The read
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do.
311 audience votes
Key crew
- Charles CrichtonDirector
- Robert HamerDirector
- John BainesScreenplay
- Alberto CavalcantiDirector
- Angus MacPhailScreenplay
- Basil DeardenDirector
- Georges AuricOriginal Music Composer
- T. E. B. ClarkeWriter
Cast
- Mervyn JohnsWalter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
- Roland CulverEliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
- Mary MerrallMrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
- Googie WithersJoan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")
- Frederick ValkDr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
- Anthony BairdHugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
- Sally Ann HowesSally O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
- Robert WyndhamDr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")
- Judy KellyJoyce Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
- Miles MallesonHearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
- Michael AllanJimmy Watson (Segment "The Christmas Story")
- Barbara LeakeMrs. O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
Stills
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Themes
dreamsnightmareinsanityanthologyventriloquistevil dollblack and whiteventriloquist's dummyrecurring dreamfuture visiondream about the future
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