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Dead Of Night [1945]
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 | Product Details: Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment Region: 2 Number of Discs: 1 Format: Black & White, PAL Rating:   Sales Rank: 3393 | | Look for similar DVDs by genre: | | Customers who bought this item also bought:
| | Customer Reviews: early portmanteau classic (11 November 2008)The quality of the film's transferance onto DVD is poor and the dubbing in particular is suspect, but this film is undoubtedly a classic.It's apparently the earliest example of a 'portmanteau' horror film(,a film which narrates a series of separate tales).Here, an architect visits a country house and tells the guests of a recurring nightmare he's had about the house and the inhabitants, prompting them to relate a series of supernatural experiences, the creepiest of which is the last one, involving a ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) and a seemingly independent dummy. When the tales have been related, there is an horrific climax and a disturbing twist: the protagonist seems to be stuck in a nightmarish 'groundhog day' scenario. All of the stories are entertaining but the light hearted 'comic relief' one about two golfers fighting over the same woman is something of an anachronism. Apart from this 'blemish', and making due allowances for the film's relative antiquity, I'd recommend horror afficionados to purchase this. This is clearly a very influential film and it's hard to see how Amicus films could have proceeded to make classics like 'Vault of horror' and 'Tales from the crypt', had it not been made in the first place. A retrospective pat on the back is due to Ealing studios, who obviously weren't just dab hands at making classic comedies. classic (13 April 2008)i think this is a fantastic film. The quality is pretty bad which is an awful shame but the story itself still scares me each time i watch it. I decided to take myself off to my room last night with a cup of tea and this film and for the entirety of the film i was scared witless. I do admit i am scared by a lot of films but there is something so completely compelling and unlike anything else about black and white suspense and horror. I am an avid movie fan full stop although b&w still comes up tops in my favourite style or genre and this film simply regaled all my feelings of admiration for a good old classic film. Brilliant! A True Classic (25 March 2008)I first saw this incredible film as a child in the seventies and it scared me witless. As a teenager I imagined that a British black and white movie from the 1940s would be very unimpressive. How wrong I was! In fact this powerful work of art only increases in potency with age. It is a remarkable film of real psychological intensity. Forget other films in the horror/supernatural genre made since. This is the real deal: a truly disturbing masterpiece that you will remember for a very, very long time... A true classic. directors .... this is how to make a great ghost film ......if only ...... (12 October 2007)as the other reviewers have stated , the quality of the actul print is pretty poor on this region 2 version , and from what i have read i may try to get the region 1 copy , but given the choice of this movie with this print or not having this movie in my ghost dvd collection would seem totally wrong . even now for its age you can imagine how scary it must have been when first viewed back in the day [ 1945 ] compared to other movies of that era .i remember as a schoolboy first seeing it on t.v. when the beeb were doing a series of great ealing movie re runs , and they had HALFWAY HOUSE as the first movie { another great little ealing ghost story } and this classic as the second . there are,nt that many movies that have such appeal and can stick in my mind but both those two and especially this classic did and for all these years as well , and now finally being able to get it on dvd and at least to watch it again , so print taken into consideration an excellent addition to any ghost collection , a must in fact , now all i need is the other classic ghost story HALFWAY HOUSE , and ray milland in the other most excellent classic ghost story THE UNIVITED to really make a classic ghost collection . Terror repeated (16 September 2007)When you watch this now, and it seems a little dated, remember what Universal were doing with horror films in the 1940's. Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein etc etc. They had run out of ideas, and until Hammer came on the scene in 1957 the horror/ghost story genre was virtually dead. Well this film is the exception. A brilliantly made horror anthology from Ealing which paved the way for the Amicus films of the 60's and 70's (Dr Terrors House of Horrors, Tales from the Crypt etc) and directly influenced the film Magic starring Anthony Hopkins in 1978. This particular section of film centers on a ventriloquist and his dummy. Michael Redgrave is outstanding as Maxwell Frere the ventriloquist and it is this story and the Golfing one that will leave you very spooked. Another thing that will leave you spooked is the ending, which unlike most Hollywood films made in those days, and even now, is very scary indeed. When you watch this film remember it was made in 1945 and that some of the stories have been used over and over in variations in more modern films. This is the original and its very creepy. |
