Movie review – “Scared to Death” (1947) *

This starts promisingly – the story is narrated by a corpse on whom an autopsy is about to be performed, there’s George Zucco as a nasty doctor and Bela Lugosi turns up as a hypnotist accompanied by a dwarf. But there’s not enough Lugosi (or Zucco), too much comic cops and newsreporters and then the girl turns out have a Nazi past. Boring! Lugosi is a red herring, there is crappy colour photography when black and white would have been better, and the film gets more dull as it goes on.