VividSimon Simply Perfect

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

ctyankee1 Mr Ames was taking two men on a trip to his house during a storm. It was to show his passengers Mr Woods and his secretary Mr Erskine a play he had written. The car he was driving has problems and they have to get out and walk. Nearby there is a big house.They make their way to the house and Mr Ames knows the people that own the house and some of the guest. One lady is the daughter of the owner of the house. She is Ames girlfriend. Throughout this movie the secretary Mr Erskine is funny, he is afraid of everything Many unexplained things happen in the house. A woman named Bernice talks to spirits. Supposedly Dr Kent is the lady's doctor. Bernice has mental problems. Later she comes out again has dinner and talks to a spirit.Mr Woods finds and reads pages of the play in a manuscript in a bedroom. He realizes this was all a gimmick and this was the play Ames wrote. Woods starts to laugh and thinks it is a good play. Mr Ames admits that he hired these actors to act out his play in front of Woods but now Beatrice the one who talks to spirits is dead and then her body disappears.Scary, funny and stupid. It turns out there are secret passages in the house. There is also a picture on the wall that has eyes that move. A guard comes to the house and tells the guest that a mental patient escaped nearby and he will stay in the house just in case the person goes there.The villain captures 4 people who he intends to operate on in the house where the secret passages and rooms are. He intends to change their, nose, face, chin etc.This movie is full of things that may or may not be part of Ames play but you get a few laughs out of it.

Rainey Dawn Your average story of people being stranded in the road on a dark and stormy night and they seek nearby shelter with a stranger who happens to have a very large mansion. Then strange and spooky things happen. I actually enjoy this clichéd scenario with horror films.This one is cute. It's sometimes funny, sometimes interesting, sometimes with neat imagery. The story of course is nothing special but it's a fun movie to watch. Although it's not a film to seek out but it is one that is pretty good to watch from a film pack or a free copy to view online if you happen upon the film and like older cute "dark and stormy night" films.I would describe this film as a comedy-mystery horror - and if you like that kind of movie then you might like this one.6/10

Cristi_Ciopron A delightful, eminently watchable comedy, masterly paced, you may find it endearing, with its expert timing, and despite the gracelessness of its male cast, anyway the movie spells its genre so as not to disappoint the gullible; a playwright rented the mansion once owned by an insane physician, whose legacy of fright still carries on, and the playwright gathers there several people to stage his play, with one of the main results being that they all are really guests and none knows indeed the house. I believe that the device of 'the audience on stage', or 'the audience in the movie', as represented by the old-timer and his degenerate secretary intended to have fun no matter what, worked wonderfully; that's how exciting they felt to be the cinema, and they were right. Miljan plays the controversial playwright, June Collyer plays the starlet, while Kolker and Kirke are the usual creeps from such movies; save for the two girls (June and Eve), it's an ugly cast, one player uglier than the other, at least four mugs (the playwright, the supposed Amphytrio the psychiatrist, the heady Terry, the butler).Eve Southern was intriguing, she's the one playing the insane widow.The guards' uniform looked eerie. The patient's discourse was an early impersonation of the German Leader.Nice pace, sharp one-liners, two likable actresses, ugly male cast; as said, it's a farce, kindred to music hall, revue, etc., but the plot was neat anyway, and the experience is refreshing.Strayer directed 'The Ghost …' in '34, and 'The Monster …' in '32.

dougdoepke A stageplay producer and his assistant are invited to an old house during a rainstorm with unexpected results.The movie's played more for laughs than for shivers. Erskine (Arthur) and Wood (Carle) are played very broadly, and in Erskine's case with a fey undercurrent. In fact the rather clever screenplay appears to be having a good time with innuendo. There are two good twists to the story, but I kept waiting for the ghost who never seemed to arrive. In fact, the little programmer is more a light-hearted mystery than anything scary. And who is Eve Sothern (Beatrice). I've never seen her before, but with her gorgeously angular features, she furnishes the movie's one riveting moment when she first appears, zombie-like. Anyway, this could have been a good little mystery-fright film had those in charge decided to drop the awkward comedic overlay.