Monster and the Girl (1940)

Enjoyable, low budget thrills. Standard story retold entertainingly. Lacking major star such as Karloff to lift it and George Zucco is good but should have had more of a role. However the "wronged man executed takes revenge from beyond the grave" scernario provides ghoulist relish in this "The Walking Dead" retread. The gangsters who are murdered one by one are particularly good with a chilling menance and the required cowardliness to help us despise them that little bit more. Mixing in George Zucco and his "brain transfer to an ape" generic story line provides weirdness that makes the film somewhat endearingly lunatic. While paced fairly slowly the dialogue isn't bad and overall it's a charming little shocker of the time. 8/10.

Special Thanks to Mark Coyle for this Movie Review.