Dead Of Night (1977)

An anthology of three short films dealing with the supernatural and horror: 1) SECOND CHANCE. A college student (Ed Begley Jr.) restores an antique car from the 1920s and when he drives it for the first time he finds himself transported to 1926! With Ann Doran and E.J. Andre. 2) NO SUCH THING AS A VAMPIRE. A woman (Anjanette Comer) wakes up with puncture wounds on her neck which leads her husband (Patrick Macnee) to suspect vampirism. With Horst Buchholz and Elisha Cook Jr. 3) BOBBY. A grieving mother (Joan Hackett) summons up the demons of darkness to bring her drowned son (Lee J. Montgomery) back from the dead. When he returns, he's decidedly different from the son she knew. All three stories have screenplays by Richard Matheson (SOMEWHERE IN TIME) and are directed by Dan Curtis (DARK SHADOWS). Curtis had hoped this would serve as a pilot for a proposed TV series of horror stories like NIGHT GALLERY but it was never picked up. The first story is innocuous and serves as a curtain raiser, the second one is a cheat but the third offers some mild terror (it's reminiscent of the excellent AMELIA segment of TRILOGY OF TERROR) with a nice twist.