I need help with two movies that I watched as a child in the 1970s.
The first one is about a family who moves out of their house. The son appears to be against it or the parents die. He stays in the house alone. When the new owners move in, he takes refuge in a secret room underneath or behind a staircase. Eventually the owners realize that there is an intruder living among them. In the final scene, he is dragged away in handcuffs by the police.
The second is a movie about a mad scientist. Most of the time he out and about seeking victims or rather patients. The experiment is seemingly about placing a neck band on women. If they don't perform to his expectation it is tightened to the point of death, and, decapitation. The end is about his love interest being decapitated and how he expresses his utter loss by holding her head in his embrace. This movie was more along the lines of the Hammer production movies of the time.
Please let me if I dreamed this or if they are in fact worthy of rescreening.
— Luis
UNK SEZ: I've got you covered on the first one, Luis! That Intruder hiding in the house has got to be the Kindertrauma classic BAD RONALD ('74)! It's definitely worth re-screening and you can read a full review HERE! As for the second one involving the decapitated head, I'm confident one of our wise readers might know the answer to that one!
I am 90% sure that the second one has been mentioned here at some point. Some Traumaniac knows the answer.
Interesting. I don't know if any of these might be the one, but a few films I can think of with mad scientists prowling for victims, decapitations and/or neck brace contraptions are:
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Frankenhooker (1990)
Flesh For Frankenstein (1973)
The Head (1959)
The Dr. Orloff series
Corruption (1968)
I own a copy of Warner Archives' blu-ray of Bad Ronald. The video quality is impeccable – it looks and sounds better than it probably did when it was broadcast analog in 1974. Highly recommended, and it's not expensive.