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Dead of Night (Original title)The Night Walk (Working title)The Night Andy Came Home (Alternative title)Deathdream (Alternative title)Death Dream (Help search title)
Dates: 1972 (Copyright), 08 January 1978 (Release)

Countries: Canada, United Kingdom

Directed by: Bob Clark

Synopsis: The Brooks family receive news of the death of Andy, their soldier son. Andy returns home at midnight after hitching a lift with a truck driver (later found viciously murdered). The family are overjoyed, but it soon materialises that Andy is one of the living dead and needs a supply of blood to keep himself going.

Genres:
Drama, Horror
Credits (32)
©: The Night Walk Limited and Company, Presents: Quadrant Films, Impact Films, Executive Producer: Gerald Flint-Shipman, Geoffrey Nethercott, Produced by: John Trent, Produced by: Peter James, Bob Clark, Production Manager: John Cardos, Production Assistant: Jamie Chastain, Assistant Director: Jeff Gillen, Script Supervisor: Sandra L. Ulosevich, Casting: Jessica Levy, Screenplay by: Alan Ormsby, Director of Photography: Jack McGowan, [Camera] Operator: Randy Franken, 2nd Unit [Camera] Operator: Michael McGowan, Assistant Camera: John McGowan, 2nd Unit Assistant Camera: Don Piel, Editor: Ron Sinclair, Art Director: Forest Carpenter, Set Decorator: Albert Fisher, Props: Ralph Weir, Costumes: Dyke Davis, Make-up: Tom Savini, Laboratory: Capital Film Lab, Music by: Carl Zittrer, Sound: Gary Goch, Assistant Sound: Jim Clark, Sound Editor: Kenneth Heeley-Ray, 'Butch' Owned and Trained by: Bill Vergis
Cast (24)
John Marley (Charles Brooks), Lynn Carlin (Christine Brooks), Henderson Forsythe (Dr Philip Allman), Richard Backus (Andy Brooks), Anya Ormsby (Cathy Brooks), Jane Daly (Joanne), Michael Mazes (Bob), Arthur Anderson (postman), Arthur Bradley (army captain), David Gawlikowski (truck driver), Virginia Cortez (Rosalie), Bud Hoey (Ed), Robert Cannon (drunk), Raymond Michel (policeman in diner), Jeff Becker, Scott Becker, Greg Wells, Kevin Schweizer (young boy), Jeff Gillen (bartender), Alan Ormsby (bystander), Mal Jones (sheriff), Edward Anderson (deputy), George Devries (1st TV announcer), Robert Noble (2nd TV announcer)