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SPINE TINGLER -- THE WILLIAM CASTLY STORY (2007):
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Constance Colby is haunted by her brother Cecil.
Castle was a decent B-movie director -- but THE NIGHT WALKER (1964) almost works on that level, except that the laboratory scenes ruin the movie and the final denouement makes little sense (all of which could be forgiven if Stanwyck fell into the lab pit at the end, wakes up screaming in her mansion bed, goes down the hall in a replay of the opening scene, finds herself once again in the study doorway listening to her blind husband converse with his lawyer, and the camera pans in suddenly to the iris of her eye. Fade out. She's caught in a dream web loop from which she can't escape......... But just having the men tackle each other is a lame TV cop show type of finale).
BTW: Hitchcock's favorite composer, Bernard Herrmann, was totally wowed by Vic Mizzy's score for THE NIGHT WALKER...
Castle was a decent B-movie director -- but THE NIGHT WALKER (1964) almost works on that level, except that the laboratory scenes ruin the movie and the final denouement makes little sense (all of which could be forgiven if Stanwyck fell into the lab pit at the end, wakes up screaming in her mansion bed, goes down the hall in a replay of the opening scene, finds herself once again in the study doorway listening to her blind husband converse with his lawyer, and the camera pans in suddenly to the iris of her eye. Fade out. She's caught in a dream web loop from which she can't escape......... But just having the men tackle each other is a lame TV cop show type of finale).
BTW: Hitchcock's favorite composer, Bernard Herrmann, was totally wowed by Vic Mizzy's score for THE NIGHT WALKER...
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I love love love William Castle there's a lot of his movies i have not seen yet, but his worst that i've seen thus far is called Macabre from (1958) damn was that an awful film. his first foray into horror and it was utter garbage. there was a Western that he did a few years prior i think it was in (1950) i forget the name of it that i really liked.
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The worst is STRAIT-JACKET -- it had the most potential, and Crawford is great, but the final film is lousy even by Castle standards: it's just so poorly produced. Or directed. Or edited. Or photographed.
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that one i liked but have you seen Macabre? his later stuff from the 70's such as Bug (1975) his last i have not seen yet or it's (2009) i think? remake
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Yes, I've seen MACABRE (as I've stated on this very thread). And even that is better-produced than STRAIT-JACKET... But not everybody understands the difference between great potential (Joan Crawford with an axe) and the tacky, sloppy final film itself.
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For as long as it stays up.........
Perhaps Castle's most polished directorial job (believe it or not) is HOMICIDAL (1961), an overt homage to PSYCHO:
Perhaps Castle's most polished directorial job (believe it or not) is HOMICIDAL (1961), an overt homage to PSYCHO:
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I've watched THE NIGHT WALKER before. I was alright for what it was, but it certainly wasn't the best of the "grande dame guignol" sub-genre, but I thought it started decent.
I've it to my "watch later" folder. We'll see if I get to it before they snatch it down.
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Yeah, the lab stuff doesn't work, for the most part.
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