The Old Dark House
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Movie Reviews of The Old Dark House
Movie Review: Saturday Matinee With Boris Karloff
Summary: 5 Stars
This film about a group of travelers who lose their way on a back road before stumbling upon an old house and its spooky inhabitants must have been terrifying during a time when one could see four or five movies and twenty cartoons for ten cents at a Saturday matinee. Its dark and moody atmosphere, creaking doors, scared young ladies, and manaical old ladies living in dark rooms down long dark corridors would have been enough in themselves to cause one to quake in one's boots, and when you add the craggy, frightening face of Boris Karloff squinting out at you, one could almost swoon. The fun in this film is in trying to figure out who the bad guy/girl really is, and just how many people are really in the house . Did the butler really do it?Movie Review: The Old Dark House
Summary: 5 Stars
One of Whale's most indispensable horror films, "House" marries dark wit with bizarre, wonderfully eerie scenarios involving the three Femm children: addled atheist Horace Femm (Ernest Thesiger), his fanatically Christian sister Rebecca (Eva Moore), and older brother Saul (Brember Wills), a pyromaniac kept under lock and key--usually. Karloff, in his first big role, is memorably ghoulish as a gin-swilling servant, but Thesiger and Moore play the demented siblings to sinister effect. Inspired camerawork, spooky lighting, and brilliant ensemble acting from the whole cast put a sardonic twist on this sublime tale of gothic lunacy.Movie Review: A great underated "horror" flick!
Summary: 5 Stars
Some might say this is not horror, but viewing the film and every aspect of it, this is horror! It's ashame this film didn't get the recognition it truly deserves. Jame Whales made a great film. It is about a couple, with others don't think it's a good idea to drive much ahead being caught in the middle of a terrible storm. So they think going in a house like that is a better idea, hehe good move! In this house could be some of creepyest people in a horror movie, especially the one locked up in the room! Please get this movie, it would have been a lost film!Movie Review: see what a true master can do with a tired old plot
Summary: 5 Stars
this wonderful old movie is more fun than you can you can image and proof that james whale was a great director. this "thriller" also has some great comedy and more than it's share of chills and fright!
a few people looking for shelter from a storm come inside the old home of the feem family,a wonderful bunch of kooks and madmen and spend a very strange night with them> to say more would ruin the plot so just take my word for it,if you like old horror movies or you just like great movies check this gem Review: It's not very nice, is it?
Summary: 5 Stars Fans of "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons will recognize the same sort of humor in this movie: an eccentric rural family, religious mania, characters with Biblical names, etc. The 102-year old Femm family patriarch (played by a woman in a beard!) muttering about the family's dark secrets bears a resemblance to Aunt Ada Doom bedridden after she saw "something nasty in the woodshed". Interestingly, CCF was published the same year The Old Dark House was released, so who knows whether Gibbons was influenced by it.