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The makers of this would-be made-for-TV series claim to "use the full impact of image and sound to place the viewer right in the midst of every frightful experience." What this means in practice is ear-wrenching sounds will assault you, one simulating a highly amplified creak of a rusty gate opening torturously slowly within your inner ear. Vertiginous video effects track and tilt ceaselessly along corridors of old houses and stone castles, swooping and cross-fading with other bits of video. The packaging might well have boasted this: Shot in Spectral Ghost-O-Vision! The target audience for this product apparently can't sit still for a shot that lasts more than three seconds. That's how hectic these video techniques are. The swirling montage phantasmagoria had me reaching for the Dramamine. Not that the discs are completely worthless. Hosted by the estimable Patrick Macnee (The Avengers), the series relates many stories of ghostly sightings, accompanied by interviews with eyewitnesses, all of which feel factual. This is clearly the show's strength. It's unfortunate that they feel compelled in several places to mount experiments to "prove" certain places are haunted, because the results are laughably inept. A note on the discs themselves is in order, since the very poor sound (the discs I viewed had an annoying buzz in the left channel) and the atrocious visual quality conspire to make them practically unwatchable. One wonders why it was ever necessary to transfer this show to DVD at all. And at 45 minutes per volume, this could easily have fit on one disc with much better quality. --Jim Gay
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1998 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Madacy Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Animated, Box set |
| TYPE: | Mystery / Suspense |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 3 |
| UPC: | 056775016890 |
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Customer Reviews of Ghost Stories Vol. 1-3
Another mangling by Madacy Mildly entertaining, in the way that sensationalistic, unjournalistic supernatural shows usually are. But the scariest thing about this 3-disc set is the video encoding quality. As with their poor treatments of NASA and space history material, the MPEG encoding looks worse than VHS. The blockiness and artifacts makes one wonder if Madacy Entertainment has the slightest idea how to do DVD.
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when you want to be scared you want to see ghosts. This dvd is great. there's lots of real foortage that leaves the hairs on your arms raised in terror and don't forget the great effects. Lots of fun and a real treat. Don't miss out , I highly reccomend it.