(re)search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">    <p>Christopher Maitland (Peter Cushing) is a collector of macabre memorabilia, so when he's offered the skull of the Marquis de Sade by crooked dealer Marco (Patrick Wymark), he's more than happy to buy it. Later he learns that the skull was actually stolen from fellow collector Phillips (Christopher Lee), but Phillips is happy to be rid of it because he claims the skull has hypnotic powers - which Maitland thinks is superstitious gobbledegook, until he falls under the skull's spell and starts killing people, Maitland and Phillips among them. Eventually, the skull tries to make Maitland killing his wife (Jill Bennett), but when he sees the cruzifix round her neck, he comes to his senses, so much so that he even tries to stab the skull (but how do you stab a skull?). The skull doesn't take lightly to this though and eventually kills Maitland ...<p> <p>An old-fashioned, blunt and slightly silly piece of horror cinema - and in the case of <b>The Skull</b>, that actually works for the movie instead of against it, as its retro-looks spark an instant feeling of nostalgia (something old movies don't necessarily achieve), its bluntness is charming , as there is a kind of naivety to it, and in all its silliness, it never insults its audience intelligence. The film's no masterpiece, that's for sure, but that doesn't mean it can't be amazingly entertaining ... <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2010"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>