Dead of Night

British horror movie consisting of short tales. A group of people meet in a country house and one man declares he has seen the meeting in a dream and that everyone was horribly murdered. Other guests recount their own supernatural experiences, including a premonition of disaster and a crazed ventriloquist dummy. Then the first man says he has a horrible feeling that the killer in his dream was himself, and begins to butcher them. He then wakes up from the nightmare, drives off,

There are segments:

"Hearse Driver"

"The Haunted Mirror"

"Christmas Party"

"Golfing Story"

"The Ventriloquist's Dummy"

plus the "Linking Narrative"

Not to be confused with the 2011 Dylan Dog movie.


 * Anthology Film: The movie is actually an omnibus, or Anthology of stories, tied together with a central narrative.
 * Demonic Dummy: Hugo...
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel:
 * Mirror Universe: In "The Haunted Mirror", an antique mirror reveals the room it was once in.
 * Or Was It a Dream?: The whole story.
 * Played for Laughs: "Golfing Story" is not at all scary, unless you find it to be Nightmare Fuel
 * Psychic Dreams for Everyone: In "Hearse Driver", a young man is in hospital, and is reading a book late in the evening, then sees a stir at the curtains, and notices the clock has jumped from 9:45 to 4:15. He gets up to open them, and sees sun shining brightly. He looks out and sees a hearse driver say ""just room for one inside, Sir." He shuts the curtain, it is 9:50, as it should be. When he leaves he is about to catch a tram. The tram driver looks just like the hearse driver and says "just room for one inside, Sir." He shudders and runs off the tram,
 * Round Robin
 * Undead Child: Or is there?
 * Ventriloquism: In "The Ventriloquist's Dummy", Michael Redgrave plays an disturbed ventriloquist.