“I’m a big James Whale fan, and this might be his best picture.”
—Joe Dante

“THE OLD DARK HOUSE became a Hollywood prototype with its tale of unsuspecting travelers trapped in a house full of maniacs. What gives the film real power, however, is one’s growing sense of the house not as a building but as a psyche and of the individual characters as its emotional components.”
—Chicago Reader

James Whale’s immortal horror comedy is a model of camp humor. A roving band of young partiers waits out a rainstorm in the titular mansion where the occupants are too strange to believe. With Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, Melvyn Douglas, and the unforgettable Ernest Thesiger. “Have a potato.”