Ghostwatch
Ghostwatch
For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky (assisted by Mike Smith, Sarah Greene & Craig Charles) and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind the most haunted house in Britain. This ground-breaking live television experiment does not go as planned, however.
Desmond Dale reviewedJanuary 24, 2025
Although it's a bit more grounded and targeted at news segments this movie undoubtedly laid the path for Interview With The Devil. It's basically a movie about a pseudo ghost news segment in which things get increasingly hairy and truly frightening. The production value is spot on accurate with how the segments looked in that era with the central camera dominant lighting and color saturation. It has a host, a supernatural enthusiast type, crowd participatiion, a skeptic and the set becomes part of the theatrics all of which Interview With the Devil seemed to have aped. The ending is just as cataclysmic but feels just a little more tasteful than the aforementioned film. But what makes it even more interesting is how it feels more realistic than many of the ghost reality-TV shows that would later emerge in the early aughts.