DEAD OF NIGHT - Remembering Dead of Night - Feature-length Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales. Watch the full feature length documentary now.
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In my opinion this is the BEST horror movie ever made.
I have this release and would recommend it to anyone who has never seen it.
"I'm no longer interested in your opinion, doctor" (you know what I'm referring to) 🤣
This is my favourite film. And for all the reasons discussed in this documentary, I think the golf story is an integral part of the whole.
A few years ago, a comedian made a 'phone conversation' skit where he said: 'Can't come over tonight, I've turned into a ventriloquist's doll... ...no the scary forties kind... Yeah.'
That's how much effect this film has made in Britain.
Great film. It certainly has influenced my life. I still have numerous numinous nightmares based upon the film. Great acting and atmosphere.
I bloody love this movie. Saw it as a kid on late night tv originally. It knew what it was doing. Regarding the ending, I have always presumed it was a premonition, rather than a cycle he’s stuck in
Dead of night is a great film, not a fan of the golfing story but the others are very good, very atmospheric
This is one of those rare films that will literally haunt you from the lasting artistic impact it impresses on your psyche. I even had a "Hugo" ventriloquist dummy replicated for me. Enjoyed this documentary. Thank you!
That last scene with the Dummy walking over to him , has haunted me since I first saw it over 50 years ago .
GREAT idea to make an analysis documentary about one of the best horror movies I've ever seen (living in Germany). And I only saw it on German TV by a coincidence many decades ago.
John Landis makes a rather odd error here -- when he suggests that, at the end, the psychiatrist is misguided in summoning the guards to stop Maxwell Frere from murdering his dummy because
the psychiatrist is "want[ing] to save the life of [only] an inanimate object," the dummy, Hugo. But it should be, and is, in my view, quite obvious that the "character" of the dummy is in fact the very real alter-ego of Maxwell Frere, so that, in murdering his dummy, Maxwell Frere is in some very real sense murdering HIMSELF. That action is in fact what precipitates Frere's own descent into madness. That's the only possible explanation for what follows in the film. Before Frere murders the dummy, Hugo can be physically constrained and contained in a reality which is physically outside the mind and body of Frere; but after the murder, Hugo comes to live, forever, inside the mind of Frere.
My favourite film of all time, must have seen it thirty odd times, along with The Halfway House, Mervyn Johns is superb in both. Michael Redgrave of course was Barnes Wallis in "The Dambusters". The only weak link (imo) is the rather silly golf story.
I had forgotten the name of the film and was trying to remember it a few months ago - a chance remark from someone on social media reminded me of the name. Great film.
Agree, the golf story is silly, but it’s sort of in the tradition of Canterbury tales. It’s a lighthearted respite from the Grim other tales. I love this movie. It’s my favorite British horror anthology. I think I’ve seen nearly every one of those.
By the way, do a freeze frame on the little advertising figure with the golf ball head in the bar scene in the golfing story. He’s kind of cool. Silver king, I think it says.
I think the golf story was inserted as a sort of palate cleanser before the final story. Lightening the mood before the gut-punch terror of Michael Redgrave’s performance.
That's true - the golf story sticks out like a sore thumb!
The reference at 1:01:43 to Fred Hoyle's steady state theory is intriguing. On 1st January 1943 Fred Hoyle moved to rural Dunsfold and rented an old rambling remote house with two scientist colleagues. The house was under the take-off path of the runway of the nearby RAF Dunsfold aerodrome. All three men were working at the nearby Experimental Research Naval Station in Witley 6 miles away. Dead of Night was released 2 years later in 1945. Their Steady-State theory was formulated in 1947
The whole point of the much maligned GILF STORY was to set the audience up for the finan story by getting them to get comfortable and the WHAM!
I agree. The silly golf story is essential as providing a temporary reprieve between the mirror story and the ventriloquist. To go directly from the mirror to 'Hugo' wouldn't work. The linking story is also excellent and the ending of the film is terrific. Georges Auric's musical score makes a crucial and largely unrecognised contribution - not even mentioned here I think. However, the 'Dead of Night Suite' is available on a Chandos CD.
Exactly. Which is why it’s so odd to hear so many of the talking heads here not seeming to understand that. Some obviously do but don’t think it works which is fine, but some just don’t seem to get it.
I've loved this picture for decades. Here in the States I have tried to foist that opinion on as many unsuspecting persons as possible, lol. People that I have shown Dead of Night and Kind Hearts and Coronets, to name a couple, have generally liked them too.
I really enjoyed these insights into a truly great film. I think the whole film is wonderful: golfing and Xmas parties included. These are anecdotes within the whole narrative. The group is made up of individuals, some having had less scary experiences than others and perhaps being less sophisticated story tellers, or being slightly cynical. The creeping unease is still working on us.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Rod Serling got his idea for Twilight Zone from this film.
Brilliant movie.
The little boy who played Francis Kent, a key role in the film, was not credited and apparently, no one knows who he was. But somebody out there, a friend or a relative of his, must know who was and maybe still is. He'd be in his mid 80s by now if he's still alive. Anybody know who he was?
Interesting documentary. I am disappointed that the strongest unifying element that connects the episodes and the frame story was not mentioned at all, namely the fabulous score by Georges Auric. From the principal themes introduced in the opening credits (in the classic style of an "overture") to the hair raising musical collage of the final nightmare montage, absolutely brilliant music. It is the music that introduces the very first creepy atmospheric audience expectations, as Craig becomes aware that he has been to the house before... Also, the overall sound design is wonderful. The moment of departing reality in the Hearse segment is the cessation of the clock ticking. The "mirror" theme is built up so that each time the room in the mirror is shown, the theme is orchestrally more elaborate, added layers of counterpoint deepening the viewers' sense of fear and threat. Etc. An expressive, intricate, structured and colourful score, that is indispensable to a discussion about why this film is still so effective, nearly 80 years after it was first shown.
I have tried to find the song Halalooba sung by Elizabeth Welch in the final film, without success. I think it was never properly recorded by her and was just made for the film. Great shame, the song haunts me much like the film
Yes, a little light relief - then bring out the Weapons Grade Horrer. Today's films often copies of Films made in the 30's 🙁
what a great documentary!
Thanks for posting.
I finally got to watch this last night on Film4 decades after first hearing about it in some horror documentary thing. Really good anthology. The haunted mirror was on of my favourites & the Ventriloquist Dummy Story, absolute masterpiece.
I love the fact that people hate the golfing story. I watched this when i was five. My uncle had it on a VHS along with chariots of fire. I imagine the only reason he had it was because of the funny golf story. If it weren't for that everyone would blame my dad for my horror obsession!
The hearse driver was the rag and bone type guy in the 1951 version of "A Christmas Carol" . " Bed curtains"? You mean too say you took them down ,,, rings and all with him laying there"?
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If that isn't a Henry Moore drawing, it certainly looks like one.
I find it astonishing that none of the experts reference the self-evident links between "Dead of Night" and J B Priestley's 1937 play "I Have Been Here Before."
Thank you for this, I loved the Ealing film and taught An Inspector Calls for many a year, but need to read his other works to get a fuller picture. Genuinely grateful for this reference.
Nor, as far as I recall, do they reference Auric's magnificent musical score.
A big Batman comic book (graphic novel) reader. Interesting Batman of Gotham Adventures villian is patterned after this Dead of Night character and ventriloquist dummy. Rock on!
Rod Sterling took all but the golf and Kent stories.
Where can I see the full movie?
Mathew Sweet is annoying as ever in this but it's a good watch. Ginger guy has sex on the brain! Love the film though, a masterpiece if ever there was one (bar the golf section)
Holy cow does John Landis look like a bearded Robert DeNiro or what?
Havn't seen him since the TZone situation. Does he direct anymore ??
This would be a perfect film if only that IDIOTIC golf story were omitted. To borrow a line from a (very different) film, "Road House": "It's like putting an elevator in an outhouse. Doesn't belong."
I quite liked the fact that the film didn't take itself too seriously and wasn't afraid to mix comedy with the surreal. I thought the children's party was a little bit naff though
i think the daftness of the golf story the last stand out even more
@@planktonpivot I find the mix of light hearted stories and weird horror far more effective . The children's party story references an actual cause celebre when a middle class teenage girl brutally murdered her little brother - she almost decapitated the child and threw his body in a cess pit. The story is related in the book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. People in Britain would probably known what the story related to.
The golf story is a brilliant piece of pacing: it lowers the emotional level of the film, thereby making the last episode far more effective by its contrast.
@@shellac4682 If this was the intention, it is well done, because it's the most horrific story of the whole thing!
Talkings Head: speak patronising claptrap -Without a single Film clip😡🎬The Films speak for themselves - some more so, than others...🎬🙂
I rather watch the film Dead of Night then watch these film critics chatter. I can make my own mind up don't need a second opionion