Still the greatest multi-story ghost/horror picture.
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09/26/07
Dead of Night (1945)
95 %
Reviews Counted: 22 Fresh: 21 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.9/10
Consensus:
With four accomplished directors contributing, Dead of Night is a classic horror anthology that remains highly influential.
Rated: PG
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Theatrical Release: 01-01-2005
Synopsis: On seeing Eliot Foley's house, Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) pauses querulously. Meeting the assembled guests, he falls into numbed silence. Although Craig has never visited Foley (Roland Culver), the experience is eerily familiar. He has seen this place before and has met these people--in... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Sally Ann Howes, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
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Top Critic
The form was to be revived on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1960s. But Dead of Night is the best.
09/26/07
Top Critic
Nearly 60 years on, Ealing's compendium of spooky tales remains scary as hell.
01/26/06
Top Critic
A pioneering horror classic, and still one of the most successful anthologies to date.
05/24/03
Top Critic
Its scares are grounded in our suspicion that not every ghost is a trick of the light and not every goosebump can be explained by a drop in temperature...
07/14/03
One of the creepiest movies of all time and a great way to compare different directing styles.
07/13/03
Cavalcanti’s contribution might be the finest single episode to appear in any horror anthology film.
06/03/03
Though quite obviously possessing both structure and content that has been influential to its genre, there's something about [it]that keeps it from rising very far above its legions of imitators
05/20/03
Although the stories here related are probably familiar to all who are devotees of such mysticisms, they are tightly and graphically told.
05/20/03
Top Critic
A wonderfully spooky omnibus production; the Redgrave segment is a classic, copied many times since.
02/19/03
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