Episode 120: The Stone Tape
Added 2017-12-27 16:42:18 +0000 UTChttp://blasphemoustomes.com/2017/12/26/episode-120-the-good-friends-play-back-the-stone-tape/
We’re back and we’re watching in helpless terror as echoes of the dead past haunt us, screaming endlessly. This is our look at the classic 1972 British horror film, The Stone Tape. Fittingly, the BBC originally broadcast it as a ghost story for Christmas. We may be a day late on that front, but the nights are still cold and dark, and the air filled with ancient menace.
Although not explicitly Lovecraftian, The Stone Tape shares some themes with Lovecraft’s work, especially in its scientific investigation of the unknown. This is not too surprising, considering the script was written by Nigel Kneale of Quatermass fame (who we mentioned in episode 5). His work is always easy to mine for Call of Cthulhu inspiration, and we cheerfully do so in this epis
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Comments
Does anyone think there was any significance to the conservator's comment to Brock (passed on by the security guard in the second-to-last scene): "Did you know about the room?" Or was it just a belated warning?
Tom Bagatelle
2018-01-12 20:20:25 +0000 UTC
