A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower

Dec 14, 2025

0h 29m

★ 7.0

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…

Genres

Horror

Production Companies

BBC Studios

BBC 2

BBC

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Cast

Roger Winstanley

Tobias Menzies

Mrs Stone

Joanna Lumley

Verity Gordon Clark

Nancy Carroll

John Clinton

Ben Mansfield

Mrs Clinton

Polly Walker

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