Lionel Atwill is drafted in to liven up this mediocre low budget "old dark house" style murder mystery. With Gloria Stuart playing the elligable, beautiful girl desired by all the males around her. The "blue room", the supposed scene of strange disappearances many years before, now the pattern seems to be repeated. The most keen on Gloria Stuart dares to stay over night in the room and disappears, soon there is murder! An intriguing premise is wasted in this film, Lionel Atwill is given little to do but look moody and direct the proceedings. When you think only the year before he was doing DR X, MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM and MURDERS AT THE ZOO, he must really of upset somebody important in his moe to Universal. Gloria Stuart says he was very self obsorbed and distant.
The film is obviously an insert job using previously shot footage, probably German and then weaving the events into it through judicious editing. This gives the film fragmented feeling however some of the FRANKENSTEIN sets are reused for the house. However this does little to compensate for the stilted dialogue and ultimately while the murder is a surprise, the film does not really add up to much and it doesn't have the atmosphere needed. 4/10.
Special Thanks to Mark Coyle for this Movie Review.