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Dead of Night

StudioCanal Films • Fantasy, Horror, UR

This masterful portmanteau British horror laid the foundations for a slew of similarly structured films in the 1960s and 70s. But no imitator could hope to better this superb collection of macabre supernatural tales, which take in haunted mirrors, ghostly children (and golfers), deadly premonitions, and, most memorably, a demented ventriloquist and his treacherous dummy.

Tags
Dreams, Ventriloquism, Christmas, Golf, Hearses, Mirrors
Cast
Mervyn Johns Walter Craig
Anthony Baird Hugh Grainger
Robert Wyndham Dr Albury
Crew
Alberto Cavalcanti director
Charles Crichton director
Basil Dearden director
Robert Hamer director

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