Come on this a very scary movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It is a very scary movie. a lot scarier then The Silences of the lambs. It is also a lot scary then Hannibal. It is also a lot scary then Hannibal rising. It is a very scary movie. Not has good Red Dragon or Halloween. But almost has good.

Most actors get better with age. In the case of Lon Chaney Jr., he started off promising but proceeded to get more mannered and melodramatic as he aged. Changing his name from Creighton to Lon Jr. with this low budget adventure, he actually played two completely opposite characters, and did a decent job. As a young man, he was quite handsome, but by the time he played the wolf man, he had put on a lot of weight and seemed to be older than he really was.Playing a detective and an Igor like cripple who is obviously up to no good, Chaney even gets to act opposite himself. The plot deals with kidnapping and a stolen ruby, attacks on innocent tourists, and the jealousy of a native girl towards the blonde kidnapping victim. It's cheaply made and often creaky, but some sudden ingenious camera shots give this a larger element of mystery. Stereotypical middle eastern villains are total clichés, while the Americans are presented as noble and heroic, victims of the darkly presented criminals.Exotic native girl Zarah Tazil is the most one dimensional of the vindictive characters, jealous over blonde beauty Sheila Terry, and desperate to scar her pretty face. But Terry is no Barbie doll blonde, able to take care of herself opposite the hot tempered Tazil. Chaney's pathetic Butch Curtain is given several dimensions, so he is spared the defensiveness of the other middle eastern, but what's up with that ridiculous name? The script is filled fortune cookie like prophecies that just get sillier and sillier. Almost serial like in its format, it manages to be interesting cheap entertainment that gets more ridiculous but gives off some laughs which ultimately makes it likable while wretched dreck at the same time.

This film is notable for one thing--an early appearance by Lon Chaney, Jr.--here billed under his actual name, Creighton Chaney. Aside from that, it's a very low-budget B-movie--and it shows its low pedigree in every way. The acting is often abysmal, the script clichéd and I assumed it was directed by a chimp! The film is about some stolen ruby and a criminal that strangles his victims but as yet is unknown. To get to the bottom of this, a police detective (Chaney) poses as one of the killer's henchmen--who just so happens to look EXACTLY like Chaney!!! How fortuitous! Think about it. the odds of a person looking EXACTLY like someone else are astronomically great. Yet here, on top of that, the cop on the case just happens to look exactly like the #1 suspect!! Sometimes in film you need to suspend disbelief to enjoy them--here you just need to be very stupid! The bottom line is that the actors(?) often struggle over delivering their lines (especially the ones doing outrageous accents), there is a fight scene at the end that is hilariously bad and the entire plot is based on a bad cliché. Even for fans of B-movies, this one is very slow going and dull.By the way, if you do choose to see this film, listen to Chaney's voice. Neither character sounds like Chaney did in his films just a few years later. My assumption is that he got some voice lessons in order to deepen his voice.

"A Singapore bar owner and his niece come into possession of a rare ruby, 'The Tear of Buddha', which is coveted by a ruthless criminal. The criminal succeeds in taking the gem and kidnapping the niece, while two police detectives hope to close in on him. When one of the officers is killed, his partner goes undercover to find the killer, rescue the kidnapped girl, and return the stolen gem," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.Lon Chaney Jr. dips into his dad's make-up bag of tricks; he plays the good-looking lead detective "Jack Wilson" and the villainous henchman of "Johnny Fly" (Manuel López), a dart-throwing and hard-drinking hulk named "Butch Curtain". Perhaps surprisingly, perhaps not, Mr. Chaney is better as the relatively straight detective, especially after he switches identities with his thuggish look-alike. A fair bang, for the budget.**** A Scream in the Night (1935) Fred C. Newmeyer ~ Lon Chaney Jr., Manuel López, Sheila Terry