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…
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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…
House on Haunted Hill (1959) – Review
If a person were to find themselves in a horror movie a solid piece of advice to follow would be, “Don’t accept an invitation from Vincent Price!” By the late 50s William Castle had made a name for himself as a talented producer of low-budget entertainment, and also as a bit of genius when it…
The Mask (1961) – Review
When one thinks of a man putting on a strange mask, one that turns him into a dangerous Mr. Hyde like character, most will immediately think of the Jim Carrey movie or the comic it was based on, but Canadian director Julian Roffman was there first with his 1961 movie also called The Mask.