NipPierce Wow, this is a REALLY bad movie!

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

dbborroughs The Stooges play detectives hired by a rich man to find his missing daughter. They go to a run down (read haunted) house dressed as pie salesmen (I don't know) and search the house. In the basement a mad doctor, his assistant and a gorilla are holding the young woman captive. Its a thread bare plot which purely an excuse for haunted house mayhem and for things to be thrust at the camera. As with all 3-D films some of the effects work better than others with things like Moe's fingers, his foot or a thrown pen not working well, while pies (They are pie salesmen) and other objects fare better. For the most part this is the better of the two 3D shorts since there is at least some attempt at a plot. In all fairness this probably would have been better longer since the film never amounts to more than an excuse for mayhem. I've only seen this as a 3D film (I had this as an old 8MM high light reel) and I doubt this would work as anything other than a 3-D film. Worth a look for 3-D fans.

slymusic Directed by Jules White, "Spooks!" is a pretty good Three Stooges short starring Larry, Moe, and Shemp. As the title suggests, this film takes place in a haunted house full of spooks! The Stooges are amateur sleuths posing as pie salesmen in order to recover a pretty lady (Norma Randall) from the clutches of a mad scientist (Philip Van Zandt) and his assistant (Tom Kennedy), who abduct her for a brain transplant experiment. The Stooges decide to use their most common weapon against the two fiends: pie-throwing!Highlights from "Spooks!" include the following. The Stooges encounter a bat with Shemp's face! At the end, the scientist's gorilla throws pies at the Stooges and the girl. When Shemp describes the gorilla to Moe and Larry, he calls it a "chimney-panzee" and says, "He looked just like my mother-in-law!" As the Stooges try to escape through a window, Moe gets bashed in the head twice."Spooks!" was the first of two Stooge shorts in 3-D! The only real problem with this format is that the slapstick, when directed toward the camera, is quite exaggerated when you watch the films in 2-D. On the other hand, the one shot of the scientist approaching the camera (representing the gorilla) and holding up his hypodermic needle directly in front of the lens is quite frightening indeed!

Movie Nuttball On a local Television station I saw this funny Three Stooges in true 3D! There was another one in 3D called Pardon My Backfire! Spooks! was really already in 3D like when Moe would do his stuff like kicking Shemp or when one of the bad guys did something it would come right into the screen! What I mean by true 3D is that it had the color like the famous colors! It was a cool experience!Spooks! is a good one! Philip Van Zandt and Tom Kennedy played their parts very good! The gorilla is funny! It has a very spook nature like some of the other Three Stooges shorts which like them, Spooks! is great to watch around Halloween time! Like the other 3D short, this too has the different introduction with the stooges doing it live instead of the usual intro! With the 3D experience or without it Spooks! is a very funny Three Stooges to short watch!

tforbes-2 This was a truly hilarious short, 3-D or no 3-D. There were so many visual gags, including the one where the bat is actually Shemp barking like Curly.But one of the most notable things about this short is how Shemp shows himself as a hipster when he learns they are looking for Bea Bopper. He responds by saying such hip terms as "Hey man!" and "Cool, Daddy-O!" It begs the question: Who came first, James Dean or Shemp Howard? And I think I know the answer to this one! I almost think Shemp was a a '60s person before his time: A meek guy who had longish, limp hair, who used hip expressions!!! Oh, the things you learn in Stooge shorts!!! No wonder why these shorts are great!! Chalk up another classic for these three goofs!!