tadpole-596-918256 Review of The Night Holds Terror

The Night Holds Terror (1955)

This film explores the foibles of the weaker sex . . .

[6/10 · 20 March 2021]

. . . many if not most members of which will go miles out of their way for a chance to fall prey to Stockholm Syndrome. A couple Swedish psychologists won the Nobel Prize for Medicine when they discovered that women go Ga-Ga for Bad Boys, the viler the better. As his wife Doris slow-dances with one of the three Swedish thugs threatening to kill their pair of urchins, husband Gene realizes that with a spouse like Doris a guy has a built-in enemy. Just as that ancient Greek playwright documented that many moms are eager to bake tyke pie for the right bad man, Doris seems to be more worried about coming up with the perfect crust than in displaying any true sign of maternal feelings throughout THE NIGHT HOLDS TERROR.