with several authors, directors, actors and critics who have worked within the horror genre to vote for their top horror films. Dead of Night placed at number 35 on their top 100 list. Director Martin Scorsese placed Dead of Night 5th on his list of the 11 scariest horror films of all time. Writer/director Christopher Smith was inspired by the circular narrative in Dead of Night when making his 2009 film Triangle. A shot of Redgrave from the film is featured on the cover of Merrie Land, an album by The Good, the Bad & the Queen. Related The theme of a recurring nightmare has been visited in other works and media: "Shadow Play", a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone television series "The Secret Miracle", a short story by Jorge Luis Borges that also contains a recurring nightmare inside a framing story The theme of the mad ventriloquist and his dummy with a life of its own has been visited in other works and media: The Great Gabbo, a 1929 film starring Erich von Stroheim Knock on Wood (1954), a Danny Kaye musical comedy "The Glass Eye", a 1957 episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series, starring Jessica Tandy "The Dummy", a 1962 episode of The Twilight Zone television series, starring Cliff Robertson "Caesar and Me", a 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone television series, starring Jackie Cooper Devil Doll, a 1964 film starring Bryant Haliday Magic, a 1978 film starring Anthony Hopkins It Couldn't Happen Here, a 1988 film by Pet Shop Boys The Ventriloquist and Scarface, a Batman enemy first appearing in 1988 "The Puppet Show", a 1997 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Dead of Night, a 2003 art exhibition by collaborative duo Beagles & Ramsay Dead Silence, a 2007 film starring Judith Roberts and Donnie Wahlberg The Beaver, a 2011 film starring Mel Gibson. The theme of the fatal crash premonition has also been visited in other works and media: "The Bus-Conductor", a short story by E. F. Benson published in The Pall Mall Magazine in 1906 which was the basis for the segment in Dead of Night Famous Ghost Stories, a 1944 anthology by Bennett Cerf which retells the Benson short story, but changes the main character to a woman and transfers the action to New York City "Twenty Two", a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone inspired by the Cerf story The