# Does any one remember this horror movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540 "2009-02-12T15:37:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/1 "2009-02-12T15:37:50Z")
For some reason the other day, I started thinking of an old horror movie that I saw bits and pieces of on TV (never watched the whole thing) in the early 1970s. I think it was made in the late 1950s, but I am not sure. The plot goes something like this : A sorceror gets beheaded for his crimes, perhaps in the Elixabethan age or maybe in the seventeenth century. He vows that they cannot really stop him, and that he will return to plague the earth again, despite his execution. Then his head gets chopped off. (Should be the end of the story, right? But this is a horror movie…) Then we cut to modern times, where a group of people somehow stumble across his skull/head. The sorceror’s head, naturally, is still alive through the power of his magic, and schemes to be reunited with its body. There is one scene where the decapitated body of the sorceror gets into a scuffle with the other characters, and then finds the head and re-attaches it, becoming a whole man again. I remember being creeped out by this scene as a kid, while also wondering exactly how they filmed the altercation with the headless body. Unfortunately, I never saw the entire movie, but I would not mind tracking it down and re-watching it. Does my description ring any bells with any one? ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/2 "2009-02-12T17:00:51Z")
The Screaming Skull? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/3 "2009-02-12T17:09:31Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > The Screaming Skull? First thing I thought of… ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/4 "2009-02-12T17:10:24Z")
[The Thing That Couldn’t Die (aka The Head That Wouldn’t Die).](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052289/) Great cheapo horror flick, plus one of my favorite MST3K’s (season 9). _“Did you MAYsure the TRAYsure?”_ BTW, not to be confused with “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” starring Jan-in-the-Pan. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/5 "2009-02-12T17:10:43Z")
**The Thing that Couldn’t Die** \* > **[The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) ⭐ 4.1 | Horror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052289/)** > > 1h 9m | Unrated A film saw several times in my youth, wasted watching cheap horror movies. Years later it showed up as an episode of MST3K > **["Mystery Science Theater 3000" The Thing That Couldn't Die (TV Episode 1997)...](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0655475/)** > > | TV-14 \*Not to be confused with **The Brain that Wouldn’t Die** > **[The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) ⭐ 4.5 | Horror, Sci-Fi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052646/)** > > 1h 22m | Approved Edited to add: SIMULPOST!! ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/6 "2009-02-12T17:14:58Z")
Damnit! Five minutes late! ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/7 "2009-02-12T17:17:02Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > [The Thing That Couldn’t Die (aka The Head That Wouldn’t Die).](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052289/) > > Great cheapo horror flick, plus one of my favorite MST3K’s (season 9). > > _“Did you MAYsure the TRAYsure?”_ > > BTW, not to be confused with “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” starring Jan-in-the-Pan. Yes, that is the movie. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/8 "2009-02-12T17:32:29Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > First thing I thought of… And by that, of course, I meant _The Thing that Couldn’t Die_. Damn MST3K episodes, getting all mixed up in my head. Maybe I should have it replaced… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/9 "2009-02-12T17:38:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Maybe I should have it replaced… It wouldn’t help. The old one Wouldn’t/Couldn’t(/Shouldn’t?) Die ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/10 "2009-02-12T18:32:30Z")
Since this one is solved, would people mind another challenge? I caught just one scene of a horror movie back in the early 90s. It was on tv, so it might well have been from the 80s or even 70s. There was a girl whose cousin or sister turned out to be a witch. The girl (a teenager, probably 13-15) realizes that the other girl is a witch when she finds an animal’s tail hidden in a room. I think it was part of a horse’s tail… and that’s all I saw. Any clues? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/11 "2009-02-12T19:53:31Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Since this one is solved, would people mind another challenge? > > I caught just one scene of a horror movie back in the early 90s. It was on tv, so it might well have been from the 80s or even 70s. There was a girl whose cousin or sister turned out to be a witch. The girl (a teenager, probably 13-15) realizes that the other girl is a witch when she finds an animal’s tail hidden in a room. I think it was part of a horse’s tail… and that’s all I saw. Any clues? Could it have been something from a Saturday morning kid’s anthology? _Big Blue Marble_ adapted the book “Witch’s Sister” in 1979. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/12 "2009-02-12T19:56:01Z")
Could it be [Stranger in our House](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078330/)? Never saw the whole thing, and don’t remember a tail, but that’s what jumped into my head. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/13 "2009-02-12T22:53:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It wouldn’t help. The old one Wouldn’t/Couldn’t(/Shouldn’t?) Die _There’s a lotta things about me you don’t know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn’t understand. Things you couldn’t understand. Things you **shouldn’t** understand._ - Pee Wee Herman ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-one-remember-this-horror-movie/485540/14 "2009-02-12T23:32:51Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > Could it be [Stranger in our House](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078330/)? > > Never saw the whole thing, and don’t remember a tail, but that’s what jumped into my head. This might be it. I just looked in a thread on imdb and someone wanted to know what the “whole equestrian angle” that isn’t part of the book is about. Thanks!