‘Suspense around every curve!’
Screaming Mimi is a 1958 American Film-Noir thriller about a buxom blonde exotic dancer who is stalked by a killer known as The Ripper. Or The Slasher…
Directed by Gerd Oswald (A Kiss Before Dying) from a screenplay written by Robert Blees (Frogs; Doctor Phibes Rises Again; Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?) based on a 1949 novel by Fredric Brown.
Plot:
After nearly being killed by a psychopath, a voluptuous blonde (Anita Ekberg) is sent to a sanitarium, where her psychiatrist (Harry Townes) falls obsessively in love with her and helps her get a job working as an exotic dancer at a nightclub run by Joann “Gypsy” Masters (Gypsy Rose Lee).
When Ekberg is nearly killed once again by an unknown assailant known as The Ripper, a journalist (Philip Carey) who’s fallen for Ekberg does what he can to solve the mystery — and save her life…
Notes:
Most of the soundtrack score for Screaming Mimi was recycled from On the Waterfront.
Italian filmmaker Dario Argento loosely adapted Fredric Brown’s novel (uncredited) for his 1969 film The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.
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