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Thriller Film................?
There are a couple living in a old Mansion which has a portrait of the same mansion and drive on the living room wall...
They notice a dark ghostly figure in a long black monks habit has appeared in the Painting.. and it starts moving nearer to the front door, at the end of the film, they look at the painting, and the 'figure' is on the doorstep, and they hear knocking at their own real front door....
it was shown (i think) on ch4 england in the early eighties.
2 Answers
- Duncan HendersonLv 61 decade agoFavourite answer
The plot has the feel of an MR James story- he used the "stuff happening in a picture of the house we're in" plot device a few times...
I know there is a brilliant film version of "Whistle and I'll Come to You" starring Michael Hordern (scared me to bits when I saw it as a teenager), but The nearest I could come to answering your question is
[quote from Wikipedia]
"In December 1986 BBC2 broadcast partially dramatized readings by the actor Robert Powell of "The Mezzotint"
Note the "partially dramatised"; could this be what you're remembering?
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._R._James
