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The Screaming Skull

USA 1958
produced by
John Kneubuhl, T.Frank Woods (executive) for Madera Productions, AIP
directed by Alex Nicol
starring John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway, Tony Johnson, Alex Nicol
written by John Kneubuhl, music by Ernest Gold

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Jenny (Peggy Webber) has just moved into her new home with her husband Eric (John Hudson) - which incidently is the huose of his deceased first wife Mary, who has died under mysterious circumstancesin the estate's own pond. Immediately, Jenny gets a sort of scary feeling in the house, which is not at all helped by the retarded gardener of the estate who was late Mary's closest friend and who greets Jenny with disdain.

One night, when Eric is out to do some business in town, Jenny is scared half witless when she first finds a skull in a cupboard and later the skull seems to be knocking on the front door and follows her in when she opens. Jenny faints, and when she wakes up in the arms of her hubby, he tells her he has found no skull, but immediately suspects Mickey of trying to scare her away.

We soon learn that Jenny has spent some time in a sanatorium after the death of her parents who she felt responsible for. When the local reverend (Russ Conway), a friend of the family, learns about Jenny's condition and the horrors she had to endure (if real or imagined), he advices Eric to take her away, but Eric insists that she remains here, faces her horrors and he will help her to overcome them with love ...

Later, Eric asks Jenny to burn the portrait of Mary, which has had some part in whatever it is that haunted Jenny, and reluctantly she agrees - only to find a skull in the ashes, which Eric claims he doesn't see. But after he has put her to bed, Eric returns to the ashes and picks up and hides the skull - but he's watched by Mickey, who takes the skull and brings it to the reverend. The reverend is quick to put two and two together and figures that Eric has married Jenny solely for her money in the first place and now tries to get rid of her by driving her into suicide or even ...

Meanwhile, Eric already repares a noose to place around Jenny's neck ... when there is a knock on the door, and it is ... a skeleton in Mary's cloths that viciously attacks Eric and ultimately drowns him in the very same pond Mary herself was murdered. And when the reverend finally arrives, everything is already over ...

 

No classic, not even all that good a little spooker, also lacking in originality and giving away its plottwists way too soon. But still, there is something about this little and cheaply shot film that makes it charming - charming in a drive-in movie way of course (which means not everybody is going to like it) but charming still.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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