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Dead of Night
A group of guests assembled at a country house swap uncanny and supernatural stories in this classic Ealing chiller from 1945.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer
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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