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It's "Hey diddle, diddle the rat and the fiddle, the corpse jumped over a tomb, the murderer laughed to see such a sight, as he strangled a girl in the gloom,gloom, as he strangled a girl in the gloom." Smolkin's creepy song riddle adds suspense superbly to the scene it's sung in Roger Corman's "The Undead." The film is a Halloween hypnosis story that includes genres of sci-fi, horror, and true love. In it a lovely "lady of the evening" - Diana, is set back into middle ages to save herself in an earlier life from being hanged as a witch. Beautiful buxom Livia, played by Allison Hayes, has framed her to get her knight who loves Diana. The knight is the hypnotist who sends Diana back in time. "The Undead" was released after "It Conquered the World"- a Corman sci-fi horror film. In it a look-alike for our damsel in distress, Karen Kadler, plays a pretty aero-space scientist who is strangled by her co-scientist, who's under the mind control of an evil alien, who releases hideous batlike creatures who implant antennae into the victim's medulla oblongata to cause the control.
Back to the suspenseful nature of the lyrics about a murderer strangling a girl, it's sung as Smolkin delivers Diana into a gloomy graveyard. No spoilers you'll have to watch "The Undead" to see if it ends as a horror story, like "It Conquered the World" or another Corman classic, "A Bucket of Blood" in which another beautiful woman, played by blonde, bombshell, Judy Bamber, is strangled with her scarf by a psycho bus boy clay artist while modeling for him in the nude. Be those Corman films as they are, any lyrics about a murderer strangling a girl add considerable suspense to a scene in a gloomy graveyard, and tilt the film toward horror.
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