Dead of Night

Sep 9, 1945

1h 43m

★ 7.2

The unexpected, the tragic, the comic, the romantic, the dramatic...

Overview

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.

Genres

Horror

Thriller

Production Companies

Ealing Studios

Dead of Night Trailers

Cast

Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")

Mervyn Johns

Eliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

Roland Culver

Mrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

Mary Merrall

Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")

Googie Withers

Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")

Frederick Valk

Hugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")

Anthony Baird

Sally O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")

Sally Ann Howes

Dr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")

Robert Wyndham

Joyce Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")

Judy Kelly

Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")

Miles Malleson

Jimmy Watson (Segment "The Christmas Story")

Michael Allan

Mrs. O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")

Barbara Leake

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5.7

Drop Zone

Dec 8, 1994

A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.

6.1

Gothika

Nov 21, 2003

After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

7.8

Paprika

Oct 1, 2006

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.

6.1

Shamus

Jan 31, 1973

Millions in diamonds are stolen from a New York City safe, and later the burglar is killed. Shamus is paid $10,000 by the owner to find the diamonds or the killer.

3.0

Center of the Web

May 15, 1992

An actor is wrongly taken as a professional killer by a band planning to murder the Governor. Then he is hired by the Security Dept. to try to unmask and to catch the leaders.

6.0

Finder's Fee

Jun 19, 2001

Friends Tepper, Quigley, Fishman, and Bolan get together for a weekly poker night with two simple rules: Everyone contributes a lottery ticket to the pot, and no one checks the numbers until the game ends. But this particular, stormy night is different: Tepper plans to propose to his girlfriend, and just before the weekly game, he finds a wallet outside his apartment with a winning lottery ticket worth $6 million. Tepper calls the wallet's owner, Avery, to come collect what's his, but keeps the winning ticket for himself...only for Avery to show up and ask to play a hand.

0.0

Companions

Mar 12, 2023

A lone wanderer yearns for companionship in a world where everyone looks out for only themselves. However, in the midst of a newfound camaraderie during battle, tension soon begins to rise as the pair drudges closer toward the inevitable.

6.2

Dust Devil

Jul 11, 1992

A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.

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10.0

Purgatorium

Jun 19, 2023

An average company employee is thrust into a delirious night after a mugging and faces a world of lost souls that he had not considered before.

3.0

Snuff 102

Mar 1, 2007

A young Argentinian reporter is writing an article about snuff films - which depict real torture, rape and murder of people. But seeking the films and those behind them might backfire. She herself is in danger of becoming one of the suffering.

6.5

Black Coal, Thin Ice

Jun 11, 2014

Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.

5.8

Knight Moves

Jan 14, 1992

A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.

5.8

The Forger

Sep 10, 2014

A former child art prodigy and second generation petty thief arranges to buy his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, only to be forced to alter his plans and commit one more job for the man who financed his release.

6.2

The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

Jun 21, 1963

A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.

6.7

Inside

Jun 13, 2007

Scarred for life after a harrowing near-death experience, emotionally fragile mother-to-be Sarah is still struggling to come to terms with her loss. Overcome with silent grief, Sarah now seeks solace in work; however, she is on a collision course with sheer terror when a knock at the door in the dead of night chills her bones to the marrow. Now, the raven-haired, late-night visitor in black wants something precious from Sarah, and will stop at nothing to get it.

4.0

Shock

May 1, 2004

Shock is an urban supernatural thriller set in urban surroundings.Satya (Prashanth), a married stock analyst is in search of a flat for him and his wife Sumi. He chooses a flat on the 12th floor of a huge building at Chennai. The flat has problem. The previous tenant, a young lady commits suicide in that apartment. On hearing this Sumi starts to lose sleep. She becomes distressed. Each night becomes a nightmare for her. What Satya thinks is a psychological problem begins to unravel into the unexplainable. He becomes helpless in the fight to save Sumi; Satya will have to reach out into the horrifying discovery --- The truth.

7.6

Flow

Jan 1, 1996

A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

2.6

Dead Human Collection

Sep 2, 2005

Inspired by 70s Horror movies and real crimes, Dead Human Collection is a bloodbath that follows a deranged Serial Killer and his sadistic habits.

6.8

Brighton Rock

Jan 9, 1948

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.