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[[File:Stonetape 1972film.png|thumb|200px|right|Still from ''The Stone Tape (1972 film)''...]]

==Summary==


While working on a revolutionary research project involving development of new recording technologies, a man, his former girlfriend and other team members encounter a ghost, and realize the experience is relevant to their quest for new technology.

==Details==

* Release Date: 1972
* Country/Language: UK, English
* Genres/Technical: Horror, Science Fiction
* Runtime: 1 hr 30 min
* Starring: Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson
* Director: Peter Sasdy
* Writer: [[Nigel Kneale]]
* Producer/Production Co: BBC

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: (none) (perhaps a "G" or, at most, a "PG" for off-screen violence and general eeriness)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
* (needs review!)

==Synopsis==

{{spoiler|
While working on a revolutionary research project involving development of new recording technologies, a man, his former girlfriend and other team members encounter a ghost, and realize the experience is relevant to their quest for new technology.
}}

==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===


===Associated Mythos Elements===
*

===Keeper Notes===


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 <!-- Optional; describe anything known or reported by experts about the origin of the story or inspiration for elements of it; list dedication, trivia, images, anything else of note -->
 * ''The Stone Tape'' shares some similar themes and a similar style with ''[[Quatermass (1953 franchise)]]'' by the same writer, [[Nigel Kneale]]. By extension, the film also shares some similarities to ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)]]'' and its spin-offs.
-* ''The Stone Tape'' story, its author's other work, and Kneale himself are referenced directly in ''[[Prince of Darkness (1987 film)]]'', and provided an obvious inspiration for many ghost/paranormal investigation films to follow, including ''[[Poltergeist (1982 franchise)]]'', ''[[Insidious (2010 franchise)]]'', ''[[White Noise (2005 francise)]]'', etc.
+* ''The Stone Tape'' story, its author's other work, and Kneale himself are referenced directly in ''[[Prince of Darkness (1987 film)]]'', and provided an obvious inspiration for many ghost/paranormal investigation films to follow, including ''[[Poltergeist (1982 franchise)]]'', ''[[Insidious (2010 franchise)]]'', ''[[White Noise (2005 franchise)]]'', etc.
 * Only 3 episodes from the would-be parent series ''Dead of Night'' are known to have survived the BBC purge of its archives in the 1970s. They are: "Return Flight", "The Exorcism" and "A Woman Sobbing".

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 ===Keeper Notes===
 <!-- Optional.  Notes to Keepers on using this for film for scenario ideas.  Heresies and Controversies:  this is also a good place to include non-canon and controversial aspects of the film's mythos.  Suggested Alternative Theories include:  Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; "fanon" interpretations; unofficial humorous or eccentric versions; identification with "Real Life" mythological, religious, folklore, natural, and historical phenomena; rumor and speculation contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos. * Alternative_theory.  ([[source]])  -->
-* As a story about a team of paranormal investigators using scientific equipment to solve a scientific problem with supernatural qualities to it while characters break down under the strain of dealing with the unknown, the basic premise and plot of ''The Stone Tape'' might provide the basis for a short, one-shot scenario, given a team of interesting enough pre-gen researcher characters (the story's plot might have to depend rather heavily on character interaction and reaction, rather than on characters putting many clues together or doing many proactive things, without a lot of heavy tampering with the story to give it more traditional CoC qualities!)
+* As a story about a team of paranormal investigators using scientific equipment to solve a scientific problem with supernatural qualities to it while characters break down under the strain of dealing with the unknown, the basic premise and plot of ''The Stone Tape'' might provide the basis for a short, one-shot scenario, given a team of interesting enough pre-gen researcher characters (this story is very character-driven, and the story's plot might have to depend rather heavily on character interaction and reaction, rather than on characters putting many clues together or doing many proactive things, without a lot of heavy tampering with the story to give it more traditional CoC qualities!)

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 ==Synopsis==
 <!-- Optional; Objective, unbiased, detailed synopsis of film's plot and themes -->
-* ''The Stone Tape'':  While working on a revolutionary research project involving development of new recording technologies, a man, his former girlfriend and other team members encounter a ghost, and realize the experience is relevant to their quest for new technology.
+* {{spoiler|''The Stone Tape'':  While working on a revolutionary research project involving development of new recording technologies, a man, his former girlfriend and other team members encounter a ghost, and realize the experience is relevant to their quest for new technology.}}
 ==Notes==

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-* (needs review!)
+* Mark Cole at Rivets on the Poster ([https://rivetsontheposter.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/the-stone-tape-1972/ link]) - "''The Stone Tape'' reminds me of another, excellent film dealing with high-tech attempts to study a ghost, ''The Legend of Hell House'' (written by another legendary TV horror writer, Richard Matheson).  The two films go in very different directions,  but they both share a similar storyline of a  team of scientists using their orderly, rationalist approach against an inexplicable and seemingly occult series of events. ... All in all, it is another solid – and scary – entry in Kneale’s filmography, and a very different take on some of the themes he’d dealt with in ''Quatermass and the Pit''."
+* Steve Langton at The Spinning Image (7/10) ([http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=635&aff=16 link]) - "Approached from a purely supernatural perspective, ''The Stone Tape'' hits the back of the net on many occasions, with its aura of evil practically reaching out from the confines of a television screen to suck you into that infernal room where past events intrude on the present."
 ==Synopsis==

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-While working on a revolutionary research project involving development of new recording technologies, a man, his former girlfriend and other team members encounter a ghost, and realize the experience is relevant to their quest for new technology.
+While working on a revolutionary research project involving development of new recording technologies, a man, his former girlfriend and other team members encounter a ghost, and realize the experience is relevant to their quest for new technology.  ''The Stone Tape'' was originally intended to be an eighth episode of the anthology horror series ''Dead of Night'', but was instead broadcast on its own stand-alone strengths.
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 * Genres/Technical:  Horror, Science Fiction
 * Runtime:  1 hr 30 min
-* Starring:  Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson
+* Starring:  Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson (various for ''Dead of Night'')
-* Director:  Peter Sasdy
+* Director:  Peter Sasdy (various for ''Dead of Night'')
-* Writer:  [[Nigel Kneale]]
+* Writer:  [[Nigel Kneale]] (various for ''Dead of Night'')
 * Producer/Production Co:  BBC
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 A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
 * SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)
 ''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''
@@ Line 38: / Line 40: @@
 ==Synopsis==
 <!-- Optional; Objective, unbiased, detailed synopsis of film's plot and themes -->
-{{spoiler|
+* ''The Stone Tape'':  While working on a revolutionary research project involving development of new recording technologies, a man, his former girlfriend and other team members encounter a ghost, and realize the experience is relevant to their quest for new technology.
@@ Line 47: / Line 47: @@
 ===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===
 <!-- Optional; describe anything known or reported by experts about the origin of the story or inspiration for elements of it; list dedication, trivia, images, anything else of note -->
-* The film shares some similar themes and a similar style with ''[[Quatermass (1953 franchise)]]'' by the same writer, [[Nigel Kneale]].
+* ''The Stone Tape'' shares some similar themes and a similar style with ''[[Quatermass (1953 franchise)]]'' by the same writer, [[Nigel Kneale]]. By extension, the film also shares some similarities to ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)]]'' and its spin-offs.
-* By extension, the film also shares some similarities to ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)]]'' and its spin-offs.
+* ''The Stone Tape'' story, its author's other work, and Kneale himself are referenced directly in ''[[Prince of Darkness (1987 film)]]'', and provided an obvious inspiration for many ghost/paranormal investigation films to follow, including ''[[Poltergeist (1982 franchise)]]'', ''[[Insidious (2010 franchise)]]'', ''[[White Noise (2005 francise)]]'', etc.
-* This story, its author's other work, and Kneale himself are referenced directly in ''[[Prince of Darkness (1987 film)]]'', and provided an obvious inspiration for many ghost/paranormal investigation films to follow, including ''[[Poltergeist (1982 franchise)]]'', ''[[Insidious (2010 franchise)]]'', ''[[White Noise (2005 francise)]]'', etc.
+* Only 3 episodes from the would-be parent series ''Dead of Night'' are known to have survived the BBC purge of its archives in the 1970s. They are: "Return Flight", "The Exorcism" and "A Woman Sobbing".
 ===Associated Mythos Elements===
 * [[Faerie]]s
 * [[Ghost]]s
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 ===Keeper Notes===
 <!-- Optional.  Notes to Keepers on using this for film for scenario ideas.  Heresies and Controversies:  this is also a good place to include non-canon and controversial aspects of the film's mythos.  Suggested Alternative Theories include:  Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; "fanon" interpretations; unofficial humorous or eccentric versions; identification with "Real Life" mythological, religious, folklore, natural, and historical phenomena; rumor and speculation contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos. * Alternative_theory.  ([[source]])  -->