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20 October 2009 (USA)
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He was just another movie director...until he found himself a gimmick.
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Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks. | add synopsis
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An electrifying double feature for all film fans - SPINE TINGLER and THE TINGLER!
(From AlamoDrafthouseCinema. 17 September 2008, 11:36 AM, PDT)
(From AlamoDrafthouseCinema. 17 September 2008, 11:36 AM, PDT)
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Great documentary
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Forrest J Ackerman | ... | Himself | |
| John Badham | ... | Himself | |
| Diane Baker | ... | Herself | |
| Sidney D. Balkin | ... | Himself | |
| Steve Bickel | ... | Himself | |
| Robert Bloch | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Budd Boetticher | ... | Himself | |
| Bob Burns | ... | Himself | |
| Kathy Burns | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Terry Castle | ... | Herself | |
| William Castle | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Harry Cohn | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Roger Corman | ... | Himself | |
| Joan Crawford | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Joe Dante | ... | Himself | |
| David Del Valle | ... | Himself | |
| Ralph Edwards | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Mia Farrow | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Donald F. Glut | ... | Himself | |
| Stuart Gordon | ... | Himself | |
| Cary Grant | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Anne Helm | ... | Herself | |
| Darryl Hickman | ... | Himself | |
| Alfred Hitchcock | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Adolf Hitler | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Norman Horowitz | ... | Himself | |
| William J. Immerman | ... | Himself | |
| Richard Kahn | ... | Himself | |
| Jacqueline Kennedy | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| John F. Kennedy | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Hawk Koch | ... | Himself | |
| John Landis | ... | Himself | |
| Gene Lesser | ... | Himself | |
| Pamela Lincoln | ... | Herself | |
| Marcia Scully Little | ... | Herself | |
| Barry Lorie | ... | Himself | |
| Bela Lugosi | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Leonard Maltin | ... | Himself | |
| Marcel Marceau | ... | Himself | |
| Marilyn Nash | ... | Herself | |
| Kyle Newell | ... | Himself | |
| Will Newell | ... | Himself | |
| Steven North | ... | Himself | |
| Thomas Page | ... | Himself | |
| Roman Polanski | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Vincent Price | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Fred Olen Ray | ... | Himself | |
| Paul Sammon | ... | Himself | |
| Michael Schlesinger | ... | Himself | |
| Jacqueline Scott | ... | Herself | |
| Ruth Scully | ... | Herself | |
| Jeannot Szwarc | ... | Himself | |
| Bob Thomas | ... | Himself | |
| John Waters | ... | Himself | |
| Orson Welles | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Robb White | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
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This movies chronicles the life and times of William Castle. He made a series of low budget horror films in the 1950s-1960s that he sold with gimmicks. In "13 Ghosts" you need viewers to see the ghosts (they were in color, the film was in b&w). "The Tingler" had theatre seats equipped with a buzzer that jolted the audience when a monster escapes into a movie theatre. "Marabre" issued a life insurance policy to all members in case they were frightened to death! The movies themselves were pretty bad but the gimmicks had people rushing to see them. In this doc there are interviews with directors inspired by Castle, actors in his movies and his daughter. It also gets into his home life and the kind of man he was (by all accounts he was a great guy). The documentary is affectionate, very funny and absolutely riveting. It's very short (under 90 minutes) and there's never a dull moment. A must see for Castle fans and horror movie fans. My one complaint--there were very few sequences shown from his pictures. That aside this is just great.