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Dec. 19th, 2005 12:19 am"I think the mind makes it's own places"
(watching The Signalman on BBC4. Ghost stories, yaays!)
wonderfully well done. lots of stuff with lighting, and the fog and the smoke and their breath, and the subtlety of the ghost. Wonderful. Can see why that's a classic.
hours later, have also watched the other two ghost stories of the night. One was part one of three, and I suppose I shall have to see the rest to evaluate it. I didn't like the main character though. Alcoholic, instant Issues.
then there was an MRJames adaptation. The Ash Tree. I didn't think it was very well done. You could see things. Things you see aren't half as scary as things you half see. And also they went squish. Monster stories go squish, ghost stories are scary because they don't squish at all.
I probably shouldn't watch ghost stories, considering I live alone with anxiety problems, but I'm intending to write some, so I started with a 'history of ghost stories' thing and sort of stayed. Still, the first one was the best by far. vaguely frustrating that.
Scary ghost stories aren't precisely what I want to write anyway. I mean tension and suspense, yaay, some scary, but not your actual horror stories. Horror means the protagonist usually gets dead and all is revealed to make a kind of sense you'd rather not know. I like it when people win and things get resolved.
I think I might have to go watch one of the films I know the ending of before I go sleep...
(watching The Signalman on BBC4. Ghost stories, yaays!)
wonderfully well done. lots of stuff with lighting, and the fog and the smoke and their breath, and the subtlety of the ghost. Wonderful. Can see why that's a classic.
hours later, have also watched the other two ghost stories of the night. One was part one of three, and I suppose I shall have to see the rest to evaluate it. I didn't like the main character though. Alcoholic, instant Issues.
then there was an MRJames adaptation. The Ash Tree. I didn't think it was very well done. You could see things. Things you see aren't half as scary as things you half see. And also they went squish. Monster stories go squish, ghost stories are scary because they don't squish at all.
I probably shouldn't watch ghost stories, considering I live alone with anxiety problems, but I'm intending to write some, so I started with a 'history of ghost stories' thing and sort of stayed. Still, the first one was the best by far. vaguely frustrating that.
Scary ghost stories aren't precisely what I want to write anyway. I mean tension and suspense, yaay, some scary, but not your actual horror stories. Horror means the protagonist usually gets dead and all is revealed to make a kind of sense you'd rather not know. I like it when people win and things get resolved.
I think I might have to go watch one of the films I know the ending of before I go sleep...