Dead of Night 1945

A supernatural anthology with a wraparound story that actually is a sum of its parts. The best two segments include a mirror that reflects a room where a murder was committed and a ventriloquist with a malevolent dummy. This is a spooky classic with one of the freakiest finishes I've ever seen. I must have watched the final nightmare sequence four or five times because I couldn't get over how strange it was.

If you want to watch an effects-laden or gory horror movie, do not watch this. This is all about mystery, mood and atmosphere

I loved it! Thrilling, immersing, non-linear script with classic horror themes but also kind of meta!
The circular ending and, just before that, the nightmarish interconnection of the stories shot in a more expressionistic style, wow!
A classic anthology film, innovative and precursor of favorites such as the TV shows Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) and The Twilight Zone (1959)

3 Thoughts After Watching ‘Dead of Night’:

1. I can maybe appreciate how this movie might have been a predecessor to bigger and better anthologies, but the tales were incredibly basic. Textbook ghost stories with little substance.

2. The end of the ventriloquist tale was fairly creepy, but I was still left scratching my head.

3. I was hoping for a stronger ending and a better payoff. Was the main character stuck in a loop? And why would he kill that guy? I dunno… this all felt very thrown together.

This movie is perfect, nothing else to say,

We do not know it and we liked it, which counts, as it does, the actors. Another great movie from the Ealing