Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Leofwine_draca THE NIGHT HAS EYES is a British psychological drama set on the desolate Yorkshire moors. There are shades here of WUTHERING HEIGHTS, of course, but the film is closer in spirit to the likes of REBECCA and BLUEBEARD and all of the popular Gothic romance novels that have been written over the years. The story sees a mild-mannered schoolteacher stranded in a remote home during a flood, only to fall in love with the war veteran living there. Dark events of the past inevitably surface, and the rest of the narrative is concerned with solving the mystery. The direction is atmospheric and the film is notable for featuring the great James Mason in an early role; very good he is too.

Alex da Silva Schoolteacher Joyce Howard (Marian) takes her man-hungry teacher friend Tucker McGuire (Doris) on a holiday to the Yorkshire moors where their friend and work colleague Evelyn disappeared one year ago. They get caught in a storm and seek refuge in a house in the middle of nowhere where James Mason (Stephen) lives. Hold on, though, Mason is a bit weird and not particularly pleasant. Could he have something to do with the disappearance of Evelyn? Once housekeeper Mary Clare (Mrs Ranger) and gardener Wilfrid Lawson (Sturrock) turn up, we have a full house and it's a good cast. Apart from doctor John Fernald (Dr Randall) who is a bit of a creep. The film has tense moments and is shot in an atmospheric location that keeps you gripped. You may well change your mind a few times as to who is the most sinister character.I've visited the Yorkshire moors and it is exactly like that in terms of weather conditions. The film gives you the sense of a "Wuthering Heights" experience. It's grey and it's bleak and it's treacherous. And James Mason lives there. Something weird is definitely going on.

Spikeopath The Night Has Eyes (AKA: Terror House/Moonlight Madness) is directed by Leslie Arliss who also adapts the screenplay from the novel written by Alan Kennington. It stars James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Mary Clare, Joyce Howard and Tucker Maguire. Music is by Charles Williams and cinematography by Gunther Krampf."You seem to regard me as some sort of male sleeping beauty who is restored to life by your kiss"During the school term break, two lady school teachers travel to the Yorkshire Moors in the hope of finding out what happened to a fellow work colleague who vanished there a year previously. Arriving on the moors at night time, a storm breaks and the two women are thankful to stumble upon an isolated house where somebody is at home. The inhabitant is Stephen Deremid (Mason), a mysterious man who may just hold the key to what happened to the ladies' missing colleague.OK! It's a stage bound "Old Dark House" film that has noir shadings but is more in keeping with classic Gothic offerings like Jane Eyre, Uncle Silas and Gaslight. The setting is a doozy, a creaky and shadowy mansion with a secret room, add in a storm from hell, the foggy moors that hold secrets along with the patches of quicksand (quickbog?), a seriously brooding leading man greatly troubled by his past, a spunky heroine fronting up for love interest and some possible perilous shenanigans… and you are good to go for some dark deeds and closeted skeletons.Director Arliss builds the suspense very slowly, dangling snippets of information that teases the audience as to what might be going on in this shadowy abode. Stephen is a music composer, he is also a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, the effects of which has left him scarred. Why does he take tablets? Why is the moon significant? Now that his house servants have turned up, do they know what happened to the girl last year? It all builds towards the film's chilling climax, where all is revealed, and not insultingly so.The cast all perform well under Arliss' direction, with Mason honing the brooding lead man act that would serve him so well in his career. Cinematographer Gunther Krampf (Nosferatu/The Hands of Orlac) creates an eerie atmosphere of fog-bound menace out on the moors, and also a foreboding darkened house of shadows for the interior of the Deremid mansion. The slow pace may put some off, and you are asked to forgive one or two dumb character reactions to certain situations, but this rewards the patient and very much it's a film for Gothic thriller fans to seek out. 7/10

mail-671 One of your early critics has a point. Released in the days when the Censor's cert was "U" "A" or "H"for horrific, unusually on its first release "The Night Has Eyes" was given the "A" certificate in its released version. On a later reissue this was changed to "H" because of the ending,then considered excessive but has subsequently been used many times to greater effect. Around the same time,conversely, a reissue of "The Cat & The Canary" which was initially released with the "H" cert was reduced to"A" as part of a double feature with "Miracle of Morgan's Creek". The former thriller gained some popularity because of its theme music based on a romantic piano concerto by Charles Williams whose several compositions often enhanced a film's appeal such as in Billy Wilder's Oscar winner,"The Apartment" except that,unjustly(to my mind),for this film he was denied any screen credit,all of that going to Adolphe Deutch.