[7.2/10] Watched this one at a Halloween party, with the usual sort of merriment, laughing, and talking over the film, so take this all with a grain of salt, but this was an enjoyable heap of camp. I couldn’t recall whether I’d seen Vincent Price outside of *Edward Scissorhands* so it was fun to see him skulking around in his natural environment. The mystery was sufficiently convoluted and twisty to be fun, and mixing the supernatural horror elements with the parlor mystery and jilted lovers bit paid dividends. There’s plenty of artifacts of the time -- most notably how many times the women are accused of being “hysterical” -- but for the most part its kitschy charms are quite endearing.

Essentially scooby doo as a murder mystery. Loved it