jcaraway3 Review of The Phantom Creeps

The Phantom Creeps (1939)

These people get in A lot of car crashes

[5/10 · 15 November 2009]

And a lot of plane crashes too, for that matter. I watched this entire four hour serial (not in one sitting, as I have a bit more of a life than that)and I must say, despite it's epic film length, it really wasn't all that good. Lugosi was fun, but quite frankly, I was getting sick of the same old chapter endings where our heroes look like they're going to die, but survive in the next chapter. I guess audiences in the 1930's either never got tired of this, or were too stupid to catch on that the character NEVER DIES. Maybe both. Maybe they knew they would never die, and just wanted to see how they would escape. By the sixth chapter or so, it seems like the filmmakers ran out of ideas and just did the same scenes over and over again, until about the last chapter, when Lugosi starts blowing things up. This review is lamer than the movie. I need to stop writing these so early.