Standard gothic plot of woman trapped and menaced in a haunted house. The only question here is who's the menace?
Little to nothing scary by today's standards. Connie Stevens and Dean Jones make a cute couple and most of the movie they spend being cute, falling in love and occasionally holding onto each other in terror, or what passed for it in '65.
An elegantly fiery Cesar Romero plays a psychotic magician, husband and father to his wife and daughter look-a-likes, both played by Miss Stevens. Got that? Obviously, that's what gives this particular gothic its own particular feel.
Early on in their relationship Jones propositions Stevens seductively "Let's get acquainted" to which Miss Stevens reacts with shock and outrage, until he adds impishly "with the {haunted} house." "Romance" should be added before "Mystery, Horror" under the title because the chemistry of the romance between Stevens and Jones, which takes up the vast majority of film footage here, is really the reason to watch this even today. Young Love , in the right persons, is always a pleasure to behold. That and Romero.
Little to nothing scary by today's standards. Connie Stevens and Dean Jones make a cute couple and most of the movie they spend being cute, falling in love and occasionally holding onto each other in terror, or what passed for it in '65.
An elegantly fiery Cesar Romero plays a psychotic magician, husband and father to his wife and daughter look-a-likes, both played by Miss Stevens. Got that? Obviously, that's what gives this particular gothic its own particular feel.
Early on in their relationship Jones propositions Stevens seductively "Let's get acquainted" to which Miss Stevens reacts with shock and outrage, until he adds impishly "with the {haunted} house." "Romance" should be added before "Mystery, Horror" under the title because the chemistry of the romance between Stevens and Jones, which takes up the vast majority of film footage here, is really the reason to watch this even today. Young Love , in the right persons, is always a pleasure to behold. That and Romero.