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Dead of Night PG rating

A group of guests assembled at a country house swap uncanny and supernatural stories in this classic Ealing chiller from 1945.

Anthology 1945 99 mins

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer

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Overview

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.

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