Take care how you rate this one: it will throw all your judgments back in your face in the last reel. An American author (Desi Arnaz Jr) is sent to an isolated Welsh manor by his publisher (Richard Todd) to win a bet that he can write a book in 24 hours. The manor is alive with mystery, not to mention two caretakers (cadaverous John Carradine and glaze-eyed Sheila Keith), Vincent Price in a red bow-tie, Christopher Lee looking bad-tempered and Peter Cushing posturing madly. But remember, nothing in this old ghouls' reunion is what it seems, not even the story or the history behind the story. At the end two 'normal' twists are followed by two 'super-normal' twists and even a twist tailpiece, which is something of an anti-climax since by this time we're conditioned to expect anything. Writer Michael Armstrong must have sat up for months thinking it all out and deserves credit for the plot if not most of the dialogue, only some of which is intentionally funny. 'Ah, piano wire,' muses Price, inspecting the throttled body of Ms Keith. 'He must have heard her sing.' We, too, have heard her sing...

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