Really Bad Film ....
That becomes fun when Elvira presents it.
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But then again, doesn't anything?
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this isn't a bad movie,, yeah it's a little slow for my tastes. the little girl in this movie is a very interesting character in this movie, I didn't mind the movie, but could have used more action.
are you going to bark all day little doggie,, or are you going to bite
Look, this is hardly a 'horror classic', but I've seen lots worse, and the movie is interesting in a curious way.
The head of 'Vi' sitting on the end table is of course ludicrous and laughable. Richard Carlson is losing whatever good looks he had, but his acting is fine (especially considering an uneven screenplay), and everyone in the cast does a credible job.
There were some nice touches here and there. Vi's ghostly apparition is fine. Joe Turkel, a regular actor for Stanley Kubrick ('Paths of Glory', 'The Shining'), puts in a greasy performance as the blackmailer.
The ending was good, too. The lifeless corpse of Vi suddenly thrusting her arm over Tom Stewart's chest.
The 'severed head and hand' scenes should have been cut. No pun intended. There is some sort of good movie in here somewhere, but it is undermined by these ridiculous scenes.
Lilian Adams as the blind friend of the family of course 'sees' things that others cannot. But she gives a sincere performance to a part which has become a cliche.
Hardly a classic. But there is much more worse cinema elsewhere.
Thank you, Jade and Kair!
OF COURSE this is seen as a horrible movie. It is because the minds of most people are mush. FEED MY ENTITLED, CYNICAL MIND WITH ACTION, DEATH, AND BREAKNECK PACING!!!!!!!!!!!
There are those that DO see value in this movie. It not horribly acted by a longshot (OK, no trophy worthy performances, but still..), has good pacing and discernible story arcs, and things aren't overdone with art school-learned techniques (as is the case for most B films of the 50s/60s).
The girlfriend/bride to be is annoying as hell, though, and lacked any, um, "texture". Could be the actress herself, and not the director's fault. I see this a lot for similar characters in lesser films from that era.
If I saw this as a kid, I would have been scared. It ranks pretty good on the creepiness scale, all things considered.
He was a jazz pianist - and not, say, a dashing young doctor or any other predictable characterization. That added something interesting, at least.
I enjoyed this movie.