Dead of Night - Watched in the Dead of Night

 A man is invited to a country house where a collection of people swap creepy stories from their past. That man is Walter Craig(Mervyn Johns)who has been having a bad recurring nightmare about this very day and the faces of those people in the house are fresh in his mind. During the film, he tries to dispel that his nightmare which consists of him killing an innocent man and punching a young woman is merely that..a nightmare and nothing more. In this anthology, the ending has one of those cool, never-ending Freudian deals which leaves you with a sense of eternal dread for poor Walter.

Tales include a mirror with a sinister hold on a poor soul, a young woman who finds a young ghost boy crying because of a fear that will come true, a golfer is tormented by a former competitor who after committing suicide from losing a bet, comes back to haunt him, and especially the final story about a ventriloquist who is dominated by his dummy(this final one holds a very eerie performance from Michael Redgrave as the mentally ravaged ventriloquist Frere).

As often in anthology films, certain segments are better than others, but each is intelligently told and well acted.