In both QATP & The Stone Tape, Kneale is bluffing up the supernatural with a deeper scientific rational - but it's the science that ultimately proves more terrifying, feeding as it does into the primal terror of The Stone Tape, or the revelations of Martian genetic experiment and colonisation in QATP. Despite the bogus pagan trappings, there is no such supernatural element in The Wicker Man, just the bleakness of totalitarian society and how easy human being will participate in institutionalised murder. This the horror of what human beings are capable of. Whatever the horror quotient of QATP, it still the only film capable of scaring me shitless!

You taking notes, WAV? Watch out on BBC4 over Christmas for the usual round of classic ghost stories, not like that Mark Gatis shite they served up last year!