Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Director: Ford Beebe
Writer: Clarence Upson Young (original screenplay)
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson
In spite of the rather lackluster name, this was actually quite good. Even Hitchcock liked it. With a spooky forest at night, creepy fog with an unknown horror lurking in the darkness, it was an atmospheric film to be sure.
Some great lines too, like ""The air is charged with death and hatred and something that's unclean!"
Some unusual trivia about the film:
At the end of the movie, the miniature of the burning mansion shown is identical to the miniature of the burning castle shown at the climax of The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942).
Alfred Hitchcock attended a screening of this film because he wanted to cast Janet Shaw in his Universal production, Shadow of a Doubt (1943), thoroughly enjoyed it, and was amazed at how quickly it was shot, from July 5-18, 1942, to be released October 23, on a double bill with The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
The scene of a foggy forest behind the opening credits is the same as that used in the opening of The Wolf Man (1941).
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