The narrative arc is bubbling over with some spooky nightmarish fervor.
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10/30/08
Dead of Night (1945)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:24
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.8/10
Consensus: With four accomplished directors contributing, Dead of Night is a classic horror anthology that remains highly influential.
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
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),... [More]
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Reviews for Dead of Night
Producer Michael Balcon turned each individual episode over to a different director and, told via flashback, they're equally good.
10/07/08
Top CriticA dead scary horror movie that skimps on the blood but not the goose bumps,
10/07/08
Still the greatest multi-story ghost/horror picture.
09/26/07
Spasmodically effective.
09/26/07
Top CriticThe form was to be revived on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1960s. But Dead of Night is the best.
09/26/07
A classic of English cinema.
09/26/07
Nearly 60 years on, Ealing's compendium of spooky tales remains scary as hell.
01/26/06
No review available.
10/03/05
No review available.
05/19/05
Absolutely one of the spookiest films ever made.
11/01/04
First-rate British chiller
08/10/04
Perhaps the best horror anthology film ever made.
07/30/03
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
A pioneering horror classic, and still one of the most successful anthologies to date.
05/24/03
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
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