[Goatrope]

Hello all!

I've had 2 films on my mind for several decades. Both seen in the late 1960s and I've been hoping to find them again.

1) A black and white vampire movie. The scene I remember most was that of a group of people, perhaps a family, barricaded in their Multi-story house. It is dark out and from the upstairs window they are looking out into the yard and nervously watching as several vampires are milling around the yard below. What stuck with me was that these vampires had what looked like wooden at stakes protruding from their chests as they roamed about the trees in the yard. They held he stake with one hand as they walked. I think they were all female.

2) A black and white film where in some sinister guy had what seemed to be something similar to a ventriloquist dummy which he carried in a coffin-like case. I remember a scene where he left this case at the door of an enemy. I forget how, but the case ended up inside the apartment, and at night the puppet got out and slowly approached a sleeping person while holding a long hat pin, which it ultimately sticks into the back of the victim's neck.

These two films have eluded me for a lifetime and have me beginning to wonder if I've dreamt them both.

Any thoughts? I'm guessing both were made in the early 50s.