Night of Terror

Unrated

4/23/19331h 5m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ A mad murdering midnight menace! ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

Benjamin Stoloff

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

victim
gathering
murder
old house
séance

Cast

Bela Lugosi

~ as ~

Degar

Wallace Ford

~ as ~

Tom Hartley

Sally Blane

~ as ~

Mary Rinehart

Bryant Washburn

~ as ~

John Rinehart

Tully Marshall

~ as ~

Richard Rinehart

Gertrude Michael

~ as ~

Sarah Rinehart

George Meeker

~ as ~

Prof. Arthur Hornsby

Matt McHugh

~ as ~

Detective Bailey

Edwin Maxwell

~ as ~

The Maniac

Oscar Smith

~ as ~

Martin

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 6 month(s) ago
6
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 better had it been a silent film, but it's still quite a fun hour of duplicity and back-stabbing that shows us that the venality of the human spirit is alive and kicking. Well kicking, anyway.