When it comes to playing cowardly leading men Bob Hope is at the top of the list – Lou Costello is disqualified as he rarely gets the girl in the end – and with the 1939 remake of The Cat and the Canary, we have on hand one of the best horror comedies to date,…
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Ghost Ship (2002) – Review
Dark Castle Entertainment’s first two releases were remakes of William Castle’s House on Haunted Hill and Thirteen Ghosts – which is where the studio took its name from – and though both of those films garnered fairly good reviews for their third outing they decided to go with an original story and moved the horror…
Thir13en Ghosts (2001) – Review
With the success of their remake of William Castle’s House on Haunted Hill Dark Castle Entertainment producers, Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver, decided to tackle Castle’s 1960s classic 13 Ghosts in what turned out to be one of the better examples of taking an original premise and then spinning it in a variety of different…
13 Ghosts (1960) – Review
When it comes to filmmakers William Castle will never be regarded as one of the best because even though his producing credits include the classic horror film Rosemary’s Baby he’s mostly known for low budgeted B-movies that relied on a variety of goofy gimmicks, such as “Emergo” a skeleton on wires that floated over the…
House on Haunted Hill (1999) – Review
In 1999 Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis teamed up to form Dark Castle Entertainment a production company designed to pay homage to the works of legendary filmmaker William Castle; their first project was a remake of the 1960 classic House on Haunted Hill, yet after just two remakes they stopped and went on to make…