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9->''There's a reading of the will\
10on a dark and stormy niiiiiiiight.\
11Sure hope I don't get killed\
12on a dark and stormy niiiiiiiight.\
13I don't really know\
14who is friend or foooooooooooe\
15on a dark and stormy night.''\
16-- Some of the survivors, at the end of the movie.
17
18''Dark and Stormy Night'' is a 2009 movie by Larry Blamire of ''Film/TheLostSkeletonOfCadavra'' fame. It is an homage to the OldDarkHouse movies of the 1930s, complete with LampshadeHanging moments. It features a large cast of stereotypical characters at an OldDarkHouse for the reading of the will of Sinas Cavendar. Some are there to see what they got, and others are there by accident, or are they? During the reading, the lights go out and the lawyer reading the will is killed, leaving in doubt the possession of Sinas' estate. As the night progresses, more and more of the guests in the house are killed off by a mysterious murderer. Can the two ace reporters figure out who's doing it before they are the next victims?
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20Tread carefully, spoilers abound.
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22Not to be confused with ItWasADarkAndStormyNight.
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25!!This movie provides examples of:
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27* AffectionateParody: Of OldDarkHouse murder mystery movie
28* BookcasePassage: Seyon Ethelquake finds one while perusing a book on stilts.
29** AmbiguousSyntax: Not the book was placed on stilts, or that he was on stilts while perusing the book, but the book itself was on the subject of stilts.
30* TheButlerDidIt: Played with. [[spoiler: Jeens is not the murderer, but apparently was involved in some shady business, but "those bodies were never found."]]
31* CaptainObvious: Some of Archie's dialogue.
32-->Feeding things will keep them alive.
33* CrustyCaretaker: Archie has aspects of this, being an unkempt servant of questionable sanity, although he's actually the cook.
34* DramaticThunder: A regular occurrence throughout the evening. Makes sense, given the movie's title.
35* FrenchMaid: Jane wears a French maid uniform, though it lacks any fanservice. And she has a cockney accent, rather than a French accent.
36* GreatWhiteHunter: Jack Tugdon, Sinas Cavender's safari guide, is a very [[TabletopGame/{{Clue}} Colonel Mustard]] take on this trope.
37* HauntedHouseHistorian: Characters take turns dumping bits of exposition on us.
38* HisNameIs: Inspector Riley's sole scene is arriving at the front door, stating that he knows who the murderer is and dying when the lights suddenly go out (again).
39* HumanHeadOnTheWall: At one point, [[LightsOffSomebodyDies during the brief blackout]], [[spoiler: Jack Tugdon]] is killed, his head taxidermied, and mounted on a wall
40* HumbleGoal: All Happy the cabbie wants is the thirty-five cents Faraday owes him.
41* InTheHood: [[spoiler: Both killers wear hooded robes.]]
42* IntrepidReporter: Two of them, Billy Tuesday and 8 O'clock Farraday, who are fighting to be the first to write up the events of the movie.
43* TheJeeves: Jeens, the snooty butler, is a rather [[TheButlerDidIt suspicious]] take on this.
44* LightsOffSomebodyDies: Used to the point of a RunningGag. At one point, during the brief blackout, [[spoiler: Jack Tugdon]] is killed, [[HumanHeadOnTheWall his head taxidermied, and mounted on a wall]]. Towards the end of the film, the characters aren't even surprised anymore.
45* MadwomanInTheAttic: [[spoiler: Thessaly, Sinas Cavendar's daughter, locked away for her ViolentGlaswegian tendencies.]]
46* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler: Ray Vestinhaus, who is really a cop.]]
47* OldDarkHouse: Cavender Hall, where most of the actual is set.
48* OverlyLongGag: "Have you the letter?" "Have ''I'' the letter?! No! Have you the letter?"
49* PosthumousCharacter: Sinas Cavender, whose will is to be read on the eponymous night.
50* PortraitPaintingPeephole: What do you do when you're looking through the peephole and notice that someone else is looking through another peephole on the other side of the gallery?
51* RichBitch: Pristy, Burling's adulterous and spoiled wife.
52* SpookySeance: It's really not very scary, though. They summon Marvin Kaplan, who tells them nothing useful.
53-->It's really bad. And nasty.
54* StylisticSuck: Most of the film is pretty deliberately campy, but extra credit goes to Larry Blamire's performance as Ray.
55* UpperClassTwit: Both Lord Partfine and Burling Famish Jr. play different types of twits: Partfine is the silly ass, while Burling is the disreputable cad.
56* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: The police admit that they knew what was going on, but they let everyone get murdered to solidify their case against the murderer. They don't get chewed out, ''per se'' but the reporters are rather bewildered that the cops would just let it happen.]]

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