A quick glimpse at the cast for this film would make any horror fan giddy with glee. The actual movie doesn't live up to those high expectations, but it's far from being all bad. Desi Arnaz Jr. (!) plays an author who makes a crazy $20,000 bet with his publisher that he could write a great novel in only 24 hours. To do so, the publisher gives him the keys to an old abandoned house where he won't be disturbed. Not true. Once he gets there he is interrupted by a multitude of guests including a family which consists of John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. They are gathered there in a twisted family reunion to release their brother from the room he's been imprisoned in for forty years. Even Christopher Lee drops by as Corrigan, the man who has just purchased the house. Soon, they realize that the caged brother is loose and out for revenge. What a great plotline and what a dream cast! This movie should have been a hell of a lot better. It's hard to pinpoint the exact problems with the film, but I would venture to say that the lack of lighting was a major fault. Sure the house has no electricity but I think they took the title of the movie a little too literally. Scenes after scenes are barely visible and the actors' faces are undecipherable. Only the moments in the main dinning hall are well lit. Also, the great actors are given very little to do. Cushing gets a few chuckles as the scared brother but Price, Lee and especially Carradine are somewhat wasted here. Well, at least Price gets the best line of the film: `Please don't interrupt me while I am soliloquizing.' And on the plus side, the story has enough twists and turns throughout to keep one`s interest and the ending, while a bit of a cop-out, manages to surprise.
家庭美满、事业有成、有娇妻有女儿的前杀手男主因为女儿的死亡，重返杀戮之路，寻求复仇与正义，最后却陷入了自我执迷和偏执的毁灭之路。一把苏制托卡列夫手枪到底隐藏着什么玄机？看凯奇大叔如何演绎前黑帮分子与柔情老爸的双重纠结身份。
腐败警察罗梅乌 (Romeu) 雇佣了希德 (Cid) 和亚历克斯 (Alex) 去抓捕一名臭名昭著的罪犯，该罪犯离开墨西哥，前往西班牙加利西亚寻找杀害其兄弟的凶手，而一名联邦调查局特工也在试图抓捕同一名罪犯。
一位中国公主被谋杀了——就在陈查理的家里！罗兰·温特斯首次饰演陈查理，这部悬疑片的背景包括旧金山的唐人街。主演有维克多·森·杨和曼坦·莫兰。
