It's surprising to see the genius Orson Welles accepting parts in what must be considered less than mediocre films, and this one must have been one of his very worst. He actually doesn't act much, which doesn't help the film, which gets messed up in an affected efforts at expressionism, in which all the intended horror gets lost - the story could have been made something truly horrible of, but instead it gets drowned in mannerisms of mumbo-jumbo. Sorry, Orson Welles, you oftentimes made better, but you seldom made worse.