"The Last Warning" gave master director Paul Leni ample oportunity to pull from his seemingly unending bag of eye-popping visual tricks. Although this theatrical murder mystery does not quite hit the astonishing highs of "The Cat and the Canary", the sheer visual excitement and technical sophistication Leni brings still astonish. Even the title cards are deployed in a few clever visual gags! The movie only hits a slight bum note when the killer is identified, a reveal that did not live up to the thrilling chase that preceded it. The newly commissioned score by Arthur Barrow on the Flicker Alley release does a great job ratcheting up the tension.