This is Vincent Price doing what he does best, getting macabre revenge on people who have wronged him. The movie starts with Price as an illusion designer who wants to be on the stage, only to be frustrated by his partner invoking his contract. The same partner who stole his wife years before. By the time he gets killed, you are kind of cheering for Price.
Price proceeds to eliminate other cast members, including the aforementioned ex-wife and his professional rival, before a police officer realizes all these people have the same fingerprints. Meanwhile a mystery writer meddles in the case, all bringing it down to a thrilling conclusion in the workshop of the Mad Magician.
Special shout out to Green Acres Eva Gabor as the unfaithful wife.
If this movie was made today, they'd replace the complex characterizations with a lot of CGI Splatter.
Price proceeds to eliminate other cast members, including the aforementioned ex-wife and his professional rival, before a police officer realizes all these people have the same fingerprints. Meanwhile a mystery writer meddles in the case, all bringing it down to a thrilling conclusion in the workshop of the Mad Magician.
Special shout out to Green Acres Eva Gabor as the unfaithful wife.
If this movie was made today, they'd replace the complex characterizations with a lot of CGI Splatter.