A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower

2025•29m•7.0/10

Horror

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.0/10(2)

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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Production

BBC Studios, BBC 2, BBC, Adorable Media

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Tobias Menzies

Tobias Menzies

Roger Winstanley

Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lumley

Mrs Stone

Nancy Carroll

Nancy Carroll

Verity Gordon Clark

Ben Mansfield

Ben Mansfield

John Clinton

Polly Walker

Polly Walker

Mrs Clinton

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