the scream skull open with a warning and an offer for free burial service if you should die watch it now there a hook . the story itself have a fairly interesting premise for a horror flick represent scheme husband marries a wealthy woman with a history of mental illness and then attempt to convince her that she go insane with shrill noise and mysterious knocking and skull that turn up at inopportune time . add to the formula a sufficiently creepy gardener who still cherish the memory of the man first wife who he be devote to . maybe it just that the 1950 do not have the technology to pull off some of the scare scene need to juice up this movie and the technique use here seem contrive and mundane . but then again and when i first saw house on haunt hill a a nine year old and it give me the heebie jeebies in the same way i be sure this film do for young viewer of the same era . don not get me wrong and the film be not terrible and it just seem to get tedious at time . but there some great atmospheric tension in the generally huge but unfurnished whitlock home and and the garden and pool be a nice touch . for me the best play out scene involve eric whitlock ( john hudson ) go maniacal in the pond attempt to retrieve the hidden skull and he just wad right in clothes and all and in neat contrast to the mentally challenged gardener ( director alex nicol in a dual role ) . it make you wonder who the real dimwit be . in it own good way and perhaps the most shocking thing about the film represent how about that neat roadster the whitlock make their first appearance in gull wing door in 1958. that at least make me jump out of my seat .