Stills from 'Dead of Night' (1945)

There were three reasons why I wanted to watch this movie. Firstly, I needed to watch a horror movie - it works wonders when you need a kind of detox, a sweet rush of adrenaline all the way up to your head and back down the spine. Secondly, Mario Livio in Brilliant Blunders cited the impact of a viewing of Dead of Night had on astrophysicists Fred Hoyle, Herman Bondi, and Thomas Gold. "Gold asked suddenly, "What if the universe is like that?' meaning that the universe could be eternally circling on itself without beginning or end. Unable to dismiss this conjecture, they started to think seriously of an unchanging universe, a steady state universe.
And lastly, 'Dead of Night' had been featured in Michael Scorsese's list of scariest horror movies ever made in the history of cinema in the whole wide world. 

To put it in brief, I think it was apparently quite a light-hearted, smooth, classic work of filmmaking and it tasted really good. But on a note different from this, I think the film had deeper flavours, themes that dealt with the unreasonable side of human functionality - of motion, of stillness, of boredom, of dreams, of control and perhaps most importantly, of time. 

Here are 8 stills from the 1 hour 44 minute film!