It's hard to think about this film without laughing which really isn't the greatest compliment to a film that's supposed to be really quite scary. Bela Lugosi is a tremendous actor, but he appears slightly typecast in whatever movie he is cast in, regardless if it has anything to do with vampires. In this he is a loving father who goes into 'terrifying' trances every night and walks (much like Frankenstein's monster) into unsuspecting victim's rooms. The next morning the victim is dead and the father has no idea what happened. On the box of the DVD it says roughly that the ending is something that you will never see coming and that will shock you. *SPOILERS* There is no shock ending!! Nothing happens that we didn't know about ten seconds into the film. Where is the shock?
As anyone who regularly looks at my blog will know, I am an avid and obsessive watcher of classic films ( 30s,40s,50s,) and so it's not as though my saying that the film is without credit is because I only like new films! This film just isn't very good and moves at an embarassingly slow pace ( it was only just over an hour and I felt like it had been playing for days) with some actors who don't seem to have a clue what they are doing, half of the time idiotically over-acting as though they are still in silent film and the other half showing barely any passion at all when someone has just been strangled on the kitchen floor.
The three stars is because it's a b&w movie and I will be forever loyal to them, but nothing more.
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