Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

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Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

mark.waltz Don't be confused by the vivid color in this deliciously silly thriller with tons of comedy-both intentional and accidental. This actually was photographed in a process known as "Tru Color". This is the type of film that Mystery Science Theater used to depend on to ridicule, so wonderfully preposterous and poorly made that you might end up with an eternal grin that freezes from viewing the absurdity, that is if your eyeballs don't end up in the back of your head for rolling them too hard. Horror greats George Zucco and Bela Lugosi are enemy cousins, tossed together here like Lugosi and Boris Karloff in "The Black Cat" to toss barbs over an old vendetta that is never explained. Zucco's son (Roland Varno) is married to extremely nasty Molly Lamont who is being haunted by a mysterious person in a green mask whose image keeps appearing in the window in an attempt to frighten her.Comedy relief is provided by the bumbling Nat Pendleton who is in love with the sarcastic maid (Gladys Blake). Others present include diminutive Angelo Rossito as Lugosi's companion, Douglas Fowley as an obnoxious reporter, and Joyce Compton as his girlfriend, and the sudden appearance of an obvious man in drag looking like something out of "Glen or Glenda". The film is narrated by Lamont's corpse, already dead as the film starts, giving the impression that a dead body's brain can still think. The narration is intertwined with extremely wretched editing and eerie music that pops up every time her corpse is shown. The conclusion is hardly worth waiting for. Enjoy it purely as fun crap with plenty of moments to laugh at, not with.

Red-Barracuda A dead woman dies of fright and she narrates how she got there from beyond the grave.I suppose it would be best to just cut to the chase and say that this film's singular defining feature is that it was Bela Lugosi's only colour outing. It's not the greatest angle a movie has ever had but at least it's something. And to be fair, the fact it's in colour is most certainly the best thing about this one. The story-line is pretty terrible even for a poverty row bargain basement flick. In fact, I found the plot fairly incomprehensible at times. I'm honestly not sure if it was because it was genuinely senseless or if it was simply a case of it being so tedious and unengaging that my mind kept drifting off. My gut feeling is that it was most probably a combination of both factors. What we do have in any case is one of those poverty row efforts that is set entirely in one house. We have a cast of characters of whom you will certainly have encountered if you have trawled through other movies of this type before – an extremely dumb cop, a very intrusive journalist couple, a shady scientist and…Bela Lugosi. He is his usual self but he does have the most interesting role here – including a dwarf sidekick – however, in truth his character ultimately doesn't add up to an awful lot.It almost feels like the film-makers put in even less effort than normal with this one on the basis that the colour-factor would see them through. It does remain unique for this reason but, really, that's all it's got.

bkoganbing Poor Bela Lugosi trapped in another low budget shlock horror film for the independent Golden Gate Productions in Scared To Death. This time however he has plenty of company.It's possible that Billy Wilder got the idea to have William Holden narrate Sunset Boulevard in flashback from the next world. In this one Molly Lamont lies on a slab at the morgue and her voice over starts the narration of how she got there as the medical examiner also tries to figure it out.In life Lamont was the shrewish wife of Roland Varno and daughter-in-law of George Zucco who runs a mental asylum and the family resides on the ground. When Zucco gets a visit from Lugosi and his dwarf companion things start to pop around the old nut house.I'm still trying to figure out the plot, the writing was so bad. I will say that the players do what they can with the lousy material. Nat Pendleton who plays a dumb house detective has the best moments in the film, but they aren't enough to save it.

pery-1 Much like an "Abbott and Costello meet ...Lugosi" type movie. Nat Pendleton's bizarre and irritating yet somehow endearing slapstick is a major part of the film. The reporter and maid are also rather irritating characters like you find in the old screwball comedies. The midget crawling all over is one of many zany touches, and false leads. Legosi is earnest in playing it straight, as always, and he gets some good lines off. It's a treat to see Lugosi in color.One thing that's irritating today is the (Theramin?) sound every time it flashes back from the body to what happened, because that sound was later appropriated as the "UFO" sound and is now so identified with them that it feels very wrong here.