I don't know about you, but if I had the ability to build a machine that allows me to communicate with the dead, I wouldn't fucking do it. Dude, I've seen way too many horror movies, and this shit doesn't ever end well. Do you want zombies? Because this is how you get zombies (or ghosts, or pissed off dead people killing humans like in the movie "Pulse""). This movie is about a guy who invents a machine that allows people to communicate with the dead, and of course there's a twist.
This movie was made back in 1957, but was never shown anywhere theatrically, and it remained buried until it was unearthed and released on VHS in 1994. Of course, if a movie has been "earthed" in the first place, it's likely to be terrible most of the time, but I have seen a few good ones from time to time, so hope springs eternal, and the MST3K commentary will hopefully make this movie enjoyable, even if it's terrible. As I said before, this movie is about a guy who inventd a machine that allows the living to communicate with the dead. He tries to use this machine in order to help him solve a murder. He lives in a boarding house because it's close to his lab, but a bunch of other weirdos live there in the other rooms, and when one is murdered, the police suspect that another resident might be involved. The scientist brings the victim back from the dead in order to point out the killer.
The thing is, and I find this a lot with tiny, microbudget movies, the plot is a good idea but the movie sucks. It makes me kinda sad, because you can tell the movie would have been good if it hat a budget to afford some halfway decent actors. As it stands, most of the action happens offscreen and the characters preach what it all means at us. I seriously had a hard time staying awake for this, even with the snarky commentary. The MST3K crew didn't really even have anything to work with. It's not their fault, the movie is just deathly boring, and there's not much to say. What a letdown.
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