Top billed cast

1. 

   Bela Lugosi

   Degar

2. 

   Wallace Ford

   Tom Hartley

3. 

   Sally Blane

   Mary Rinehart

4. 

   Bryant Washburn

   John Rinehart

5. 

   Tully Marshall

   Richard Rinehart

6. 

   Gertrude Michael

   Sarah Rinehart

7. 

   George Meeker

   Prof. Arthur Hornsby

8. 

   Matt McHugh

   Detective Bailey

9. 

   Edwin Maxwell

   The Maniac

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-12-28

Well if you're ever going to tell a story of a bunch of money-grabbing relatives gathered in a creaky old stately pile, then you could do a lot worse than get Bela Lugosi to hold it all together. Sadly, though, the formula is just a little too predicable as we go from a doom-laden seance to a gradual increase in the entirely deserving body count. It's the darkly lit scenario that does most of the heavy lifting here as the script adds little, the supporting ensemble is distinctly wooden and what menace there is comes from Lugosi in his best pantomime villain vein. I think this might have been b...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• victim
• gathering
• murder
• old house
• séance