Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

sharktrooper21 The field of meta-physics or "ghost studying" if you prefer is actually one of the more interesting fields out there. While unproven and with a very high chance of "hauntings" being explained, the occasional event that defies any explanation is quite thrilling. So it doesn't surprise me that the director or whoever was in charge of the the story was fascinated by this field.It doesn't change the fact that it's a piece of crap.Frankly the only reason this film didn't haunt the participants was due to the mercy of film obscurity that lasted for 30 years. The only person who truly suffered was the unlucky person who found it and watched it in it's uncut glory. By "uncut" I mean without the MST3K commentary. Definitely one of the funnier episodes of the late Comedy Central era. The funniest part has to be the scream uttered by the woman who finds the body. Definitely one of the funniest screams that I have heard.If you want to learn more about meta-physics, I suggest the series "Ghost Hunters".

Gregory Eichelberger A most inept film, about a dull loner who "invents" a radio that can communicate with the deceased, is supposed to be a lesson in alternative methods of solving crimes, but ultimately has nothing whatsoever to do with talking to the dead. Opening credits introduce someone named "Aldo Farnese" (as "Mr Krasner"), as if he were some exciting, new, highly-talented discovery - he wasn't. He's just a bearded, big-headed geek with glasses a whiny, high-pitched voice and the weirdest hairstyle this side of Atlas King. He also spouted things like, "If Krueger ever tries anything with you," "That explains his no-work policy," and "We're trying to reach someone on the 27th megacycle range."Krasker lives in a depressing boarding house run by an old lady (Rose Gorman) who is constantly trying to force people to eat. Other boarders include the slutty murder victim Renee Coliveil (Laura Brock), the horse-faced Hope Byington (Janeanna Prichard), lisping disc jockey Don Harris (Don Parker), the self-righteous Bible-spouting Christy Mattling (Kyle Stanton), single mom Sarah Stroil (Betty Ruth), sullen record store employee Raymond Milburnand (Myron Natwick) and Curtis Roberts as Fritz Kreuger, a mostly homely man sporting one of the worst German accents ever.Despite a clumsy, badly-shot opening sequence (in which SOMETHING takes place, we're just not sure what), the movie then shifts gears and zeroes in on this untalented group who mostly sit around a dinner table and eat. We are told, numerous times by a lame voice-over, that Renee has only a certain amount time to live, and, sure enough, she is whacked with a crossbow.Enter two inept detectives, the calm, mature Lt. Lewis (Scott Douglas, "The Amazing She-Mosnter," "Kolchak: The Night Stalker"), and the hotheaded young Harry (Earl Sands), who just wants to beat the Hell out of everyone until they confess. The questioning of the suspects takes longer than the crust of the earth did to form, with most of the scenes just petering out with no conclusion whatsoever. It's during these scenes that the nerdy photographer Tony Pettini (Sammy Ray) makes his long-awaited appearance.Also look for a quick but unintentionally-hilarious sequence involving a couple of bongo players.Meanwhile, in an effort to help solve the crime, Krasker informs Lewis that he just happens to be working on a radio (it looks like a soggy wad of paper stapled to a small satellite dish) that can contact Renee and find out who killed her. He demonstrates this amazing technological device to the assembled group by placing a razor blade (attached to a speaker) inside a wineglass.Of course, nothing happens.Krasker also invented a car horn that is built into to a casket, just in case you're ever buried alive, but Lewis seems to think he's perfectly sane enough to help him on this case. Gathering everyone together in his sub-basement laboratory, the outcast "scientist" somehow frightens the real killer into confessing Perry Mason-style, while the radio that has been so highly-touted throughout the movie proves to be nothing more than a red herring; a straw dog, if you will.As amateurish as any elementary school production, director Merle S. Gould (who directed the lame 1961 pseudo-documentary, "Mystic Prophecies And Nostradamus") reached an artistic peak here and was basically never seen again - on film, at least.

dbborroughs I'm coming late to the game on this one,and I'm so disappointed. It was shown as part of the sixth season of Mystery Science 3000 which how most people have run across it. The story is that Sinister Cinema discovered the film at the Headliner offices and promptly snapped up the rights to this 1957 horror/crime drama. Bad movie lovers have been feeling the pain ever since.The plot concerns a woman living in a boarding house who is murdered. The subsequent police investigation includes a machine to talk to the dead. Everyone the woman lived and worked with are suspects.What can I say about this movie? Its hysterical. I could almost believe that the film was a joke except that there is too much evidence to suggest otherwise. It opens with a nonsensical silent sequence of a man following a woman at night., It moves on to the criminologist explaining about his invention to talk to the dead. From there we get misplaced voice over narration, dialog sequences that seem to have been randomly cut together, a woman who inexplicably disrobes as she speaks to the police, The murder victim clearly holding the arrow to her chest, differing murder weapons in different sequences, loopy dialog and some of the wildest hair on record. Its a bad movie lovers dream. I'm going to have to watch this again just to see all of the mistakes, miscues and oddball choices for myself.This is a movie to get your hands on and pick apart. I know MST3K did just that but this movie is so ripe for destruction that odds are you and your friends and loved ones will come up with infinitely better lines. This is a classic bad movie.If you want to have a good time with your friends find this movie and watch it, just go easy on the popcorn you might just choke to death when you're laughing.

headbone The producer of this movie must have been a big fan of Coleman Francis. His choice to put Aldo Farnese (who??) in the lead role of this horrible film was his first mistake. Making the movie at all was his second mistake. Its quite obvious why the film sat on the shelf for 30 years after its making. Whoever made the decision to dust it off and release it must have been insane. Thankfully the fine folks at Mystery Science Theater 3000 got a hold of it and gave it the treatment it deserved, and made this embarrassingly bad movie a fun thing to watch after all.