Definitely not a favorite.
Chaney’s character isn’t as much of an active participant as in the previous films for one. He kicks it all off, but then spends the rest of the film wallowing in self-pity.
A bit of a surpise with the reveal of an accomplice, but outside of that, a pretty well worn “mad doctor in a wax museum” story.
The Frozen Ghost
The screen's newest Inner Sanctum Mystery!
Rating
2.0 (1)
Release Date
6/1/1945Runtime
61 minsOverview
When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.
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A B-movie ghost story where guilt becomes the real haunting: a mentalist convinced he's willed a man to death spirals into paranoia while holed up in a wax museum. It's creepy, claustrophobic, and deeply concerned with the mind playing tricks on itself.
Mood
Dread-soakedMelancholicParanoidUnsettling
Themes
ObsessionMortalityIdentity
Tone
Matter-of-fact
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
Stylized genreHigh-contrast
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Suicide and self-harm
Lon Chaney Jr.
Alex Gregor, aka Gregor the Great
Evelyn Ankers
Maura Daniel
Elena Verdugo
Nina Coudreau
Martin Kosleck
Rudi
Tala Birell
Mme. Monet
Milburn Stone
George Keene
Douglass Dumbrille
Inspector Brant
Arthur Hohl
The Drunk in the Audience
Dennis Moore
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Leyland Hodgson
Doctor in audience (uncredited)
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