The Stone Tape

The Stone Tape

1972 · 90 min · ★ 6.1 · Horror, TV Movie, Mystery, Drama

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...

Directed by Peter Sasdy · Written by Nigel Kneale

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