Perhaps the most successful horror-farce ever made, this gleeful gallery of ghoulishness is a delight from start to finish. In the depths of a cobwebbed funeral parlour lurk two lugubrious undertakers, Waldo (Vincent Price) and his frog-like underling Felix (Peter Lorre). Waldo's chalky-white father-in-law (Boris Karloff) is also there, about 100 by the look of him, but refusing to die off and leave Price the business, in spite of the fact that the medicine bottle Price gives him has a skull and crossbones on it. To add to Price's problems, business is so bad that he and Lorre have to go out and boost trade by helping a few of the sicklier local residents to meet their maker. A black comedy rich in pace, invention and atmosphere: Price, Lorre and Basil Rathbone (as their landlord) play to the audience in glorious fashion. And Karloff's Aged Parent is the funniest thing in it.

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