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Review: Atmospheric. Execellent style and staging (borders upon Val Lewton country), but not enough substance to satisfy. Silly script with an even sillier solution to the mystery. If you've seen The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 -- the one with Basil Rathbone) and The Wolf Man (1941), then you've already seen this done better, although those earlier efforts didn't have as much attention to detail on setting up a misty sense of doom. (The misty doom was later used by director John Brahm with a beter script in The Lodger.) It's sort of like seeing an early template for Hammer horror. 20th C. print on DVD is awesome, and it's nicely packaged with good language/subtitle options. I'd recommend it as a curiosity piece for fans of pre-1950's era horror.
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