William Castle
1) 13 ghosts
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When an impoverished family inherits a ramshackle house, they get more than they anticipated. Twelve ghosts are in residence, looking for a 13th to set them free.
Series
Criterion collection volume 630
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel, Mia Farrow plays "a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her over-friendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby."
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newlywed Rosemary has no idea that her wedded bliss is about to come to a horrific end. After she becomes pregnant, her husband becomes odd, her neighbors border on obsessive, and her normal life turns into a surreal nightmare. Slowly, she begins to realize that a seed of evil has been planted--and she is its host.
6) Bug
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A massive earth tremor in the California desert releases a breed of foot-long cockroaches which threaten to destroy the city of Riverside.
7) The whistler
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Earl Conrad (Richard Dix), a recent widower, is so grief-stricken by his wife's death that he desperately wants to join her. Despite his ardent death wish, he can't bring himself to commit suicide, so he uses a go-between to hire a hit man (J. Carrol Naish) to kill him. Shockingly, not long after putting out a contract on himself, he discovers his wife is alive. When he realizes that his contact to the assassin is dead, Earl must find a way to reach...
Language
English
Description
Lucy Harbin goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her three-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death, then spends twenty years in a mental institution for the double murder. After she is released, she moves in with her brother, his wife, and her own daughter, now age twenty-three. Her nightmare is over, or is it? When a series of axe murders suddenly occurs in the neighborhood,...
9) Homicidal
Publisher
Columbia Tristar
Pub. Date
[2002, 1961]
Language
English
Description
A girl returns to her childhood home, only to become involved in mystery and murder.
Publisher
Automat Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Throughout the 1950's and 60's, William Castle produced and directed a series of horror films marked by their outrageous audience participation gimmicks. Castle treated moviegoers to buzzing seats, flying skeletons, luminescent ghosts and life insurance policies — and they loved every minute of it. SPINE TINGLER! is a documentary about the last great American showman. It is a rags to riches tale of a legend of exploitation and master of self-promotion,...
11) The Tingler
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Vincent Price stars as an obsessed doctor who discovers that fear manifests itself as a parasitic creature, which grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, The Tingler can be destroyed. If they don't, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. He successfully isolates and removes The Tingler from a deaf-mute (Judith Evelyn) who has been scared to death by her devious husband. Once captured, the Tingler escapes and runs amok...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Private detective Don Gale is contracted by an old record shop owner to track down a young girl who used to live in his neighborhood and is in line for a fortune. But when an old man is murdered, Gale is accused, leaving him on an adventure filled with double-crossing, false identities, a valuable record collection and murder. Gale uses every trick in the book to solve the case, and not every way is legal." -- Container.
13) The busy body Paramount Pictures ; screenplay by Ben Starr ; produced and directed by William Castle
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
George Norton is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An eccentric and mysterious millionaire invites an American car salesman to stay with him and his twin brother. As the murders mount up among the residents of the mansion he begins a desperate fight to discover who the murderer is before it is too late.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
" ... a gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob corruption throughout the docks, and when a friend is killed by the gangsters, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and take matters into his own hands"--Container.
16) Rosemary's baby
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse are newlyweds, but Rosemary has no idea that her wedded bliss is about to come to a horrific end. Her husband?s ambition as a struggling actor is about to plunge her into an abyss of terror as she has never known. In exchange for a taste of fame, Guy makes a deal with the devil that puts his wife and soul in jeopardy. When Rosemary becomes pregnant, her husband becomes odd, her neighbors border on obsessive and her normal...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Vincent Price is the owner of a haunted house who offers five strangers $10,000 to spend the night in his house. When they accept his offer, they soon regret it. A great old fashioned ghost story with a wild finish and a new twist.
The going rate is $1,000,000 in the effects-filled Dark Castle Entertainment 1999 remake. Geoffrey Rush plays the twisted bigshot who throws a birthday bash for his wife (Famke Janssen).
18) The Tingler
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An obsessed doctor discovers that feat manifests itself as a parasitic creature, which grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, the Tingler can be destroyed. If they do not, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. He successfully isolates and removes the Tingler from a deaf mute who has been scared to death by her devious husband. Once captured, the Tingler escapes and runs amok in a crowded movie theater.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Wealthy industrialist John Sinclair (Richard Dix, Cimarron) seems to have it all, but he has no friends or loved ones. When he falls ill, he is sent away to the Great Lakes for vacation, but he has another episode and ends up at a clinic. There, he meets Joan (Lynn Merrick, The Blonde from Brooklyn), a nurse engaged to internist Fred Graham (James Cardwell, He Walked by Night). John is told he only has months to live and asks Joan to go away with...
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In House on Haunted Hill, Vincent Price portrays the owner of a haunted house who offers five strangers ten thousand dollars if they can last out the night in his house. In Last man on earth, Price appears as a scientist who is the only person on earth immune to a plague that has turned humans into vampires.