Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Vultural ~ Despite mostly bad reviews, what the hey, I loaded this up. Early on, voluptuous Ekberg emerges from the surf and hurries to take a shower outside the shack. Nearby is a mental institution, along with a handy escapee clutching a big ole knife. Two screams later, she's in the nuthouse herself, traumatized outta her unnecessary mind. Inside, she falls under the analytical spell of a possessive psychiatrist. Next thing, they're both gone, and she's gyrating her assets, along with chains and ropes, as an exotic dancer.Anyway, murder and attempted murder bolster this trashy Noir. Swear, I'm not making this up. Still undecided? The Red Norvo combo is the nightclub band, Gypsy Rose Lee is the owner. Oh yeah, Miss Ekberg has a vicious Great Dane watchdog, but anyone can get past him if they softly recite the Gettysburg Address.

Michael O'Keefe The voluptuous Anita Ekberg plays Virginia Wilson, an exotic dancer that comes in from a swim in the ocean and witnesses a man get shot while trying to stab her with a knife as she showers. She is placed in a sanitarium, where her psychiatrist, Dr. Greenwood(Harry Townes),is mesmerized by her charms and falls in love with her. Greenwood wants to take over her life; they both leave the hospital and the doctor decides to change both of their names. Virginia becomes Yolanda and is very animate about going back to her job dancing at a nightclub owned by a character played by the legendary stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. The beautiful dancer becomes a person of interest in a series of murders that involves a small sculpture created by her step-brother. A police captain(Alan Gifford)and a newspaper columnist(Philip Carey)work steadfast to clear up the mystery. Some of the sets are rather nice, but pleasing on the eyes is the provocative dancing of Ekberg. Lee's routine seems pretty worn out. I really like the sequence of walking on an empty street in the night. The title SCREAMING MIMI is based on the name of the mysterious sculpture.

wmav01 I remember this movie only because my sister and I were the original latch key kids. My older sister and I used to watch TV from the old channel 5 ( pre- Fox network ) TV out of Washington DC. They ran great late afternoon movies and reruns I watched for years before cable. Anyone who grew up in the channel 5 area during the late 60's knows hows what I mean. The Untouchables, Highway Patrol, The Big Valley, Dear Lord where are these great reruns today?? But I digress.. This movie scared the living crap out of me, and I remember my sister teasing me for months. I remember so little about this movie, but it scared me bad enough I've never forgotten the title. Netflix doesn't have this..anyone know where to get a copy of it? I want to face my fear!!

lazarillo This film could be considered one of the missing links between American film noir and the suspense and horror films that would become so popular in continental Europe over the next two decades (i.e. the German "krimis", the Italian "gialli", the horror films of Bava and Argento). It's technically a late period film noir, but rather than having the traditional pessimistic tone and hard-boiled, voice-over narrative, it is completely off-the-wall and chock-full of the suggested depravity and lurid psycho-babble that would characterize the later European films. Interestingly, it was apparently based on the same Fredric Brown novel as Dario Argento's "Bird with Crystal Plummage" (although at least one of these movie was obviously only loosely based on the source novel because they don't really resemble each other too much). It also features European sex symbol Anita Ekberg as a voluptuous stripper (who looks like she could eat Edwige Fenech or one of the other later European sex kittens). Rare for the time, it even has a psycho-killer, called "The Ripper", who leaves the epononymous "screaming mimi" dolls next to his/her butchered female victims. Not a great movie perhaps, but I really dug it.