Vincent Price finds a nice level of commitment to his role in this comedic b-movie horror from 1959. Ably supported by Patricia Cutts and Judith Evelyn playing the two older ladies in a cast comprised of basically three matrimonial pairs who get into their freakishly exaggerated parts quite memorably.
Quirky and cheeky dark comedy is turned into a horror film novelty about fear itself! Direction and cinematography push the film along as it occasionally threatens to dissolve into an inferior rehash of 'The House on Haunted Hill' by the same team.
However the acting helps to carry over the improbable and inexplicable and give the overall style conjured up in the endeavour to entertain plenty of beans.
Occasional highlights are scattered throughout the film and I recommend this to all fans of Price and to anyone who appreciates a film that can extract a lot of bang from only a few bucks and a clear intent to be irreverent, carnival and clownish in it's treatment of human fear in the form of a b-movie horror! I give 5/10 for all that cheeky chirpy charade.
Quirky and cheeky dark comedy is turned into a horror film novelty about fear itself! Direction and cinematography push the film along as it occasionally threatens to dissolve into an inferior rehash of 'The House on Haunted Hill' by the same team.
However the acting helps to carry over the improbable and inexplicable and give the overall style conjured up in the endeavour to entertain plenty of beans.
Occasional highlights are scattered throughout the film and I recommend this to all fans of Price and to anyone who appreciates a film that can extract a lot of bang from only a few bucks and a clear intent to be irreverent, carnival and clownish in it's treatment of human fear in the form of a b-movie horror! I give 5/10 for all that cheeky chirpy charade.