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Summary: Madacy evil strikes again!
Review: Yet again, Madacy has gone out of their way to find the worst prints imaginable to sell to the unsuspecting viewing public. The first feature, "The Screaming Skull" (a title that's given me a headache for decades!), is exceptionally muddy and dark, obviously an extremely poor dub from a several-generations old video source. The second feature on the tape, "The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman" is pure pan n' scan from a very scuffed and chopped print. Distortions and color blur are obvious on the edges of the picture. In "The Screaming Skull", young and nervous newy wed is terrorized by a skull, supposedly that of her new hubby's ex, who died from a crushed skull/drowning in a lilly pond. Grade Z acting all around. While "The Screaming Skull" is a classic low-budget horror flick from the 1950's, "The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman" is of European 1971 vintage. In this one, two college girls travel to eastern Europe in search of a legendary grave of a lady vampire. They meet up with a spooky guy when the run out of gas. Naturally, he's a werewolf. Well, with at least one of the two college girls, I'd be howling at the moon, too. Anyway, they stupidly awaken the lady vampire, and after a bunch of killings, the werewolf and vampire have it out. Obviously the "director" was a fan of "The Six Million Dollar Man", because the lady vampires run and jump in slow motion (not as sexy as it sounds). There are hints of breast from time to time, but if there were any naughty scenes originally, they appear to have been cut (European versions have five to six more minutes then the US drive-in release, which this seems to be). I would strongly urge DVD collectors to avoid any of the horror titles in this Madacy set. I gave the disc two stars only because of the interactive menus. They are the only part of the disc that was nicely done, and there is a Popeye cartoon added for "intermission".
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Summary: It's the Skull! It's...the Skull!
Review: You wanna see some really bad examples of film? Watch this dvd. Both of these features are unbelievably boring and painful to sit through.
'Screaming Skull' is a typical '50s horror movie in which a husband is suspected to be driving his wife insane. 'Werewolf vs. Vampire Woman' is not as unbelievably cheesy-good as you'd expect. In fact it's utterly horrendous and not entertaining at all. It looks terrible, almost like someone's '70s porn drug through the dirt. And it's poorly dubbed over and makes hardly any sense. Even if you're a fan of B-movies, I'd advise you to skip this; it's definitely not worth your time.
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