An innocent bride, a brooding husband, a dead wife, a grizzled handyman and a friendly minister and his wife. Add in a ghostly presence, a skull that appears and disappears, and the lily pond where the first wife met her grizzly demise. Sound familiar? This starts off exactly like "Rebecca" with the grizzled handyman a combination of Mrs. Danvers and "Dark Shadows'" Willy long before the Gothic serial and 20 years after Alfred Hitchcock's adaption of the popular Daphne DuMaurier novel. Low grade American International offered burial insurance to those who died in the theater while watching the movie (or more possibly drive-in) and there was no William Castle to be found. It's all fun, ableit surprisingly good, and the conclusion is genuinely chilling, leaving the audience to make their own conclusions and ultimately get into the action a little more. Don't be put off by the total unknowns in the cast. They do a great job considering the budget and similarity to "Rebecca", perhaps making this head and shoulders above other Z grade shockers of its day.

C'mon, people. This one's just fun all the way. The main villain is a skull who is rather unconvincingly underhand-pitched towards his enemies by an off-screen technician. Plus, free coffins if you die of fright from the movie! What's not to love?

Charming widower Eric (solid John Hudson) and his sweet, pretty new wife Jenni (appealingly played by Peggy Webber) move into the gorgeous palatial mansion of Eric's late wife. Pretty soon Peggy starts to see an unsettling disembodied skull all over the place. Is she going crazy? Or is the place really haunted? Director Alex Nicol, working from an endearingly hokey script by John Kneubuhl, keeps the pace stately, but steady throughout, creates a suitably spooky atmosphere, elicits acceptable acting from a game cast, and stages the rousing conclusion with considerable aplomb. Floyd Crosby's moody black and white cinematography makes expert use of crazily tilted Dutch camera angles and gracefully gradual tracking shots. Ernest Gold's effectively eerie score likewise hits the spot. Nice supporting performances by Nicol as weird, slow, scruffy gardener Mickey and Russ Conway as friendly Reverend Edward Snow. Moreover, since the movie is a trim 62 minutes long it's never dull and gets right down to brass tacks with a refreshing dearth of pretense. Good, harmless Grade B fright feature fun.