"Welcome to a trip down graveyard lane!" So asks the Criswell like host who pops up behind a desk rather than a coffin to make this statement. Then, a clumsy man who steps on his kitty's tale and follows the scared putty tat into a cemetery. Bored college kids plan for another dull evening as swinging music plays in the background. Somebody's life is about to change as the two seemingly unrelated events intertwine.
A medical student (Joseph Conway) is parking near the cemetery with his girlfriend (Ester Furst) when out of nowhere a rattlesnake appears and he kills it. This is just another seemingly unrelated incident, but as word gets around, it puts ideas into the minds if other students to test the smart Conway. Things get out of hands of course, leading to a prank that gets out of control and results in pure terror for someone. The ring seen on the finger of a corpse plays an important part in the gag and leads to the hero thinking that he is going mad.
This is a drive-in style movie that seems to have been made on a fine, this is pretty entertaining for the type of film it is. But it's a jip-off plot-wise, reminding me of those intelligently written film noir where it all turns out to be a dream and leads the leading hero into making a sensible choice. That's not really what happens here, but it gives you a key to just how this tripe is dealt with. Not badly acted but not extremely well written or plotted either. It just takes a while to really develop into anything resembling a plot line and the inclusion of so many unnecessary devices just distracts. A scene with a doctor performing an autopsy, however, is quite funny, reminding me of the opening of the T.V. series "Quincy".
A medical student (Joseph Conway) is parking near the cemetery with his girlfriend (Ester Furst) when out of nowhere a rattlesnake appears and he kills it. This is just another seemingly unrelated incident, but as word gets around, it puts ideas into the minds if other students to test the smart Conway. Things get out of hands of course, leading to a prank that gets out of control and results in pure terror for someone. The ring seen on the finger of a corpse plays an important part in the gag and leads to the hero thinking that he is going mad.
This is a drive-in style movie that seems to have been made on a fine, this is pretty entertaining for the type of film it is. But it's a jip-off plot-wise, reminding me of those intelligently written film noir where it all turns out to be a dream and leads the leading hero into making a sensible choice. That's not really what happens here, but it gives you a key to just how this tripe is dealt with. Not badly acted but not extremely well written or plotted either. It just takes a while to really develop into anything resembling a plot line and the inclusion of so many unnecessary devices just distracts. A scene with a doctor performing an autopsy, however, is quite funny, reminding me of the opening of the T.V. series "Quincy".