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I watched The Stone Tape, a made for BBC movie from the early 70s by Nigel Kneale. It is similar to but not quite as ambitious as Quatermass and the Pit. It was an interesting haunting movie, and reminded me a little bit of Legend of Hell House and The Haunting in the way it uses science to explore the supernatural. Of the haunted house movies I have seen, The Stone Tape is certainly among the better. It just barely touches a Lovecraftian cosmological terror similar to Prince of Darkness although its far more restrained. The script, dialogue, and characterization were top notch, but the production was fairly low budget, think early Dr. Who level type production level. This is one of the few horror movies I think could benefit from a remake and perhaps could explore the idea of 'the others' a bit more.
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