Episode 13. Urban Ghost Story (Genevieve Jolliffe, 1998)

Coming to a basement near you!

In this episode, Ady, Peter, and Paul discuss underseen Genevieve Jolliffe’s 1998 film Urban Ghost Story, starring Jason Connery, Heather Ann Foster, and Billy Boyd.

Topics discussed include ghost stories with present-day settings (including Play for Today’s Vampires and Govan Ghost Story, and of course the BBC’s Ghostwatch), the differences between British and American ghost stories, the influence and impact of the Enfield Poltergeist case (and Paul does an a-m-a-zing impersonation of “Bill,” the ghost from that case), the popularity of urbex videos and explorations of “haunted” buildings on the Tubes of You, the career of Genevieve Jolliffe and collaborator Chris Jones, the book co-authored by Jolliffe and Jones entitled The Guerrilla Filmmakers Handbook, Paul’s ongoing confusion of the American Alex Jones and our Alex Jones (the Welsh telly presenter), and Paul’s experiences in basements.