Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

HotToastyRag Light the candles and bring out the blankets-The Old Dark House is a great scary movie on a gloomy evening or afternoon! Five travelers are lost and stranded in a rainstorm, forced to seek refuge in a very creepy looking house. Boris Karloff, in a Frankenstein meets Ape-Man get-up, answers the door, and even though he's enormously frightening, the five walk in the house and place themselves at the mercy of some very creepy people.Husband and wife team Raymond Massey and Gloria Stuart are probably the stupidest of the bunch. Raymond leaves his wife alone to go exploring up the dark, rickety staircase, and when he hears someone crying from behind a door, he tries to open it. Gloria, who has just been made aware that Boris Karloff not only is scary but has incredible strength and is a bit insane, insists on changing her clothes then walks down an empty corridor in a very revealing dress. As you can see, these people aren't very bright. Then again, no one in a horror movie ever is!Charles Laughton and his mistress Lilian Bond show up, but since it's Charles Laughton, she quickly leaves him as soon as she meets Melvyn Douglas. Eva Moore and Ernest Thesiger are the homeowners, and they make every scene as creepy as they possibly can. Don't watch this one by yourself!

smesh109 Inventing the Horror House genre, this Pre-Code Hollywood film (that was considered lost until 1968) is a gem in being interesting with somewhat complex psychological happenings and a lot of black humor, especially for its time. The film is one of the Universal Horror Movies of the 1920s-1950s starring Boris Karloff and was released only two months before The Mummy (1932 film). It also stars Gloria Stuart - most people will know her as old Rose in Titanic (yes, she was born in 1910. She also acted in another Universal Horror feature The Invisible Man (1933 film) which I rated 9/10!) I'd rate this film 7/10, but the abrupt end let so many questions unresolved that I couldn't believe this is the end of the film. I had to degrade it to a 6/10. Pity! It could've been an 8/10 with a better end (or at least one that feels like an end at all). I recommend watching this movie.

Foreverisacastironmess I'm so glad I recently discovered this movie. It was so old, but so much fun. I reckon the best way to watch movies like it is to catch the oldest scratched-up prints of them with bad sound on questionable late night TV stations. They seem to be almost made for that kind of romantic creakiness. I loved how much wit it had, how it had such a great sneaky dark humour about itself that makes you feel like it's inviting you to a spooky party. It really turned out to be one of the best of the very old horror films that I've ever seen. And I personally don't really enjoy all that many 30s pictures.. It gave me a bit of hope that my taste in movies could be a little more cultured than I thought! You might not think it's the right word for a 1932 movie but I had such a blast with it! It was like unearthing an ancient treasure, the way it was so old that I didn't know who any of the actors were, and how it was so black and dusky-looking gave it an almost dreamlike quality... Its classic Gothic overtones were enchanting to me, I felt strangely drawn to it within moments and it grew on me right away. Just my type of film I suppose.. It 'spoke' to me! It simply has oodles of what a good scary story needs more than anything else: Atmosphere, such a perfectly wonderful midnight storm constantly raging outside, and those ever-present sounds of driving rain and whistling shrieks of wind gave it an almost immersive effect I thought, it made me feel something like I was in that dark house myself. And oh my but that really was such a terrifically creepy old stone house. Like the plot, it was taken straight out of a great old horror tale. I loved everything about it, it was like one of those walk- through ghost houses that you sometimes get at amusement parks, the rooms were like furnished crypts, just magical... And just one more time this may be frightfully old, but it has some surprisingly intense scary scenes where the mood suddenly stops being quirky for a second. I loved the setup and how it played out, it was so perfect to me. People trapped in a storm find a foreboding craggy manor and take refuge in the bizarre abode of decayed grandeur, and then they meet and engage with the stranger still eccentric family of the damned! My favourite thing about it is the weird characters. For me the scenes where the guests interact with the Femm clan are the best parts of it. It was very character driven. I especially like Ernest Thesigar as Harris Femm, he was hysterical! Any of the low budget or perhaps even amateurish qualities only add to the film's rustic appeal. The pacing is odd and the story is vague, but regardless of its faults and as simple as it is, it succeeds admirably in delivering a joyously fun and sinister quality that more than lives up to the humble promise of its title. So I was just very happy to have found this, it was completely new to me and I loved it. Don't think I'll ever be seeing too many more quite like it. An eerie delight!

begob Two groups of travellers driving through a storm in remote countryside are forced to seek shelter in an old house, where they find some strange hospitality - until a dark secret is revealed.Feel good chiller with plenty of charm and idiosyncrasy. The location is a rambling mansion with plenty of dark nooks and crannies, and a flight of primitive steps at the front door that the actors had some difficulty negotiating. As usual, characters split up and wander off in defiance of common sense, and their piercing screams fail to reach the ears of their fellow travellers, in defiance of the laws of physics.The performances are uneven, but the stand outs are the three ladies who present very different characters – oh, and there's a fourth lady, unaccountably in drag. The director was having fun. Of the men, one character is poorly written, so there's not much the actor could do – but otherwise the performances are entertaining, although the cackling laughter can't make up for the underwhelming nature of the reveal. A daft story, not to be taken seriously, and the plot jumps about as we move from one part of the house to the other, ending in a sappy climax.Overall, not really a horror – more an entertaining oddity.