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Summary: A very good 70's British Horror flick
Comment: Peter Cushing is at his clinically clean best as an ambitious and "do anything" collector of Historical Horror artifacts.
He finally lands on a horror collectors dream... the Skull of the "Marqui De Sade"
The Skull has a life force that kills at will and floats around in the midst a green fog like cloud. Once Cushings character obtains the skull all kinds of nasty horror stuff starts happening. The dream sequence is very well done. Chistopher Lee stars as the previous owner of the "Skull" who advises Peter Cushing to get rid of it at any cost.
An Amicus production. It's a very good 70's Britsh Horror Flick.
Excellent Remastering.
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Summary: Very good movie
Comment: Very good movie, with very good actors. I like this kind of films, with no effects like the modern ones, giving our mind time to act having a natural reaction infront the scary.
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Summary: Get Ahead
Comment: For the life of me, I can never work out why 'the Skull' isn't better thought of across the horror world .
It's moody, it's got inclusively great performances and a kickin' soundtrack.
Cast-wise, it's nigh on untouchable; Peter Cushing plays Maitland, a fool-hardy collector of occult 'curio's' who comes to own the possessed skull of the Marquis de Sade, Patrick Wymark is brilliantly squalid as the shady antiques dealer, Marco, Christopher Lee and Peter Woodthorpe make telling cameo-appearances, and the deeply sexy (and good actress(!)) Jill Bennett plays Cushing's terrified wife, pushed to her limit by his obsession.
It's got Hammer-esque cemetery scenes, bulging-eyed insanity murders, a brilliantly trippy dream sequence where Cushing is forced to play Russian Roulette in a mad courthouse, and a devilish, grinning titular villain that floats around his front parlour very stylishly, even with a vicious letter-opener rammed in it's eye.
There may well be typically cryptic 60's drug metaphor's abounding here,(I can sense them, but I'm damned if I can coherently uncover one for you.) but that's not why 'the Skull' is so watch-able and entertaining.
It's a combination job, and with all it's component parts firing so finely, it can't do much else but work beautifully. It's an elegant film, totally out of sync with many of it's rivals and peers of the brash, boundary-pushing 1960's. Hopefully, this long overdue dvd release will redress the balance in 'the Skull's favour, and bring it to a modern audience, it's unavailability being the only reason I can see why its not being hailed.
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Summary: At last on DVD in WIDESCREEN !
Comment: Several other reviews cover just how good this Amicus release from 1965 is, so if you love Hammer, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, or just a good, scary film--buy THE SKULL. Atmospheric as all heck, with great cinematography and a truly unsettling score by Elisabeth Lutyens. And now, the good folks at Legend Films have contracted with Paramount to release this and a fistful of other movies for the first time on DVD! THE SKULL is in full 2:35 Widescreen color, and also included is the trailer. The print is clean and bright, sharp and clear with excellent sound. Thank you, Legend!
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Summary: A great Amicus film
Comment: * Dr terror's house of horror, I monster, And now the screaming starts, The House that dripped blood, etc. All this films and many more from Amicus are little gems from the british golden age of horror.
It's such a pleasure now to have The Skull with, for Hammer fans, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Nigel Green (Countess Dracula), Patrick Magee (Demons of the mind), Michael Gough (Dracula), Peter Woodthorpe (The evil of Frankenstein), Freddie Francis (Dracula has risen from the grave).
* The widescreen image transfer is very good.
* Don't expect great visual effects, but the dark and mysterious atmosphere is guaranteed.
...A very good DVD.
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