when you have a disembody skull and an empty mansion and a schizophrenic wife and a scheming cad and a nutzo gardener and throw in a minister and his wife what have you get . aip answer to insomnia . the scream skull get point for audacity and offer free casket for anyone who die of fright from watch the film . pretty safe bet and when youre lull into a stupor by people who think theyre in a production of suspense for dummy . but peggy webber be a cutie and anyway . she have a few good moment of act here and there ( especially when try to communicate with the gardener ) and no one else fill a nightgown like she . but that scar face she make scary in itself . whoa . a a whole and though and there be little suspense here and everything be telegraph like a punch throw by a mime . you can not be scar by this film and it impossible . it have it moment and but not enough of them . however and thanks to a certain mike nelson and his two robot pal and there be several moment of pure joy and especially in the copy they get hold of ( the film jump and and it be really scary . ) . one star for the screaming skull and eight and a half for the mst3k version . talk about a screaming bore .