The Witching Hours: Witch Doll Was It in The Witches?

 Watching the old 60's chiller The Witches with Joan Fontaine I saw the votive dolls again, the props being two 1960's and contemporary toy dolls.

Two schoolkids buy them from a table top sale.

Here, the young actress is holding both dolls, a dark suited boy and a chestnut haired girl. 

I think the young lad is holding the boxes but I cant be sure. You?

Probably not Barbie and Ken, Are they a Sindy and a Paul like these collectables on the left from Jenjoys All Dolled Up online?

Here's the girl doll on its own in an earlier shot.

and a bit closer

Ive no real idea what the femail doll is [or where the male doll went] and besides it reminding me of the deadly doll in TV21's Agent 21 I wondered if Fairylite's Wendy might be a contender?

She's got the big hair but not the right colour. neither are the wigs. 

Maybe Sindy and Paul after all?

Have you any ideas readers?

Thank you and happy Halloween!

I've gone Bats!

 We picked up a jiggler sucker bat tother day 

Perfect for Halloween!

It reminded me of a 1979 toy I would have loved as a kud in the Sixties,

Mattel's Gre-gory!

The big bad vampire bat.

Here's a comic and. I couldn't find a TV spot.

Besides it's rubbery action, Greg's unique selling point was a blood pump in its chest!

 I wonder if it sold well?

Operated by a pump button on its back, this feature has dried up now in most Greg-gories by the sounds of it ( as attested by You Tube videos on the toy).

Is this haunted tree mouse a toy you had or remember Gruesome readers?

Every Room is a Living Tomb

 

Not two old horror films I know at all but I love the garish poster art. There's just something about them.

Do you like them?

What are you doing This Halloween?

Trick or Treating? Watching movies? Making food? Dressing up? What you up to this October's End?

🎃

The Tin Man Film

Does this short film count as a Frankenstein movie ? It is about a Mad Scientist who builds a robot, which then goes on a rampage.

Thelma Todd (1906-35) and Patsy Kelly (1910-81) made a total of 21 short films for Hal Roach, released by MGM, between 1933 and 1936, the last being released after Todd's death in 1935. They were basically a female Laurel and Hardy team, and very funny.

In The Tin Man (1935), the two are trying to find a house at night, but have not written down the address, and stop at a strange house to use the telephone. It turns out to be the abode of a Mad Scientist, who wants revenge, and unleashes his creation on the pair.

In the end they escape, and capture an escaped convict. Great fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQDTemOMU4

Paul Adams from New Zealand

The Traditionally Ghastly Halloween Quiz

A spooky Quiz for Halloween:

You know you want to!

1. The name of the Gorgon in the film the Gorgon?
2. What was the British Godzilla?
3. In which horror film do the two Coreys star?
4. Who is Lawrence Talbot?
5. What is the proper name for werewolfism?
6. Who is the Kessler boy?
7. What is the name of the Professor killed by the demon at the start of Night of the Demon?
8. Complete this from King Kong: it was beauty that .................
9. How does Perseus kill the Kraken?
10. In A Warning to the Curious, from which region are the Three Crowns?
11. What was Bram Stoker's job?
12. In the game Haunted House what must players do with the ball bearing? 
13. How are Amity and Brody connected?
14. What is the puppet's name in the film Magic with Anthony Hopkins?
15. In which vampire flick dies Roddy McDowell play a TV horror host?
16. What happened to the Mod Monster's head when his trousers fell down?
17. What must the main protagonist make to lift the curse in Thinner?
18. Which pub do the two friends go to on the moors in American Werewolf in London?
19. Why was Janet Leigh's character fleeing at the start of Psycho?
20. Which publisher released Eerie, Creepy and Blazing Combat?
21. What is the name of Dracula's supposed castle in real-life Romania?
22. At the start of Creepy comics a section appeared that was called Loathsome what?
23. What object flies around in Phantasm?
24. How does the nanny kill herself in The Omen?
25. What is the name of the delirious cult member who is hypnotised in Night of the Demon?

Boo!

Bring Me the Ring of Bela Lugosi

With props on my mind I've been looking at Dracula's ring.

With three famous fanged actors wearing it I wondered if they had the same one, namely John Carradine, Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, the original 

Consulting the funny pages [the net], which is thick with Transylvanian finger jewelry, its clear I am but one of a myriad mortal souls interested in this very Carpathian conundrum.

The huge passion for and heavy presence of this ring online is such that fans, firms and aficionados have copied, cast and recreated it probably since the beginning of fandom for the films.

Perhaps the greatest horror collector ever, Forry J. Ackerman, discusses the original Universal Dracula ring in 1996, which he had in his possession.

https://youtu.be/1OzANIHjnCY?si=k17Ickqd9BeT5DsC

So where is the original Dracula ring now?

Any ideas?