Never Rest: A Drama About Farm Safety for Children

This little film is a ghost story about a modern English farm haunted by the ghost of its former owner. It is rumoured that he murdered four children, but it is slowly revealed that they were child labourers who died in various accidents exacerbated by his carelessness.

Four children are exploring the farm when they come upon his desolate grave, then they get parts of the story out of the old caretaker. An ancient photograph reveals that the long-ago dead children looked strangely like the four present-day ones. Ah, but will they come to harm or not?

This film was missing for the longest time, then it appeared on youtube a few months ago (watch?v=YLAfDrFUBkA). As a farm safety film, it bears comparison with Apaches (1977). Never Rest has a more coherent plot, but Apaches is much more frightening. Since both are on youtube, it's nice to compare them

This isn't a fun short, it's a horrific PSA made in the '90's that somehow ended up being shown to me in school when I was about 8 years old (2003) because we were rural so apparently it seemed 'appropriate' to traumatise us kids into not playing on farms. Literal nightmares for weeks, one of my friends legit developed a phobia from this sadistic attempt to 'scare us straight'.

Seriously though, cute short about a haunted farm, but nightmare fuel for children under 10.

Since PIFs have appeared on YouTube they have acquired a cult following amongst us over 50s for childhood nostalgia and scare reasons-There are so many to troll through from The Nightmare that is Jon Krishes "Searching "about children and matches in 1974 to Jo and Petunia being killed off with worn tyres a bit later -This previously hidden farm safety film Never rest is a homage to John Macenzies 70s farm fright fest Apaches with the same message, and with graphic violence if the warnings are unheeded -What lets it down though is the cinematography which looks like studio Instead of cold stark photography that gave the classic 70s PIFs their realism ,and no fade out crackles either!-Worth a look but not "Searching "first division !!....