Allied Artists
Directed by William Castle
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
William Castle's first horror film with a gimmick: life insurance policies were given to the audience in case they died of fright. There is some narration at the beginning and end of the film asking the audience to "watch out for their neighbor" and not to spoil the ending. The story is about a small town doctor whose young daughter is kidnapped and buried alive. With the help of his nurse and father, he desperately searches for her, mainly in the cemetery. There is a memorable midnight funeral during a thunderstorm. A couple of flashbacks drag down the middle with mundane melodrama, but it roars back to life with a plot twist ending.
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