Scared to Death - 1947

Mom found this movie and saw that it had Bela in it. We were both excited at that! On closer look, George Zucco was in it as well. He's another one of our favorites,

Laura is dead. Through a series of 1,000 flashbacks, we discover she's afraid of her husband and his father. She feels they're trying to scare her (to death!), and she just goes around all day nagging at them. Little does she realize, another force is actually responsible.

The first thing that struck me about this movie was the strange flashbacks. They went in and out with that high-pitched ethereal noise. Then it would focus on the dead woman, she'd say a sentence (I'm not kidding) and then it would ethereal back to the action. And it happened a lot. The weird thing was, it wasn't valuable information. She'd say something like, "And then they arrived," and that's it. Then you watched the people arrive...

Bela and George were cousins, and they were innocent. That's right, all the nagging Laura was doing was to the wrong people! Even her husband had nothing to do with harassing her! It was the husband she'd turned over to the Nazis during the war. She thought he was dead, and he wanted revenge. Bela knew about it, but he made the guy promise not to touch her.

I don't think this movie was that great. I was rooting for the Green Man, and I was glad when he finally got some closure. Especially after I heard what she'd done to him. The rest of the movie was just listening to her whine, seeing Green Mask man and listening to the gangster reporter. Yes, this movie has a weird reporter who just shows up and stays at the house while all this is going down.

This isn't the worst movie I've seen, but it wasn't that great, either. I'll stay on the fence with this one.