The brilliance of Vincent Price is his voice, obviously. What I didn't realize until watching this movie is that when combined with his voice, this is a big, imposing figure. He's tall, with good looks, but still creepy good looks. This same description applies to Carol Ohmart, who plays his wife and the exchanges between these two fantastic. Now, setting aside that this is an older movie, you have a lot of the same scare tactics that are used today in films, relying on sudden revealing figures from behind and the like, that are quite effective. Setting aside the cheesy ending, the principle of it was great, the story part of it was great. It's just an old movie so the execution of it lacks, especially when compared to today's visual effects standards. This was just a fun, cheesy, old horror movie that I would certainly watch again.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051744/
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