Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010)

Highly Recommended

UK

Short Television Film

Director: Andy DeEmmony

Writers: Neil Cross, M.R. James

Cinematographer: Rob Hardy

Composer: Tristin Norwell

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

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. Iain.Stott