black & white horror movie

[docjohn]

Please can somebody identify this horror movie that I must have seen in the cinema in the late fifties or mid-sixties. The scene which sticks in my mind has a large landscaped garden with statues, so probably the garden of a stately home in real life. As the hero or heroine in a panic runs through the garden in the evening (it is dark but not night-time), the heads of the statues turn to look at him/her.



Sorry I can't remember more........

[JohnB_Toronto]

name='docjohn']Please can somebody identify this horror movie that I must have seen in the cinema in the late fifties or mid-sixties. The scene which sticks in my mind has a large landscaped garden with statues, so probably the garden of a stately home in real life. As the hero or heroine in a panic runs through the garden in the evening (it is dark but not night-time), the heads of the statues turn to look at him/her.



Sorry I can't remember more........

Sounds a bit like "Night of The Eagle" (1962)

[Steve Wigan]

name='JohnB_Toronto']Sounds a bit like "Night of The Eagle" (1962)

...and there was a lot of running through gardens in The Day Mars Invaded Earth....

[John Llewellyn Moxey]

name='Steve Wigan']...and there was a lot of running through gardens in The Day Mars Invaded Earth....

I keep running through gardens, but they never turn their heads!



John

[Steve Wigan]

name='John Llewellyn Moxey']I keep running through gardens, but they never turn their heads!



John

John...At our age, the running is an achievement !



Steve

[batman]

If not NOTE, perhaps The Maze.

[hannay]

How about the finale of 'The Innocents'

[m35541]

I agree that it sounds a bit like The Innocents.

[Film Man]

More like Robert Wise's 'The Haunting'... You imagine everything is alive, even the statues...Try running that on your own! Film Man

[Critto]

Last Year at Marianbad



Not really a horror movie, although it does involve a garden of statues and a hero and heroine. One of the statues does appear to move but this is down to editing techniques i.e. crossing the 180 degree line.

[jaycad]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nhUa7s8fsU]YouTube - Theatrical Trailer - The Innocents[/ame]



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq74oz6mf3w&feature=related]YouTube - The Haunting (1963 Classic) Original Trailer[/ame]





i think it's more likely to be 'the innocents' out of the two although i don't remember the staues actually moving.

[batman]

The OP may have got the original The Haunting mixed up with the dire remake, in which the statue heads do turn.

[Steve Wigan]

name='Critto']Last Year at Marianbad



Not really a horror movie, although it does involve a garden of statues and a hero and heroine. One of the statues does appear to move but this is down to editing techniques i.e. crossing the 180 degree line.

Not suggesting it was a horror movie, but it had an obvious eeriness and melancholy about it.I love the film. And I was certainly reminded of Marienbad when I saw The Day Mars Invaded Earth, for some reason !! (see my Imdb review ot TDMIE for confirmation !)