Stan and Oliver turn up at Mrs Fox's mansion, greeted by the strange butler Jitters (Jack Barty) who plays imaginary cards and serves imaginary food! He warns them that Mrs Fox is going to cut their throats that night. All they have to do is stay awake...
A very inventive Laurel and Hardy comedy, somewhat more surreal and dark than some of their other work. Less slapstick more absurdity
A ridiculous but amusing dark house murder mystery with elements of horror. Novelist Cornelia van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead) rents a mansion in which some dark crimes have happened in the past, apparently committed by a crazed maniac called The Bat. Meanwhile, at the bank a million dollars worth of securities have gone missing and it is thought they were hidden in the house. The Bat is now back and hunting for the securities and killing anyone in his path!
Police Lieutenant Anderson (Gavin Gordon) is on the case and has a number of suspects including the chauffeur Warner (John Sutton) and also Doctor Wells (Vincent Price) is also under suspicion. However, as the murderous Bat continues his reign of terror is the suspect closer to home?
An enjoyable romp in a sinister dark house with secret passageways and plenty of shadows. The film keeps you guessing (to an extent) as to the identity of the Bat with a number of red herrings (though a seasoned watcher of these kinds of films will soon guess who he is!) Not as atmospheric as the original 1926 version though with plenty of camp and energy.
A mysterious cargo ship, seemingly without a crew, is sailing across the sea. It approaches a cruise liner, despite all warnings it isn't stopping, it wants to ram! Later on a few survivors of the liner, including the captain Ashland (George Kennedy), lie on a raft. The cargo ship looms behind them, the survivors not knowing this was the ship which caused their plight.
They board the ship, which is deserted and rusted and old. They discover it is a World War 2 German ship, they also discover it has a mind of it's own as the survivors are picked off one by one, including being grabbed by cranes, terrified to death in a shower of blood and being crushed in a net of corpses. Ashland, meanwhile, has donned the uniform of a German Navy captain and now calls the ship his own. Crenna (Trevor Marshall) and Nick (Nick Mancuso) discover the ship was used for Nazi tortures...
A superbly weird and macabre film. The derelict ship setting makes for a very eerie film. Often the best horrors have the threat coming from a faceless and unknowable entity, in this case it is an entire cargo ship! It makes little sense but is a great horror film.
The Feds, led by Holman (Wendell Corey), spies from an unnamed foreign power led by the remarkable Satana (Tura Satana) and the mafia are all after DeMarco's secrets. A confused search begins for the mad scientist before he can create a refined version of his zombie, plus try and capture the original...
Much weirdness follows and much unnecessary (to the plot anyway) female flesh too. We're never told why DeMarco's weird assistant Franchot (William Bagdad) spends much of the film menacing a young woman in a bikini, whom he has strapped to a table but it's just that kind of film. In the great tradition of trash movies it makes no sense whatsoever.
Gulik also kidnaps the scientist Professor Morgan (Jose Maria Caffafrel) to assist with his plans though Morgan refuses to help. Gulik sends his men, led by Petersen (Frank Brana), to kidnap Morgan's daughter Patricia (Diana Polokov). That is when Paul/Supersonic Man starts to intervene and foil Gulik's evil plans...
A fun film with laughable special effects and very cheesy and goofy superhero antics. The film rips off a number of other better known films including Superman itself. The film is often quite strange with numerous misfiring attempts at comedy thrown in. Why that is needed when the main premise is so ridiculous and funny is a question even Supersonic Man's powers have no answer for. Unfortunately no one makes a "I'll make a supersonic man out of you" joke.