Most Haunted: The Collection | 
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Format: Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 6
Running Time: 1020
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 741952647492
UPC: 741952647492
EAN: 0741952647492
ASIN: B000PGTNDO
Release Date: July 17, 2007
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Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 17-JUL-2007
Media Type: DVD
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 Coolio! July 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well i happen to love this show for some reason..who knows why?!? but if you love th show like i do, you'll love revisiting these places. I have one minor complaint...the way the DVD is set up, when you play the shows in their entirety it stops for commercial breaks...now there are no commercials on the DVD but they put in like these strange intermission breaks?!?!? odd, maybe its a British thing? but like I said its only a minor annoyance. Otherwise the collection is great!
 A taste of home with Most Haunted July 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I much prefer the later seasons with David Wells but I'm a Brit who misses the atmosphere/age of everything, living in U.S.A since 1989 so it's a way of recharging my own batteries. Wonderful sites, the feel of the places - great. Remember that these are from the very early days of Most Haunted and things seem to run smoother in the later seasons.
 Good Theatrics but.... June 21, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Most Haunted is like going to the Circus. It's all good fun; with the Fortune Tellers, Bearded Lady, Mutant Baby, etc. The only thing however, is that none of it's real. It makes for great entertainment, but has little truth to back it up. But the thing that separates Most Haunted from the Circus, is the fact we 'know' all of that stuff is fake; whereas Most Haunted plays on something we know nothing really about, and makes a big show of the Paranormal.
The Premise of Most Haunted is to get a team of 'specialists' to go into a supposed Haunted area, and try to find out if their really are ghosts. It's hosted by Yvette Fielding, a blonde woman who seems more interested in looking beautiful yet gothic then hosting the show. She tells you about the place their going, gives a bit of history; and then they bring in a Psychic to tell some things they 'sense.' Here's where it gets interesting though;
The first Psychic on the show, Derek Achora, was quite the theatric. Every single episode he would get possessed. Now, I'm not talking 'the Exorcist' processed, but Derek does indeed get possessed by a spirit. Everyone around him when he goes thru this, A) Stands there looking scared or B) Looks on the verge of laughing. In fact, you might burst out laughing as Derek shouts angrily with a ghost inside of him, throwing things about.
Now, a man named Kieran O'Keefe came along on the show a few years ago. There had already been some question if Derek had been acting being possessed. Kieran came along as a skeptic, and thought up an idea. What if he made up a person, and told Derek that this made up person once lived at the next location they were going? Sure enough, on multiple occasions Kieran made up various people, told them to Derek, Derek would then go and make some things up about this person and even go and get processed by the fake person! The Most Haunted execs found out about this, swiftly fired Derek, and got a new Psychic. But the damage had already been done. Many simply stopped watching the show, now convinced it was all fake. And while the show still has a faithful following in both England and America, is still going strong with new episodes, and the knew Psychic David is quite well liked, many simply just don't watch anymore. And it is rather odd, that every single location they go to has something paranormal in it.
Watch the show for the laughable theatrics, only. If you still want a Paranormal fix, watch the WONDERFUL Ghost Hunters on the Sci-Fi channel. They actually go to disprove there are ghosts in places. The DVD'S have just been released, and are much better! Check them out on Amazon also.
Mr. Achora's also an author, check out his books. Oh, and be sure to watch Derek Achora's show, which had a short lived run on TV. He got in processed every episode there too.
Highly chilling......... May 7, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Best approched with an open mind, Most Haunted is more of a psycological foray into the afterlife that a physical one. This set, from the seasons 2 and 3 , is a very entertaining, amusing, and at times, scary ride. Most people believe this is the first two seasons, and the packge claims it is season one and two, but these episodes are from season two and three. Most Haunted's first year was in 24 minute episodes. The first year had a different parapsycologist named Jason Karl, and a different make up girl with black frilly hair that screamed at everything and ran faster than Yvette ever did.
Each memeber of the team brings something different to the table. Yvette Fielding is a great host, speaking clearly and precise, explaining the history of the investigation. But when things get going, she freaks, and sometimes it is quite funny. For example, Yvette and her paranormal investigator Phil Wyman were investigating some rooms in the castle where Mary Queen Of Scots was held several times. As the night progresses, thier fear grows, and when a scratching begins at a window, they both freak and shove each other in a desparate bid to escape the room. Her freak out moments are legendary, and as we learn in the extras from the historian of the group, they now lable anyone's freak out moments a "Yvette". Even Phil Wyman warns Yvette, "Don't you start, because when you do, you set me off, too" First clue she's scared: her hand goes right to her mouth and she wimpers.
In this set, Yvette bring medium Derek Anorak to the investigations. He is not told of where he is going, or of any history of the places to be investigated. As he reveals his readings in a dramatic, engrossing way, we are informed by foot notes if history can back up who he claims to see or speak to, and if what he says is accurate. Mostly he is right on the mark, but Most Haunted is not afraid to show you proof if he is correct or incorrect. To me, this makes what transpires believable. This also gives it two angles to think about. Is what Derek saying totally true? Is what he coveys from his spirit guide garbled and sometimes causes misinformation? Or is Derek trying to pass off his tales as "readings" but has secretly researched a little before the actual investigation?
I also like the historian Richard. At first I wasn't sure, but his speaches on history are very interesting. In one scene, the crew are chasing noises through a castle, and he seems sort of confused as to what is happening, even perplexed, and then he seems genuinely afraid when Yvette and the sound man see feet under a door. When ghostly happenings begin, he gets bewildered and lost in the shuffle. Richard usually seems baffled by the noises, and unsure what to do next.
Karl, Yvette's husband, is always cool and collected...and here you can hear all the language without many beeps at all.
Cath, the hairdresser/ investigator is just adorable. She has a child like quality about her and it actually makes you feel sorry for her when she is terrified. Poor thing.
Some of the members are afraid of their own shadows, which add another dimension to the spooky goings on. One of the girls screams at a coffee pot light when it blinks, she is so on edge.
Showing so many different members and how they react to the ghostly going on enhances the believability. Some of the members you grow to learn they are over reacting and think everything is caused by a ghost, then others want to find out what the cause is and prove it to be a ghost or some other cause.
A few episodes stand out over the others. My favorite "Clerkenwell House Of Detention" is the scariest of them. Derek does an excellent, chilling acount of who the spirits are there at the time, and echoes the suffering that took place there. He has a way of making the dead seem real with his words.
One thing I really think is wonderful, is that Most Haunted knows when to play music, and when not to. Mostly, the music is in the introductory segment of the show, when Yvette and Richard are explaining the history and activities of the location. Then throughout, when needed, but not interrupting the noises of the spirits. When Yvette and the crew are in the location actually hunting, there isn't music...so you hear along with them, the sounds. Ghost Hunters, and Ghost Hunters International tend to over use music, and play it during the actual investigations and tend to drown out the important sounds.
In my opinion, this set is worth the money. They do caputure spooky things, mostly orbs and sounds, and not as often as thier American conterparts "Ghost Hunters", but the history and presentation seems richer. Please don't misunderstand me...I like both shows equally, but for different reasons. "Ghost Hunters" for the actual proof, and "Most Haunted" for the history.
Alot of Americans do not realize that the show is in it's 10th season in Britain. I have purchased, in PAL format, seasons 4, 5, 6 and part of 7.
Part 4 is very good. In one story at the Jamaica Hotel, the team sit in a room and Yvette acidentally points the camera at a mirror...and picks up a murky image of a woman...and the medium on board Ian helps her pass into the light as her image fades in the mirror. A truly surreal moment in Most Haunted history.Each season has scares.
Alot of people scoff at Most Haunted. At times, it does seem a little over dramatic...but the underlying pulse is that they are trying to find truth in hauntings, and I feel do succeed. In later series 6, Derek's stories seemed to get wilder and unbelieveable, and Cirian O'keefe would comment and present in fact wether Derek's claims were true or unfounded.
That to me is important if you want to find truth in the hereafter. And it takes guts for a show to present to it's audience if the psychic was accurate or not, rather than try to get you to believe it all. At one point in series 6, Yvette took Derek and psychic David Wells to locations separately, and compared thier findings to each other's and to factual evidence, and then presented it to the viewing audience as to which one was accurate. That's guts!
Ghosts and history April 14, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love Most Haunted, and I wish that Antix/Living TV would release more DVDs formated for the US/Canada. They are in the 10th season in England but only some of the episodes from their earlier seasons are on this set. I love what Most Haunted does and the history about the locations is great. Whether they catch ghostly activity or not is hit and miss as one might expect it to be with only 24hours at each site. Some of the episodes are not very exciting while others are great. I am not as impressed with the Medium on these episodes. He is a bit over dramatic for my taste. All in all I find it very enjoyable and hope that they release more episodes.
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