MOVIE · 1974

Dead of Night

DramaHorrorThriller88 min

After his family is told he was killed in Vietnam, young soldier Andy returns home alive — and deeply changed. Richard Backus is the withdrawn son, back in a quiet suburban household where John Marley and Lynn Carlin’s grieving parents can’t make sense of his distant manner, his nighttime absences, or the dread gathering around his return. Directed by Bob Clark, the film takes a wartime homecoming and twists it into something uncanny, with family grief and denial sitting just beneath the horror.