'The Screaming Skull'
This is what happens when those wild
and crazy folks who gave us the 'dah dah dah' commercials decide
to make a romantic movie. A young bride (Mamie Eisenhower) and
her new husband (Sam Donaldson) find the house of their dreams,
furnish it with a staircase and various filing cabinets, then
proceed to live out their manic-depressive fantasies. Sort of
'Jane Eyre' filmed by Oliver Stone.
We also meet the flinchy gardener (David Carradine) who founders
around a back-forty the size of Guatamala, and spends his time
stacking flower pots while drooling and going wall-eyed every
time the heroine draws breath. Our couple is also stalked by the
local vicar (John Glenn) and his wife (Deadly Mantis), purveyors
of door-to-door garage sales.
In blissful tedium, Mamie dons a Victoria's Seasick bathing suit
and breast-strokes around the cesspool while hubby vacuums and
dusts the basement graveyard, and barbeques the artwork. We are
also treated to teleporting peacocks, ominous lily pads, and romantic
interludes of the happy couple sitting around planning their funeral.
This movie was filmed in a variety of industrial grays and scored
by the Omaha Philharmonic and Glee Club.
Up on the SOL, Mike is terrorized by the Inner Crow, plays the
coffin lottery, Servo becomes raptor prey, Bbbbarb earns spare
change as a telemarketer, and Pearl raids a penguin warehouse.