Inner Sanctum movies keep coming up with good ideas and throwing them away. This has two: Lon Chaney Jnr as a master hypnotist who’s convinced he’s killed one of his clients, and Lon taking refuge in a max museum. But the rest of it is fairly standard. All the women pant over chubby Lon – a young girl, his assistant (Evelyn Ankers again, the last horror film she made for Universal), and an elder blonde. The blonde goes missing, causing Lon to think he’s done it again – which unfortunately he hasn’t, it would have been a better film if he had. Not much is done with the wax museum setting apart from the stock walking-past-a-real-person-thinking-they’re-a-mummy. Strong support from Ankers, Douglas Dumbrille (investigating police officer), and most of all Martin Kosleck, as a creepy wax model maker.
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