 1976
Time-code and title are onscreen throughout. You'll need to adjust the colour on your tv
Quality: 6/10 poor print
Stars: David Boliver, Christine Buckley, Noel Cameron, Sarah Fowler, John Fielding
Tales Of Unease - 1970
Two episodes of this LWTSupernatural series in colour: Ride, Ride and Calculated Nightmare. Good stuff for it's time
Quality: 8.5/10
RR stars: Susan George, Anthony Jackson. CN stars: Ursula Mohan, Larry Dann
White Lady - 1987 (Screenplay)
In a derelict farmhouse, deep in the English countryside, Gil struggles alone to bring up his little daughters 'to need very little. - strong against all harm'. But unknown to any of them, in the surrounding fields of wheat and barley, and in the nodding branches of the fruit trees, there lurks a deathly power
Quality: 8/10, 50 mins.
Stars: Cornelius Garrett, Sophie Thompson, Jessica Martin, Meg Wynn Owen
Witchcraft - 1992
Drama series about a crew making a film about witchcraft. The director gets rather carried away and endangers the lives of his cast
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Peter McEnery, Alan Howard, Lisa Harrow, Judy Campbell, Clive Wood, Georgia Slowe
Worlds Beyond - 1986 Volume 1
The first anthology of eight excellent supernatural short films
Serenade For Dead Lovers; The Black Tomb; The Barrington Case; The Eye Of Yemanja; Voice From The Gallows; Home; Captain Randolph; Suffer Little Children
Quality: 7/10, UK TV Series
Stars include: Judi Bowker, Karen Black, Denholm Elliott, Connie Booth, David Warner