![]() MST3K sent it up though I haven’t seen that version. It looks like the entire film was shot at dusk and apparently in 3D as well. John Hudson and Tony Johnson round out the cast as Eric and Mrs. Peggy Webber, of the Dragnet TV series stock company plays Jenni and Russ Conway, Reverend Snow. There’s more, but I don’t want to spoil it. Eric sees no skull and that revelation sends Jenni off the rails. And, not only do you get this movie, but the MST3K send-up, too WOW Now, this movie did indeed scare me when I was small, in the early 60s, on late night. What does Jenni see in the ashes? A skull, natch. So they burn the portrait and Eric, like the boy scout he is, rakes the coals so as not to offend Smokey-the-Bear. Jenni’s nightmares will cease if she burns Marion’s giant portrait. After a few more skull sightings and nightmares, Jenni believes she’s losing her grip and goes along with her husband’s idea to rid herself of Marion’s spirit. ![]() Eric’s wife, Marion died after tripping, hitting her head on a stone pond on the estate, and drowning…by accident and Jenni believes Marion still haunts the grounds. OK, he doesn’t actually say that but come on! Soon Jenni starts seeing skulls all over the place and Eric tells the minister of his concern.Įric’s a heck of a guy after all and tells his friends he’ll stand by his wife (and her money) even if she relapses and has to go back to the asylum. After all, what honeymoon is complete without a visit from the parson? During the visit, Eric tells the minister that Jenni, of a delicate nature, has been under great mental strain since she witnessed the deaths of her parents and he hopes that leaving her alone in his dead wife’s house with a nutty gardener and some screaming birds will help. Moments later, the minister and his wife arrive. Doesn’t that sound nice? The home, completely empty save a gigantic portrait of the dead woman, sits on a large piece of land inhabited by creepy child-man caretaker Mickey (director, Alex Nichol) and some peacocks. The above-mentioned “The Screaming Skull” from 1958 “Jungle Goddess” (1948), in which George Reeves (“Superman”) and another guy play pilots searching for a missing heiress in the jungle, who has become a you-know-what there “The Painted Hills” (1951), with a Lassie dog who saves the day by catching the murderer of a kindly prospector and “Squirm” (1976), the cult fave about killer worms, with special effects by the great Rick Baker.Eric and Jenni Whitlock, fresh from their wedding, arrive at the home of Eric’s late wife to start a new life together. In addition to a few hilarious 1940s and ’50s-era informational short films and an episode of Bela Lugosi’s serial “The Phantom Creeps,” the MST3K crew presents these low-budget Myster-pieces: The better news is this nifty 4-disc metal box set includes some enjoyable extras, as well as four pin-uppable little posters. Robot and other peripheral human characters, would make anyone pine for “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” with its genuine charm, inventiveness and visual brilliance. It is possible to find some chuckles amid the adolescent remarks made during the old movies, but all the business that goes on before, during and after them, in the “space ship” or the “laboratory” with Joel Hodgson, Mike Nelson, the robots Tom Servo, Crow T. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close Menu
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