32 Days of Halloween XVII, Day 13
Felix the Cat: Skulls and Sculls
Inner Sanctum: A Corpse for Halloween
Let’s begin tonight with some animation from 1930: a truly bizarre cartoon of Felix the Cat. “Skulls and Sculls.” I almost wonder if they had two half-episodes figured out and tried to splice them together. The animation equivalent of a Paul McCartney song.
Then we go to a 1949 Halloween episode from Inner Sanctum with Mercedes McCambridge (The Exorcist). It’s “A Corpse for Halloween.”
We’ve seen it before, in many a horror movie. You’re out in the middle of nowhere and you’ve made the terrible mistake of traveling before there are cell phones, so you can’t really call AAA. Normally, the seemingly friendly farmer or whoever turns out to be a chainsaw-wielding maniac. Or happens to run a haunted wax museum out of the back of their home. But feeding tourists to a live dinosaur in a cave…that’s a rare one. But this is the 1969 It’s Alive! (No relation to the horror trilogy of the 1970s.) And that is indeed Tommy Kirk (Old Yeller) playing the role of Wayne Thomas. Enjoy.
