sentences:  Thus, the prophecy is fulfilled.Writing for "The Spectator" in 1935, Graham Greene described the film as "absurd and exciting", and "wildly artificial".Greene praised both the acting of Karloff and the direction of Neill, noting that Karloff had been given a long speaking part and "allowed to act at last", and that Neill had "caught the genuine Gothic note" in a manner that displayed more historical sense than any of Alexander Korda's films.