ChristianeK

Much better looking but just as dull and plotless as any Hollywood CGI fest. Colour is rich and beautiful in that vintage 1960's way, and the set - yes, the one and only - is a misty interior graveyard, gorgeous and fun in the studio/theatre way. Ghoulita looks like a (bit) better-looking Elvira, but the mangy werewolf and especially the squalid mummy are eye sores. Acting is flatlining more than a zombie.

The lavish Victorian setting. The luminous black and white cinematography by Freddie Francis. Deborah Kerr, her screen presence scrubbed clean as always, is a spinster who sees ghosts. Are they real? Or - as it is a heavily hinted - a case study of bigotry? Something dirty and nasty seems to boil under the sterile veneer. Film makers' projected fantasies?

Does it work? Well, not really. Personally I do prefer Black Narcissus, another Deb film about sexually frustrated virgins. That film has 1940's Technicolor and "exotic" setting, completed with the hand painted matte Himalayas. This is a bit dry and academic. Close but no cigar.

Lot of hairy chests and big breasts. Moderately entertaining, though, thanks to the subplot of beautiful stalker (young Mädchen Amick). Pamela Anderson may never have been a great beauty, but in this series that terrible Playboy model look - over stuffed pale lips and white hair against brown skin - had already spoiled her looks. Matter of taste, of course, and her sweet CJ Parker ruled the Baywatch fandom...