6/10
The Lady and the Buzz Saw
30 September 2022
Warning: Spoilers
A quickie follow-up to 'House of Wax' without the colour but with a very cool title, which like the original occasionally pauses to repeat the inevitable 3D gimmicks like the ping-pong ball aimed at the viewers' nose - only here it's a yo-yo.

Whenever one of the guests in 'Mission Impossible' wore heavy makeup you knew he was the one who was going to be impersonated by Martin Landau during the course of the episode. This film quickly establishes a still young and dashing Vincent Price is a master of disguise so when his conniving boss looks similarly made up you know that he'll soon undergo a similar substitution; after which the miscreant is disposed as Linda Darnell was in the same director's 'Hangover Square'.

During the film that follows Vincent repeats the trick with bizarre results that anticipate 'The List of Adrian Messenger'. While it may be the first film I've seen in which a character uses karate.
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