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May 24, 2011 · Top 10 William Castle Film Gimmicks. by Return of the Living Meg. fact checked by Alex Hanton. 662. 678. William Castle was the King of low-budget, B-movie Horror Flick! His gimmicks were legendary. With the perfect combination of camp, horror, humor and gore, William Castle always put on a good show!
- The Old Dark House
- Macabre
- I Saw What You Did
- Shanks
- Let’s Kill Uncle
J. B. Priestley’s The Old Dark House was first adapted by James Whale in 1932. The original works as an effective chiller and tongue-in-cheek comedy that parodies stories about haunted houses and things that go bump in the night. Castle was no stranger to splashing his scare fare with humor, which made him the perfect director to reimagine the stor...
Macabre isn’t the best William Castle film — obviously, hence its ninth-place ranking — but a case could be made that it is his most important. This dark thriller about the daughter of a doctor being kidnapped and buried alive marked the first time Castle used his signature gimmicks. Theater attendees were given a certificate for a $1,000 life insu...
In 1965, Castle worked with Joan Crawford for the second and final time with I Saw What You Did. Teens Libby and Kit are bored one evening and entertain themselves by making relatively innocent prank phone calls to random numbers. Every time someone answers, they repeat, “I saw what you did, and I know who you are.” Unfortunately, one of their rand...
It’s somewhat surprising that one of Castle’s most disturbing films is also among his least seen. That said, it’s easy to understand why audiences didn’t (and don’t) take to this grim slice of madness as easily as they do movies about haunted houses and more traditionally portrayed psychopaths. Shanksfollows a deaf puppeteer named Malcolm (played b...
An irredeemably bratty, combat-obsessed orphan named Barnaby inherits a fortune after the death of his father (a silent cameo by Castle). Until he reaches the right age to collect, Barnaby is sent to live on a remote island with his uncle Kevin, a former British intelligence commander who has literally written a book about how good he is at killing...
Jun 1, 2023 · Director William Castle is best known for the gimmicks he created to go with films like The Tingler, Macabre, and Thirteen Ghosts. Move over, P.T Barnum, this is the real greatest showman....
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On his own: the gimmicks. Rosemary's Baby. Death. Legacy. Filmography. As director. As producer. As writer. As actor. Television credits. As director. As producer. References. Bibliography. External links. William Castle. House on Haunted Hill (1959) by William Castle.
Feb 13, 2023 · William Castle: The Great Gimmicks and Greater Horror Movies. By Zoe Dumas. Published Feb 13, 2023. Castle was notorious for the kind of gimmicks he used to promote films, creating...
Oct 31, 2017 · The Hair-Raising Gimmicks of the Abominable Showman. William Castle went all-out to fright audiences with his horror movies and marketing strategy
Jul 28, 2011 · William Castle, director and producer of ridiculous B-movies, had a vision. He wanted to make every single one of his films into a spectacle event (much to the annoyance of theaters that booked...
