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Movie poster: The Stone Tape (1972)
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The Stone Tape

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1972 · 90 min Horror TV Movie Mystery Drama
6.0 / 10 · TMDB

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...

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Year 1972
Country United Kingdom
Genre Horror, TV Movie, Mystery, Drama
Director Peter Sasdy
Runtime 90 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.0/10 (38 votes)

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The film constructs its dread through a chillingly clinical premise, exploring the arrogance of technology as it attempts to dissect and erase a supernatural echo. It relies on the terrifying implication that stone can remember, and that some memories fight back.

What lingers after the final frame is a profound unease about the spaces we inhabit and the histories we so carelessly try to overwrite. A masterclass in psychological terror. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Peter Sasdy

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Best experienced alone on a dark night, for fans of slow-burn, idea-driven 70s horror.

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