Waste of time

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Don't you hate those durn millennials, always sitting in their basements and doing nothing? (at least that's what the Times says, and they're right about everything!) Well, this is a movie that shows the amazing power of a basement-dwelling loser with a can-do attitude! The amazing Dr. Krasker, played by Aldo Farnese, has a machine that can talk to the dead...he hopes...after he gets it out of beta status. Can he use it to find the murderer of a low-level clothing model, or will he have to resort to cheap parlor tricks? And will the annoying Bible thumper ever shut up? Who knows? Who cares? You probably don't, for one, and even MST has trouble finding material in a movie this barren (i.e. why they had to do the infamous "Guitar solo" sketch to kill time). As agonizingly slow as a tree sloth trying to run the Boston marathon, the only entertainment to be found is one actor's wretched "German" accent and the strange looking PIE A LA MODE sign in that one restaurant.

I'm coming late to the game on this one,and I'm so disappointed. It was shown as part of the sixth season of Mystery Science 3000 which how most people have run across it. The story is that Sinister Cinema discovered the film at the Headliner offices and promptly snapped up the rights to this 1957 horror/crime drama. Bad movie lovers have been feeling the pain ever since.The plot concerns a woman living in a boarding house who is murdered. The subsequent police investigation includes a machine to talk to the dead. Everyone the woman lived and worked with are suspects.What can I say about this movie? Its hysterical. I could almost believe that the film was a joke except that there is too much evidence to suggest otherwise. It opens with a nonsensical silent sequence of a man following a woman at night., It moves on to the criminologist explaining about his invention to talk to the dead. From there we get misplaced voice over narration, dialog sequences that seem to have been randomly cut together, a woman who inexplicably disrobes as she speaks to the police, The murder victim clearly holding the arrow to her chest, differing murder weapons in different sequences, loopy dialog and some of the wildest hair on record. Its a bad movie lovers dream. I'm going to have to watch this again just to see all of the mistakes, miscues and oddball choices for myself.This is a movie to get your hands on and pick apart. I know MST3K did just that but this movie is so ripe for destruction that odds are you and your friends and loved ones will come up with infinitely better lines. This is a classic bad movie.If you want to have a good time with your friends find this movie and watch it, just go easy on the popcorn you might just choke to death when you're laughing.

I LOVE the character of Henry Krasker and after countless viewings of this odd little film I find my curiosity about the actor Aldo Farnese just keeps hanging on. He created and performed some well-loved kiddie shows in Philadelphia years after this forgotten film, and also worked as a cameraman around Philadelphia, particularly at the Spectrum (whatever that is/was!). I corresponded briefly with his son a few years back and was saddened to hear that he'd passed away in the 90s.I also was contacted by the son of the actress who played the murdered Renee in the film. That was many years ago and all he could tell me was that neither his mom nor anyone else was paid for their work on the film (the old, "You get a share of the profits" thing) and that his mom was alive and well and living in Manhattan and that she still had the producer's business card! As her son was a diamond broker as I recall, I like to think of her living in luxury somewhere in a Manhattan skyscraper.Anyone who has any other info about Aldo Farnese or this film, please contact me! Thanks!

For wanting to shelf this turkey of a film forever. Supposedly completed in 1957, this film concerns itself with an inventor that "invents" a radio that can communicate with the dead. He also invents a device to be planted with coffins that would allow anyone buried alive to let the outside world know that they were still alive. (This device was actually invented by a Russian nobleman, Count Karnicki, in 1901, although his version had a red flag pop out of the ground.) This movie has quite a number of offensive stereotypes in it: first, there are two blonde bimbos; second, there's the fundamentalist bible quote-spewing guy who thinks everyone but him is going to hell. Lastly, there's a matronly boarding house owner. These people get involved with a murder committed at the house. By the middle of the film, I really didn't care who committed the murder. The ending where they have another woman dress like the murdered woman as the inventor goes through a "seance" to contact the murder victim is just preposterous.