Spooktober movie 5 with this gem.
Golden Age Hooptober challenge movie 16 for decades 1950s and country: Canada. 

Growing up in the 80s I have seen bits and pieces of some horror movies (there were no pg-13 nonsense ratings back then), like the 1986 remake with Jeff Goldbum and Geena Davis. I remember loving those two together with the very few scenes I saw of that movie. I’ve also seen countless spoofs for the original’s infamous “Help me!” scene… The Simpson’s Tree House Horror version is my favorite. In fact I just watched that episode last week so watching the original is a must.

The beginning of this is Hitchcock-like with the murder of the scientist by his wife. Vincent Price for once isn’t that mad scientist or villain like I’ve always seen him in, so when I saw him with that bright red robe I was surprised. I was sure he’d help his sister-in-law cover up his brother’s murder. Nope. He’s the perfect gentleman here and he tries so hard to understand why his sister-in-law killed his brother. And no, he didn’t want vengeance. He was again the perfect sweet gentleman and believes she’s innocent. In fact she “wouldn't harm anything... not even a fly.”

Speaking of hurting things… I have a movie list for They Killed the Dog in This One. I don’t have one for cats so I’m just adding adorable cat, Dandelo, to the list. Her death really gives the audience a punch in the gut as a reminder that doing science experiments on animals is wrong. At least her meows will haunt Andre’s science lab.

Also I loved loved loved the scene with the fly trapped in the spider’s web. They could’ve ended the movie with that but of course this is the 1950s and though this movie was trying to show how things will inevitably change (Vincent Price asking if his brother’s invented the Flat Screen TVs ♥️) … after all that the movie ends it not on that beautiful spider vs the Flyman scene, but with a sort of warning that seeking for the “truth” is dangerous. Luckily it falls on death ears because the scientist’s son wants to search for this “truth” too.