A quick  glimpse at =(the cast f(\or$ t%h\is film would make an/y horror fa`_n giddy wi[th ,glee. The ac*_=?tu=\ a^l mov+@%?ie doesn't live  u )#p to  th ose high
= ,\expect-$(at!i ;_ons(`, but it's far fr+
o:[#m =[be,ing all bad. \=Desi Arnaz Jr. (!) pl$a+`,ys# .$a n author who ma]ke
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a! crazy $20,000 bet wi[th h% is pu ,(?blisher that he could  w^ ,`rite a @_gre
at nov@el in only 2!4@ hours. T
;*\o do so\, the pu/b^*lisher gives him th e keys t+ o ;)an old a)[*b;? andoned ,house where*, he )#!won't be disturbed . Not `-true. Once he gets there he )`is interr?upted% -by a m+ultit
#@u/@de; of guests@ including/! a family which(_#+ co,*n:si @sts of  John Carradine, -!%Sheila ?/Keith, Peter Cu%$shing a^nd Vincent Price. They are gath \]ered
 there i#_n a twisted f[)a?$:mi?ly![\, reu nion to $ r[eleas,.)e their br@(other fro
@m t!*he ]@;room h]!`e's be:-en imp+%risoned in for forty ye*.! ars.*= Even Christopher ; Lee drops by as Corrigan^), the man *,wh(:o h!as jus/?t [[purchase#d\; the house. `[Soon/+,, they_; real/*ize that t%he ca(
ged [brother (.is loose -%:and out fo%(r re+_venge.　　What a. great %plotline a -=nd wh*%;at a dream cas#:t! # T+hi%s movie;$ should have[ \ @-b;$een a hell of a lot bette=[r?*. I!\[:t' %s ha_^*rd ++to-] pinpoint the exa+(\ct probl:[ems w$$ith the f ilm, /but I ` $would venture%
t;_
=,o say[ that th[(e lack ) #of? li \@gh@=ting - was  ;(a \major 
]fault. Sure the h**o ;$use has no electrici-ty b#ut I t!!_hin_?/:k they took the title of t.-he:)!` movi e a $little too literally. Scenes =a%+fter scenes are barely visible a\`nd the act(^ors' faces are undecipherable. Only the ( moments in the main d\innin!!_=g hall are$. ,(^wel:^l. lit. Al #_so, the great acto*_$r=s a.(+r\$=e gi$ ven very] lit/_%t/le to: do.% Cushing ^)ge
)*t[#(s a few chu,ckles ^`as th e s;cared bro*?the^
 r# but Price, Lee and^  especially Carra)\ di`?;ne(); are [=,(so!mewhat waste d \+h* ere. Well, at #;[l_$
east Pr\ ice gets the best line of the f=ilm `Please -!-don't^
interrupt me while I ?- ] am soliloquizing.' [$ And on the plus side, the stor``;y [^has eno=ugh twists and turns thr*)oughout t,o k eep o?  (n?]+e`s `_ +interest and the ending, wh)$ile a bi-t \of a c_[op-out, manages to sur+$prise.