"Death Kiss" has a clever film-within-a-film opening sequence and a memorable high-fall ending, but in the middle it gets plodding. The script has some surprises, but the direction is mostly pedestrian. David Manners is a personable leading man, but Bela Lugosi is largely wasted (the old posters for this film prove that false advertising is NOT a recent practice; they try to make this look like a sequel to "Dracula"!). Warning: the print most commonly found of this public-domain movie, although of generally acceptable quality, contains lots of audio dropouts and missing frames. **1/2 out of 4.
Review of The Death Kiss
