Halloween Review: The Old Dark House

Booooo!

Yes, boys and ghouls, it’s time once again for the Bureau’s Halloween Reviews. This year’s hellish harvest takes picks from the early days of talking film to last summer, with the emphasis on scary houses and homes under attack.

Between Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein, many of the same people adapted J.B. Priestly’s bizarre (and, at present, out of print) 1927 novel Benighted into the archetypal horror/dark comedy. Rocky Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Addams Family, Scooby-Doo and countless other productions have since echoed this oddball film.1

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