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Wait Until Dark (1967) Rank 4 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Wait Until Dark (1967) a score of 3.2436 out of 4

based on (22) reviews

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At-A-Glance Film Reviews

A chilling film, even by today's standards. This is a masterfully crafted thriller about three crooks who manipulate a blind woman to recover lost smuggled goods. Audrey Hepburn is fantastic in the lead role, while Alan Arkin makes a terrifying villain. ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at At-A-Glance Film Reviews

Movie Eye (David Litton)

Before it was re-envisioned as David Fincher's 2002 box office hit "Panic Room," the house arrest thriller got its most inventive and successful film treatment in 1967 with the release of Terence Young's "Wait Until Dark." The movie opens with a young ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Movie Eye (David Litton)

Channel 4 Film (--)

Housebound psychological thriller in which a blind Audrey Hepburn is terrorized by a leather-clad Alan Arkin, who wants a heroin-stuffed doll that has been secreted in her apartment. ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Channel 4 Film (--)

Austin Chronicle (--)

A genuine suspense movie, Wait Until Dark is a taut thriller that stars Audrey Hepburn as a blind woman tormented by gangsters who believe their heroin is hidden in her apartment. ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Austin Chronicle (--)

The Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)

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HorrorTalk

Wait Until Dark begins with a backbone to the story of which we are about to forge upon. As the film opens we see an old man splicing a doll with a knife in many ways resembling how you would butcher and than carve out the organs of an animal, the organs ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at HorrorTalk

Home Theater Info DVD Review

As a teenager I used to take the subway into Manhattan Saturday mornings and go to the movies. One of the most memorable of these films was without a doubt 'Wait Until Dark'. ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Home Theater Info DVD Review

Slant Magazine

Wait Until Dark, Frederick Knott's gimmicky stage play about a blind woman terrorized by crooks, was brought to the screen in 1967 and was accompanied by an even more outlandish gimmick. When the lights go out at the end of the film, so did the lights in ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Slant Magazine