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The creature masquerades as his ... A Victorian-age scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. A collector comes into possession of the skull of the Marquis de Sade and learns it … A shady dealer in books and antiquities offers to sell Maitland a skull. It’s the skull of the Marquis de Sade, and the skull itself is already tied to tales of violent death and murder.Maitland initially balks at the dealer’s price. Still, watching Cushing and Lee together has long been one of the supreme pleasures of horror cinema, and this little movie does have its winning ways. Three trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last few months in deaths looking like suicides.
It’s good – I’d recommend it. The Emmy noms are in! It's no "Creeping Flesh" or "Horror Express," but still most enjoyable.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Very bad things. It MUST have been up to something during those 150 years, right? The film also seems a bit tentative in that it never lets Cushing become truly possessed and crazed; how much better the picture would have been if ol' Pete really went on a tear!
While some viewers have complained of visible strings attached to the levitating skull, that really didn't bother me (a single wire is barely visible for perhaps two seconds); what did vex me is that we never learn of the skull's evil doings between the time of its disinterment and its modern-day shenanigans. In the early twentieth century, a Gorgon takes human form and terrorizes a small European village by turning its citizens to stone. Four men who were involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of World War II are found murdered with tiny dolls left next to their corpses. The skull is what remains of marquis De Sade. The Skull (1965) February 15, 2015 / Horror Movie Maven / 0 Comments. While the film is undeniably fun, however, it somehow falls short of greatness. He claims that the Marquis de Sade was not actually a mad man. My take: It’s a slow movie without much action, but it has an interesting premise, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee. That is the basic premise of this film.Peter Cushing stars in The Skull as Christopher Maitland, a collector and scholar in the area of demonology. Oof, that was Rotten. Phillips warns his against the skull. (Indeed, it's more like the skull has come into possession of him!) On paper, the 1965 Amicus production "The Skull" would seem to be a surefire winner. Based on a story by Robert "Psycho" Bloch, directed by horror veteran Freddie Francis, starring British horror icons Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and featuring such sterling character actors as Michael Gough, Nigel Green, Patrick Wymark and Jill Bennett, it would seem like a can't-miss proposition. Use the HTML below. Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers. Rate this movie. Much too soon he discovers how the skull affects him: by turning him into a frenzied killer. Directed by Freddie Francis. With Peter Cushing, Patrick Wymark, Jill Bennett, Nigel Green. Awesome!
The Skull, made for Amicus in 1965, is a particularly effective case for Francis's talent with a camera and against his knack for creating his own stories. I won’t say more in case you don’t know about him; it may be that you actually enjoy the movie without knowledge of his life.With the scholarly nature of the film, I would recommend this to fans of the Ninth Gate. So Fresh: Absolute Must See! An anthology of four short horror stories revolving around a British antique shop and its mysterious owner. Was this review helpful to you? A scientist, working with genetics, creates a creature that is capable of transforming back and forth between a giant Death Head moth and a beautiful woman. Instead, he was possessed by a demon, and that same demon now possesses the skull.Christopher Lee (right) tells Peter Cushing’s character (left) about the evil, possessed skull.Of course Maitland now wants the skull, and you can imagine how well that goes.As a result of the cerebral subject matter, the movie is slow-moving and lacking in much action. A collector comes into possession of the skull of the Marquis de Sade and learns it is possessed by an evil spirit. Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars.
I wanted more to see and learn more about them and less about the other side characters.Finally, the film breaks the fourth wall if you happen to know anything about the Marquis de Sade.
What happens when you dig up the skull … Otherwise, I think it is a film you can skip.
A collector of esoterica, Dr. Maitland, buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source of artifacts.
In it, Cushing plays an occult investigator who comes into possession of the 150-year-old, particularly nasty-looking skull of the notorious libertine the Marquis de Sade, and comes under the influence of its baleful and hypnotic powers. 9 of 9 people found this review helpful. His interest is piqued once he learns that the skull was stolen from his fellow collector Sir Matthew Phillips, played by Christopher Lee. A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth and health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person.