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Dead Of Night

1945, Movie, NR, 104 mins

DEAD OF NIGHT
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Perhaps the best horror anthology film ever made, this much-praised film still holds up, but suffers from the variances of pace and mood that inevitably affect all compilation efforts. Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) is called to Pilgrim's Farm, a country house he has been hired to remodel. Approaching the austere Victorian building in his car, he finds that there is something hauntingly familiar about the house. Once inside, Craig recognizes everyone present and tells... read more leave a comment
Year: 1945
Rated NR

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Cast
Mervyn Johns: Walter Craig
Roland Culver: Eliot Foley
Mary Merrall: Mrs. Foley
Frederick Valk: Dr. Van Straaten
Renee Gadd: Mrs. Craig
Anthony Baird: Hugh Grainger

 

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Question: I'm wondering if you can help me out with the title of a movie I saw as a kid, probably 20 or 25 years ago, on Elvira's Mistress of the Dark horror show program. I don't remember much of the plot or any of the actors, but it dealt with a young man who enlisted, went off to fight in a war and started acting strangely when he returned home. Basically, I think he came home dead and was rotting away slowly, and at the end he begins digging his own grave in the local cemetery so he can rest in peace.


Answer: That can only have been Deathdream (1974), though you may have seen it under another title; it's been called Dead of Night (not to be confused with the 1945 omnibus film Dead of Night, which includes the ultimate scary ventriloquist's dummy story), Night Walk, The Veteran, The Night Andy Came Home and read more

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