CHILDREN OF THE STONES
Dir. Peter Graham Scott, 1977.
United Kingdom. 174 min.
In English.

THURSDAY, MARCH 20 – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 28 – 7:30 PM

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This vernal equinox, Spectacle is chuffed to present the children’s television folk horror phenomena: CHILDREN OF THE STONES. Originally unleashed on an unsuspecting British audience by the Welsh television network, Harlech Television (HTV) in 1977. Considered a landmark, and often described as the scariest children’s show ever made.

The series stars Peter Demin as Matthew Brake, a young boy accompanying his astrophysicist father Adam Brake (played by Gareth Thomas) who have come to the sleepy English village of Milbury to study the local stone circle. But right from the start, something is not quite right. After strange interactions with the locals, the father/son duo meet Milbury’s mayor, Hendrick, masterfully played by the Scottish character actor Iain Cuthbertson, who knows a little too much about astrophysics to just be the town’s mayor. What secrets are Hendrick and his cohort hiding from the newcomers? And what do they have to do with the stones? A maze of multiple timelines, ley lines, pagan folklore, and a musical score of cacophonous wailing dissonant voices converges into a mystery that will have you on your toes until the final title crawl. It’s pretty phantasmagorical.

All 7 episodes will be played in succession with a 15 minute intermission between episodes 4 and 5.