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The Night Walker (1964)

The Night Walker poster
Directed by
William Castle
Genre
horror film, crime film, thriller film, psycho-biddy, crime thriller film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 47 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy inventor's wife is tormented by vivid nightmares that only get worse after her husband dies. She struggles to tell reality from dream as she deals with threatening people around her.

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What happens

The Night Walker is a 1964 American psychological horror film directed and produced by William Castle, written by Robert Bloch, and starring Robert Taylor, Judith Meredith, Lloyd Bochner and Barbara Stanwyck in her final theatrical film role. It follows the wife of a wealthy inventor who is plagued by increasingly disturbing nightmares, which escalate after her husband's death. It was the final black and white film made by Universal Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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