Scared to Death

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Dave S @RT68722908 10/20/2024 The most appropriate responses to Scared to Death would be a shrug of the shoulders and a perplexed furrowing of the eyebrows. Nothing that happens during the scant 65-minute running time makes much in the way of sense, other than the fact that its non-stop weirdness makes it uncomfortably entertaining. Narrated by a dead woman, she tells the story of how she was murdered through flashbacks. Filled with nonsensical plot points, the movie is full of strange dialogue (“One hates to perform an autopsy on a beautiful girl”), campy attempts at humor, shots that look as though the camera lens was covered in Vaseline, characters that serve no purpose (including a munchkin from The Wizard of Oz), and a plot that defies any kind of reasonable description. It is one of those movies that somehow remains borderline interesting because of its many flaws. See more Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 08/11/2024 A very tongue in cheek gothic mystery that has predictable solid performances by Bela Lugosi (Glen or Glenda) and George Zucco (The Barkleys of Broadway) See more Blobbo X @Blobbo 07/13/2021 Editing choppy and bad! Not scary, more funny. Not too funny, either. Still better than The Lighthouse -- which saw yesterday and still recovering from. See more 10/26/2019 Fun to watch. Small attempts of humor. Kept my interest. Would watch again if a better copy found. See more 07/19/2017 Bela Lugosi in color! Lugosi's only color film is a terrible film, but ever since Martin Landau's touching performance as Lugosi in "Ed Wood," I can't help but read into these terrible Lugosi film a kind of tragic subtext. Here's a great actor hobbled by addiction having to waste his talents in embarrassingly bad low budget horror films that capitalize on his early career successes. The story here follows a young woman who's been murdered and who then recounts the events leading up to her demise, which involve a creepy hypnotist, Lugosi, and his loyal dwarf man-servant, Angelo Rossitto of "Freaks" fame who himself was a talented actor hobbled by typecasting. Besides Lugosi and Rossitto, there's also Nat Pendleton, who's not a famous actor, but who's face and voice any classic film fan will recognize. Overall, this film isn't as bad an an Edward D. Wood Jr. production, but it doesn't seem that far off. See more 09/21/2015 1 star for the fact Bela is in it, where he is reduced to his familiar typecast-ed villain character in a cape. See more Read all reviews

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