Night Gallery - Something in the Woodwork
Geraldine Page has been driven to drink and mental illness
by ex-husband Leif Erickson’s exit from her life, now up in her attic talking
to the ghost (named Jamie) of a murdered criminal who lost a gunfight with
police in there. She just can’t seem to get over the dissolution of her
marriage, up in the attic imparting her agonies to Jamie, a ghost just wanting
to remain at peace in the woodwork, a spectre without form since his body has
been ravaged as wormfood. Jamie begs her to just leave him be but she can’t
help seeking comfort and friendship wherever possible…even if it is from a
ghost who is little more than shadow vacating the environs of a cobwebbed,
spider-infested attic few would ever wish to enter.
Erickson, for some reason, time and again, returns to her home, requesting Page seek help for her “sickness”. Her loneliness is apparent from the get-go when she nudges a handyman to stay for coffee and cookies, while he obviously has commitments and other clients to tend to. And her birthday cake and pillbox for Erickson is an attempt to rekindle what is clearly no more as he just wants to be around Page as little as possible. But her persistent desire for him to go into the attic to verify what she has been telling him about Jamie results in obvious tragedy. Page is very good as a chatty and worrisome lonelyheart, jilted by her husband for a younger, more attractive woman, so longing for companionship she’d bother a ghost in a spooky attic! And because she can’t leave well enough alone, Jamie’s stay in the woodwork is intruded upon and disrupted, and Page must answer for that. 2.5/5
Erickson, for some reason, time and again, returns to her home, requesting Page seek help for her “sickness”. Her loneliness is apparent from the get-go when she nudges a handyman to stay for coffee and cookies, while he obviously has commitments and other clients to tend to. And her birthday cake and pillbox for Erickson is an attempt to rekindle what is clearly no more as he just wants to be around Page as little as possible. But her persistent desire for him to go into the attic to verify what she has been telling him about Jamie results in obvious tragedy. Page is very good as a chatty and worrisome lonelyheart, jilted by her husband for a younger, more attractive woman, so longing for companionship she’d bother a ghost in a spooky attic! And because she can’t leave well enough alone, Jamie’s stay in the woodwork is intruded upon and disrupted, and Page must answer for that. 2.5/5
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