The Monster Walks (1932) - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - April 8, 1932

Here's an ad for the first Oakland showing of one of those innumerable "old dark house" movies, which might or might not have been based on one of those innumerable "old dark house" plays, that were as popular and numerous in the 1920s and 1930s as slasher films were throughout the 1980s.

John Stanley's scathing review of the film, as it appears in his Revenge of the Creature Features Movie Guide, says, "Mischa Auer is Hanns Krug, your typical movie maniacal idiot who binds Vera Reynolds, your typical movie heroine, and torments her with Yogi the Ape, your typical movie gorilla. After a smattering of this typical behavior, your typical viewer switches channels." [Pg. 221]

Ouch. But I still might give this a chance, though. As I have seen very few, if any, of those "old dark house" movies and none of the plays. So it goes.