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Absolutely the worst movie.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

This one of the best horror movies ever. It is very scary. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It is very scary. It is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street. This is also scarier then Friday the 13th part V a new beginning.

It's Hitchcock at his grimmest. Just count the number of smiles. Also, the only happy person is unceremoniously killed half-way through! This is not a movie the director could have made in Hollywood—the Hayes office would never have allowed it. What with the killing of a central character, an innocent kid, plus an unpunished murder by another central character, there's no way the film could have originated stateside. Nonetheless, it's one of Hitch's most interesting since it raises a number of complex moral issues attaching to both guilt and innocence. Most saliently, should Mrs. Verloc (Sydney) be allowed to walk away from killing her husband unpunished, and if so, why?Also, there's the issue of terrorism, not dealt with by many films of the time, but which seems very topical in our own day. Apparently, the terrorist killing of the boy (Tester) has been a controversial part of the film over the years, since it's so wrenching and goes against unwritten movie-making norms. Nonetheless, I think it's an important part of the story since it calls attention to the death of innocents caused by terrorist acts, whether the bombs are planted or come from the sky. I'm glad Hitch had the gumption to include it.Anyway, it's not a movie to see if you're depressed. The lighting is dark, the mood somber, with a doleful Sydney, a sour-faced Homolka, and a conflicted Loder. Still, it's good to see so many Londoners going to the movies in those days, even if they do want their money back. In my view, it's one of Hitch's most daring movies, British or American.

There is something almost prophetic about this Hitchcock drama during the early days of the rise of Nazi power (and prior to Hitler's invasion of Europe) that makes this film all the more scarier. A group of foreign agents are involved in terrorism blackouts and bombings in London, and a young wife (Sylvia Sidney) has no idea that her movie theater owner husband (Oscar Homolka) is one of them. Sidney's lovable younger brother (Desmond Tester) lives with them and steps in to unknowingly help out Homolka which leads to tragedy. This film is both political and personal, dealing with the saboteurs (whose alliance is never revealed) and the innocents involved in the initial blackout (where Sidney must pacify a group of theater patrons demanding their money back) and the ultimate explosion that has horrifying results. Some reviewers consider the actual explosion anti-climactic; I think how the film moves up to that point and the results that come after it make the scene quite horrifying, quite stunning considering the events and horrors of the next decade because of the rise of Nazi power in Europe. Homolka gets no sympathy as the husband/Villain, but he does an amazing job showing a slight conscience if not compassion. Sidney, one of the most underrated leading ladies of the 30's (and remembered more as an old lady on screen rather than a long-suffering heroine of pre-code dramas), looks different than almost everybody on screen. She isn't quite beautiful, but she's stunningly real, and gives a very layered performance. The scene after she discovers what has happened is quite tense as she finds herself laughing as whats on the movie screen, realizes what she has to do, and fights the urge to go through with what her grief is demanding her to do. John Loder is adequate as the agent who lets her in on the truth. Tester gives a wonderful performance as the young brother we'd all love to have. I could not find the credit for the lady complaining about the canary she purchased from one of Homolka's conspirators, but the scene she appears in is very amusing. Technically, this film is very well made, and I am thrilled that some excellent prints have surfaced. The scene of London in the blackout has a sort of 3-D effect. I am assuming that the parade sequence Tester attends is the ascension of King Edward (briefly) to the throne after the death of the previous King. That would give a motivation for the saboteurs, and gives the film a historical importance as well in addition to its startling preview of a grim future.

Master of Suspense director Sir Alfred Hitchcock started his successful career in his home country, and this was one of the last films he made before going to the United States (although he did return home for Frenzy), I was interested. Basically Karl Verloc (Oskar Homolka) is a cinema owner and a member of a gang planning to sabotage operations in London, and he lives with his wife Sylvia (Beetlejuice's Sylvia Sidney) and her teenage brother Stevie (Desmond Tester). His wife and her brother know nothing about Karl's big secret, even after a big incident where many lights in a part of London were turned off, but there are worse things to happen than that. Suspecting something is going on with Verloc, Scotland Yard assigns undercover Detective Sergeant Ted Spencer (John Loder) to keep an eye on him, working near the cinema and investigate. Sylvia didn't originally know anything, but her suspicion arises, and at a reasonably good time because the gang assign Karl to put a bomb in the metro, so he sends young Stevie with a bag for him to "deliver", but he does not make it all the way to the right location for the explosion. In the end the villain Karl gets what he deserves being stabbed by his own wife, and London seems to be safe from anymore sabotage incidents, and Sylvia walks away with Ted. Also starring Joyce Barbour as Renee, Matthew Boulton as Superintendent Talbot, S.J. Warmington as Hollingshead, William Dewhurst as Professor A.F. Chatman, and Hitchcock's cameo is as the man passing looking up when the lights go back on. The acting is reasonable, the best scene is certainly unknowingly carrying the bomb in the bag, and there are some good tense moments you would expect from the great director, a watchable mystery thriller. Very good!