This Was Baby Gojira's Cheesy Movie Pick This Past Week! Unfortunately, The Poster Is Better Than The Movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                          "The Screaming Skull," though released in 1958 by American-International Pictures, borrowed heavily from William Castle and his gimmicks, while being a blend of both "Rebecca" and "Gaslight," without the artistry of these two.

                                             Someone must have seen something I did not see in Peggy Weber, who plays put upon wife Jenny.  She is from a wealthy family, which is why her widowed husband married her, to get his hands on her money.  His first wife, Marion, died, but was it an accident?

                                               Jenny is photographed in darkly lit imagery, and with her hair, takes on, at times a resemblance to Jennifer Jones.  But when seen plainly, she lacks Jones' acting chops or luminosity.

                                                Added to this, the couple live in a plantation type house that resembles less Tara, and more the former offices of Selznick-International Pictures.  I bet that was what this building had been, back in the day.

                                                  The plantation is so elegant, it has peacocks about the ground, and, girls, I am telling you, these peacocks give the best performances in the entire film!!!!!!!!!!!!!  When peacocks are the best actors, you know there are problems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                    Things really get campy, maybe, in the last fifteen minutes.  Someone with a skull face, dressed as the ghost of Marion, runs about the grounds, the skull surfaces from the pond where Marion supposedly drowned accidentally, and screams and turns, and really livens up this otherwise slow-moving film.

                                                        Jenny survives, and everyone who should get their comeuppance.  I could see this film turning up on "Svengoolie."  But having seen it already, both Baby and I agreed we would not watch it again.

                                                        The open obviousness of the plot is enough to make one scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!