Movie

The Stone Tape

1972 · 90 min

A slow, creeping unease builds as scientific curiosity turns into something far more sinister and inescapable.

Overview: 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...
How it feels: Eerie, tense, dark and cynical. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Obsession, technology, death, guilt
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
technology
death
guilt
isolation
Places: single country house
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none