70s Horror Film

[sp1814]

Back in the late 70s or possibly the early 80s, the BBC broadcast a film (I think it was actually commissioned by the Beeb) about two dead Victorian children.

It was a ghost tale (probably shown at either Christmas) and the pay off was that the children had no hearts, and I think it was only at the end where you find out that they're dead (a bit like The Others).

My memory tells me it was called The Secret Hearts, but I can't find any mention of this on www.imdb.com at or around the time when I think it was mad.

Sorry for the sketchy description, but people at work think I dreamt it up (we've been talking about the scariest things we ever saw as kids).

Please prove that I'm not going round the twist...can anyone remember what it's called???

[feebal]

"Lost Hearts" made for TV, based on the MR James short story. It was scary.

[clotheshorse]

i couldnt believe when i read this, this programme has always stuck with me, i think i was about 14, in on my own and i watched this, i always thought it was from the series Mystery and Imagination ,or something like that,. What i remember of it is that a man needed the hearts of children to keep alive himself, i remember thechildren rising up from the bath and i have never been so frightened by anything again.

[ARSENAL]

I am sure you can buy this on DVD. The BBC issued a few of these 'Ghost Stories for Christmas' last year. I wish they would bring it back. I have got Lost Hearts on Video, I know that for sure.

[feebee102]

Oh God I remember it well.
Gave me nightmares for years.Even now the thought of it gives me goosebumps.