Thursday 20 October 2011

Night Monster (House of Mystery) 1942

 In this B-picture horror, Nils Asther plays Agor Singh, a mystic who is summoned along with other specialists to the creepy mansion of a rich paraplegic. Also present are Bela Lugosi (the stiff butler) Lief Erikson (an over-sexed chauffeur) Irene Hervey (a psychologist) and Lionel Atwill (as a sleazy doctor).

Police are investigating a series of murders in the neighbouring countryside, and the scares, shadows and sudden deaths soon begin to pile up inside the old house.

The suave mystic explains his methods:
“A little knowledge of the occult is dangerous. Unless it’s used for good, disaster will follow its way, that is cosmic law.”  
Agor Singh (Asther) summons a skeleton 
using his amazing power of 'cosmic substance control'

Watch Agor Singh (Nils Asther) demonstrating his powers in this clip

Bela Lugosi, Lief Erikson, Nils Asther, Irene Hervey, Don Porter,
Ralph Morgan in wheelchair

Trailer for Night Monster, 1942

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