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- It inspired American expat producer Milton Subotsky of Hammer rival Amicus Pictures to launch a series of portmanteau horror films with framing narration, including the original Tales from the Crypt in 1972. Any movie of this nature—from Ghost Stories to V/H/S to ABCs of Death —owes a debt to Dead of Night.
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Dead of Night is a 1945 black and white British anthology supernatural horror film, made by Ealing Studios. The individual segments were directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. It stars Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave.
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Dead of Night, British horror anthology film, released in 1945, that is considered a classic of the genre. Of the movie’s five segments, arguably the most notable is the episode featuring a tormented ventriloquist.
Dead of Night opens with architect Walter Craig (played by Mervyn Johns) being summoned to a country house on the pretense of acquiring work. Once there he meets several guests, all of whom are familiar to him because of their strange appearance in a recurring dream he has experienced. Each guest then entertains the group with a tale about an uncanny or inexplicable event in his or her life, setting the stage for each of the segments within the movie. Tales of ghostly encounters and strange premonitions of death then follow, with the last segment featuring an unstable ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) who thinks his dummy is alive.
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•Studio: Ealing Studios
•Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer
•Producer: Michael Balcon
•Writers: John Baines, Angus MacPhail, and T.E.B Clarke
•Music: Georges Auric
•Running time: 102 minutes
•Michael Redgrave (Maxwell Frere)
•Mervyn Johns (Walter Craig)
•Roland Culver (Eliot Foley)
•Sally Ann Howes (Sally O’Hara)
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Jul 15, 2019 · Dead of Night is a classic of chiller cinema, combining five truly frightening stories into one brilliant film. Here's why you need to watch it.
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Jul 9, 2019 · Dead of Night is the best horror anthology film ever made. Sometimes called the “portmanteau” film, the subgenre has a long tradition beginning in Germany with the silent films Unheimliche ...
Jan 24, 2011 · Ealing Studios' 1945 production of Dead of Night is a landmark film on two different levels. Its overall high quality, mind-bending wraparound story, and one legendary sequence solidify Dead of Night's reputation as one of the greatest examples of the horror anthology.
Though you may have never heard of Dead of Night, it shares a lot with the 1975 horror anthology classic Trilogy of Terror, including a director, a screenwriter and a style: The movie is comprised of three dark, pulpy horror stories with sinister twist endings.
Oct 30, 2020 · Dead of Night creeped audiences out 75 years ago. It does the same today. Here's why the film matters much more than most horror movies.
