A young couple move into a remote country house in the middle of a stone circle. They employ workmen who disturb an ancient menhir, unleashing a supernatural force.
Direction
Clark's restrained dread builds without a single jump scare.
Cinematography
Bleak 16mm winter landscapes that feel genuinely cursed.
Director
Lawrence Gordon Clark
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the BBC's legendary 'A Ghost Story for Christmas' series, which ran 1971-1978 and was revived in 2005. These annual shorts essentially invented British folk horror television.
Filmed in Avebury, Wiltshire—the village literally built inside a Neolithic stone circle. The locations are authentic, which explains why everything feels genuinely ancient and wrong.
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