The Stalls of Barchester

The Stalls of Barchester

1971
Horror
TV Movie
45m
Whilst cataloguing the library of Barchester Cathedral in 1932, a scholar, Dr Black is shown a box containing a 50 year old diary detailing the events leading up to the mysterious death of Dr Haynes, a former Archdeacon of the cathedral. From the diary, Dr Black is able to piece together how the murder of Haynes' agéd predecessor, a 17th century carving on the cathedral choir stalls and the appearance of a large black cat ultimately cursed the former archdeacon. (Wikipedia)
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The Stalls of Barchester

1971
Horror
TV Movie
45m
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Rated 05 Nov 2012
65
17th
One of the lesser Ghost Stories for Christmas.
Rated 22 Nov 2015
70
44th
Stars Clive Swift from "Keeping Up Appearances". It's not great, but good.
Rated 22 Apr 2014
65
43rd
Not the best in the series, but still very entertaining.
Rated 30 Nov 2011
78
69th
Very creepy, in that charmingly old-fashioned way.
Rated 21 Aug 2020
67
73rd
What some might consider "lackluster" I found to be cost-effective and somewhat refreshing. Credits to Lawrence Gordon Clark for making it chilling and classy without being campy. Maybe it doesn't have an "explosive" ending like classics as The Innocents or The Changeling, but that's how the "real" ghost stories end up: Forgotten, ambiguous, unfinished, disappointing.
Rated 24 Jan 2024
50
31st
Not as reserved as something like "Advice for the Curious" or "Whistle and I'll come to You." This is closer to more traditional horror shows/films and provides some cliched scares. The underlying folk horror backstory is still interesting and it's not over-explained. I'd still rank this as the lowest of the "Ghost stories for Christmas" series that I've seen so far.

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