Dead of Night 1977 by Dan Curtis

Here's a horror anthology that's been on my watchlist for a while, and I found it on amazon prime. It's a rather short tv movie, so it's easy to watch, featuring three segments that are all pretty decent.


The first one is about a guy (Ed Begley Jr.) who restores an old car that was crashed in 1926. He's a bit meticulous about it, and even keeps the same old license place on it. He rides it into town, and things start to seem a lot more like 1926 again...

It's a decent skit that borrows from the early Twilight Zone episode "Walking Distance". Not particularly horror, but it's all about eerie coincidences.

Then, we have Patrick Macnee and Elisha Cook Jr. hunting a goddamn vampire. Of course, Dan Curtis needs to include vampires in his works, just because. It's a grim little tale, but it has its charm.

Finally, we have a story about a woman who holds a seance of sorts to bring back her dead son who drowned some time ago. It starts off like Monkey's Paw, but quickly takes a Pet Sematary route. Perhaps Stephen King was inspired by this story.


All three stories were written by Richard Matheson, and I can say right off the bat that I liked it more than Trilogy of Terror. They don't make 'em like they used to.

On a side note, this is one of many films titled "Dead of Night". I've never seen the old B&W anthology from 1945, but I have seen the Bob Clark film from 1974 aka "Deathdream".