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Endless Night (1972)

Endless Night poster
Directed by
Sidney Gilliat
Genre
drama film, horror film, crime film, thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
16
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 65 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A newlywed couple build their dream home on land that other people warn is cursed. As unsettling events start piling up, the couple grows paranoid and feels increasingly threatened.

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What happens

Endless Night (also known as Agatha Christie's Endless Night) is a 1972 British neo-noir horror-mystery film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Hayley Mills, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson, Hywel Bennett, and George Sanders. Based on the 1967 novel Endless Night by Agatha Christie, the plot follows a newlywed couple who feel threatened after building their dream home on cursed land. This was the last project on which Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder worked together for British Lion Films, their home since The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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