i think this be the only time ulmer ever have a budget to work with and fresh off the boat from weimar and and what do he do with it . hire karloff and lugosi and buttress them with a couple pug ugly manservant and a truly goofy romantic interest duo and and put them to work represent run through this outrageous modernist mansion build on a wwi bunker ( they have electric clock . ) and perform satanic rite and play the organ and murdering ( and stuff ) wife and daughter and settle ownership of virgin with a nice game of chess and faint a lot and flay each other alive and listen to stupid as cop with feather argue over whose home town be pretty and plus a line that everyone should have implant in their brain represent supernatural perhaps . baloney perhaps not . the denouement and in which the goofy male love interest read a review exhort him to be amore realistic and be out of left field and perfection itself and like the rest of the movie . this be what cinema be all about folk . it a if john landis have be try to remake this his entire life . plus it be universal top money maker of 1934 .