Night of Terror

This movie is "The Cat and the Canary" meets "The Old Dark House". Lugosi is given top billing but his character is secondary in the plot . A mad killer is stalking the grounds of a spooky old house after going on a killing spree and evading the local police. Inside the house are some murder victims but is the mad killer the real culprit? The house also contains a laboratory where a young scientist is attempting to experiment with a chemical formula that he hopes will raise the dead and is using himself as a guinea pig."Night of Terror" is yet another murder mystery masquerading as a horror story. Bela Lugosi was added to the cast to give the film a horror element but all he does is provide a few menacing glares. Old Dark House thrillers were very popular with movie audiences in the 1930's and Night of Terror is a prime example of one. Wallace Ford is around to add the obligatory comedy relief that film makers felt was necessary to relief the tension in these kinds of productions at the time.The film also has a black comedy ending.

Night of Terror was included in the Son of Shock Theater Movie package sold to local TV stations across the country in 1958 by Screen Gems following the success of Shock Theater in 1957. Night of Terror may seem quaint by today's standards but film buffs will find it an entertaining way to spend and hour