This certainly is a benighted household.
The other night Turner Classic Movies aired both versions of The Old Dark House back to back (although why they chose to show William Castle's 1963 remake first is beyond me). Thanks to the miracle of videotape, though, I have corrected their error and given James Whale's 1932 original its proper due. Based on the novel Benighted by J.B. Priestley, this Old Dark House came out the year after Frankenstein (but not directly after because Whale made a drama called Impatient Maiden in between them). It stars Boris Karloff as the mute brute of a butler at the titular residence, which plays host to two groups of travelers who lose their way in a violent storm and need shelter for the night when the roads are washed out. Of course, all things being equal, they probably would have rather not stopped at all.
The grudging host and hostess are squabbling siblings Ernest Thesiger (who has a way with the phrase "Have a potato") and Eva Moore (whose deafness is frequently played up for laughs), and their reluctant guests are itinerant war veteran Melvyn Douglas, married couple Raymond Massey and Gloria Stuart, oafish industrialist Charles Laughton, and his paid companion, chorus girl Lilian Bond. A lot happens to them in the course of the night (which shouldn't be spoiled if you're at all interested in seeing the film) and a lot has happened to the film itself if the print shown on TCM is any indication. (If Universal is at all inclined to restore it, they would probably do well to get to it sooner rather than later.) And while it seems a bit old-fashioned compared to Whale's other masterpieces, which have aged much better, the film is still quite enjoyable. I'm not sure why William Castle felt the need to remake it three decades later, but I'll find out soon enough.