Review – The Skull

This isn’t anybody’s finest hour. A collector of outré objects (Peter Cushing) acquires the skull of the Marquis de Sade only to discover that it still possesses the existential evil of its original owner. Though the cast includes many of the usual suspects (including longtime Cushing collaborator Christopher Lee), everyone seems to be phoning it in. Some sequences are done as long tracking shots from inside the skull, which is presumably floating in space. These bits have the odd feel of a 3-D production, though I was able to find no indication that the movie was shot in 3-D. Other than a handful of odd moments, this is a thoroughly unremarkable effort. Mildly amusing