ShangLuda Admirable film.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

alexanderdavies-99382 "What a Carve Up" is about the only time that Sid James appeared in a horror comedy. The tone of the film is a bit creepy and ghoulish but also very good in the laughter department. Kenneth Connor is summoned to this large Yorkshire mansion for the reading of his late Uncles will. Our Sid tags along for the journey, which is just as well, considering the events that unfold. Some of the dialogue doesn't quite work on occasion but the pace, the acting, the sets, the direction and photography are all great. The second half of "What a Carve Up" has a lot going on to keep the viewers glued to their seats. Donald Pleasence is suitably sinister as he is right at home. The supporting cast is a fine one. Dennis Price, George Woodbridge, Michael Gough, Michael Gwynn, Esma Cannon and Shirley Eaton. This is a low key film in that there are no extras employed just the essential cast and the film is based over a period of about two days. With comedies from this period, I sometimes expect the likes of Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Terry Thomas or Eric Sykes to appear. A masterpiece of comedy with horror elements blended in.

bkoganbing With leads like Sid James and Kenneth Connor No Place Like Homicide could easily be classified as a Carry On film. It really isn't though because Carry On films were strictly comedy and this one does have a bit of a story to it albeit just one to display the characters.Connor and James are best friends and roommates, Connor a proofreader for a publishing company and James is a bookmaker which a profession of a slightly higher social standing in the UK than on this side of the pond. In any event in that plot gimmick from a Zillion films on both sides of the pond Connor is an heir and he and the other heirs have to spend a long night in a creepy mansion to inherit his late uncle's estate.Of course a lot of the night is spent by Connor with the lovely Shirley Eaton who's another heir. Another heir is Dennis Price with a rakish Terry-Thomas mustache which makes me think Terry-Thomas had been slated to be in this. Michael Gough is a sinister butler and Donald Pleasance a sinister lawyer.Nothing sinister about Connor who's wondering if the inheritance is really worth it and James who's wondering how he got into this mess. The usual kind of gags are present here though nothing terribly original. British pop star Adam Faith shows up at the end without billing and unless you knew the British music scene of 1961 it's not a gag you will get.The cast looks like the're having fun and I think you will to.

kennedya-1 Absolute dross, totalling wasting the talents of Michael Gough, Dennis Price, Shirley Eaton and Donald Pleasance. Kenneth Connor as always overacts and overdrools(over Shirley Eaton)in his usual brow - furrowing scenery-chewing excuse for comedic acting. Sid, aware that the script contains no real humour, laughs at his own "jokes" in the hope that the audience will be conned into joining him; a ploy he was to use the rest of his life. How anyone ever found this mess even mildly amusing beggars belief. Surely the production team should have jacked it in after viewing the initial rushes and spent their money more wisely on Rolls Razor shares or bought up unexpurgated copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover to cash in the recent court ruling. Incredible to think that this tosh was contemporary with Beyond The Fringe and several years after The Goon Show.

John O'Neill When I first saw this film one evening, I only watched it because I had nothing to do. By the time it had finished, I was left raging with myself for not videoing it. Although it's not really a horror movie, the atmosphere is tremendous. Right from the first scene, the viewer is drawn in, and simply cannot stop watching. Although the ending is somewhat predictable, the movie does not really suffer from this, but rather the viewer can look out for all the clues that he/she may have missed the first time.All in all, a film to be watched over and over again.