The Cat and the Canary (1939)

There's a creepy swamp mansion, screeching cat jump scare, the reading of a family will, creaky wooden floors, a valuable missing necklace, an escaped maniac killer at large, hidden passageways, and naturally...murder!  I love Louisiana bayou set spooky old dark house…

Ian West

“I suggest we all sleep together.” Kinda funny and kinda unsophisticated as well.

Allison M. 🌱

The perfect little whodunit for a rainy afternoon, spiced with horror elements and two ravishing leads playing the detective who are stranded in a spooky house for the night with a couple of other people and a killer lurking around... Sharing a striking resemblance with…

Lara Pop

“Do you believe in reincarnation?” You know that dead people come back.” “You mean like the Republicans?” Bob Hope has quite a few zingers in this film that had me cackling. And come to think of it, this might be my first Bob Hope film. Essentially playing out as a murder…

Jesse

A very entertaining remake of the 1927 film. Paramount, which didn't have a big footprint with horror films, cast Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard as the leads, and their winning chemistry makes the hoary old chestnut quite fun. The horror-adjacent story was originally…

julianblair

When I was young, Bob Hope seemed like the epitome of a square old comedian. It’s not surprising. He was old as hell, and I was watching Robocop and Eddie Murphy films. Tonight, I finally watched my first Bob Hope film, and hey! He was a lot younger in 1939. He was also a…

DallasFrance

The number of times I audibly laugh out loud during this movie every time is maybe a little concerning, especially considering I did an actual knee slap today, but what can I say? It’s such good fun.

Bre

I remember really enjoying the 1927 version since I'm a huge fan of silent films, and while it was on the shorter side, I still found it pretty decent overall. It built a good atmosphere with a great mansion setting, and the performances were solid as well.

✯ Miloš⑬ 💀↯ 🎃

Before he was an elderly husk reading cue-cards on a golf corse, Bob Hope was a funny-ish everyman. And decades before he entertained the troops by leering creepily at, I dunno, Racquel Welch and saying "This is what yer fightin for, boys," he exchanged amusing patter and…

Will Sloan