Dance of Death

Rating:
Summary: From Karloff's unfortunate later years.
Review: Like a lot of washed up actors, Boris Karloff took just about anything that came his way late in his career, and this movie is one of the films which proves that. "Dance Of Death" is actually a Mexican production whose concept is infinitely more interesting than what appears on the screen.

Karloff's character is going mad and he invites all of his remaining relatives to his mansion. For reasons I won't bother going into, he believes that one of them is commiting a string of murders. He decides that the only solution is to kill each of his relatives.

That isn't anything original, but how the killings are supposedly taking place sounded intriguing. Karloff owns several toys which are rumored to be able to come to life and murder people. The execution of the idea unfortunately did not live up to the premise.

The "toys" (except for one) were obviously just adult men wearing costumes. Wow...how exciting. The rest of the film was just as disappointing. Events unfolded at an excrutiatingly slow pace and the production values were quite poor.

With all of the films which Karloff made, you can easily find much better ones to spend your money on.

Rating:
Summary: From Karloff's unfortunate later years.
Review: Like a lot of washed up actors, Boris Karloff took just about anything that came his way late in his career, and this movie is one of the films which proves that. "Dance Of Death" is actually a Mexican production whose concept is infinitely more interesting than what appears on the screen.

Karloff's character is going mad and he invites all of his remaining relatives to his mansion. For reasons I won't bother going into, he believes that one of them is commiting a string of murders. He decides that the only solution is to kill each of his relatives.

That isn't anything original, but how the killings are supposedly taking place sounded intriguing. Karloff owns several toys which are rumored to be able to come to life and murder people. The execution of the idea unfortunately did not live up to the premise.

The "toys" (except for one) were obviously just adult men wearing costumes. Wow...how exciting. The rest of the film was just as disappointing. Events unfolded at an excrutiatingly slow pace and the production values were quite poor.

With all of the films which Karloff made, you can easily find much better ones to spend your money on.

Rating:
Summary: Dance of Death
Review: This is the kind of movie you watch in a cold, dark basement at three in the morning, perferably when raining.
Its just that kind of movie.
The last half hour make the movie worth while, the beginning is a bit slow, but has a build-up. The killer toys are creepy and create a great effect in the old mansion.
ays black and white on the box, but it is color.