Synopsis: A classic American horror film that combines elements of the traditional ghost story with shades of Edgar Allan Poe and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", The Bells follows an ambitious innkeeper (Lionel Barrymore) on a downward trajectory into insanity after murdering a wealthy traveler to settle his debts. Though he is not suspected of the crime, the innkeeper is haunted by a hypnotist in a traveling carnival (Boris Karloff), and his conscience is tormented by a blood-smeared apparition of the dead man who comes seeking a confession of his own.