Orson Welles played around with Shakespeare's Scottish play to such an extent that it must have had The Bard spinning furiously in his grave. This version was shot in a mere 23 days with papier mâché rocks and sets so cardboard it's small wonder that the scenery-chewing antics of the cast didn't destroy them. Welles adopts similar oblique camera angles as in his masterful Citizen Kane, but here they are sometimes more of a distraction than anything else. For all that, though, the visuals do have a certain weird fascination, and the film has some breathtakingly effective moments and a suitably haunted Macbeth in Welles himself.

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