60's Horror Movie Buff Wanted!

[scarystuff]

greetings all. oh, yes... and HELP!

i have been trying to remember a horror movie i saw when i was very young that was done in the 60's. it had something to do with pirates or old english types and in one scene one was decapitated as punishment for a crime. however there was some witchcraft or something involved and his head ends up in the cabinet of modern-day people. this head is alive and has hypnotic qualities so he can get people to do whatever when he looks into their eyes.

i am a pretty hard-core horror movie fan from way back, and it takes a lot to scare the s**t out of me. This movie was one of them and i've never forgotten it (yes, i know - ironic since i cant remember the name). part of the problem was that it was so freaky i would turn it off as it usually turned up in the middle of the night on some obscure tv station when i was half asleep.. etc.. it was too freaky to watch - especially alone.

okay, i would imagine most of you out there are too young to remember any such movie, and the older movies are almost never shown on tv anymore.

but does this little synopsis sound even remotely familar to any of you older folks? :pirate:

[UnHoLy]

is it... "Horror Rises From The Tomb"?

that was actually done in '72 by Paul Naschy but it sounds somewhat similar...

[scarystuff]

thanks for the reply. somehow i remember it being much older than that, but mayby i've got my nightmares mixed up.

i will say that one of the most memorable scenes in the movie was when someone opened a cupboard and the living head was there - ready to hypnotise them. what a freaky movie.

i'll have to investigate that title. thanks.

[Kevin]

Sounds like it might be The Thing That Couldn't Die, a movie from the late 50s.
In that one some people at a modern day ranch dig up a box that contains the head of a warlock. A couple of centuries earlier some sailors (led by Francis Drake I believe) had seperated the warlock's head and body and buried them seperately in order to incapacitate him (since he couldn't be killed). The head is still alive and can control the people who look at it. It was black and white.