Product: Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
Rating: 3.0
Passable thriller with some scarey moments
The last half hour picked up in this considerably as we see a portrait of insanity in the one person we thought was sane throughout. There are also some very creepy scenes of old damp basements and a doll hospital.This movie has some glaringly weak parts of the plot which don't follow. A four year old girl is missing and the police never believe she ever existed, inexplicably thinking the frantic mother made up the existance of the child. She doesn't offer to show them any photos of the child, instead showing them a doll, a box of candy, as proof the girl exists.When we learn of the absolute madness of one character suddenly there is some real terror. I did feel frightened and horrified for the last twenty minutes. There was a truely frightening display of dangerous insanity that did make my heart beat faster, but it came during the last few scenes, after a fairly tedious first half of this movie.This was a bit of a disappointment. There was some excellent horror but it wasn't worth the long wait and obviousdisconnects in logic throughout the film.