Ghostwatch - Channel Four's 100 Greatest Scary Moments

#41 - Ghostwatch (1992)

"This BBC drama from Halloween 1992 was so realistic that viewers thought it was for real. But it was never meant to be a hoax, just a sophisticated drama about a live TX broadcast (hosted by Michael Parkinson) which saw a ghost called Pipes appear in an allegedly possessed house. Other scary bits included reporter Sarah Greene being sucked under the stairs, and a scene of panic in the studio as lights went out and wind possessed the set causing everyone to abandon the studio."

From: http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/S/scary/index.html

© Channel Four - 2003

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Entertainment

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• Ghostwatch
• Behind
• the
• Curtains
• Stephen
• Volk
• Michael
• Parkinson
• Reece
• Shearsmith
• Kim
• Newman
• Mr.
• Pipes
• Channel
• Four

[randomandproudqueen]

2:16 creeps the shit out of me!

I was terrified when i saw clips of this, I must watch it!

will it ever come back to TV?

[GhostwatchBtC]

Yes, we hope. Thank you for the comment!

[polut11]

I think the paratrooper needs to change his carreer

[thirdcitysaint9]

Watching this in english, I shit myself

[ProjectFlashlight612]

Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project basically stole this idea outright...I can't see any acknowledgement of this this theft in the credits of either movie. God, if Harlan Ellison can force Jim Cameron to admit he stole Terminator off him, even though the ideas Ellison used in his Outer Limits episodes weren't original even in the early 60s, you'd think Volk coulda sued those guys' arses halfway to Pluto....

[tweenvids1]

watching this is my media studies..jesus this is scary.

[DarthCipient]

Only the BBC could take something as simple as curtains.....and make them the scariest thing ever committed to a TV screen.

[DivaStarChild]

The DVD is being re released for this Halloween!

[mephisto40]

I was 7 when this first aired, didnt sleep for a week afterwards lol

[Retrobensan]

thank god it never aired in the u.s.

[TheExperimentalFreak]

Christ that's creepy when she talks

[sellybob1]

ghostwatch was awesome....i was a little disappointed when i found out it wasn't real, but at the time i was 13 and it did the job of scaring the shit out of me. i hope there is a 20th anniversary documentary next year because it seems to have been forgotten about probably because of the controversy it caused. but that it what made it so great and i doubt we'll ever see anything like this again on british television

[SamHain1031666]

@randomandproudqueen I watched it live when i was 9 years old and i was totally fooled....and i filled my pants with cake