First, thank you Polaris for the only reasonable review. Secondly, THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS, so stop reading right now if you haven't seen the movie. Third, I hated this clunker for multiple reasons, including the absurd plot, the bad acting, the often difficult to understand dialog. Fourth, Louise Beavers was wonderful, but you can't expect to enjoy a bad movie because Ms. Beavers was wonderful in about two minutes of it. Finally, the main complaint, the thing that really drove me nuts, is the lighting, or, I should say, the absence of lighting! Maybe it was the copy I rented on DVD, but half the movie was so dark I could barely tell who was who and what was what. And, completely inexcusable, the Big Climax at the end was totally black. Everything that happened in this big final scene was absolutely invisible. One of the other reviewers -- ***SPOILER*** -- said we see the unconscious body stuffed into the building's incinerator furnace. That reviewer must have uncovered a totally different print from the one I got stuck with, I saw nothing but the occasional faint glimmer of the the furnace. Nothing. At any rate, for all these reasons, and despite the great Ms. Beavers, I have to say this is one of the worst I've ever tried to watch. Sorry.
Review of A Shriek in the Night
