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Why so much hype?

Good concept, poorly executed.

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

The body of Laura Van Ee, a victim of a murder, is brought into a morgue to be autopsied. As the autopsy takes place, the corpse remembers back to the events that took place before she died. In her life, she was married in a loveless marriage to Ward Van Ee, the son of a doctor. One day, Professor Leonide, a master hypnotist, arrives at the mansion for a visit. He has information that implicates Laura in the dark secret that she had been carrying for years – she had betrayed her first husband to the Nazis for a tidy sum & she believed that he would take his revenge. As strange events begin to take place in the mansion, Laura's mental health begins to nosedive, prompting a former cop to try to solve the case.Not to be confused with the William Malone early 80s' monster flick of the same name, Scared to Death is a 1947 el cheapo thriller done that stars Bela Lugosi in what would ultimately be his only colour film (this would say a fair bit for the actor's career since this was in 1947, a decade before Lugosi would perform his last act in Ed Wood's classic trashfest Plan 9 From Outer Space & various B-graders of that era before that).Scared to Death is a comedy thriller that had an unusual premise – that of the story being narrated by a corpse (D.O.A. wouldn't come out for another three years) & essentially ruining the surprise for the viewer. The only kick is to see how she would bite the dust. As well as that, we get for the admission price various hi-jinks involving the local dumb cop trying to solve the case & Bela Lugosi doing his usual Dracula thing (although to be fair, Lugosi was a romantic actor by trade in his native Hungary before he rocketed to fame in Dracula in the early 1930s & does a good job here) dressed in his White Zombie outfit. The film drags out somewhat & fails to make a good thriller out of it, but it is quite funny at times & this humour makes a drag look almost appetising.

Ed Wood had Zero Money and Experience but Unbridled Enthusiasm and an Infectious Desire to Make Movies and Entertain People.What's this Guy's Excuse? The Movie is Shot in Color and Features George Zucco, Bela Lugosi, Nat Pendleton, and a Budget of all of Ed Wood's Movies Combined Times Ten. He had been in Films since, Believe it or Not, at the Beginning of the Silent Era with Over 160 Movies to His "Credit".But "Scared to Death" Seems so Clunky, Inept, and Just Plain Bad, that One Wonders if there was Any Direction At All for the "Product". The Cast Stands Around Most of the Time as the Camera Seems Nailed to the Floor. The Incomprehensible Script is Ridiculously Recited as the Lines are Delivered Out of Sync with the Other Actors and Out of Character Half the Time.The Story is Hard to Follow, the Costuming is Clumsy, the SFX Static and Reused Often. The Gimmick of a Dead Woman Narrating this Mystery Movie is the Only Thing that is Fresh, but the way it is Handled doesn't Work, not even a Little Bit.Overall, Recommended for Lugosi Cultists, Bad B-Movie Trashers, and the Novelty of Color for this Type of Thing but the Thing is a Thudding Dud.

Don't be confused by the vivid color in this deliciously silly thriller with tons of comedy-both intentional and accidental. This actually was photographed in a process known as "Tru Color". This is the type of film that Mystery Science Theater used to depend on to ridicule, so wonderfully preposterous and poorly made that you might end up with an eternal grin that freezes from viewing the absurdity, that is if your eyeballs don't end up in the back of your head for rolling them too hard. Horror greats George Zucco and Bela Lugosi are enemy cousins, tossed together here like Lugosi and Boris Karloff in "The Black Cat" to toss barbs over an old vendetta that is never explained. Zucco's son (Roland Varno) is married to extremely nasty Molly Lamont who is being haunted by a mysterious person in a green mask whose image keeps appearing in the window in an attempt to frighten her.Comedy relief is provided by the bumbling Nat Pendleton who is in love with the sarcastic maid (Gladys Blake). Others present include diminutive Angelo Rossito as Lugosi's companion, Douglas Fowley as an obnoxious reporter, and Joyce Compton as his girlfriend, and the sudden appearance of an obvious man in drag looking like something out of "Glen or Glenda". The film is narrated by Lamont's corpse, already dead as the film starts, giving the impression that a dead body's brain can still think. The narration is intertwined with extremely wretched editing and eerie music that pops up every time her corpse is shown. The conclusion is hardly worth waiting for. Enjoy it purely as fun crap with plenty of moments to laugh at, not with.

Poor Bela Lugosi trapped in another low budget shlock horror film for the independent Golden Gate Productions in Scared To Death. This time however he has plenty of company.It's possible that Billy Wilder got the idea to have William Holden narrate Sunset Boulevard in flashback from the next world. In this one Molly Lamont lies on a slab at the morgue and her voice over starts the narration of how she got there as the medical examiner also tries to figure it out.In life Lamont was the shrewish wife of Roland Varno and daughter-in-law of George Zucco who runs a mental asylum and the family resides on the ground. When Zucco gets a visit from Lugosi and his dwarf companion things start to pop around the old nut house.I'm still trying to figure out the plot, the writing was so bad. I will say that the players do what they can with the lousy material. Nat Pendleton who plays a dumb house detective has the best moments in the film, but they aren't enough to save it.