F.W. Murnau directs a film that seems strangely static. The plot has something about an uninvited count showing up at the home of a Baroness. He is professing his innocence to the killing of the Baroness's first husband and he then sets out to prove he didn't do it. Maybe it was the poor video source I saw which had inter-titles in both German and English (and which seemed incomplete) but this seemed to be little more than a bunch of people either sitting around talking or dealing with religious figure. I got bored and I got distracted and while the film played out to the end I really didn't care what happened. Not the sort of film that I would have expected from Murnau. Unless you're trying to see everything by the director I'd take a pass.
Review of The Haunted Castle
