Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

BA_Harrison Bela Lugosi meets the East Side Kids in this terribly dated 'poverty row' horror comedy from Monogram Pictures. Lugosi plays the mysterious Nardo (Bela Lugosi), who travels to a creepy abandoned house with his dwarf assistant Luigi (Angelo Rossitto); also turning up at the run-down building are the 'kids', led by obnoxious delinquent Muggs (Leo Gorcey), who arrive looking for help after Peewee (David Gorcey) is wounded by a trigger-happy cemetery caretaker. When the kids meet Nardo, they mistakenly believe him to be the escaped maniac that has been terrorising the area, and try to escape, but anyone familiar with this type of film will realise the true identity of the killer within seconds of his appearance.With dreadfully weak comedy (including several racist gags at the expense of Scruno, played by Sunshine Sammy Morrison), some seemingly supernatural shenanigans easily explained away at the end of the film, a fair bit of lousy day-for-night photography, and lots—and I do mean LOTS—of aimless wandering around the house (which is replete with hidden passageways), Spooks Gone Wild is tedious entertainment from start to finish. The plot (what there is) is clunkier than an old suit of armour, the gags are creakier than a secret doorway, and the direction is as lifeless as the skeleton hanging in one of the rooms. One for Lugosi completists only (or fans of The East Side Kids, if any exist)!

Leofwine_draca As another reviewer has noted, SPOOKS RUN WILD is a film which perfectly captures the spirit of Halloween, American-style: that is, a night in which kids can be scared by dressed-up ghouls and ghosts and the macabre is celebrated. This film's one in the long-running series of East End Kids movies, in which a group of overage twentysomethings play a gang of feral youths who are always getting into trouble with both the law and various criminals.This time around, things take a decidedly macabre turn with the police hunt for a serial killer, played to the hilt by a cameoing Bela Lugosi. All of the kids and Lugosi himself end up in a creepy old mansion, where lots of jokes and ghoulish gags arise. Lugosi doesn't have much screen time but is fun when he does show up, and there's a nice role for Angelo Rossitto (FREAKS) as his henchman.Other than Lugosi, this film is pretty good for being a programmer from poverty-row studio Monogram Pictures. The cast are lively and give dedicated performances and the jokes come thick and fast. Yes, this is dated, but in a fun way, and I still prefer it to 90% of modern American comedy. Sunshine Sammy Morrison, playing the token black comic relief guy (a character trope that turns out to have existed since forever) steals the show with his likable, scaredy-cat humour.

sol (Some Spoilers) The East Side kids are at it again this time out of their element, Manhattan's lower East Side, and in unfamiliar territory a haunted house in upstate New York. Trying to get the boys to straighten themselves out PAL lawyer Jeff Dixon, Dave O'Brien, has them enrolled in a camp for the summer to learn the finer things in life like sunshine fresh air and unharmonized milk.Lead by their fearless and though talking leader Muggs, Leo Grocey, the East Side Kids skip camp and end up being locked up in this creepy and electricity deprived haunted house. It's there where their hounded by this "Monster Killer" who's terrorizing the local population with three murders already under his belt. Muggs together with Danny, Bobby Jordan, and Skimpy, Hurtz Hall, at first try to help fellow gang member Peewee, David Grocey, who was shot, by a night watchman, as he walked through the cemetery near the haunted house. Joined by both Scruno and Skinny, Ernest Morrison & Donald Hines, Muggs tries to get the badly injured Peewee help only to run into the master of the house the mysterious Nardo, Bela Lugosi, and his two foot eleven inch assistant Luigi, Angelo Russitto.****SPOILERS**** Were ,and the East Side Kids, are kept in the dark to who this "Monster Killer" really is until the very end of the movie when, it becomes obvious to everyone watching, his secret identity is finally revealed. The movie itself,in order to keep he cost down, is so lax in the lighting department that most of the time you can't make out what's happening in it! All this just about cancels out the slap stick action scenes in the movie that the zany East Side Kids are noted for. The great Bela Lugosi, as Nordo, is about the only reason to watch "Spook's Run Wild" in that like in all the bargain basement films that he was in, during the last fifteen years of his life, Lugosi raise the grad Z-movie up a few notches. It's to his credit that Lugosie doesn't, like everyone else in the movie, takes himself seriously. This has him comes across more of a comedian in making fun of himself then the villain you would have expected Bela Lugosi to be in the film. As for Lugosi, or Nordo's, sidekick Luigi he's so small and hard t follow, in the dark, that at times he looks like a talking, and moving, head without a body attached to it! There's also Dave O'Brien, as Jeff Dixon, who's reunited in the movie with his wife Dorothy Short who plays nurse Linda Mason. The two are best remembered as the ill fated and tragic young couple in that timeless 1938 anti-pot/marijuana classic "Reefer Madness". There's also in the soundtrack of "Spooks Run Wild" the theme song, or instrumental arrangement , of Lugosi's 1940 mad scientist and horror classic "The Devil Bat" where he played a deranged and vindictive perfume and mens cologne annalist.

wdbasinger Being a fan of old "B" moves from the 1930s and 1940s, this is a real gem from one of the so-called Poverty Row studios, in this case, Monogram Studios. Some of these so-called Poverty Row films have a charm all their own. I am a fan of both Bela Lugosi on one hand and The East Side Kids on the other. The East Side Kids started off as a group called the Dead End Kids from Warner Studios and I prefer their films that they made for Monogram. Other good movies of the series are "Ghosts on the Loose" (also with Bela Lugosi as well as a young actress named Ava Gardner), "Bowery Blitzkrieg", and "Mr. Wise Guy".Anyway, "Spooks Run Wild" is the best of the lot with fine old fashioned atmosphere (great cemetery scenes and a creepy old house), great wisecracks, and hold-on-to-your-seat suspense with a misanthropic villain called the "Monster Killer".Great film for Holloween.Dan Basinger