We'd only recently watched the dreadfully unfunny The Fearless Vampire Killers, Roman Polanski's bawdy horror parody released in 1967, when this Carry On movie, the twelfth in the Carry On series, came on the tv and while we'd usually snap off the tv before the double entendres could start their assault on our ears, the movie's similarities to the Polanski comedy and its release date only one year earlier in 1966 kept us watching - could it possibly be a superior movie? - and we decided our first ever Carry On comedy, about a Sherlock Holmes type investigating disappearances (a sinister doctor is turning victims into wax works in an Addams Family-style haunted mansion) is quite entertaining in a ribald, debauched way, with the horror parody elements - inventive sets and costumes - helping to take the focus off the smut!
★★★☆☆
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