Aghast From the Past - The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

January 20, 1966 - Director: Alan Rafkin

The Blurb: Looking to score a break as a newspaper reporter and impress beautiful Alma Parker (Joan Staley), milquetoast typesetter Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) pitches a story about his small town's haunted house. When his editor (Dick Sargent) insists Luther spend a night alone in the spooky mansion, where a grisly murder-suicide had taken place decades earlier, the timid reporter learns that the house contains a supernatural resident who doesn't like visitors.

Our Take: Instantly a classic from Don Knotts anxiety to creepy organ music to a really great script and still original story there's nothing to dislike here, except maybe that long drawn out festival scene, ha! Just as enjoyable today as it was back then, we give this classic 5 out of 5 skulls!