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3.8/10   274 votes
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Director:
Frank R. Strayer
Writers:
Robert Ellis (story)
Robert Ellis (adaptation)
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Release Date:
10 February 1932 (USA) more
Plot:
People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape. full summary | add synopsis
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Low...lower...lowest budget more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Monster Walked
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Runtime:
63 min | USA:57 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:H | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Dr. Ted Clayton: Wealth to youth is golden, but to age it is a milestone. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Madeline Kahn/Taj Mahal (#3.2)" (1977) more
Soundtrack:
Lullaby more

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9 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
Low...lower...lowest budget, 16 October 2005
4/10
Author: Coventry from the Draconian Swamp of Unholy Souls

"The Monster Walks" is a very old and very cheap haunted-house mystery thriller without much mystery. Yet, considering the budget and the experience cast & crew members disposed of, this probably isn't such a bad movie after all. I'm sure that fans of early horror films will definitely detect a lot of charm and goodwill in this typical story about a wealthy daughter that is targeted for murder upon returning to her parental house for the regulation of her dead father's inheritance. Ruth has always been petrified by her father's pet-ape and, although safely caged in the basement, some malicious persons uses the animal to scare her senseless. Rex Lease is her all-knowing doctor/boyfriend who investigates the strange nightly events and eventually reveals the true culprit. Maybe the plot-twists would have intrigued me more if the actual climax wasn't stupidly mentioned on the DVD-box, but I still can't say the script is very complex or effectively misleading. There are one or two decent suspense-moments but overall this is a dull and unexciting poverty row movie. All the lovely clichés of 30's horror cinema are there, though, like the exaggeratedly polite servants, the seemly endless thunderstorm outside the castle and the black chauffeur-guy who simultaneously serves as the comic relief. This is an okay film as long as you don't expect to see another "The Old Dark House".

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