Help Identify '80's Horror Movie

[WrestlingDeacon 0]

Most of you probably know that I write the Q&A movies column for 411. I got an email this week asking to identify a movie and I've racked and researched my brains out and haven't had much luck. If you think you might know what it is, please give the name and whatever else you can remember. I will credit you in my column this coming Monday. Thanks. Any help would be great. Email below:

 

I remember watching this horror movie in the 80's when I was a kid. I know this is kind of vague, but all I could remember of it was the ending. A woman falls from a balcony, and an overhead camera shot shows her spinning and spinning down onto the ground. This lasts for a minute at least, I think. And as she is spiraling down, her hair gets greyer, and she just gets

older, and I think she eventually turns into a skeleton. I can't

remember what this movie was called or what it was about. Could you please give me some information about this movie? It's been bothering me for a long time!!

thanks!

[Downhome 0]

This person may have watched it in the 80's, but the film is from 1959. Starring Coleen Gray and Grant Williams, the film is known as The Leech Woman. From IMDB...

 

After traveling to Africa a woman learns the secret of eternal youth - unfortunately it entails regularly sacrificing young men.

 

...then ending sequence is where he runs into the room looking for her to explain everything, and at that moment she jumps off of the balcony as she ages very quickly and she turns into a skeleton.

 

The film was showcased on The Mystery Science Theater 3000 in episode Episode 802, which is where I FIRST saw this movie.

 

This may or not be what this guy is looking for, but it sure as hell sounds like it to me. Here are two pictures from the MST3K broadcast when they aired the film...

 

 

 

...if this isn't the movie you want, then I have no idea what it could be.

Edited November 4, 2003 by Downhome

[cabbageboy 0]

The stuff with a chick suddenly getting old has been in quite a few movies. I was also thinking of Lost Horizon, when Margo leaves Shangri La and gets old REAL fast. Not a horror film however.

[Slayer 0]

The film was showcased on The Mystery Science Theater 3000 in episode Episode 802, which is where I FIRST saw this movie.

"Out of Africa...

 

...no wait, there's more in the trunk."

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

This was the one with the pineal gland jokes! Ha. A goodie.

[WrestlingDeacon 0]

Thank you very much Downhome. I am indebted to you greatly.

[WrestlingDeacon 0]

Thank you very much Downhome. I am indebted to you greatly.

[Ravenbomb 0]

wait, didn't Leech Woman come out in like 60 or 61?

[Downhome 0]

wait, didn't Leech Woman come out in like 60 or 61?

Different sites say different years, 1959-1961.