Saw this again just for fun - it was fun. I mean it's not very good, but it has its charms - the colour, Quinn O'Hara as a bespectacled femme fetale, Basil Rathbone with one foot in a grave, ditto Boris Karloff. Apparently Louis Heyward had to "rescue" the movie with the framing device - I think the movie holds as is, the framing device doesn't help but it does give a part to Susan Hart and Karloff.
It's an old dark house story with paintings with eyes, trap doors, revolving book cases. There's even a buzz saw finale. Tommy Kirk and Deborah Walley don't have much to do. Aaron Kincaid is as busy,being seduced by O'Hara and running arond.
Harvey Lembeck is on hand and that Buster Keaton replacement. Its sheer oddness and good spirits help this get by - I mean, it's got the Bobby Fuller Four, Nancy Sinatra, some random Italian singer, a bus of partiers, an old house.
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