Wait Until Dark (1967)

Stars	User	Rating
8	BeeDub	95 _91st
Fantastic exercise in cinematic suspense, with one of the most famous jump scares in movie history. It goes without saying, but Hepburn is luminescent.
4	Ytadel	7 _83rd
Audrey Hepburn may be known as dainty and lovable, but this is an ultra-hardass and ruthless as shit Hitchcockian thriller where she plays a blind woman being stalked by psycho killers. Directed by James Bond director Terence Young, you'd better believe that it's some tense shit.
3	spleen	86 _86th
A two hour how-to about messing with blind people. And if you enjoyed this, afterwards you might consider visiting your local nursing home and loosening the bolts on the wheelchairs.
3	Paxton	83 _91st
This movie's great even if you turn around and only listen to it!
3	juntakinte99	99 _94th
My favorite knockoff of Alfred Hitchcock ever. It uses all of his tropes: plot twists, innocent people, excellent use of darkness and light, and a fantastic MacGuffin. But what really makes it hold up is the admittedly bold for 1967 gender politics. It's like a LaBute play in the way the men characters take delight in psychologically and physically torturing a differently abled woman. Still, the baddies get their comeuppance--moments after the jump scare that changed film history. Classic.
2	Ndkchk	80 _71st
Best blind lady in the world, she is.
2	Atlas423	95 _86th
Audrey Hepburn dazzles us again with a performance steeped in sheer terror.
2	twincinema	80 _75th
Alan Arkin channels Nic Cage to play Pistachio Disguisey. The fourth villain in this film was so close to being Gloria, but she was able to redeem herself. A real heartwarming tale.
2	Stain	100 _95th
Marvelous! Wonderful thriller with great performances and unforgettable characters
2	hellsditch	85 _85th
One of the great "jump" scenes in movie history not involving a cat or someone closing a medicine cabinet and seeing someone else's reflection over their shoulder. It's a slow-builder, to be sure, but I personally love it when a thriller is self-confident enough to take it's time fleshing out characters and establishing a real sense of dread. This one's the real deal.
2	janus	75 _64th
One-set-wonder home-invasion thriller that manages to be fairly nerve-wracking despite a far-fetched plot. (Enough hyphens in that sentence for you?) Big ups to Henry Mancini in particular for a score that experiments (including some nice microtonal piano) but doesn't draw undue attention to itself.
2	PhantomZone	82 _59th
Some of Audrey's best acting. She is dynamic and brilliant as she is terrorized by Alan Arkin (who hated doing it to her) and slowly the film squeezes you tighter and tighter. Great directing.
2	begoniabol	87 _90th
Really good thriller. Arkin is such an awesome badguy, and I loved his sudden jump. The build-up is slow, but once it gets going it gets really tense, so it's not a bad thing. Great directing, good acting and good dialogue. The music is good too
1	MartinTeller	72 _41st
An unremarkable but passable suspense thriller. It's well-plotted with tense moments in all the right places, but beyond its premise (a blind woman fending for herself against criminals) there's nothing especially unique about it. So-so acting and an irritating Mancini score.
1	CCLZA	60 _33rd
Nice thriller with decent performances and clever plot.
1	MadMan	94 _82nd
This is one of the earlier bottle episode type movies and it works really well. Hepburn is great and it's funny how she never leaves the apartment after she arrives. Arkin steals the whole movie and is very creepy.
1	Pickpocket	8 _82nd
Movies like this that feel like a play usually bug me but this was done really well with some fantastic performances. Alan Arkin's hair is legendary. Hepburn is overt and way over the top but I thought it worked brilliantly. The slow build, the tension in that small ass apartment, the ending, it has everything you need in a classic thriller.
1	TheDiceman	55 _49th
Not bad.
1	Derekstar	90 _85th
Saam? Saam!? Saam???
1	PeaceAnarchy	87 _87th
Tense well built thriller. Some parts probably don't stand up to much scrutiny but the performances are so strong and the sense of dread so genuine that logic taking a back seat seems perfectly natural.
1	miss jesus	66 _60th
Good, tense movie almost ruined by its brain-shredding soundtrack.
1	babamots	97 _96th
I could watch it again and again to see the reactions of others.
1	Vandelay1	70 _75th
good movie
1	Ofterdingen	70 _75th
Nice Hitchcockian thriller that might be better thought than executed, but still delivers plenty of suspense.
1	NadiH	93 _93rd
one of the most viscerally thrilling movies ever made. It will make your heart beat faster and your hair stand on end. Despite it's aging it remains a terrific and engaging movie from start to finish. Arkin is great in his role and the theme song is eerie and exciting the way Psycho's is.
1	Castroph	10 _99th
Tension defined.
1	Anselmi86	80 _70th
Alan Arkin is fantastic to watch.
1	ribcage	84 _84th
schemes of the villains seem initially overly complicated and nearly farfetched (like, really, is there no easier way to do this, especially for a man as nasty as Arkin?) but as the intricacies of their con and Hepburn's participation in and eventual suspicion of this plot unfold the questionable logic of its undertaking is mostly forgotten thanks to an intriguing, well-placed and cleverly written story
1	bof	80 _83rd
Hadn't seen this in ages, but it still holds up remarkably well. Silly in places, but Audrey Hepburn as a scream queen? How can you possibly go wrong with that?
1	Calabria	84 _78th
It's like Home Alone but with a blind Audrey Hepburn instead of Macaulay Culkin's stupid face. How do you go wrong with that?

Average Percentile 65.91% from 1001 Ratings