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The Stone Tape

The Stone Tape

The Stone Tape

1972
Sci-fi, Horror
TV Movie
1h 30m
A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results... (imdb)

Directed by:

Peter Sasdy
Peter-Sasdy
16 total credits
Peter Sasdy has 16 credits at Criticker, including: Taste the Blood of Dracula, Countess Dracula, The Stone Tape and Hands of the Ripper

Writer:

Nigel Kneale
Nigel-Kneale
18 total credits
Nigel Kneale has 18 credits at Criticker, including: Quatermass and the Pit, The Quatermass Xperiment, The Woman in Black, Look Back in Anger and Quatermass 2

Starring:

Michael Bates
Michael-Bates
10 total credits
Michael Bates has 10 credits at Criticker, including: A Clockwork Orange, Patton, Frenzy, Bedazzled and The Stone Tape
,
Jane Asher
Jane-Asher
25 total credits
Jane Asher has 25 credits at Criticker, including: Death at a Funeral, The Masque of the Red Death, Alfie, Deep End and I Give It a Year
,
Michael Bryant
Michael-Bryant
14 total credits
Michael Bryant has 14 credits at Criticker, including: The Ruling Class, The Stone Tape, Torture Garden, Girly and Goodbye, Mr. Chips
,
Iain Cuthbertson
Iain-Cuthbertson
14 total credits
Iain Cuthbertson has 14 credits at Criticker, including: Gorillas in the Mist, The Railway Children, The Stone Tape, Strictly Sinatra and Painted Lady
,
Tom Chadbon
Tom-Chadbon
10 total credits
Tom Chadbon has 10 credits at Criticker, including: The Beast Must Die, The Stone Tape, Dance with a Stranger, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and Rebecca
,
Reginald Marsh
Reginald-Marsh
4 total credits
Reginald Marsh has 4 credits at Criticker, including: The Stone Tape, Art Discovers America, Plough Your Own Furrow, Say Little Hen... and Terry and June

Genres:

Sci-fi, Horror

Country:

UK

Language:

English

The Stone Tape

1972
Sci-fi, Horror
TV Movie
1h 30m
Avg Percentile 47.38% from 91 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

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Compact view
Avg Percentile 47.38% from 91 total ratings
Rated 25 Oct 2024
37
15th
You could splice the cast of Garth Marenghi into this thing and they would all be right at home
Rated 31 May 2012
25
13th
Probably not the scariest TV play I've ever seen, but certainly the loudest. It's an hour and a half of people shouting to each other in a resonant stone chamber. Jane Asher's performance is particularly hammy. The text overanalyzes its own meager premise and there is not much of a payoff to speak of.
Rated 20 Aug 2023
45
26th
This had the bones of a good story but the movie itself was very dull and the sound design was an assault on the ears.
Rated 12 Jun 2021
60
62nd
Very good. Orac makes his first TV appearance, apparently.
Rated 01 Nov 2015
52
52nd
The implications of the film are horrifying and gets at an attempted scientific explanation of ghosts (and is clearly a big influence on later films like Carpenter's Prince of Darkness and the whole ghost hunting niche). However The Stone Tape looks cheap and the acting is extremely hammy, so it's more of a relic of interest to genre aficianados rather than being a good horror film in of itself.
Rated 27 Apr 2015
92
92nd
The ultimate definition of the hauntological features coming out of Britain in the 70's. Excellent paranormal sci-fi.
Rated 22 Jun 2012
70
42nd
The acting gets rather belabored in spots, or perhaps the script is a trifle overwrought. Or perhaps it is all a matter of direction.
Rated 11 Feb 2011
90
82nd
Typically intelligent treatment by Nigel Kneale suffers only from low budget TV production values. Well acted and beautifully paced, this builds to a terrific finale.

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Peter Sasdy
Peter-Sasdy
16 total credits
Peter Sasdy has 16 credits at Criticker, including: Taste the Blood of Dracula, Countess Dracula, The Stone Tape and Hands of the Ripper

Writer:

Nigel Kneale
Nigel-Kneale
18 total credits
Nigel Kneale has 18 credits at Criticker, including: Quatermass and the Pit, The Quatermass Xperiment, The Woman in Black, Look Back in Anger and Quatermass 2

Starring:

Michael Bates
Michael-Bates
10 total credits
Michael Bates has 10 credits at Criticker, including: A Clockwork Orange, Patton, Frenzy, Bedazzled and The Stone Tape
,
Jane Asher
Jane-Asher
25 total credits
Jane Asher has 25 credits at Criticker, including: Death at a Funeral, The Masque of the Red Death, Alfie, Deep End and I Give It a Year
,
Michael Bryant
Michael-Bryant
14 total credits
Michael Bryant has 14 credits at Criticker, including: The Ruling Class, The Stone Tape, Torture Garden, Girly and Goodbye, Mr. Chips
,
Iain Cuthbertson
Iain-Cuthbertson
14 total credits
Iain Cuthbertson has 14 credits at Criticker, including: Gorillas in the Mist, The Railway Children, The Stone Tape, Strictly Sinatra and Painted Lady
,
Tom Chadbon
Tom-Chadbon
10 total credits
Tom Chadbon has 10 credits at Criticker, including: The Beast Must Die, The Stone Tape, Dance with a Stranger, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and Rebecca
,
Reginald Marsh
Reginald-Marsh
4 total credits
Reginald Marsh has 4 credits at Criticker, including: The Stone Tape, Art Discovers America, Plough Your Own Furrow, Say Little Hen... and Terry and June

Genres:

Sci-fi, Horror

Country:

UK

Language:

English
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