DEAD OF NIGHT - DVD

DEAD OF NIGHT (DVD)

Films by Don Taylor, Rodney Bennett and Paul Ciappessoni

After years of unavailability, the three surviving episodes from the legendary BBC horror anthology series, Dead of Night, finally comes to DVD. Originally screened on BBC2 in 1972, and rarely seen since, Dead of Night has been highly sought by fans of the BBC and British Horror for decades.

THE EXORISM
A film by Don Taylor
In what is perhaps the most terrifying of the episodes, four wealthy, middle-class friends (Clive Swift, Edward Petherbridge, Anna Cropper and Sylvia Kay) gather for a Christmas dinner in a country cottage only to find that the past will not rest while they feast.

RETURN FLIGHT
A film by Rodney Bennett
The professionalism of an experienced and respected airline pilot (Peter Barkworth) is placed under scrutiny when he encounters the ghostly apparition of a Second World War Lancaster bomber.

A WOMAN SOBBING
A film by Paul Ciappessoni
A middle-class housewife (Anna Massey - Peeping Tom, Frenzy) becomes increasingly paranoid when her nights are interrupted by the terrifying and unexplained sound of a woman crying in one of the rooms in her new house.

Special Features

• Gallery of stills from the missing episodes
• Downloadable scripts for the missing episodes (PDF)
• Fully illustrated booklet features essays and biographies by Lisa Kerrigan, Oliver Wake, Derek Johnston and Alex Davidson

UK | 1972 |colour | English language, with optional English hard-of-hearing subtitles | 150 minutes | DVD9 | Region 2 PAL DVD | Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 | Dolby Digital mono audio (320kbps)