Review of A Warning to the Curious

Other reviewers have said as much. The master, M R James was the very finest writer of ghost stories, and this is the adaptation which best captures his style. It doesn't stick strictly to the story but the the difference is not worth noting - as to the ghost being able to bash your brains out, well M R James did always make his ghosts malevolent and able to do you harm, either just by frightening (Whistle And I'll Come To You) or by violence (Casting The Runes). Best moments: the scene in which the farmworker looks up the track and sees Peter Vaughan being followed by the ghost, and that in which the ghost is in the hotel room and the lights go out - superb.