But, who am I kidding, this film has a terrifyingly machiavellian Boris Karloff, frenetic and always entertaining playing a tyrannical character, and certainly, the b-movie elegance produced by Val Lewton adds that touch of atmosphere enhanced by subtlety unified with a menacing, impenetrable darkness. The transcendent dominance of the violent tone in contrasting light and shadow transforms the beautiful artificiality of the setting in a darkly poetic portrait with a high tendency to capture continuous allegorical characteristics of the abuse of power over the defenseless, counterproductively the almost religious connotations are compacted in a narrative that tries to make the whole film work as a parable, focusing more time on the less functional, narratively speaking.
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