Dead of Night is clearly an inspired effort that is challenging what has already been done and as a result, is inspiring projects for decades to come. If that isn't the sign of a great film with great filmmakers, nothing is.

| Sep 19, 2022

It offers the same sort of spine-cooling thrill you get from listening to a group of accomplished liars swapping ghost stories.

| Oct 13, 2020

From such an excellent whole it seems a pity to single out any parts for special praise, but I thought that the direction, acting and writing of the tale of the ventriloquist's dummy was superb.

| Oct 13, 2020

This is a masterful bit of work on the part of all the several directors and screen writers involved in it. It is the sort of thing that can chill you and give you a wondrous bit of fun at the same time.

| Oct 13, 2020

Each of the episodes is interesting and thrilling, but the most fascinating is the one about the ventriloquist; its weirdness will send chills up and down one's spine.

| Oct 13, 2020

An arresting psychological melodrama.

| Oct 13, 2020

The audience is worked up to thrilling point with one story when it breaks to pick up another... It ls like eating a dinner in which, while you are enjoying toe fish, the plate is snatched away and poultry or dessert is substituted.

| Oct 13, 2020

There is much sound acting and directing in Dead of Night, but the handicaps inherent in the form this film chooses prove too much for its ingenuity.

| Oct 13, 2020

Episodic in structure, it excites a mounting interest in its imaginative story value, which is doubly enhanced by its expert direction and exceptionally fine cast.

| Oct 13, 2020

For the lover of good entertainment, the whole picture is worth seeing, once its somewhat disconnected style is understood and taken for granted.

| Oct 13, 2020

This is probably Ealing Studios' best effort to date.

| Oct 13, 2020

It has five episodes -- two brilliant and macabre, one really funny, one interesting and one slapdash and incompetent.

| Oct 13, 2020

It's brilliantly creepy, with frightening orchestral music to boot; each component gradually gets weirder, more bloodcurdling, and undeniably more creative.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 5, 2020

I was legitimately, thoroughly creeped out.

| Feb 28, 2020

...built around a frame story that's the equal of any of the stories-within-a-story that are the main appeal of most horror anthologies.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 9, 2019

The directorial contributions of Dearden and Hamer, the art direction (Michael Relph), lighting (Stan Pavey and Douglas Slocombe) and editing (Charles Hassey) combine to make this the smoothest film yet to come from an English studio.

| Aug 1, 2015

There's some genuinely skin-crawling stuff tucked away: some ghastly business with a ventriloquist's dummy, and one of the creepiest invitations from a bus conductor ever.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2014

By turns eerie, funny, macabre and utterly chilling.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 24, 2014

Ealing will for ever be associated with its celebrated comedies, but this chilling quintet deserves to be considered among the studio's finest achievements.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 6, 2013

If you haven't seen it and you're a fan of creepy ghost stories, this one is definitely worth checking out.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 17, 2010