Dead of night takes us back to 1945. It is an anthology horror, which is a genre I love. This can also be referred to as a portmanteau horror (something I only learnttonight!). Everything is exaggerated and dramatic as movies of this era tend to be, but it has a real charm and intrinsic Englishness to it. I found it much easier to watch the movie having the stories broken up.
The stories are told by way of a group of people in a mansion (it's always a mansion, isn't it...?). Walter Craig, an architect, arrives at the house to see a potential client. When he enters the room full of the family who lives there and their guests, he becomes visibly shaken. He explains that although he hasn't been to the area before, nor has he met anyone in the room, he recognises everyone. This is because he has had repeated, vivid dreams about them. He is very unsettled as he knows something horrid is going to happen to someone there, but he can't remember the details. The guests go on to tell tales of varying degrees of wierdness they had heard of or had experienced. Stories with no apparent explanation. There are 5 in total.
