
The Pit and the Pendulum(1961)
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.


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...

Michael Bryant
Peter Brock

Jane Asher
Jill Greeley

Iain Cuthbertson
Roy Collinson

Michael Bates
Eddie Holmes

Reginald Marsh
Crawshaw

Tom Chadbon
Hargrave

John Forgeham
Maudsley
Philip Trewinnard
Stewart Jessop

James Cosmo
Cliff Dow

Neil Wilson
Sergeant Paterson
The Stone Tape is a horror, tv movie, mystery, drama film released in 1972 exploring themes of supernatural. Directed by Peter Sasdy, it stars Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson. 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...
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