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Dead of Night: 80 years on, Ealing’s anthology horror is still a waking nightmare
Dead of Night’s most chilling moments come at its close, which lock its lead character in an endless cycle of “purgatorial dread and guilt”, wrote Edward Parnell in our January 2020 issue.
By Edward Parnell
Dead of Night: 80 years on, Ealing’s anthology horror is still a waking nightmare