A home for the blind in London is the setting for this German thriller written by Edgar Wallace (and filmed in the late 1930's starring Bela Lugosi), and the murders are pretty brutal. Men fall down elevator shafts or fly out of windows, and the use of fire and boiling water are other potential sources of torture before death. The mystery of who the killer is and why they are committing these crimes is as predictable as the fate of those who fly out windows and down elevator shafts, but where this succeeds is in its photography, looking like a much older film but with less subtlety than what would have been done back then This is a violent and chilling film, and for us non-readers of subtitles, dubbed nicely into English. There's also a bit of macabre humor for nefarious laughs and that adds to the entertainment value.
Review of Dead Eyes of London
