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Title: DARE, the

Reference number: 7447

Date: 1993

Sound: sound

Original format: unknown

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.42 mins

Description: An amateur drama in which Pete and Jack dare their sceptical friend Tom to stay the night in a local haunted house - Tom accepts the challenge but ends up believing in ghosts after a supernatural experience.

Note from Mr Saberton from Dalziel Cine Club: "A young man takes a bet to stay in a supposedly haunted house for the night and finds that it really is haunted. The pub scenes were filmed at the Derby Inn, Bellshill. The house was in Union Street, Hamilton. It was owned by a local restaurateur who was using the upper floor as lodgings for his waiters. It really was as bad as it looks on the film and although it suited the story it was very unpleasant to film in due to the amount of dust that we disturbed when moving around. We used dry ice for the smoke effect on the stair and mounted the camera on a tripod with the legs horizontal to achieve the tracking effect. For the ghost we used the Pepper's ghost stage effect. None of us were happy with the ending outside the house which isn't very convincing and fails to match up to the mood generated in the middle section. We put a few anagrams of "The Ring" into the script such as "Grineth" house and "Reg Thin"."

Credits: cast JohnJoe Thacker, Colin Harvie, Douglas McKenzie, Janet Allan, Lisa Graham
p. team Vince Picozzi, Pat Mahon, Brian Saberton, Bryan Law
sc. Vince Picozzi
d. Vince Picozzi

Shotlist: [shotlisted from VHS - manual control track]

Dalziel Cine & Video Club presents - title by Vince Picozzi - waitress at bar in pub putting drinks on tray - m/shots and c/u shots of three young men at table discussing ghostly sightings (1.34) c/u of Jack's lucky ring -Tom is dared to stay overnight in local haunted house (2.30) c/u shot gatepost 'Grineth House' in darkness, Pete and Jack waiting outside house, Tom jumps out to scare them - all three enter house, look for room for Tom to sleep in - Pete inspects dust on mantelpiece and old clock chimes - Tom makes preparations to settle down for the night, with whisky, candle and Jack's lucky ring - friends leave and lock him in (5.16) friends go back to bar for a drink - Tom lying on floor reading book and listening to music - music stops unexpectedly and he hears footsteps outside the room and a door slams - Tom pours a glass of whisky (6.21) Pete and Jack chat in the pub - Tom lies asleep on floor and pages of his book flap open - he hears a voice singing and his candle goes out - he relights candle (7.11) mist creeps down stairway of house and a ball rolls to the foot of the stairs - subjective shots of walking down the stairs - mist creeps into Tom's room and the ball rolls in - he panics and starts to shout for help as he sees a ghostly image of a young girl (7.54) friends chatting with barmaid in pub intercut with Tom shouting for help in room (8.23) Jack and Pete arrive at house the next morning, but Tom has disappeared - they leave house and meet a distressed and visibly aged Tom outside and take him home - shot of mantelpiece with clock and vase of flowers - ecs (9.42)