Sad Marsh Ghost

Yeah. A View from a Hill is strong, Number 13 removes almost everything frightening about the original story, the John Hurt version of O' Whistle and I'll Come to You has a poor shouty ending, and Mark Gatiss' The Tractate Middoth is actually really rather pleasant. Wish he'd make more.

In general, despite a few duds, I rate the BBC Christmas ghost story run very highly. Only a handful of theatrical horror movies top the best ones. I hate that there are no plans for more. Considering that Lovecraft adaptations range from unwatchable to mediocre (that Whisperer in Darkness film is insanely overpraised), M. R. James has come out of this all quite well. The Jonathan Miller Whistle and I'll Come to You film, the 70s Larry Gordon Clark adaptations and of course the 50s film Night of the Demon are acknowledged classics.