GHOSTWATCH w/ Bordello Collective!

THE APOCALYPSE WILL BE TELEVISED! This Halloween season we offer a trifecta of horror about the power of media climaxing with Lesley Manning’s Ghostwatch, an extraordinary, ground-breaking social experiment and elaborate prank perpetrated upon the British populace. Originally presented as an on-air Halloween Television special in 1992, it professed to be a live paranormal investigation of “the most haunted house in Britain”. Ghostwatch was so terrifying the BBC never showed it again...

Most are familiar with the big hoaxes of pop culture history. Including, of course, Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, and even the low-budget horror film  The Blair Witch Project stirred up plenty of "is it real?" controversy and conspiracy theories during its theatrical release in 1999. Broadcast on Halloween night in 1992, at a time when verité-style horror had yet to become commonplace, The cast included familiar TV personalities, "live" on-the-street interviews…