The Stone Tape
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...
Why it matters
The Stone Tape serves up a chilling blend of psychological haunt and proto-techno horror that still resonates decades later.
- A foundational influence on tech-based ghost stories, bridging gothic atmosphere with early sci-fi horror.
- Terrific restraint and mood, relying on suggestion and slow-building dread rather than jump scares.
- A quietly unsettling meditation on memory, trauma, and the limits of rationality in explaining the supernatural.
- Fans of British TV horror and atmospheric, cerebral scares will find a masterclass in tension and mood here.
Director
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
0
Slow Burn
66
Psychological
14
Supernatural
60
Creature
18
Disturbing
0
Fun Factor
17
Cerebral
43
Survival
17
Supernatural
