Spooks Run Wild (1941)

Directed by

Phil Rosen

Genre

comedy horror

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 05m

Rated

B

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of kids at a summer camp hear rumors of a monster killer in the area. They become suspicious of a strange man living in an old abandoned house nearby.

lightheartedspookycomediccampyplayfulnostalgicmysteriouszany

What happens

Spooks Run Wild is a 1941 American horror comedy film and the seventh film in the East Side Kids series. It stars Bela Lugosi with Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan and Huntz Hall. It is directed by Phil Rosen, in his first and only outing in the series, and produced by Sam Katzman (under the company name Banner Pictures). The original script is by Carl Foreman and Charles R. Marion. In the film, the members of a club are vacationing in a summer camp. The area is reputed to have its own "monster killer", and suspicions fall on a strange man who has taken residence in a long-abandoned house. The film was intended to combine the most popular stars of Monogram Pictures, Lugosi and the East Side Kids. The film was released shortly before Halloween. The film marked the last film appearance of Donald Haines, who died in the Battle of Kasserine Pass (1943). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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