A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower

★ 7.5IMDb Score
Released:2025-12-14
Genre:Horror
Duration:29 min
Director:Mark Gatiss
Actors:Tobias Menzies, Joanna Lumley, Nancy Carroll, Ben Mansfield, Polly Walker
Production:BBC Studios, BBC, Adorable Media

Overview:

For 15 years, Roger Winstanley has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: an invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks and the figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life seem to finally collide when an invitation to the dreaded "room in the tower” becomes all too real…

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