The Screaming Skull. 1958.
Something of a mix with thriller and horror even though the director plays the part of the mentally challenged gardener, this is actually a decent atmospheric flick.
A newly married couple where the wife has a history of mental illness and her new husband's first wife died in mysterious circumstances retreat to the house and the wife is seeing a skull.
Peggy Webber plays the wife and is able to keep the film going with her acting as the mentally ill wife who thinks she is tormented by the deceased wife's Skull that pips up a few times. John Hudson plays the husband who insists there is no Skull floating about the plantation Manor. Russ Conway and Toni Johnson play the friendly reverend and wife who try to calm things down with the wife but believe something is happening.
Half way through you kinda guess what is going on but to see the film play it out is decently done with some good visual effects that were available at the time. The acting is decent especially from Hudson towards the end when something goes missing and taking his frustration out on the gardener. At 68 minutes the film is paced our decently and nothing seems to be rushed. A nice nightly chiller.
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