***Starring Vincent Price as Vincent Price, and Agnes Moorehead as Jessica Fletcher. In other words, awesome.
But if that's not enough to snag your interest, here's a more straightforward description--Agnes Moorehead plays a mystery author who rents a huge (spooky) mansion in the town of Xenith, which is being terrorized both by rabid bats and a serial killer known only as "The Bat". In other news, the local bank was recently deprived of $1 million, and no one knows where the money is. Vincent Price plays the creepy town doctor, who seems to know more than he is letting on . . .
Honestly, though, the one-two punch of Price and Moorehead ought to be enough to earn this film a spot on your to-watch list. It's public domain, so you can download it for free if you don't feel like tracking down a hard copy. Moorehead is a tougher, more angular amateur sleuth than Angela Lansbury--no disrespect to the erstwhile Mrs. Potts, of course. And Vincent Price does what Vincent Price does best.
Bottom line: Old school creepy fun. Even if it's not actually scary, and features the most bloodless throat slashing I've ever seen.
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