Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

BA_Harrison Timid proofreader Ernie (Kenneth Connor) travels with his best pal Syd (Sid James) to Blackshaw Towers on the Yorkshire Moors for the reading of his Uncle Gabriel's will; also present at the reading are Ernie's eccentric relatives (played by Dennis Price, Michael Gwynn, Valerie Taylor, George Woodbridge, and Esma Cannon), plus Gabriel's sexy nurse Linda (Shirley Eaton), creepy butler Fisk (Michael Gough) and sinister solicitor Everett Sloane (Donald Pleasance).As a thunderstorm rages outside, trapping the beneficiaries in the creepy house for the night, someone begins to bump off the visitors in variety of gruesome ways. Will Ernie and Syd make it through the night?As a big fan of both the Carry On series and the 'Old Dark House' horror sub-genre, I was very keen to see What A Carve Up!, which is apparently based on the classic 1933 chiller The Ghoul and features Carry On regulars James and Connor, as well as occasional Carry On players Eaton and Cannon. Sadly, although the film exploits every creepy cliché in the book in an effort to reap the laughs, the film as a whole doesn't deliver, the gags being as creaky as the huge wooden door of Blackshaw Towers. Connor's familiar nervous wimp routine and Sid James's trademark cackle are no substitute for decent jokes, and the whole affair soon becomes rather tiresome.Still, I guess it's no worse than the official Carry On attempt at mixing comedy with horror, Carry On Screaming, which also failed to impress despite the combined talents of Jim Dale, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Fenella Fielding, Harry. H. Corbett, Charles Hawtry, Peter Butterworth, Jon Pertwee, Bernard Bresslaw and Angela Douglas (but no sign of Sid James or Kenneth Connor—a case of 'once bitten, twice shy', perhaps?).

Caz1964 Very funny British comedy from the early 60's,i finally managed to get myself a copy and i don't know why it isn't more readily available in the UK as i would have thought any films starring Sid James were highly sought after, as his still very popular with modern audiences his famous for having the dirtiest laugh in show business no one has equalled him for that. Sid James and Kenneth Conner play two friends Sid and Ern who are called to a will reading as Erns great uncle Gabrielle has died.They have to travel to Yorkshire where their destination leads them to a spooky old mansion house which was owned by the late uncle Gabrielle. During the reading of the will all the guests who are Erns other relatives are told they are not going to inherit anything.The guests are all very disappointed but realise that they will have to spend the rest of the night at the house as there is no way of getting home till the morning. Then during the night the guests are being killed off one by one,but who is the killer? What a carve up mixes comedy with light horror,the story itself is not that original but the jokes and humour are. I hadnt seen this film for years,but having just watched it again its as funny as i remember it.

Darren-15 What a great movie, laugh, jump with terror (ish) a classic story with a obvious ending but still funny. Sid James and Kenneth Connor are a great comedy pair.See how young Shirley Eaton is WOW. Nice film in the middle of the carry on's.

John O'Neill When I first saw this film one evening, I only watched it because I had nothing to do. By the time it had finished, I was left raging with myself for not videoing it. Although it's not really a horror movie, the atmosphere is tremendous. Right from the first scene, the viewer is drawn in, and simply cannot stop watching. Although the ending is somewhat predictable, the movie does not really suffer from this, but rather the viewer can look out for all the clues that he/she may have missed the first time.All in all, a film to be watched over and over again.