Night of Terror

Night of Terror

23/4/1933 1h 5m 5.3/10

Overview

The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.

Director

Benjamin Stoloff

Top Billed Cast

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi

Degar

Tully Marshall

Tully Marshall

Richard Rinehart

Wallace Ford

Wallace Ford

Tom Hartley

Sally Blane

Sally Blane

Mary Rinehart

Gertrude Michael

Gertrude Michael

Sarah Rinehart

Bryant Washburn

Bryant Washburn

John Rinehart

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

12/28/2024

6/10

Well if you're ever going to tell a story of a bunch of money-grabbing relatives gathered in a creaky old stately pile, then you could do a lot worse than get Bela Lugosi to hold it all together. Sadly, though, the formula is just a little too predicable as we go from a doom-laden seance to a gradual increase in the entirely deserving body count. It's the darkly lit scenario that does most of the heavy lifting here as the script adds little, the supporting ensemble is distinctly wooden and what menace there is comes from Lugosi in his best pantomime villain vein. I think this might have been better had it been a silent film, but it's still quite a fun hour of duplicity and back-stabbing that shows us that the venality of the human spirit is alive and kicking. Well kicking, anyway.

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