 The film was repeated again in the late 1970s as "The Cat and the Canary" in the United Kingdom as a more horror oriented film.In 1946, Universal released a second film titled "The Cat Creeps" which is unrelated to the original story and borrowed more from the 1940 film "Horror Island".From contemporary reviews, a review in "Film Daily" declared the film as "excellent" with "an all-around fine cast [...] Rupert Julian's direction is intelligent and effective."