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« on: February 14, 2015, 01:41:44 AM »
I enjoyed Ghost Story when I saw it. But then I haven't read the book, so I can understand your disappointment, Gerard, because at least 8 out of 10 times when I've read the book first, I find the movie to be a disappointment. Though that's often because the visualization one creates while one reads a book is often hard to live up to with the movie version. I've said this before, but as much as I love the book The Shining, I loathe the Jack Nicholson '80 movie version. I think the only adaptation that comes anywhere close to a realization of the book is the '97 miniseries with Steven Weber and Rebecca De Mornay.
As for the earlier British version of The Woman in Black, I've never seen it. But it would be very interesting to track it down and compare it to the Daniel Radcliffe version because I really like that and I've just read some reviews of the earlier version that say it's better.
As to why the earlier version isn't on DVD, well, not everything comes out a DVD, so it could be as simple as that. Whoever owns the movie may not think it's a movie that would sell well enough to justify releasing it. I mean, look at how long we had to battle WB to get hoDS and NoDS released...