retrospective
Ghostwatch
Ghostwatch | Lesley Manning | GB 1992 | 91 Min
| DCP
Metro Historisch
Tickets
Su,22.09.▸18:00
Photo credit: @ BBC
On Halloween night, 1992, TV presenter Sarah Greene visits the Early family, whose house is allegedly haunted by a poltergeist. Commentary on the live broadcast’s increasingly unsettling footage is provided in the studio by BBC legend Michael Parkinson, accompanied by a scientist. Ghostwatch is a perfectly conceived and edited mockumentary, which on its initial broadcast triggered countless phone-calls by shocked viewers mistaking a TV-play for real-time documentary. The program also notoriously traumatized a considerable number of children, watching past their bedtimes. Lesley Manning’s prime-timer shocker has remained highly influential to this day, as shown most recently by Late Night with the Devil. (mk)
Lesley Manning
started making films while studying at Bristol Art College. She trained at the National Film and Television School then became a film and series director at the BBC, including Ghostwatch, triggering her own personal War of the Worlds moment in 1990s Britain. She is the director of The Agent (2008) and Honeycomb Lodge (2014), a controversial movie about domestic violence set in the British Asian community.
started making films while studying at Bristol Art College. She trained at the National Film and Television School then became a film and series director at the BBC, including Ghostwatch, triggering her own personal War of the Worlds moment in 1990s Britain. She is the director of The Agent (2008) and Honeycomb Lodge (2014), a controversial movie about domestic violence set in the British Asian community.
Screenings
Metro Historisch
Su,22.09.▸18:00
