• It’s an anthology horror film in three parts- stories about guilt and greed mainly because reckoned with from beyond the grave
  • All 3 stories feature beauties
  • The first story with the dripping water is the best by a decent margin—there is a flashing neon light lighting scheme that’s quite brilliant- predates refn, greenaway, WKW and others but clearly borrowing form vertigo
  • Speaking of vertigo we have the decapitated head with black background (Karloff here instead of jimmy stewart) credit sequence
  • Karloff is the narrator for the first two films and then is in the third- he’s a great voice- it’s a great story how he was both a physical actor who went from man with a presence in the Frankenstein films to a man with a voice—much like say tom hardy
  • 3rd film is more gothic in nature like some of bava’s other work—neon lighting comes back for the last 10 minute worth of exteriors at night
  • Part AIP Corman films (this is from AIP) with Price and part like Hammer fimlms
  • Based on terror you can’t really see and it’s well done by bava- pure cinema as he evokes the terror through camera and editing
  • Karloff looks horrifying (pic above) in finale- good makeup work
  • Recommend but not in top 10 of 1963