From: bap@shrdlu.com   
      
   On 2025-10-28, Cryptoengineer  wrote:   
      
   >> TOPIC: Mini Reviews, Part 25 (film comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)   
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   >> THE STONE TAPE (1972): THE STONE TAPE was a 1972 "Christmas ghost   
   >> story" by Nigel Kneale broadcast on the BBC. The "ghost", how it   
   >> is described by witnesses, how people react to it, and so on, bear   
   >> a strong resemblance to those elements in Kneale's 1958 BBC play   
   >> QUATERMASS AND THE PIT and its 1967 movie version.   
   >>   
   >> We start with a bunch of "tech bros", and Kneale was very   
   >> prescient here: they are every bit as obnoxious as the ones are   
   >> now. They are moving into an old house to develop a new recording   
   >> medium, but one, the house is much older than they think, and two,   
   >> it seems to be "haunted".   
   >   
   > I saw this when it was first broadcast (I was living in England   
   > then). I was 15, and found it genuinely scary.   
      
   I still find it really scary.   
      
      
      
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