INVISIBLE GHOST (1941) * Bela Lugosi cast as a suburban patrician, who spends most of his on-camera time behaving in a casual, friendly manner. The rest of his time he spends in a state of insta-hypnotic psychopathy, which really isn't much better. My son waited hopefully for the arrival of the "invisible ghost," but it not only never showed up, but was never even there. There was no ghost, and it wasn't invisible. Instead there's a bunch of psychological mumbo-jumbo that wouldn't have confused anyone during the Stone Age, some cops who probably have to make a few sets of car keys for themselves every month, hired help that steals cakes, and a bag lady of a woman (voluntarily) held hostage in a subterranean room. Not scary, not hypnotic, not nauseating, but very sleep-inducing. If only Bela had acknowledged this and waved those long fingers and said "You are zleepy, zleepy...ant soh ham eye!"
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