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review: The Stone Tape Peter Sasdy, 1972. Ghost stories are something of a Yuletide tradition, but imagine trying to get your head around this oddity on Christmas evening. In 1972, families filled with turkey and the Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special, would have ended their exhausting day with Nigel Kneale’s puzzling television play about a team of research scientists who discover the Victorian mansion they’ve taken over appears to be haunted. Kneale’s no-nonsense script favours science over the supernatural, and, as such, The Stone Tape is fairly dry and unwelcoming, and also hazy when it comes to explaining the ghostly goings-on. Something about a neolithic standing stone which is now part of the building’s brick work, which somehow acts as a recording medium and plays back past events - in this case, the screaming death of a Victorian housemaid.

Despite the obvious limitations of the BBC’s visual effects department, and the fact that it’s simply badly staged a lot of the time, The Stone Tape earns its cult status due to the well sustained, brooding atmosphere that hums throughout, and solid performances from Michael Bryant as the arrogant lothario team leader, and (despite being lumbered with the female hysteric character) Jane Asher. In place of the cosy rituals of traditional ghost stories, this is a curious and confusing tale, and one that’s more cold than it is ‘chilling’.