History Film / DeadOfNight

* "The Golfing Story" (directed by Charles Crichton): Foley, who owns the house, tells a story about two of his golfing buddies and the weird events that followed after they became romantic rivals.

''Dead of Night'' is a 1945 Creator/EalingStudios horror AnthologyFilm, with a cast including Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and Creator/MichaelRedgrave.

''Dead of Night'' is a 1945 Creator/EalingStudios horror AnthologyFilm, starring Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and Creator/MichaelRedgrave.

In the FramingStory, an architect named Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house to consult on renovations. Craig meets a group of people in the house and tells them that he has met them all 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, and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.

There are segments, each from a different writer and director:

Not to be confused with [[ComicBook/DylanDog the 2011 Dylan Dog movie]] or the [[Literature/DeadOfNight gamebook]].

* {{Ventriloquism}}: In "The Ventriloquist's Dummy", Michael Redgrave plays an disturbed ventriloquist.

Not to be confused with [[ComicBook/DylanDog the 2011 Dylan Dog movie]].

* "The Hearse Driver" (directed by Basil Dearden). Hugh the race car driver, recuperating in the hospital after a wreck, looks out his window and sees a strange vision.

* plus the "Linking Narrative" (directed by Basil Dearden)

* ItsPronouncedTropay: The ventriloquist Frere's surname is pronounced "Freya". We wouldn't have a clue how it's spelt if it weren't spelt out in Kee's statement.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Hugo/Maxwell Frere when he's performing. First, he tells the beautiful, unsuspecting French lady, "Didn't I see you working your...[[LastSecondWordSwap head]] off in the Folies Bergère[[note]] a well known cabaret music hall[[/note]]?" And when Frere (as Maxwell) asks Hugo, "Oh, the lady's face is familiar, is it?", Hugo replies, "What would I be doing in the Folies Bergère looking at faces?"
** His parting words to the audience are, "Good night, sleep tight, wake up [[BaitAndSwitch sober]]".

In the FramingStory, an architect named Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house to consult on renovations. Craig meets a group of people in the house and tells them that he has even them all 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, and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.

* DrivenToSuicide: In "The Golfing Story", Potter commits [[SuicideBySea suicide by water hazard]] after losing Mary to Parratt in a gam of golf: a game in which Parratt cheated.

* "The Hearse Driver" (directed by Basil Dearden)
* "The Christmas Party" (directed by Alberto Cavalcanti)
* "The Haunted Mirror" (directed by Robert Hamer)
* "The Golfing Story" (directed by Charles Crichton)
* "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" (directed by Alberto Cavalcanti)

In the FramingStory, 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, and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.

* "The Hearse Driver"
* "The Christmas Party"
* "The Haunted Mirror"
* "The Golfing Story"
* "The Ventriloquist's Dummy"
* plus the "Linking Narrative"

* SeriousBusiness: In "The Golfing Story", cheating at golf is considered the most heinous sin a man can commit. So serious that Potter returns from the dead to punish Parratt for it.