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* DeadHatShot: When Potter commits [[SuicideBySea suicide by water trap]], his flat cap is left floating on the surface of the lake.
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* DrownedHatShot: When Potter commits [[SuicideBySea suicide by water trap]], his flat cap is left floating on the surface of the lake.
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* SuicideBySea: After losing the golf game for Mary's hand, Larry Potter slowly and solemnly walks into the lake on the golf course until the waters close over his head.
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* DrownedHatShot: When Potter commits [[SuicideBySea suicide by water trap]], his flat cap is left floating on the surface of the lake.
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* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Perhaps downplayed, but in "The Hearse Driver", the narrator's nurse then is his current wife.
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* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Perhaps downplayed, but in "The Hearse Driver", the narrator's nurse then then-nurse is his current wife.
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Not to be confused with [[DylanDog the 2011 Dylan Dog movie]].
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Not to be confused with [[DylanDog [[ComicBook/DylanDog the 2011 Dylan Dog movie]].
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''Dead of Night'' is a 1945 Creator/EalingStudios horror AnthologyFilm, starring Melvyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and Creator/MichaelRedgrave.
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''Dead of Night'' is a 1945 Creator/EalingStudios horror AnthologyFilm, starring Melvyn Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and Creator/MichaelRedgrave.
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''Dead of Night'' is a 1945 Creator/EalingStudios horror AnthologyFilm, starring Melvyn Johns, Googie Withers and featuring Sir Creator/MichaelRedgrave.
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''Dead of Night'' is a 1945 Creator/EalingStudios horror AnthologyFilm, starring Melvyn Johns, Googie Withers Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and featuring Sir Creator/MichaelRedgrave.
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** Eventually results in SplitPersonalityTakeover, as the last time we see Maxwell, he is speaking in Hugo's voice (without moving his lips, of course).
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* 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?" 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?"
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* 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?" 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?"
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* 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?" 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]]".
** His parting words to the audience are, "Good night, sleep tight, wake up [[BaitAndSwitch sober]]".
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Not to be confused with [[DylanDogDeadOfNight the 2011 Dylan Dog movie]].
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Not to be confused with [[DylanDogDeadOfNight [[DylanDog the 2011 Dylan Dog movie]].
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* FramingDevice: Walter Craig's narrative.
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* 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.
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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.
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* FramingStory: The country-house party guests sharing eerie stories.
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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.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne strike again.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne strike again.Wayne, who play George and Larry in the "Golfing Story" sequence, appeared together in several other films of the '30s and '40s, including ''Film/TheLadyVanishes'' and ''Film/NightTrainToMunich''.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne strike again.
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* FramingStory: Guests at a country house party share various spooky stories after one of them recognizes the others from a dream he's had.
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* FramingStory: Guests at a country house The country-house party share various spooky stories after one of them recognizes the others from a dream he's had.guests sharing eerie stories.
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''Dead of Night'' is a 1945 Creator/EalingStudios horror AnthologyFilm. 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, [[spoiler: and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.]]
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'''''Dead of Night''''' is a 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, [[spoiler: and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.]]
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"Hearse Driver"
"The Haunted Mirror"
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* "Christmas
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'''''Dead of Night''''' is a 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, [[spoiler: and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.]]
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* DreamWithinADream / GroundhogDayLoop: The end is the beginning is the end.
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* RecursiveReality: The end is the beginning is the end.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The "Christmas Party" ghost story is loosely based on a real life murder mystery. In 1860, Francis Saville Kent (aged nearly four years old) was murdered. His sixteen-year-old half-sister Constance later confessed to the crime.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: The "The Haunted Mirror" segment.
* DutchAngle: Used extensively during the nightmarish climax.
* HauntedHouseHistorian: The antique dealer providing us with the back story of the haunted mirror.
* MagicalGesture: Didn't work out for the angel. But for the old man.
* HauntedHouseHistorian: The antique dealer providing us with the back story of the haunted mirror.
* MagicalGesture: Didn't work out for the angel. But for the old man.
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* RoundRobinRecursiveReality: The end is the beginning is the end.
* RoundRobin: Six segments done by four directors.
* SplitPersonality: The ventriloquist/Hugo.
* RoundRobin: Six segments done by four directors.
* SplitPersonality: The ventriloquist/Hugo.
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* PlayedForLaughs: "Golfing Story" is not at all scary, unless you find it to be NightmareFuel
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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, [[spoiler: and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.]]
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 [[DylanDogDeadOfNight the 2011 Dylan Dog movie]].
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!!This film contains the following tropes:
* AnthologyFilm: The movie is actually an omnibus, or {{anthology}} of stories, tied together with a central narrative.
* DemonicDummy: Hugo...
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[spoiler:the dummy strangling the architect after he has gone to jail, just before he wakes up into the endless loop.]]
* MirrorUniverse: In "The Haunted Mirror", an antique mirror reveals the room it was once in.
* OrWasItADream: The whole story.
* PlayedForLaughs: "Golfing Story" is not at all scary, unless you find it to be NightmareFuel
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: 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, [[spoiler:only to see it dive off its tracks with everyone on it going to their doom.]]
* RoundRobin
* UndeadChild: [[spoiler:There is one at "The Christmas Party".]] Or is there?
* {{Ventriloquism}}: In "The Ventriloquist's Dummy", Michael Redgrave plays an disturbed ventriloquist.
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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 [[DylanDogDeadOfNight the 2011 Dylan Dog movie]].
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!!This film contains the following tropes:
* AnthologyFilm: The movie is actually an omnibus, or {{anthology}} of stories, tied together with a central narrative.
* DemonicDummy: Hugo...
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[spoiler:the dummy strangling the architect after he has gone to jail, just before he wakes up into the endless loop.]]
* MirrorUniverse: In "The Haunted Mirror", an antique mirror reveals the room it was once in.
* OrWasItADream: The whole story.
* PlayedForLaughs: "Golfing Story" is not at all scary, unless you find it to be NightmareFuel
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: 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, [[spoiler:only to see it dive off its tracks with everyone on it going to their doom.]]
* RoundRobin
* UndeadChild: [[spoiler:There is one at "The Christmas Party".]] Or is there?
* {{Ventriloquism}}: In "The Ventriloquist's Dummy", Michael Redgrave plays an disturbed ventriloquist.
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