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Night of Terror

  • 19331933
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 5m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
694
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Bela Lugosi and Sally Blane in Night of Terror (1933)
HorrorMysteryThriller
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
694
YOUR RATING
    • Benjamin Stoloff
    • Beatrice Van(screen play)
    • William Jacobs(screen play)
    • Willard Mack(story "The Public Be Damned")
  • Stars
    • Bela Lugosi
    • Wallace Ford
    • Sally Blane
    • Benjamin Stoloff
    • Beatrice Van(screen play)
    • William Jacobs(screen play)
    • Willard Mack(story "The Public Be Damned")
  • Stars
    • Bela Lugosi
    • Wallace Ford
    • Sally Blane
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 32User reviews
    • 20Critic reviews
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    Sally Blane, Tully Marshall, and George Meeker in Night of Terror (1933)
    Bela Lugosi in Night of Terror (1933)
    Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, Mary Frey, Otto Hoffman, Tully Marshall, George Meeker, and Bryant Washburn in Night of Terror (1933)
    Bela Lugosi and Sally Blane in Night of Terror (1933)
    Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, and Edwin Maxwell in Night of Terror (1933)
    Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, Mary Frey, and Gertrude Michael in Night of Terror (1933)
    Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, Tully Marshall, Edwin Maxwell, George Meeker, Gertrude Michael, and Bryant Washburn in Night of Terror (1933)

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    Bela Lugosi
    Bela Lugosi
    • Degar
    Wallace Ford
    Wallace Ford
    • Tom Hartley
    Sally Blane
    Sally Blane
    • Mary Rinehart
    Bryant Washburn
    Bryant Washburn
    • John Rinehart
    Tully Marshall
    Tully Marshall
    • Richard Rinehart
    Gertrude Michael
    Gertrude Michael
    • Sarah Rinehart
    • (as Gertrude Michaels)
    George Meeker
    George Meeker
    • Prof. Arthur Hornsby
    Mary Frey
    • Sika
    Matt McHugh
    Matt McHugh
    • Detective Bailey
    Edwin Maxwell
    Edwin Maxwell
    • The Maniac
    Pat Harmon
    Pat Harmon
    • Cab Driver
    • (uncredited)
    Otto Hoffman
    Otto Hoffman
    • Professor
    • (uncredited)
    Eric Mayne
    Eric Mayne
    • Prof. John Andre
    • (uncredited)
    Dave O'Brien
    Dave O'Brien
    • Young Victim
    • (uncredited)
    Richard Powell
    • Detective Dooley
    • (uncredited)
    Oscar Smith
    • Martin the Chauffeur
    • (uncredited)
    Emma Tansey
    • Little Old Lady
    • (uncredited)
      • Benjamin Stoloff
      • Beatrice Van(screen play)
      • William Jacobs(screen play)
      • Willard Mack(story "The Public Be Damned")
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    • Trivia
      Although Edwin Maxwell is credited as playing "The Maniac", it is Bela Lugosi himself playing the bulk of the role in the heavy makeup disguise---and his features can easily be recognized in spite of it, thanks to his mesmerizing "Dracula" stare. (There is no match for Edwin's eyes, nor with the rest of his facial features, with the maniac.)
    • Goofs
      During the police interrogation approx 53 mins into the movie the character is asked by the police chief 'Where is the serum' The reply was meant to be 'in the laboratory' but a Malaprop occurred and the character replied 'In the lavatory'. The same Malaprop occurred again less than a minute later by the police officer who, holding Degar at gunpoint orders 'C'mon,where's the lavatory'?
    • Quotes

      Martin the Chauffeur: I was right! When I said they was... undertakers!

      Degar: Remember... you have seen... NOTHING!

    • Connections
      Featured in TJ and the All Night Theatre: The Tingler + Cry of the Werewolf + the Son of Dr. Jekyll + Night of Terror (1981)

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    6/10
    Yes, you've seen it all before, just in several different movies
    A dark house chiller from Columbia with all of the usual ingredients - serial nutso killer running loose (called "The Maniac" by newspaper headlines), an isolated house in the countryside, with a (constantly) screaming heroine, mysterious servants, one liking to peer into crystal balls and go into trances and make proclamations of death coming soon, a wiseguy newspaper reporter who bursts out gleefully "Boy, what a story" every time another dead body turns up and a hard nose detective who doesn't have a clue.

    Oh, yes, "comedy relief" is supplied by a black chauffeur who gets scared really easily. When asked what he would do if he met "The Maniac," the chauffeur replies, "I would become famous. I would become the first man to fly without wings." (Truth is, that might be the best line of dialogue in the film).

    These kind of films are easy to poke fun at and also, on occasion, fun, if you happen to like this kind of film genre (which I do).

    This particular film benefits, though, from a pretty good cast, with Bela Lugosi top billed over the title. Bela plays Degar, a manservant, dressed all in black, including a black turban. Oh, he's mysterious alright, in that ominous Lugosi way, but is he just a red herring? He has a sister, Sika (played by Mary Frey in her only film role), and she's even spookier. She's the one going into trances (yes, at one moment in this film they do have a seance with Sika the star of the show). Guess what? One of the participants holding hands at the table won't make it through the seance without a knife in the back.

    It's pretty Sally Blane (Loretta Young's sister) as the screamer and Wallace Ford as the reporter with the snappy one liners and an overly pleased manner whenever a new corpse turns up. There's also Tully Marshall as the owner of the mansion (Bela keeps calling him "Master"). I remembered Tully getting knocked off in the silent version of the similar Cat and the Canary and kept counting the minutes before his character would do the same in this one.

    "The Maniac" (who carries an oversized knife) keeps popping up throughout this film, peering through bushes with a scarred face and demented smile full of sharp teeth, climbing through windows and, generally, keeping everyone on their toes, until he lays a few of them out at their feet, that is.

    Night of Terror does have a bit of originality with one of the occupants of the house, a scientist (George Meeker) who plans on having himself buried alive in a coffin on their property in an experiment to see if, with an antidote administered eight hours later, he will still be alive. Fun kid. Needless to say, things don't go as expected, but the writing here at least fooled me a little. Nuff said.

    Night of Terror can be found if you scrounge around the internet - there's a chopped up version in installments on You Tube, but you're probably better to go to dailymotion.com for a one hour version of this thriller. So far not even Alpha Video has bothered with this one.
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    • Sep 24, 2016

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      • April 24, 1933 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Black and White

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