Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010)
Taking liberties with MR James original story in having the central character, Parkins, as a married man who has just placed his wife, sadly in the latter stages of dementia, into a care home where she sits in an almost cataleptic state and visiting the place on the sea shore where they used to holiday together, gives the story a whole new texture and reason for being rather than the roaming bachelor of the original written word.
The differences in story mean it's easy to watch and enjoy both this version starring John Hurt and the more faithful 1968 original with Michael Hordern practically back to back without any sense of deja-vu.
Scary stuff, whichever version you watch.
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