StunnaKrypto
Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
Ameriatch
One of the best films i have seen
Lucybespro
It is a performances centric movie
preppy-3
Movie takes place in a large dark eerie castle where a man (Lionel Atwill) lives with his daughter (Gloria Stuart). She's being wooed by three young men who want to marry her but she can't decide which one she wants. Twenty years before three unsolved murders happened in one room of the castle (the blue room). Since then the room has been blocked off. The three guys decide to prove their bravery--they'll each spend a night in the room. Naturally things go wrong.Often thought of as a horror film but it really isn't. It's whodunit with horrific touches. The castle is dark and spooky and the movie begins on a dark and rainy night. Also it's lots of fun. It moves quickly (it's only 66 minutes), has a good cast and an interesting mystery. Worth checking out.
binapiraeus
This is certainly one of THE classic 'old mansion murder mysteries' that were so popular in the 30s; and it can contend with most of the very best of them. A great challenge for every mystery fan who likes to guess the murderer, because the plot takes so many turns and twists that it's really hard to follow even for a 'murder expert'! The settings are excellent, following the classic scheme of the old, elegant but somehow frightening isolated country house, with solid wooden stairs, long dark corridors with knight's armors in every corner, distinguished old-fashioned furniture - and a dark room with an old DARK mystery...The cast is magnificent, headed by mystery expert Lionel Atwill, and beautiful Gloria Stuart (who had also played in "The Old Dark House" a year before) as the object of desire for no less than three young men; Edward Arnold, well-known to friends of more down-to-earth gangster movies and comedies, as the blunt detective, Paul Lukas as the suave foreign 'officer and gentleman' - even every bit part was casted just perfectly! In my opinion, an absolute 'must' for any fan of the classic mysteries of the 30s - and a good opportunity for others, who are not too familiar yet with the genre, to get to know it WELL and at its BEST!
jonfrum2000
Considering it's age, a pretty good old dark house/castle movie The acting is a bit stilted, as one would expect for the year it was made This is a locked room mystery, in which multiple people have been/are killed in the castle 'blue room' The film starts out slow with a love quadrangle (!) and a full length song, but gets going after that, The earlier mystery that the plot is based on is never explained, and leaves us wondering at the end, Paul Lukas plays with a strange Bela Lugosi accent, which i found annoying, but i got used to it eventually, Worth watching for genre fans, but it would have been better if they waited a few years to make it
Michael_Elliott
Secret of the Blue Room (1933) *** (out of 4) Forgotten Universal mystery/horror film about a haunted room that kills whomever stays the night in it. Is it a ghost or something else? I was shocked to see how well made this film was and the direction added some nice atmosphere along the way. The story is very well written with a nice mystery and a wonderful ending that certainly caught me off guard. The only weak part is some of the police investigation. Stars Lionel Atwill and Gloria Stuart. Rare but certainly worth searching for. I might even prefer this to The Old Dark House, which shared some of the same sets as this film.Remade twice by Universal.
