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IMDB's recommendations don't fit, here are some better ones!


I noticed that IMDB's list of recommendations for other movies like this were really off base.

Some more great titles (in my opinion) are:
Young Frankenstein (of course)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (more Gene Wilder)
Clue
High Spirits (a haunted castle)
Radioland Murders (another Radio Drama mystery)
Who Done It? (Abbott & Costello)
Hold That Ghost (Abbott & Costello)
Spooks Run Wild (East Side Kids, Bela Lugosi)
Ghosts on the Loose (East Side Kids, Bela Lugosi)

I was thinking there was a Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey flick that had a "haunted" hotel, but I may be mixing it up with Hold That Ghost. Still, there may be something close with Wheeler & Woolsey's Hook, Line & Sinker (it's been a bit since I've seen that one.)

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thank you!i was just going to check the recommendations so thanks for helping me out!

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Ah, nobody remembers Beetlejuice, poor Beetlejuice.

However, the movies that started the genre (and the best of the lot):

Lonesome Ghosts (1937) - Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy remade as the live action Ghost Busters (1984) with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.
The Cat and the Canary (1939) - Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Gail Sondergaard
The Ghost Breakers (1940) - Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard remade as Scared Stiff in 1953 with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin
The Black Cat (1941) - Hugh Hebert, Gale Sondergaard

The Cat and the Canary, The Ghost Breakers and The Black Cat all had silent and early talkie versions but these are the ones that everyone copies or quotes along with The Ghost Breakers. Gene Wilder actually based his Haunted Honeymoon character on the Bob Hope character in the two above films which is about a radio star solving a murder in a haunted house. Due to their success a good twenty or thirty poverty row films with similar haunted house comedy themes came out in the 1940's. Most of those have been released on DVD through Alpha Video while the classics mentioned by Disney, Paramount and Universal.

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Thanks to both x-ramubay and puirt-a-beul, I'm going to try to check out all of those films.

I either forgot about Beetlejuice and Ghost Busters on the first list, or I left them off because I figured they were too well known, and I was trying to come up with lesser-known things. Of course, they are also a bit different from a gothic haunted mansion/castle story, so that may be why I left them off.

I really need to track down more of the Bob Hope films, I'm sorely deficient on his catalog. For that matter, I need to get the Martin & Lewis films as well, although I saw some of those on TV when I was a kid.

The Black Cat looks interesting, i've seen the 1934 version, but I presume it's a completely different story.

Bloodbath at the House of Death sounds like fun as well.

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The Whistler movies were some that drew a direct parallel with these because they involved radio performers whose outside lives were haunted mansion mysteries. I can't believe that no one has brought up Murder By Death, which was a parody, a haunted mansion mystery in the spirit of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (or Ten Little Indians); the characters were spoofs of some of the greatest fictional detectives of film from the 30s through the 70s.

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Another one I'd toss into the list is a little-known Brit film, Bloodbath at the House of Death (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086981/).

It's another spoof on the people-being-bumped-off-in-a-haunted-mansion genre, and stars Kenny Everett, a British radio DJ who had his own TV comedy show for a while and was known for outlandish characters of various sexes. Sadly he's no longer with us, but in this flick at least we can get a taste of his waaaay-OTT style of humour. It also features Pamela Stephenson (wife of Billy Connolly, and quite a funny comedienne in her own right) and Vincent Price.



You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

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