Yes Ellie, do tell us about your experience.

Dee - thank you for admitting you went to sleep before 'the Stone Tape' started - now I can admit it too (as I was keeping quiet) and I am ashamed to say I went to sleep half way through and missed the end. doh!

From, what I did see it of it, I felt rather disappointed that my memory of it was better than the actuality - the acting felt 'dated' and over dramatic and it was very low budget early 1970's. Nevertheless, the subject matter remained challenging and still had an edge to it - even after all these years.

Yes Nell it was on BBC4 (digital channel).

Andrew )



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Mike - I wanted to thank you for bringing it to my attention - if only I could have managed to video tape the Stone Tape before I was wiped out! A:o)

The trouble is that we live in an age in which we are constanly bombarded, day in day out, with sense-numbing noise and information, via movies, news, music, willingly or umwillingly (thudding cars constantly disrupting your day-dreams as they roar by, sound-system blaring), and are presented with such graphic imagery of the horrors of the mundane world, that we have largely been robbed of our capacity to sense and respond to more sublte terrors. I.E. we live in a crass, unsubtle time which could not possibly give birth to an M.R. James or an Algernon Blackwood; instead, we have Stephen King, Peter Straub and James Herbert, who wouldn't know subtlety and suggestion if they bludgeoned them over the head and smashed their knees with a mallet! Compare the two film versions of The Haunting, and all becomes clear. End of huff>

Best,

Mike