Review of Tormented

Tormented (1960)
5/10
Decent enough low budget effort.
25 April 2006
Decent enough low budget effort. Good storyline and ending. Not what you'd call scary though.

A few eccentric touches here and there help. The best characters in this is the child and Nick the blackmailer. The other actors aren't bad, but it could have been a much better movie if they had been more engaging. For instance, the romance between Tom and his fiancé doesn't really work. Now maybe he's just marrying for the money, but her character is the most under-developed. If either she or the old girlfriend had been stronger characters, they could have brought some real drama to the proceedings.

There's a lot of optical effects, some better than others. Some of the ghost effects are unusual. In most composites of the lighthouse, the perspective doesn't line up correctly. Other than that, the production values are adequate for this sort of thing. Solid enough B-movie, but on the whole, nothing special.
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