Ghostwatch
1992 British pseudo-documentary horror film directed by Lesley Manning
1992 British pseudo-documentary horror film directed by Lesley Manning
Ghostwatch is a British supernatural horror pseudo-documentary television film, first broadcast on BBC1 on Halloween night, 1992. Written by Stephen Volk, and directed by Lesley Manning, the drama was produced for the BBC anthology series Screen One by Richard Broke, Ruth Baumgarten and Derek Nelson. Although filmed several months in advance, the narrative was presented as live television. During and following its first and only UK television broadcast, the programme attracted considerable controversy, with the BBC receiving around 30,000 calls from distressed and angry viewers. Ghostwatch has never been repeated on UK television. It has been repeated internationally, on stations such as the Canadian digital channel Scream for Halloween 2004, and the Belgian channel Canvas in 2008. It became available on the American streaming video service Shudder in 2017, and it was made available on the Internet Archive the same year. There have been three UK home video releases. In 2002, the British...
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