Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 06/04/2002
Run Time: 65 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Alpha Video
In their first of two
Monogram spook
comedies,
the East Side Kids and
Bela Lugosi square off in yet another haunted house. On their way to summer camp, the malapropism dependant
East Siders are warned of a "monster killer" loose in the area, and, sure enough, almost immediately encounter
Nardo (
Lugosi) and his weird little helper
Luigi (
Angelo Rossitto).
Nardo does very little to repudiate
the Kids' impression of him as a vampire (
the Kids say "vulture" lest
Monogram should get in trouble with
Universal, who held the rights to
Dracula), but is he really the monster killer? Perhaps
Doctor Von Grosch (
Dennis Moore) knows, the famed mystery writer and "monster hunter" having arrived like clockwork at the creepy
Billings mansion with camp nurse
Linda Mason (
Dorothy Short) in tow. Although
Peewee (
David Gorcey) is at one point feared to have become the victim of the "vulture," the smart aleck turns up safe and sound, and
Muggs (
Leo Gorcey) and
the Kids decide to trap the killer. And so they do, ably assisted by young attorney
Jeff Dixon (
Dave O'Brien), who, for reasons not immediately clear, has a vested interest in the well being of
the East Side Kids.
O'Brien and leading lady
Dorothy Short were married in real life.
~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
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