The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

Yup, it's low budget (script contrivances ahoy!). It's never actually scary. I doubt it provided any shudders back in '59 either, but it is often grotesque; the offbeat fantasy/horror aspects were unique for the day and still play pretty fresh even today.

The twist toward the end of the movie is cool. At 70 minutes, it moves along at a brisk pace, wasting no time. You'll probably only recognize character actor Henry Daniell, who starred in a ton of genre work during '40's - '60's. Valerie French was one of the leads in the currently still unreleased on dvd THE 27TH DAY.

Midnite Movies was made for movies like this, forgotten, but solid b-movies made to fill out the latter half of a double bill.

6/10