Talk:Dead of Night
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Not accurate, but...
E.F. Benson's short story "The Bus-Conductor" is actually the basis for the "hearse driver sequence", and Benson is credited as a writer of the film ("original story"). It is therefore inaccurate to claim that the original short story is a revisitation of the theme in another medium. I hesitate to remove it, however, because it isn't mentioned elsewhere in the article. Could someone please add a section discussing the literary basis for some of the film's story-within-a-story segments? All were short stories adapted for the film, two of them by their authors. 12.233.146.130 (talk) 19:55, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
==The film is not so much horror as supernatural (the last segment with the ventriloquist's dummy could classify as horror. "Horror" does not need ghosts to be horrific.~~
Come on, now
Seriously? We are just going to let people know that there is a twist ending, without letting them know what the twist ending is?! --Bertrc (talk) 20:42, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
- Of course! It's a spoiler otherwise! And it's quite a clever twist, although once you've seen it, I suppose you could say "saw it coming". It's pretty horrible for the time it was made! Does WP have a spoiler policy? You're gonna have to see the film, or look it up elsewhere.
- Is it you who put the clarification marker on the main article? Take it off. It's a twist ending, there's no doubt.
- 188.29.165.226 (talk) 00:37, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Expansion
Since the film is considered a classic the plot should be expanded, information on the film's production should be added as well as the film's reception and legacy.--Paleface Jack (talk) 03:37, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
- Oh, christ, here we go. You want to know the ending? Well this is a SPOILER so stop reading now cos I don't know how to do any clever tags...
- SPOILER - SPOILER - SPOILER - SPOILER - SPOILER - SPOILER - SPOILER - SPOILER - SPOILER - SPOILER - SPOILER -
- He starts the film arriving at the house, and is freaked out cos he seems to have been there before in a dream, he seems to know what everyone is going to say, what's going to happen. Just like in his dream. At the end of the film he gets all freaked out, then, all of a sudden... he wakes up! It was all a dream! He wakes up, then sets off to a meeting he has to attend... in a spooky old house. Yes, the house the film is set in. He's off to start the whole thing over again. Presumably it never ends!
- Which is quite spooky eh?