Product: Invisible Ghost (UK PAL Region 0)
Rating: 3.0
Confusing script, but fun for Lugosi fans.
We are told that Bela Lugosi's wife died in a car wreck while fleeing with her lover. Even so, Bela is devoted to her memory, and obsesses in grief. When the fickle spouse returns by night, she stands alive and silent beneath Bela's window. Under her hypnotic spell, he falls into a trance, and commits murder. Sound confusing? Join the club. Among other things, the woman's mysterious power over Bela is not explained. Lugosi's poverty row horror thrillers are best for fanatic cheap horror fans. (Count me as one of these). The script and other production values put low budget limits on one's viewing pleasure. At least the DVD is more technically tolerable than the low grade VHS tape that previously haunted our movie shelf. The dark and stormy night in the old mansion is an overworked cliche that is still fun to watch. Bela is only passively menacing in this one. He is a pawn, and not the instigator. This is a change from the usual mad doctor tampering in God's Domain. The other cast adequately goes through the motions. It's an agreeable way to spend 60+ minutes.;-)