My World Dies Screaming

1958
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1h 25m

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A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.

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5.2/10

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Gerald Mohr

Philip Tierney

Cathy O'Donnell

Sheila Wayne
(as Kathy O'Donnell)

William Ching

Mark Snell
(as Bill Ching)

John Qualen

Jonah Snell

Barry Bernard

Dr. Victor Forel

Director
- Harold Daniels
Writer
- Robert C. Dennis
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Featured review

6/10

Definitely grade B, but not bad

As a child this movie always scared the daylights out of my sister and me whenever we saw on TV. In fact, in my mind it has always been *the* horror movie of my childhood. After finally discovering its name and seeing it again decades later, I was relieved to see I don't have to be embarrassed to admit that. Sure it's 50 years old, has mediocre acting, and those hokey "subliminal" images, but I still find the situations, especially the woman's dream, haunting. And, though you'll probably think you know what the surprise ending is going to be, there's one or two little twists yet to go. You have to give the filmmakers credit for trying to produce something a bit more psychologically satisfying than the usual 1950's horror movie did.

Worth checking out if you like thriller movies. Just don't spend too much on it!

hoffmann-13
Feb 16, 2007
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Trivia
Marketed as the first film in "Psycho-Rama...Using subliminal communication!" Subliminal images include single-frame flashes of a devil face, goggle-eyed face with rat in mouth, skull, and cobra head, and messages like "Get Ready to Scream!"

Goofs
Numerous times scenes shot outdoors spontaneously jump from night to day and back. This is most noticeable in the scenes before Phillip returns to the house to move the body.

Quotes
[closing narration]
Sheila Wayne: We left the old house: silent and foreboding, a place of horror and death. It was truly haunted. No one would ever live there again. It was a house of madness.

Alternate versions
The original release had a prologue and epilogue by Gerald Mohr explaining the "Psycho-Rama" subliminal image gimmick. These are lacking in the so-called "uncut" Rhino Video version; also, Rhino has added their own subliminal message, "Rent Rhino Videos every day" (3 times in the 66th minute of their version).