CreepingBride wrote:
Lee seems to think that all he needs to keep all the balls in the air is to use Richard's dollhouse as exposition, which is silly: does such a brilliantly sinister master manipulator like Richard need a dollhouse to keep track of his machinations? No, of course not, it's for the audience's sake, and it fails. I'm surprised he didn't try that B-movie narrative crutch of a newspaper front-page montage.

I got my Karloff Collection in the mail today and am already glad that it only cost me 13 dollars.

I had the same thought about the newspaper headlines and also the additional one of a towne crier calling out that it's six o'clock and all is not well, Richard has voted one more off the island.

Starts out well enough, but Rowland V. Lee did better work for Edward Small than he did on this one. I don't mind the music tracks moving around through various Universal horror films, but this one needed its own score, the recycling only reminded me of just how little of a thrill or excitement quotient this one had. It worked better on The Early Show when I was a teen and it was shortened of 20 minutes.