Something Weird The Screaming Skull

To paraphrase Paul Simon, The Screaming Skull is still creepy after all these years. It opens with one of those William Castle-type of promotional gimmicks: free burial insurance. Anybody who dies watching the movie gets buried gratis, courtesy of AIP. The title music also suggests that what’s ahead is promising. The somber strains are haunting, familiar, and definitely a cut above the average needle drops in most grade B horror fare. And then it hits you – you’re hearing BERLIOZ, the Dies Irae nightmare m