I actually was looking forward to watching Wallace Fox's Bowery at Midnight, not because it stars Bela Lugosi (I'm more of a Karloff man, myself), but because I lived in the Bowery for a year. And not only that, I lived just a few doors down from a prominent Mission. So when I heard that Bowery at Midnight was about Karloff running a criminal organization out of a Bowery Mission, I was hooked. Tragically, Bowery at Midnight is a complete failure as a movie. The cinematography is uninspired (par for the course for a Monogram Pictures production, unfortunately), the plot is diluted with too many unresolved plot threads (which was your favorite: the junkie doctor or the basement room inexplicably full of zombies?), and it wastes the talents of Lugosi. Lugosi was clearly on auto-pilot at this point in his career and it shows. The story lacks any kind of tension; scenes collide into each other with little purpose or direction. The final scene were Lugosi is murdered by the aforementioned room full of zombies should have been the most memorable moment of the film. But instead it is glazed over almost like an afterthought. I would have been more entertained starring out of my Bowery Street window for an hour than I was watching this drivel.
2/10
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