Maybe this is a spoiler, but I don't think anyone should watch this movie without knowing the following: this movie makes no sense.

Bela Lugosi stars as a wealthy estate owner who misses his wife and thinks she is dead. But she's not dead -- the gardener keeps her in a shed in the backyard. And sometimes she escapes in a bathrobe to steal a piece of chicken from the kitchen, only to be spotted through the window by Lugosi who thinks it's a ghost. This causes him to enter a trance and kill some random person. Even after several murders (maybe dozens) in the same house, the police never suspect Lugosi.

On one occasion, they arrest the boyfriend of Lugosi's daughter and execute him. A minute later in the next scene his twin brother shows up.

If you like Lugosi, this film is decent and quite fun. But seriously, don't try to figure out why the wife is in a shed or what causes him to go into a trance or why the police are so stupid. Because you will never make sense of this preposterous film.

During the 1930s-50s, Bela Lugosi would apparently star in ANY film provided the check didn't bounce! Apart from wonderful films like Dracula, THE RAVEN and ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, most of his films were just dreadful films made on a minimal budget. This means that apart from his Ed Wood films (BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, GLEN OR GLENDA and PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE),he still appeared in many other films for other producers that were just about as terrible. Keeping this in mind, I was actually pretty pleased with THE INVISIBLE GHOST and feel it nearly deserves a score of 6 because it certainly is entertaining and has pretty decent acting--it's just ashame all the plot holes keep the film from being better.

Bela plays, for once, a very nice person. Aside from going into catatonic murder sprees every time he sees his supposedly dead wife, he's the nicest fella during 90% of the movie. Now WHY he kills is never really dealt with and exactly why he seems hypnotized by her mere presence is unknown. It's also a bit silly how over the years, several of the servants in his home are brutally murdered and yet he keeps hiring servants and the police do nothing.

Despite these obvious plot problems, the acting is so good and production values surprisingly good (for Monogram Studios) that the film is still worth seeing--particularly to Lugosi fans.

Invisible Ghost is yet another example of how Bela Lugosi felt it was necessary to keep working no matter what he was asked to appear in. This one is from Sam Katzman at Monogram Pictures and it definitely shows all the Katzman touches from incoherent story, zero production values, and pedestrian acting.

Bela Lugosi is a man who lives with his daughter Pollyanna Young and a staff of various servants. Several years ago his wife Betty Compson ran off with another guy and this unhinged Bela. He believes Compson dead along with her paramour in an automobile accident.

Only Compson is still alive unhinged herself and being taken care of by the estate gardener Ernie Adams. Only every now and then she gets out and appears at Bela's window trying to get back in.

This is where Lugosi goes off his rocker. One sight of her turns him into homicidal strangler and since he can't reach her he strangles whoever is available. No one catches on, they even arrest John McGuire and send him to the chair for Terry Walker's murder.

All I can say is that this is such utter nonsense even Lugosi's most nondiscriminating fans will either laugh or be bored.

Not quite Ed Wood, but Invisible Ghost comes close.