Thursday, April 10, 2008

The Horror!? 22: The Bowery at Midnight (1942)

Bela Lugosi strikes again. In this feature Bela is a kindly psychology professor by and a soup kitchen chef and homicidal criminal mastermind by night. Sadly all weird science is relegated to his drug abusing doctor friend and not important before the very end of the movie.
The whole movie is a relatively competently made lurid pulp crime story without any real drive or outrageous ideas, which should still lead to a watchable movie, but makes this the least entertaining of the Lugosi films in the box set.
It isn't good enough to be thrilling and just not bad enough to be entertaining.

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