Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Don't Believe the Hype

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I remember watching the entire run of this on TV when I was 10. It only played about 24 episodes or so but I loved it! I distinctly remember a shot of a ghost that almost had me bolting from the room! There's one episode that stands out though. I'm kind of vague on the details however. A woman is pregnant. She's happily married to a man who (I believe) is a guard at a facility that contains reels of old horror movies. Somehow the monsters come out of the movies and appear to the woman yelling, "Give him to me". They basically want her unborn child! I remember covering my eyes a few times during that one. And one of the producers William Castle does a quick cameo. I don't think I'd like to see it now--it probably wouldn't live up to my childhood memories. But I LOVE being scared and that show really did the trick for me...when I was 10! I give it a 7.

I was only about eight when this series was produced, and it was first shown on a school night in Australia, but I did manage to see a couple, I remember the Susan Dey and Patti duke episodes but I am wondering if is this series the one where a young couple move into a house with a room that has shelves filled with jars that have weird stuff growing in them, and there's some old person who warns them about going into the room or touching the jars and it turns out that there are the souls of all the people who have lived there and throughout the show there's a strange whispering which becomes louder until you hear "He knows us.. he knows us.." and you don't see the young couple EVER AGAIN..?

I was 8 when Ghost Story aired and I looked forward to it every week! My 2 favorite episodes:"Half a Death"(my #1 favorite)- about a girl named Christina whose dead twin comes back to haunt her. It wasn't clear as to the exact cause of death, but it is implied that she was both sickly and disfigured. Things start up when Christina goes back to her parents house to visit. I remember her standing in the back yard and all of sudden the wind started blowing very hard and she would hear this voice whispering her name: Christinaaaa! She looks around but doesn't see anything at first, only hears the voice getting louder and louder.Then in the distance the ghost of her sister appears in a white shroud with her face covered and the wind is blowing all around her-Very creepy!! In another scene, she goes to the cemetery to visit her sisters grave and when she turns back to look she sees an open casket with either her or her sister in it. When they showed a close up of the ghost later on in the story, I remember running away from the TV because I was too afraid to look! My other favorite was the Concrete Captain, about a sea captain who was harpooned through the heart then covered in cement which became a permanent grave by the sea. The ghost of the captain and his girlfriend come back to haunt the couple who live in their house. The one scene I can remember vividly is the one where the girl living in the house holds up a mirror to look at herself and when tilting it to the side sees the face of the female ghost right behind her!Some episodes I had forgotten, but was able to remember after reading comments, like the Susan Dey episode. Another was the one where the guy kills his wife and another person and buries them only to see them on his TV digging themselves out of their grave. I also liked the one with the toy rocking horse a family finds in their new home that gets bigger and bigger. I saw repeats of the show about 10 yrs ago on one of the cable channels, and still found it to be pretty creepy! I wish they would start airing them again!!

I remember watching this TV series on occasion back in the 1970s. Unfortunately since it's been 20-25 years since I've seen it, I no longer remember any of the episodes. The only thing I remember clearly is the sound effect that was played whenever a ghost was present. Before reading about this on the IMDB I did not know that it was later re-named Circle of Fear. That was new to me. To me it was always Ghost Story. I remember that I always found the show interesting enough to watch it till the end. If you can find this on video (It's extremely hard to find), I highly recommend it. I did find one source for it on video, some years ago and purchased one episode that starred John Astin and Patty Duke Astin. This episode was from when the series had been re-named Circle of Fear. Very entertaining if you can find it. Maybe some day the Sci-Fi Channel will pick it up. Who knows?