Bela Lugosi is top-billed here but he isn't really the star. He just plays a butler in a house where a bunch of mysterious murders are taking place. Lionel Atwill is also in here as a doctor but also not a main character. Besides fooling us with the names of these horror icons the poster also promises us a monster but what you get is more of a whodunnit mystery-type film than any kind of monster movie despite what the title promises. It does a pretty decent job creating suspense and atmosphere on what I'm assuming was a low-budget(although it was made by Universal studios so maybe I'm wrong about that) but I probably would have enjoyed this more if a guy in a gorilla suit or a giant bat showed up. The big surprise reveal at the end doesn't really make much logical sense unless you believe in the magical power of swami's or Indian mystics but at least they tried something different there. Not to be confused with THE NAVY VS. THE NIGHT MONSTERS which came out in the 60's.
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