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 TV folk horror phenomenon CHILDREN OF THE STONES. Unleashed on an unsuspecting British audience by Welsh network HTV in 1977, it’s often described as the scariest children’s series ever made.

Peter Demin stars as Matthew Brake, a boy accompanying his astrophysicist father Adam Brake (Gareth Thomas) to the sleepy English village of Milbury to study the local stone circle. But from the start, something is not quite right. After strange interactions with the locals, father and son meet Mayor Hendrick (masterfully played by Scottish character actor Iain Cuthbertson), who knows an awful lot about astrophysics for a civil servant. What secrets are Hendrick and his cohort hiding, and what do they have to do with the stones?

A maze of multiple timelines, ley lines, pagan folklore, and a dissonant, cacophonous musical score of wailing voices converge into a mystery that will have you on your toes until the final title crawl. It’s pretty phantasmagorical.

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