Decent whodunnit mystery suspense following a small town doctor looking for his six-year-old daughter who’s been kidnapped and buried alive. He is given just five hours to find and rescue her. William Castle's horror films that I've seen so far are more on the goofy side so I assume that's just his style. But the plot in this film is way way darker than expected and less goofy. I enjoyed it for the most parts. It's tense to the very end, some spooky foggy graveyard scenes, and some Castle twists along the way as expected. Long flashbacks and the way they're placed make it a bit confusing but it's fairly fast-paced with a good shock and neat animation in the end.
Review by O7HabitsBlockedParent2021-11-07T10:41:08Z
This movie is a wreck if you dissect it, but it is also what makes it slightly more enjoyable. The problem is I don’t believe that was the intent. After the nurse faints from hearing a voice telling her something on the phone (the main plot of the movie), she takes what seems like 15 minutes of overacting and being cajoled to let us know exactly what was said to her during her 20 second phone call…I was cringing during this whole exchange. Later on there were flashback sequences that were much, much longer than most movie flashbacks and they showed things that the person having the flashback wouldn’t have been involved in, which I found funny (although I may have misinterpreted this, as I had some real life goings on outside my house that drew my attention away a couple of times while watching this and I didn’t care to watch it again). This was one of those movies that at every turn you will find yourselves thinking that no real person would react or act the way the characters did in almost every situation presented to them and this movie is probably worth the watch for that reason alone. This one will leave you scratching your head at times, not in a trying to figure it out way, but more in a that really just happened and I bore witness to it sort of way.