Scared Stiff (1953)
6/10
Hey, I was 8 ...
12 September 2002
This is one of the earliest films I remember seeing, and I don't think I've seen it since, so please, make allowances.

But at the time I L O V E D it. Funny/scary movies were my favourites then, and this filled the bill. It made me an absolute fan of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, an addiction that lasted at least till I turned 13.

At the time, of course, I didn't realise that it was a remake of the much better Ghost Breakers, but surely the fact that I still get a shiver up my spine thinking about Jerry Lewis sitting in the chair with the gorilla arms all these years later must mean something.

I give it a nostalgic six. If I saw it today, I doubt I'd be so generous.
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