The Ash Tree (TV Short 1975) (1975)
Saucer-People 1 points 3 years ago.

The Ash Tree is one of the most unsettling M.R. James adaptation’s by the BBC of his supernatural tales and haunted the imagination of a generation of seventies and eighties viewers.
While the effects are somewhat primitive by today’s standards, the spectral atmosphere of the story more than makes up for it.