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A windswept ghost story set on England's southeastern coast.
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We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
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14 Dec 2017
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An eerie little ghostly Christmas tale in the tradition of the Ghost Stories for Christmas with a spooky English seaside setting and crushing vibes of loneliness and despair. The narrative involves an old man, so lonely that he writes Christmas cards to himself, who receives an out-of-the-blue visit from his long-estranged daughter one haunted holiday. The implications of the outcome are unbearably sad, and the performance by Billy Clarke is as haunted as the remoteness of the location. I enjoyed this supporting short on the All the Haunts Be Ours: Volume 2 box set a bit more than the feature it supported, To Fire You Come at Last.
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BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas core.
Decent short film, full of feel bad vibes. The English seaside in winter is one of those things that's inherently a bit creepy.
Watch here.
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For the occasion when you think you might be just too happy on Christmas this will give you a course correct.
Merry Christmas
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“You were much, much scarier than anything on that ride..”
Is it really Christmas if your estranged daughter doesn’t come down for an awkward, depressing meal?
Has one stretch that is really, really good. The rest is just okay, with some decent visuals.
This movie also makes the case that not only is the sea inherently erotic, it is inherently spooky as well.
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All The Haunts Be Ours Volume Two Disc One
I'm not hopeful enough to think people can be haunted by who they've wronged, but I know we can be haunted by who we've been.
Solid little melancholy Christmas ghost story in the style of M.R. James.
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It works well as a little story of a man alone in an off season coastal town grappling with the demons of his past. There is some good ghostly imagery here with the hooded figure in the ocean beckoning him. The setting is appropriately bleak and works well for a man running from his past.
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Fantastic short by Sean Hogan. Low budget, yet eerily effective.
Off to a fantastic start to the All the Haunts Be Ours Vol 2 set, I'm escatic!
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All The Haunts Be Ours, Vol. 2 - #2
Another short from Sean Hogan, which is M.R. James by way of Terence Davies. Not quite a folk horror, but a very moody, downbeat ghost story.
We're haunted by our own choices, and the roles we play in life.
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This 21-minute short gets props for following the old English tradition of telling ghost stories around Christmas time. Of course, BBC did a top notch series of films in the 1970s, based mostly on the short stories of MR James. This short is certainly an homage to those productions, with its desolate, off season seaside setting.
The mood and tone are well done, which is essential for a good ghost story. Our main character is a lonely alcoholic, so we get the common ghost story ambiguity of whether we are seeing supernatural events or just the manifestations of a mind that is beginning to lose grip on reality. Overall, this was nice little discovery, certainly worth 20 minutes of time, that (as of December 2017) is streaming on Shudder.
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Nice cinematography, but there's not much going on here. Not a horrible way to spend 20 minutes though.