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Macabre is a 1958 American horror film directed by William Castle, written by Robb White, and starring William Prince and Jim Backus. The film falls into both the horror and suspense genres. It involved one of Castle's first forays into using the promotional gimmicks that later made him famous.
Macabre: Directed by William Castle. With William Prince, Jim Backus, Christine White, Jacqueline Scott. A doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.
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- Crime, Drama, Horror
- William Castle
- 1958-10
Summaries. A doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her. A small-town doctor (William Prince) gets caught up in a revenge plot when his small daughter is kidnapped and buried alive as he is given a few short hours to find her before she suffocates. To cover the risk of a heart attack ...
Jul 16, 2012 · Macabre (1958) was William Castle's first film, and also his fortieth. A dependable B-movie machine for Harry Cohn at Columbia, Castle had churned out efficient programmers for years, among them the underrated noir When Strangers Marry (1944) with Robert Mitchum, the Technicolor 3D actioner Fort Ti (1953), and sundry installments of the studio's Crime Doctor and The Whistler series.
- William Castle, Fritz Collings, Paul Wurtzel
- William Prince
A doctor has had some very bad luck. A serial killer kidnapped his wife and killed her, then two of his daughters after his wife suffer the same fate, and now his youngest daughter has been ...
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- William Castle
- Horror
- William Prince
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Synopsis by Cavett Binion. This first "gimmick" outing from horror producer William Castle is mainly distinguished by the clever ad campaign promising $1000 insurance for each patron (from Lloyds of London, no less!) against the possibility that they may die of fright during a screening of the film. (A similar gimmick would later be employed by ...
William Castle. Director. Anthony Boucher. Novel. Robb White. Screenplay. After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's small daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.
