Review – The Old Dark House (1932)

So we’ve known since at least 1932 that horror comedies don’t work? And yet nearly 80 years later people still keep making them. This thing combines the talents of Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton and James Whale, so if any horror comedy ever had a chance this should be it. And yet it sucks. A handful of twits seeking shelter from a storm end up stuck in the title location with a creepy family of “eccentrics.” The jokes aren’t funny and the scary stuff isn’t scary, not even by Golden Age of Hollywood standards. The nicest thing I have to say about this is that Whale and his technicians manage to employ a few good lighting techniques. See if desperate