Talk:Dead of Night

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.~~

Relevant?

Nightmare in Wax involves a person dreaming of what may be the future. Would it count?--174.99.238.22 (talk) 19:05, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

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?

188.29.165.226 (talk) 00:42, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

" seemingly doomed to repeat the same nightmarish cycle over and over again for the rest of his life."

Come on, now. We don't know that. It could also be that this is the real deal. But, of course, since we are dealing with fictional events, there is no real deal. Kostaki mou (talk) 15:14, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

So change it to something you think is more appropriate. Go for it! Blurryman (talk) 21:52, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

first and last paragraphs

Only later reading the style guide did I realize that my edits to the first paragraph about plot were a little out of line --- the intention is to steamroller plot points into a plain description of the story. My sense was that this flattened the effect of the beginning and ending of the film, and, if you think effects are plotted as much as story events, perhaps you can agree with the changes I've made and left.

Wickersettee (talk) 15:21, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

The Christmas Party

The Christmas Party section refers to the Constance Kent case. Unfortunately I don't have anything we could use as a reliable source for this. DuncanHill (talk) 20:18, 31 December 2020 (UTC)