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Playwright Prescott Ames (John Miljan), his possible producer Wood
(Richard Carle) and Wood's secretary Erskine (Johnny Arthur) find
themselves stranded in a mansion in the middle of nowhere after their car
broke down in a storm, in a house populated by all sorts of sinister
characters who all accuse each other of murder ... and then the light goes
out and the resident psychic, borderline mad Beatrice (Eve Southern)
disappears into thin air. This is enough to scare Wood and Erskine
shitless, and they make a hasty escape to their room (apparently their
host had provided rooms for them despite not knowing that they're coming). With
Wood and Erskine out of the picture, it is revealed that everything was
just a(n interactive) play set up by Ames, and all the sinister characters
just actors hired by him. But then they find Beatrice has been killed for
real, and what's worse, her body soon disappears. So the play has turned
into reality, but now it's impossible to convince Wood and Erskine, who
have since found out that the others were staging a play, that it's not a
play anymore. Soon, everyathing you would expect to happen happens: a
guard (Spencer Charters) from a nearby asylum stops by to look for one of
his escaped loonies, people start disappearing one by one, Ames and
company find a busload of hidden passageways, and finally they find
everybody who has disappeared - including Beatrice, who has mysteriously
come back to life - in the hands of the madman, who is no other than the
asylum's guard himself, a guy who thinks he's a brilliant plastic surgeon.
Thank God two real guards from the same asylum stop by to get him back,
and in the end, Ames even manages to sell his play to Wood despite
everything. The Ghost Walks starts out as a clichéed old
dark house-style murder mystery, only to then reveal it ina fun
plottwist as a staged event, a play-within-a-play pretty much. That
doesn't stop the rest of the film from stilly be full of old dark house
clichées, which kind of derives the play-within-a-play plotwist of much
of its ingenuity. That said though, for a low budget old dark house flick,
this one's pretty decent, nothing great maybe but entertaining throughout.
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