Capital Celluloid 2016 - Day 355: Wed Dec 21

Whistle And I'll Come To You (Miller, 1968) & The Signalman (Gordon Clark, 1976):
Picturehouse Central, 6.30pm

This double-bill screens as part of A Warning To The Curious: Ghost Stories at Christmas at Picturehouse Central (full details here), a season of films inspired by M R James and Charles Dickens. With introduction by Jonathan Rigby: This screening is introduced by Jonathan Rigby, actor and author of books including Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema (2011) and English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema (2000)

Here is the Picturehouse Central introduction:
A rare screening of two classic films from the BBC's Ghost Story For Christmas strand. An extended introduction precedes the 1976 adaptation of Charles' Dickens The Signalman and the 1968 adptation of M R James Whistle and I'll Come To You. All ticket-holders will receive a complimentary special edition of Notes for the Curious.

Here (and above) are extracts from the genuinely very creepy 'Whistle And I'll Come To You'.