Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

jacobjohntaylor1 If you what scary movie see this movie. This movie has a great story line and great acting. If you thought A Night on elm street was scary. It you will be scared out of your mind. This one of scariest movies you will see. Almost has scary the original Friday the 13th from 1980. If you like horror stories see this movie.

Wolfbrother1983 It's an old dark house tale crossed with a old style whudunnit. It's based on "The Door With Seven Locks" by Edgar Wallace. It's title in the UK was "The Door With Seven Locks". The alternate title was by Monogram Pictures for a U.S. release.When a wealthy lord dies, his last wishes include locking his treasure behind a door with seven locks. Greed, plotting & murder develop in a pursuit for the keys and the truth behind the locked tomb.Lilli Palmer played the leading lady. She looks marvelous in this film. The male co-lead is a detective type (and her love interest).There is also an irritable cop, partially used for comic relief. The leading ladies friend is similarly used.If you like old dark house type films, and old films in general, it's a solid watch.

artpf A murder is found to be connected to a false heir and a secret underground torture chamber.So many of these movies were made in the 30s and early 40s.Prior to the Film noir of the next decade.Some are better than others. This one is a bit above the average.There's a funny scene with the girl in the bath and when she gets out, another woman wraps her in a plaid towel. When she pulls it around her you can see she' wearing bloomers.The sets are opulent as was the case back then and there's lots of fun intrigue.Give it a shot on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Grant Hurlock Chamber of Horrors is a delightfully clever, stylishly-shot and wittily-written mystery-thriller, shot through with touches of comedy, based on an Edgar Wallace novel from 1926 called The Door with Seven Locks (which I can't but think was at least influenced by Earl Derr Bigger's equally wonderful and oft-filmed 1913 novel Seven Keys to Baldpate). It's also a great variation on a classic theme of an heiress arriving at a mansion to find out about a legacy. In this it's reminiscent of the oft-filmed Cat and the Canary or the Jessie Matthews vehicle Candles at Nine.Lilli Palmer is plucky yet vulnerable as June, the heroine from Québec, who spun a coin at age 15 to decide on a life of adventure versus one of domesticity – and adventure won. An actress named Gina Malo plays Glenda, her wisecracking, husband-hunting sidekick from Ontario who keeps the atmosphere lively with a rich stock of risqué remarks, such as this bit, delivered nude from a bathtub, when June shows her one of the keys to the door with seven locks that she has received in the mail: "There's nothing unusual about a guy sending you his latchkey. Did he say he wants you to come up and see his etchings?… I'm an old etching viewer myself, and I know all the tricks. He'll be wearing George Raft pajamas, and the etchings will be in the bedroom."The script for Chamber of Horrors is by a writer named John Argyle, so maybe he deserves credit for this delightful duo of June and Glenda. At any rate, it's quite reminiscent of another pairing he wrote a couple of years later in the Gothic mystery Terror House, a.k.a. The Night Has Eyes, with Joyce Howard and Tucker McGuire teamed as the beautiful heroine and her man-mad friend. Curiously, another thing Chamber of Horrors shares with Terror House is the presence of monkeys as pets: in Terror House villain Wilfrid Lawson carries around a pet capuchin named Cain (as a symbolic marker of his criminality); whereas in Chamber of Horrors evil physician Leslie Banks goes about with his pet monkey Beppo on his back, which could possibly be taken to indicate that the not-so-good doctor has been dipping into the drugs.Banks plays a descendant of Spanish inquisitor Torquemada, collecting as a hobby authentic implements of torture which he displays in the titular chamber of horrors. Thus is Banks able to draw upon the vein of sadism he tapped so well way back when in The Most Dangerous Game. In Chamber of Horrors, he even sports as butler a hulking henchman who is a mute as a result of having lost his tongue due to "rebel atrocities," much like henchman Ivan in the earlier film.It's interesting to remember that this movie was made in Britain in 1940 under the extreme exigencies of World War II. I was reminded of this by several scenes involving actress Lilli Palmer, who appeared to have great sorrowful pouches under her eyes, that came and went in a manner uncoordinated with the action on the screen and which makeup couldn't efface. What the cast and crew went through in order to tell stories that would provide entertainment and escapism to the war-stressed nation would make an interesting movie in its own right.