On November 19th 1965 three young women, a bride-to-be and her two bridesmaids, tragically died in a car crash on Bluebell Hill, on the A229 between Chatham and Maidstone, Kent, while returning from her hen night. Ever since there have been tales that the hill is haunted by the ghost of a young woman, said to be one of the three crash victims. She typically appears as a hitchhiker who thumbs a lift from a driver, generally a young man, and then mysteriously vanishes from his car. In some versions of the story she asks to be taken to an address in Chatham, but disappears before she gets there.
I mention this story because it is well-known to me as I grew up in Maidstone during the seventies. It is probably the area's best-known ghost story, and the UK's best-known version of an urban legend which has become known as "The Phantom Hitchhiker". (There are variants from many other countries). "The Girl from Willow Green" is a filmed version of this story, possibly inspired by the Bluebell Hill legend.
A driver named Jim picks up a girl named Penny from a rural bus stop and takes her to the village of Willow Green. He asks for a date and she gives him her telephone number. Attempts to contact her, however, are unsuccessful, and when Jim makes further inquiries he learns from Penny's parents that she was killed in a car crash two years earlier.
This is a very short film, clearly made by amateurs, which is why I am not assigning it a mark out of ten. The camera work and sound quality are not good, but the film still has a certain mysterious and unsettling quality; the ending, which seems to be repeating the film's opening, is particularly enigmatic. I picked up the film when it was recently shown on the Talking Pictures network; it is worth looking out for if it is ever repeated.