Director:
Lew Landers
Year: 1935
Rating: 7.5
Creeping just over the 60 minute mark, this Universal film may be much less
known than some of their classic horror films, but it is quite entertaining
if totally absurd. This was Universal's third adaptation of a Poe story (Murders
in the Rue Morgue and The Black Cat) but like most of the Roger Corman Poe
films of the 1960's any resemblance between Poe and the film is nearly entirely
accidental. You can see a smidgeon of The Raven and a touch of The Pit and
the Pendulum but the script is wildly different from the poem and the story.