1000 Nights in the Dark: Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010)

Short Television Film | Horror | English | 52m

Cast: John Hurt, Gemma Jones, Lesley Sharp, Sophie Thompson

Single-sentence review | 81 words | 29/12/10 | 2010 favourites

After putting his dementia-suffering wife into a nursing home, James Parkin, a rational man-of-science, eaten up by guilt and grief, embarks on a seaside walking holiday; but before long he is seeing ghostly figures on the beach, and being kept awake at night by increasingly menacing sounds, in this beautifully crafted, expertly acted BBC production, which puts an inspired spin on M.R. James’s ghost story, resulting in a film that is as affecting and provocative as it is creepy and unsettling.

1000 Nights in the Dark: a collection of reviews of the single sentence, capsule, short, medium, and long variety, varying in length from fifty to a thousand-plus words, documenting my personal, exploratory journey through cinephilia.