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<p dir="auto"><strong>jsrrtzjr10</strong> — <em>15 years ago(January 29, 2011 03:16 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Kind of like it but I can't take this movie seriously. The acting, the bad gothic scenes and the dialogues make me wonder if this is some "horror" movie, but I tend to see it too hilarious and ridiculous. At least it is known that Vincent Price did have a sense of humor [and was a close friend of such comedians like Groucho Marx, Moe of the Three Stooges, Lou Costello and Bob Hope], and wondering if he was trying to "play a trick" with the viewers. And those two hilarious old ladies [Agnes Moorehead was one], with their silly dialogues was also laughable. Sorry but this movie is strictly for laugh. Like the more hilarious "House on Haunted Hill" [and that was a real riot of "comedy" than "horror"]. Nice to watch for fun only.<br />
P.S.: Nice to see a grown up Darla Hood in the movie. And she really look good as an adult. Too bad her old pals of Spanky, Alfalfa and Buckwheat were not invited.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/topic/178155/more-comedy-than-horror</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 03:02:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://filmglance.com/discuss/topic/178155.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:02 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:21 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>jsrrtzjr10</strong> — <em>14 years ago(May 27, 2011 11:23 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks. But I loved seeing a young adult Darla Hood. Too bad she didn't made more acting jobs as an adult.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I agree - I think this is what is called "light entertainment".<br />
Ms Moorhead, most especially, and Mr Price, were quite obviously doing this for laughs.  Very funny - Moorhead does an early impresssion of Endora in this movie - just more toned down and much less camp - but like the embryo of Endora!</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494575</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494575</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:19 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>jsrrtzjr10</strong> — <em>15 years ago(February 14, 2011 08:01 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Funny how many idiots take this stupid movie so "seriously". HA!</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494574</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494574</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:18 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>novastar_6</strong> — <em>15 years ago(February 13, 2011 08:03 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">You're just a miserable excuse for a troll.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494573</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494573</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:17 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>jsrrtzjr10</strong> — <em>15 years ago(February 12, 2011 08:00 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Suffering from psychological projectionyou! Anyway I could say the same about you.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494572</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494572</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:16 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>novastar_6</strong> — <em>15 years ago(February 10, 2011 06:51 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Nothing is obvious, talking to you practically requires a decoder ring to make heads or tails of what you say.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494571</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494571</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:15 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>jsrrtzjr10</strong> — <em>15 years ago(February 10, 2011 06:43 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Obviously?</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494570</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494570</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:14 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>novastar_6</strong> — <em>15 years ago(February 07, 2011 08:27 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Sure, there are tons of those movies, but how many of them involve a killer who rips open his victims' throats? For the 50s I'm willing to bet that was a very radical idea, not one they used often if at all. It's certainly NOT how the victims were killed in the first 2 movies.<br />
And that translates into what you wrote, how?</p>
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<p dir="auto">You wrote six days ago how much you like seeing people having their throats cut in the movies. Look for it!</p>
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<p dir="auto">Oh please do point out where I said that.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494567</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494567</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:11 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>jsrrtzjr10</strong> — <em>15 years ago(February 05, 2011 08:48 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">You like sadistic violence in movies I see. Especially against women.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494566</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494566</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:10 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>novastar_6</strong> — <em>15 years ago(February 04, 2011 08:20 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">What's your point?</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494565</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494565</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:09 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>jsrrtzjr10</strong> — <em>15 years ago(February 04, 2011 07:08 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Don't you have a dictionary?</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494564</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494564</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:08 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>novastar_6</strong> — <em>15 years ago(February 03, 2011 11:57 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">What?</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494563</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494563</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:07 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>jsrrtzjr10</strong> — <em>15 years ago(February 03, 2011 11:49 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Are you that sadistic?</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494562</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494562</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:06 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>novastar_6</strong> — <em>15 years ago(February 01, 2011 07:01 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Sure, there are tons of those movies, but how many of them involve a killer who rips open his victims' throats? For the 50s I'm willing to bet that was a very radical idea, not one they used often if at all. It's certainly NOT  how the victims were killed in the first 2 movies.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Nobody will enter your house if you have a nice, and vicious, rottweiler. And this is just a ridiculous movie. And we all have movies of guys entering people's homes for decades.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494560</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1494560</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to More comedy than &#x27;horror&#x27;: on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:04 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>novastar_6</strong> — <em>15 years ago(January 31, 2011 10:28 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">I don't see it that way. To me this will never be and could never be JUST another murder mystery movie, this is one that should have gone down as a classic. Granted, I saw this for the first time when I was about 2 years old and it's been a favorite of mine since, and of course everything's scarier when you're 2 years old, but I'll tell you something, of all the times a movie has given me a nightmare in my life, The Bat is the one recurring figure who still terrifies me well into adulthood. A large part of that I think is that he's not like Freddy Krueger or Jason, he's a real person, it could very well happen, he's an intelligent person who knows how to break into your house, kill you, slip out, and he'll never be caught. That's a very scary thought and a lot of times fact.<br />
Now, it's one thing that when I was six this movie terrified me to the point I wouldn't want to go to bed, but I've read reviews from other people who upon seeing it for the first time as adults, they felt a sudden urge to get up and check the windows to make sure nobody's creeping around the house. To some people this IS a very scary movie because it has that element of reality in it, that it IS possible, that it COULD happen, there ARE criminal geniuses who can get away with murder and the police never catch them.<br />
And I think for my mother this might have really hit on to when she was a little girl in the 50s and there was a serial killer going around at the time, of course today you can't find anything on it, but when she was a child there was a killer who knew which people didn't lock their doors and would come into older women's homes and kill them, and he was never caught. So that occurring in real life during the same timeline, really adds to the thought that something like this COULD Happen, which I think is why this terrified me as a kid and House on Haunted Hill did not, because I knew that nobody gets invited to a haunted house party and the guests die one by one, but people break into homes all the time and are never caught.<br />
Now, if it's comedy you're really looking into, you need to look into the two previous versions of this movie, The Bat from 1926 and The bat Whispers from 1930, both of which were directed by Roland West and while some parts of the story are the same to here, the two earlier versions are almost COMPLETELY different.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Of course I almost forgot: the actor who used to be "Alfalfa" was killed by the time this picture was made.</p>
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