the audience applauded

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This is such a great re-creation of old b-movies that it's like watching MST3K, but the movie is so cheesy it has become self-aware and it's riffing itself! Everything is just perfect from the extremely convenient lightning strikes and weather altogether, to the mansion with it's secret paths(of course), suspicious paintings and dark hallways. The cast of characters are all the usual stereotypes in a movie like this, but cranked up to eleven! If you love b-movies, MST3K, Rifftrax or just funny movies you owe it to yourself to give this a chance! If you like it, check out other movies by Larry Blamire as well!

It's not my favorite of Larry Blamire's output (just doesn't reach the heights of the Lost Skeleton" movies), but "Dark and Stormy Night" deserves credit for its loving homage to old-timey dark house movies. Varied cast of characters converge on a mansion for a reading of the will, people start dropping dead, you get the picture. Ensuing hijinks and all that. Except Agatha Christie was never so deranged. And she never had a gorilla showing up outta nowhere. The movie gets to a point when new characters keep showing up, but it settles into a narrative rut. And with dialogue this crackling, it's kind of a shame the pacing doesn't match. But that's not the end of the world; the miniatures are delightfully cheap, the non-sequiturs are funny, and it's worth a look almost entirely for the breakneck repartee.6/10

Writer-director Larry Blamire has a very distinctive comedic talent - genius, really - for spoofing movie genres not by throwing in everything but the kitchen sink (a la the great AIRPLANE!, the mediocre SCARY MOVIE, or the awful DATE MOVIE) but by recreating those movies, and all their endearingly dated conventions, in a manner so precise you could have a hard time telling them from the real deal. THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA was a dead-on parody of grade-Z Ed Woodian sci-fi, and one of the funniest movies of recent years. THE LOST SKELETON RETURNS AGAIN added cheesy jungle adventures into the mix. And this wonderful picture, DARK AND STORMY NIGHT, heads into an entirely new direction for Blamire: 1930's and 40's murder mysteries (a la THE OLD DARK HOUSE, THE CAT AND THE CANARY, and AND THEN THERE WERE NONE) that were inevitably set in a spooky old mansion on a rain-soaked night where a motley assortment of characters are gathered for the reading of a will. Most of Blamire's brilliant cast of players from the two SKELTON movies (as well as the hilarious web series TALES FROM THE PUB) return, and they are deliciously in tune with each other and with Blamire's unique comedic sensibilities. Jennifer Blaire (aka Mrs. Larry Blamire) is particularly at home with the stylized, lightning-paced wisecracking written for her reporter character; in another era, Blaire could have been another Jean Arthur or Rosalind Russell. If you loved LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA, if you're a fan of old movies, or you're just looking for 90 minutes of clever, rib-tickling fun, this one is a must.

Larry Blamire does it again with a film that not only pays homage to the great dark house films of yesteryear, but is able to stand on its own as a truly great and original film. The premise is all so familiar, but this take on it is surprisingly fresh.The film is the first from Bantam Street to be shot in HD, and it really is beautiful to watch. The mansion miniature is amazing and the costumes are all perfectly done. The cast is made of Bantam Street regulars like Brian Howe and Jeniffer Blaire, all of whom really bring their A-game and do a great job of bringing the stock "dark house" characters to life and of course adding a totally different dimension of fun to them by following Blamire's unique style of direction.If you like old dark house movies, you'll love this. If you like mystery thrillers, you'll love this. If you like to laugh, you'll love this. "Dark and Stormy Night" is great fun for audiences of all ages, and is one movie you definitely don't want to pass up!