1/10/2024 0 Comments Death dream 1972Helmer Bob Clark and writer Alan Ormsby first joined forces on the 11-day, Florida-shot cult favorite, Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things, and stayed in the Sunshine State for this far more polished, serious effort. Scripted under the title The Veteran, shopped around as The Night Walker, premiered as Dead of Night (the title used for the source print on this DVD), reissued as Deathdream, and shown on TV as The Night Andy Came Home (whew!), this unsettling fusion of post-war drama and bloodcurdling drive-in chills is the vital but least-seen middle installment of two different trilogies for its director and writer. Soon the police begin to interrogate Charles about the murder, but Andy takes off with some friends for a night at the drive-in no one will ever forget. Before the doc can tell anyone else, zombie-Andy stabs the physician to death and siphons off his blood into his own undead bloodstream. Charles packs Andy off to the family doctor, who makes the horrific discovery that Andy’s vital functions are completely nonexistent. Andy ignores visitors and refuses to talk about the war more shockingly, he even kills his beloved dog in front of the neighborhood kids. Much to everyone’s surprise, Andy shortly turns up on the doorstep in his uniform, looking quite alive but apparently shell shocked. The father, Charles (John Marley), finds the blow harder to bear when his wife, Christine (Lynn Carlin), immediately slips into a denial bordering on insanity and pleads for her son’s return. Actors: John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard BackusĪlso known as: Night Walk, The Night Andy Came Home, The Veteran, Muerte de la noche, Deathdream, Soif de sang, The Night Walker, Crimen en la noche, Painajainen, Le mort-vivant, Kynigito thanatou, Halálos álom, La morte dietro la porta, Mannen är farlig, Skräckens stad, Deathdream, WhispersĪt the height of an unnamed war (presumably Vietnam), the Brooks family finds its tranquil dinner interrupted by news that their golden boy son, Andy (Richard Backus), has died in combat.
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