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starring: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers, Frederick Valkdirected by: Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303002774
Format: Black & White, EP, NTSC
ISBN: 6303002773
Label: Republic Pictures
Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Republic Pictures
Release Date: January 01, 1998
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 31597
Studio: Republic Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: June 28, 1946
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
While horror conventions may change from generation to generation, there are ideas that will scare us no matter what time period we inhabit. Dead of Night is a classic horror anthology that effectively plays on those timeless fears. Mervyn Johns stars as a man who has been summoned to a house with a group of strangers he has never met but has seen in his dreams. As they convene, he predicts certain events will happen as they do in his dreams, and when they do, the other guests relate their own experiences with the supernatural, including tales of a possessed mirror, a sinister ventriloquist's dummy, and an eerie premonition of death. Throughout the group meeting, the protagonist fears something horrible will happen to him, and we are left to wonder what it might be. The film's final, revelatory sequence offers an unexpectedly horrific surprise. It may have been made in 1945, but Dead of Night is still spooky. --Bryan Reesman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A classic movie of supernatural tales, with Michael Redgrave as a ventriloquist whose dummy, Hugo, bites
Please note that I'm commenting only on the film itself, not the various VHS tapes which carry it. The best picture quality I've encountered is on the Anchor Bay two-movie, two DVD disc set which also includes The Queen of Spades film. The Anchor Bay DVD transfer shows some age but is in good overall shape.
Dead of Night remains, sixty years after it was made at Ealing Studios, one of the creepiest and most intelligent of supernatural films. No, it doesn't have creaking coffins, or pale ... Read More
Rating: - English Twilight Zone-like flick
"Dead of Night" is a mid 40's English paranormal horror type flick that succeeds in conveying it's supernatural theme.
Architect Walter Craig is played by Mervyn Johns, better known as Bob Crachit in the classic 1951 Scoroge, the finest version of Dickens' Christmas Carol. He is called to a countryside farmhouse to do some renovations. As he approaches in his car, the scenery somehow seems familiar. He is speechless as he enters the farmhouse. A group of people gathered there are characters ... Read More
Rating:  - Great Film, Horrible Quality
Each episode of this masterpiece conveys a sense of dread and impending horror. This is achieved by gradually turning reality askew until it's a nightmare. No need for chainsaws and chop-chop. Unfortunately, the print I received must have been pirated by a drunken one-armed lodger with Parkinson's Disease, sitting in a vibrating chair in a dumpy London flat while struggling to keep his Toys R Us video camera trained on the flickering blue screen of a 10-inch Dumont TV situated behind the dirty window of an ... Read More
Rating: - The nightmare is real life
This is a classic. The film is very entertaining in its succession of paranormal stories that a psychiatrist questions systematically to propose explanations that are farfetched and have to be farfetched because he does not want to accept the idea that there may be some paranormal activities and events in the world. The whole range of such events is explored and leads to a very disquieting ending. What if what we consider the real world were nothing but an illusion, a nightmare, something happening in our own ... Read More
Rating: - The Best Horror Film
You've seen the plots if you ever watched The Twilight Zone or half a dozen other series which generously stole the idea from Dead Of Night. But even if you are familiar with the tales, no film manages to invoke such fright as Dead Of Night.
A series of stories told by a group who are in an isolated English cottage on the moors, the suspense starts with the first tale and doesn't let up until the surprise, knock-out ending that beats them all.
Slightly Hitchcock in feel, the movie plays ... Read More
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