Casting the Runes
- Directed by
- Alan Cooke
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A scholar offends a powerful occultist and is threatened by a supernatural curse. He must find a way to escape it before time runs out.
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What happens
"Casting the Runes" is the first episode of the third series of the supernatural television anthology series Mystery and Imagination produced by ABC Television in 1968. Running at 50 minutes, it was first broadcast on 22 March 1968. It was based on the ghost story "Casting the Runes" by British writer and academic M. R. James, first published in 1911 as the fourth story in More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, James' second collection of ghost stories. It is the first television adaptation of the story, with John Fraser as Dunning and Robert Eddison as Karswell. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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