The Climax (1944)
3/10
Unsuspenseful musical with terrible music.
11 October 2012
Warning: Spoilers
I hadn't heard of this film before, but thought it might be interesting because it starred Boris Karloff.

It wasn't. 3/10 is pretty generous.

Karloff plays some sort of doctor who doesn't like women who sing like his dead wife - I wouldn't either - and kills them.

There's about 10 seconds of moderate suspense - one brief scene - and about 30 minutes of god-awful warbling passed off as singing. We fast-forwarded over this "music" to avoid further pain. Perhaps B.K. should have tried this since it's easier than killing people who screech, er, sing, too loudly. There are some people who go to parties where the singing occurs, Boris watches from the sidelines. Oh yeah, hypnosis, too, but it didn't work. There might have been something near the end, but I fell asleep and missed it.
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