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Illusion-O...a nifty gmmick! I first saw 13 Ghosts on television as a youth. It was my introduction to producer-director William Castle. And even though Castle's famous Illusion-O gimmick was lost on my family's black-and-white TV, I still have fond memories of this ghostly variation of a whol read more

Illusion-O...a nifty gmmick! I first saw 13 Ghosts on television as a youth. It was my introduction to producer-director William Castle. And even though Castle's famous Illusion-O gimmick was lost on my family's black-and-white TV, I still have fond memories of this ghostly variation of a whol read more

Distributor: Mill Creek Entertainment  Release Date: July 19, 2016  Region: Region A Length: 88 min (Homicidal) 90 min (Mr. Sardonicus) Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC) Main Audio: English 2.0 Dolby Digital (448kbps) Subtitles: None Ratio: 1.85:1 (Homicidal) 1.78:1 (Mr. Sardonicus) Notes: This is the read more

Born in Dublin in 1934, the beautiful and talented Audrey Dalton fashioned a film and television career that spanned three decades. In the 1950s, she acted alongside screen legends such as Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton (My Cousin Rachel), Bob Hope (Casanova's Big Night), Barbara Stanwyck (T read more

This post is in honor of the William Castle Blogathon being put on by The Last Drive-In.  You can read other contributing pieces here. Last Halloween, this 2007 documentary made my TCM Top 12.  It may not be Halloween this month, but Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story is a documentary you shoul read more

What do you think of when you hear the name William Castle? Classic chillers? Clever marketing gimmicks? If you asked a movie-goer in the forties, though, they would have thought of mysteries. In the forties, Castle was known as a B director who could get films done on-time and on-budget. His outpu read more

Today is the final day of the William Castle Blogathon! Originally I had planned to contribute a review of Strait-Jacket to round out my contributions to the celebration, but I wasn’t able to get a hold of the film as planned, so instead I’m going to share with you 10 of my favorites of read more

This post is in honor of the William Castle Blogathon being put on by The Last Drive-In.  You can read other contributing pieces here. Last Halloween, this 2007 documentary made my TCM Top 12.  It may not be Halloween this month, but Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story is a documentary you shoul read more

(Image: Crave Online) “Classics of the Corn” is one of the most popular series on TMP. Today I’m bringing a special (and quite different) post to the series. Usually COTC has me making mildly witty musings on films that are completely packed with cheese, but today, to celebrate the read more

And my William Castle Blogathon Pick is… The Busy Body Before I start this blogathon post I just want to extend a big thank you to The Last Drive In and Goregirl’s Dungeon for hosting this event. I also want to say thanks (again) to The Last Drive In for helping me pick a William Castle film that read more

John Goodman as Woolsey/William Castle being awesome As a movie lover, I love watching films that were made by fellow movie lovers with “our people” (all of the film-crazed beings of the world) in mind. Matinee by Joe Dante is one of those films. Released in 1993 and set in 1962, Matinee read more

I’m going to admit something now that I never thought I’d be able to say. I have seen every one of the films in The Whistler series. My introduction to The Whistler was, ironically, a result of the old Jack Benny radio shows, where Benny used to do a parody skit called “The Fiddler.” When I read more

A funhouse P.T. Barnum …that’s what William Castle was. He was a director by trade but a showman by heart and it’s no wonder that he branched out into producing his own films mid-way in his life. It is the films he directed during his own producing years that I wish to focus on in read more

A funhouse P.T. Barnum …that’s what William Castle was. He was a director by trade but a showman by heart and it’s no wonder that he branched out into producing his own films mid-way in his life. It is the films he directed during his own producing years that I wish to focus on in read more

A funhouse P.T. Barnum …that’s what William Castle was. He was a director by trade but a showman by heart and it’s no wonder that he branched out into producing his own films mid-way in his life. It is the films he directed during his own producing years that I wish to focus on in read more

To honor the start of the William Castle Blogathon, I made this GIF from The Tingler. The titular nasty is loose in a silent movie theater that just happens to be playing Tol’able David, one of my favorite movies. This is the iconic scene in which the Tingler crawls in front of the projector read more

A funhouse P.T. Barnum …that’s what William Castle was. He was a director by trade but a showman by heart and it’s no wonder that he branched out into producing his own films mid-way in his life. It is the films he directed during his own producing years that I wish to focus on in read more

SPOILERS AHEAD! Irene Trent is married to Howard, the creepiest looking man I’ve ever seen.  Howard is blind, very rich, an inventor by night – and jealous and controlling to the brink of madness.  Not helping matters is the fact that Irene has recurring sex dreams about a young, handsom read more

I saw William Castle’s HOMICIDAL (1961) at the Loews Jersey Theater in Jersey City on Friday night. To say it was the perfect way to kick off the “Pre-Halloween weekend” would be an understatement unworthy of the master of gimmicky cinematic hyperbole. I knew it was going to be a g read more