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Peter sasdy born 27 may 1935 in budapest, hungary is a hungarianborn british film and television director in addition to his numerous tv credits, notably the nigel knealescripted the stone tape 1972, he directed several horror films for hammer, including taste the blood of dracula 1969, countess dracula 1971 and hands of the ripper 1971. Nigel kneal s classic ghost story the stone tape, first broadcast by the bbc in 1972, represents his best work outside of the legendary quatermass series. The play was shot on video in colour, but the tones are muted, bleached browns and greys predominating. The film was also released on bluray by mill creek entertainment in 2018 as part of a 4 film set that also included highdef transfers of the stone killer, breakout, and hard times. The stone tape, made by the bbc in 1972 by hungarianborn director peter sasdy, who made several fascinating, if uneven, films for hammer around this time, reflects again kneales curious angle on the science versus superstition schism, and commented with. Kneale wrote wellreceived television dramas such as the year of the sex olympics 1968 and the stone tape 1972 in addition to the quatermass serials. In 1972, he abandoned the gothic flourishes of his earlier work to make a trio of lowkey sciencefictioninfluenced productions. The evening standard praised the play, describing it as one of the best plays of the genre ever written. Because savant watched the stone tape on a dvdrom, it was a very different disc experience. First broadcast in 1972, and marrying sciencefiction and the supernatural, it tells the story of a. The stone tapes avebury 02 a page from john britton 3. Combining aspects of science fiction and horror, the story concerns a team of scientists who move into their new research facility, a renovated victorian mansion that has a reputation for being. Dec 30, 2011 the stone tape bbc two 1972 90 minutes written by nigel kneale directed by peter sasdy starring. The stone killer is a 1973 action neo noir thriller film produced and directed by michael winner and starring charles bronson.
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