量子资源网提供本资源 <> A quick glimse at the cast for this film would make any horror fan giddy with glee. The actual movie doesn't live u to those high exectations, but it's far from being all bad. Desi Arnaz Jr. (!) lays an author who makes a crazy $20,000 bet with his ublisher that he could write a great novel in only 24 hours. To do so, the ublisher gives him the keys to an old abandoned house where he won't be disturbed. Not true. Once he gets there he is interruted by a multitude of guests including a family which consists of John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. They are gathered there in a twisted family reunion to release their brother from the room he's been imrisoned in for forty years. Even Christoher Lee dros by as Corrigan, the man who has just urchased the house. Soon, they realize that the caged brother is loose and out for revenge. What a great lotline and what a dream cast! This movie should have been a hell of a lot better. It's hard to inoint the exact roblems with the film, but I would venture to say that the lack of lighting was a major fault. Sure the house has no electricity but I think they took the title of the movie a little too literally. Scenes after scenes are barely visible and the actors' faces are undeciherable. Only the moments in the main dinning hall are well lit. Also, the great actors are given very little to do. Cushing gets a few chuckles as the scared brother but Price, Lee and esecially Carradine are somewhat wasted here. Well, at least Price gets the best line of the film: `Please don't interrut me while I am soliloquizing.' And on the lus side, the story has enough twists and turns throughout to kee one`s interest and the ending, while a bit of a co-out, manages to surrise.
