Haunted Page #3

Synopsis: Professor David Ash is invited to Edbrook to calm the fears of the elderly nanny of the Mariell family. Nanny Tess is seeing things, and Ash's book debunking such phenomenon makes him a good choice to set her mind at ease and convince her she is just tired and stressed. But soon after arriving David too begins to doubt his senses, and watching the odd behavior of the three grown Mariell children doesn't make his task any easier. In fact, he begins to think Nanny Tess isn't really just tired and stressed out after all.
Genre: Drama, Horror
Director(s): Lewis Gilbert
Production: Hallmark Entertainment
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
1995
108 min
137 Views


No thanks.

I read your future?

Sixpence.

We...

Do not believe in those things, do you?

I want to know what will happen.

Sixpence?

Tome.

'I'm getting married soon.'

Is getting married soon.

This year.

'I will live a long life

and happy with my wife.'

You will have a long life

and be happy with your wife.

'Many children'.

Have many children.

One will be named...

...Of a loved one,

lost as a child.

Thank you.

It's your turn.

There is something that

can say, you do not know.

I must go now.

Forgive me.

He does not like that?

Is this true?

What he said about his childhood?

He had a twin sister.

He died very young.

Sorry.

What happened?

Drowned.

David, I'm sorry.

He was with her when it happened.

I consider psychology because of that.

To prove it really was.

She will not ever, David.

There is magic in nostalgia.

Without that magic,

just the ability to love.

This is my magical place.

What is it?

My mother adored him.

He came here every summer days.

I can almost see it now...

...Sitting in that chair with a book.

It's like more memory.

How old was she when she died?

It was a day before my birthday 14.

Valentine's Day.

Year after year, every day

Valentine come here...

...I just sit.

Trying to understand.

I can not accept that

death is the end of everything.

It's hard to accept.

His parents died in India?

They were heading to the mountains.

The rain fell earlier in the year.

Just disappeared.

For my Mother Nana come here every night.

She says she saw her once.

She says you saw her?

That was the beginning of their problems.

A race to the house.

Where have you been?

Riding.

Riding?

At night?

Sorry, Robert.

Sorry?

You should.

We wait for hours for dinner.

I was worried.

It was not our intention to slow us down.

Is supposed to help

to Nana, but tell me what has he done?

For now, not David's fault.

Of course not.

Nana was very worried.

It's terrible that you do that.

Sorry.

His sister is an adult woman.

And the fault is all mine.

Good night.

How well we were close.

Algae...

I could not shake them.

Algae?

What algae?

I had caught.

Suffocate.

There are no algae.

They were around my neck.

Suffocate.

And suddenly...

He was free.

That was me.

David.

David.

That was me.

Come friend, let's go inside.

I came for your wet clothes.

And I really appreciate it.

I'll put in the kitchen be dry in the morning.

I'm worried, David.

As it fell into the lake?

Christina...

I did not fall.

I was pushed.

Pushed?

Someone pushed me.

Do not be thinking about what I said.

My Mother was a gentle person.

She never push someone to the lake.

Heaven.

No, Mother.

Someone pushed me.

Who would do that?

Perhaps the same person

this scaring Nana.

The same person who

I was scratching the door that night.

Where was Simon?

- Sleeping.

I knew he was in the lake?

Is accusing me?

You just have to accuse the Nana.

Why do any of we want to hurt him?

He could have drowned, David.

I should be grateful.

Sorry.

I am very grateful to you.

I'm just...

...Very confused.

All is well.

I'm sorry I upset.

It must be awful for you.

You may feel better with this.

We remove the taste of the lake.

You must be exhausted.

It was a day so difficult.

Everything happened.

Probably need sleep.

I'm not crazy.

Are not teacher?

Take me with you tomorrow.

You are my salvation.

Please.

No, no.

Let.

Good morning.

- Good morning.

When packing,

Simon will help with the bags...

Christina... and take him to the station.

I'm afraid I will not.

As you wish.

The number, please.

- Camberley, 284.

Ash professor's office.

Kate, I'm David.

Listen, I need your help.

Is everything okay?

Last night I went home.

I had returned.

Will have to cancel my classes tomorrow.

I'm staying a few days.

David does not sound so good..

I'm fine.

I want to do something for me.

Look for the edition of the Times

February 17, 1923.

Page 13, top left.

Understood?

Yes, I have it all.

I'll call you later.

Well David, we are.

Robert, please, no.

Basta, Robert.

Enough.

Please...

- Continued.

Continua.

Continua.

Let's see...

Come on. Right here.

For here we go.

It's David.

Le Atina, knew it was David.

We are a party of four.

Edbrook we play.

Five, with Nana.

Yes, Nana can play.

Come on, Nana.

It's your birthday.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday dear Nana.

Happy birthday to you.

Of course you're playing.

Now...

The game Edbrook.

It is very simple.

Each puts a shilling.

- Someone is hiding.

Whoever finds it wins.

If no one is...

That gets the money.

I'm no good for games.

We need you.

Do not be a killjoy.

Is to encourage Nana.

You never know who you can find.

David, hide first.

And we will seek.

Count to 100.

Slow.

It has to be slow.

1, 2, 3...

Come on David, you must hurry.

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10...

...11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16...

I always look here first.

I found you.

I won.

I find it?

- I have it.

It is the report about a death.

'Tragedy in Edbrook Mansion'.

'Mr. Anthony Yates'

'Judge...'

Fast. Just tell me what happened?

It says here that Ms. Mariell

drowned in the lake.

The verdict was suicide.

For a period of mental disorder.

David?

- Thanks.

What is the problem, David?

What is the problem?

You do not know what to believe,

that's the problem.

I'm worried about you.

Oh yeah?

I too.

I do not know if I'm imagining things.

I do not know if Nana is crazy.

Now I'm seeing what she sees?

Do not trust anyone,

or anything in this house.

You can trust me.

Really, I can?

This date means anything to you?

Why lie?

Invented who died in India because...

...Can not stand the truth.

Why his mother committed suicide?

After father's death,

became very depressed.

Back to Edbrook only makes things worse.

So many memories...

I miss her so much.

Who found the body?

Died.

What is enough?

Now you know our dirty little secret.

You have to ask this?

Yes, I'm afraid so.

Want to know how found the body, right?

The blue lips, swollen skin...

...And cracked.

The eyes open and fixed.

You have a morbid fascination for the dead.

You should see a doctor, David.

Nana Tess was the one who found it.

It was never the same.

Satisfied?

Help.

Christina.

Christina.

Help.

Christina helps.

There's a fire.

Leave the house.

David. Wait.

- The basement is on fire.

What fire?

- In the basement, going.

No fire.

Come see, no fire.

I do not understand...

What is happening to me?

There was a fire.

You're imagining things.

Come on, David.

I'll take you.

I'll be waiting in the car.

The things he says have been...

...Are symptoms of a

great emotional stress.

What happened in the lake.

Fire.

For the first time you see these things?

He fought in the war, David?

In the Argonne, Sedan.

But he survived.

Yes, I survived.

Also survived the death of his sister.

Christina told me.

She drowned.

It's true.

It is because of that?

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