Screaming Skull

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Summary: Skull-duggery
Review: Eric and Jenny (John Hudson and Peggy Webber) are newlyweds who move into the country mansion that Eric lived in with his first wife, Mary. Mary met with an untimely demise by "slipping" and smashing her skull on the pond wall. Now, Jenny is experiencing late-night visitations by Mary's ghost. Or is she? Eric seems supportive, but just might be gaslighting his new bride. Mickey, the gardener, grew up with Mary and could be crazy enough to terrorize Jenny. Yes, the skull rolls around like a boney soccer ball. There are some periods of dullness, but the whole thing is just over an hour long. Worth a look...

Rating:
Summary: BAD MOVIE BUT GOOD STORY
Review: F. Marion Crawford is one of the forgotten masters of horror from the early part of the 20th century. His story "The Screaming Skull" while not a masterpiece, is a well-written and atmospheric ghost story.

The movie just plain sucks, though. Welcome to a bad ghost story and someone's nightmare. This horror tale finds a newly married husband(John Hudson)and wife(Peggy Weber)haunted by the memory of his previous wife and screaming skulls found throughout their empty mansion and lily pond. Is the husband really trying to drive his already anxious bride insane? Or is it the learning challenged gardener Mickey(Alex Nicol)who has taken care of the mansion's grounds since the death of the original mistress of the house? This low budget horror flick has a story line that keeps you involved all the way the finale. Special effects are pretty bad even at 1958 standards. I swear at times the screaming skull sounds much like it should be in a Godzilla movie. Also in the cast as Reverend Snow is character actor Russ Conway.

The film is more boring then anything else. There seems to be some attempt to build tension through badly lit shots of empty rooms and empty lawns, but none of it works.


Rating:
Summary: 5 STARS,3 CHEERS AND 2 THUMBS UP FOR THIS DOUBLE FEATURE
Review: I'M A BIG COLLECTER OF THE OLD CLASSIC B HORROR MOVIES.I CAME ACROSS THIS DOUBLE FEATURE DVD "THE SCREAMING SKULL" & "THE WEREWOLF vs. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN" AND I'D REALLY LOVED BOTH MOVIES. TWO OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES I WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN. IF YOUR LOOKING FOR HIGH BUDGET, BIG STARS,GREAT QUALITY AND AWESOME SOUND EFFECTS,THIS DVD IS NOT FOR YOU, BUT IF YOUR LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT, LIKE A BLAST FROM THE PAST B HORROR CREEPY CLASSIS,THEN THIS IS FOR YOU.A MUST FOR A HORROR MOVIE COLLECTOR.

Rating:
Summary: 5 STARS,3 CHEERS AND 2 THUMBS UP FOR THIS DOUBLE FEATURE
Review: I'M A BIG COLLECTER OF THE OLD CLASSIC B HORROR MOVIES.I CAME ACROSS THIS DOUBLE FEATURE DVD "THE SCREAMING SKULL" & "THE WEREWOLF vs. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN" AND I'D REALLY LOVED BOTH MOVIES. TWO OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES I WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN. IF YOUR LOOKING FOR HIGH BUDGET, BIG STARS,GREAT QUALITY AND AWESOME SOUND EFFECTS,THIS DVD IS NOT FOR YOU, BUT IF YOUR LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT, LIKE A BLAST FROM THE PAST B HORROR CREEPY CLASSIS,THEN THIS IS FOR YOU.A MUST FOR A HORROR MOVIE COLLECTOR.

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Summary: Ignore the Other Reviews, This is Awful
Review: Ignore some of the folks who gave this five stars. Both the movies and the picture are absolutely horrendous (but you expected that, didn't you.) "Screaming Skull" and especially "Werewolf vs. Vampire Woman" aren't as deliriously so-bad-they're-good as you'd hope: they're just bad. As in BAD bad.
"Screaming Skull" and especially "Werewolf vs. Vampire Woman" look awful. "Werewolf" includes some of the strangest visual distortion I've ever seen: the backgrounds tend to jitter as the foregrounds stay still. Colour bleed, grain, and poor contrast are all present.
The extras include a not very good Betty Boop cartoon, as well as trailers for the main attractions and "Brides of Dracula." The trailers are the disc's only asset.

Rating:
Summary: Let's all go to the lobby!
Review: There wasn't much problems like people,were saying. Sure the quality of these movies were like the quality of VHS, but don't spoil yourself with all of that, just watch the movie, that's what it's for. The only part of this DVD that skipped or really messed up for me was during the Werewolf vs Vampire woman trailer, when they were showing a close-up of the moon it kind of skipped but that wasn't a biggy. This DVD features trailers from the 2 movies on this, and Draculas Daughters. There is also an intermission cartoon when one movie is finished. I found that to be pretty neat, The Screaming Skulls trailer was funny, because it said that if you died when watching this movie that they would pay for burial cost. The only thing you would die of from watching this film is the price you payed to see it! The Werewolf vs Vampire Woman was an interesting movie I had never heard of before owning this DVD. It has alot more blood and gore than I expected (which was none)! This DVD is worth a look, really!

Rating:
Summary: You'll love it or hate it.
Review: Want to know if you'll either love this or hate it? Okay, here goes:

The "screaming skull" makes it's appearance by being rolled across the floor.

Now, do you A) think that that's funny or B) think that that's stupid. If you chose A, then you're in luck, this double feature is for you. If you chose B, well then why are you even looking at reviews of this schlock?

Rating:
Summary: You'll love it or hate it.
Review: Want to know if you'll either love this or hate it? Okay, here goes:

The "screaming skull" makes it's appearance by being rolled across the floor.

Now, do you A) think that that's funny or B) think that that's stupid. If you chose A, then you're in luck, this double feature is for you. If you chose B, well then why are you even looking at reviews of this schlock?

Rating:
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".

Rating:
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.