Ismail Yassin and his relatives have to spend a month living in a haunted house in order to collect their inheritance.
Acting
Ismail Yassin's physical comedy is genuinely timeless
Production
Gothic mansion sets rival Universal's horror classics
Practical Effects
That gorilla suit is camp perfection
Director
Fatin Abdel Wahab
Ismail Yasseen
مرسي / قلب الأسد
Kamal Al-Shenawy
شريف
Thuraya Helmy
عزيزة
Mimi Chakib
منيرة هانم
Serag Mounir
مراد أفندي
Abdel Fattah Al-Qosari
حسن
Reyaad ElQasabgy
أحد أفراد العصابة
Ahmad El Beh
الخادم الاخراس
Gracia Kassin
جميلة هانم
Mohsen Hassanein
أحد أفراد العصابة
Zaki Mohamed Hassan
حارس حديقة الحيوان
Liz and Lynn
راقصة
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was peak 'Ismail Yassine meets horror' — a wildly popular subgenre in 1950s Egyptian cinema that mashed Hollywood monster-movie tropes with local comedy traditions.
Fatin Abdel Wahab directed Yassine in over a dozen films; their partnership defined Egyptian commercial cinema's golden age. The haunted house set was reused in at least three other productions.
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