
William Castle
Yönetmen · 1914 – 1977 · New York City, New York, USA
William Castle (April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Castle was known for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Castle began directing films in the early 1940s, and later television, before moving on to the "gimmick films". Description above from the Wikipedia article William Castle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Film7.8DramKorkuGenç bir çift, Rosemary ve tanınmak için çırpınıp duran bir aktör olan kocası Guy, New York'taki kötü şöhretli eski bir binaya taşınırlar.Rosemary yeni yaşantısından tedirgindir. Komşu evlerden tuhaf seslerin geldiği bir ortamda, bir gece rüyasında şeytansı bir varlık tarafından tecavüze uğradığı görür. Ardından hamile kalır. Bu arada Broadway'de güzel bir rol kapan Guy'un kariyeri yükselmeye başlar.
Film6.4DramÇekirgenin Günü, Büyük Buhran sonrası Hollywood ve California’nın kavurucu güneşi altında kâbusa dönüşen Amerikan rüyası hakkında. Başarısız bir ressam, maço bir kovboy, saf bir taşralı, güzel ama yeteneksiz bir yıldızcık, fahişeler, horoz dövüşçüleri… Nathanael West, parlak yıldızların gölgesinde yaşam mücadelesi veren bir grup kaybetmeye mahkûm, umutsuz ve yozlaşmış karakterin portresini grotesk bir üslupla çiziyor.
Film6.1KomediDramShampoo, 1960'ların sonlarında cinselliğin özgürce yaşandığı, yozlaşmış Los Angeles'ta geçen, yıldız oyuncularla dolu, renkli bir yatak odası komedisi. Oskar ödüllü Warren Beatty (1982 En İyi Yönetmen, Reds) ile Robert Towne'ın (Chinatown) senaryosunu yazdığı ve Hal Ashby'nin (Being There) yönettiği film dört dalda Oskar'a aday olmuş ve Amerikan Film Enstitüsü'nün En Komik 100 Film listesine girmiştir. George, L.A.'in en arzulanan erkeklerinden biri, tüm müşterilerini hiç olmadığı kadar güzelleştiren ve iyi hissettiren bir Beverly Hills kuaförüdür. Kız arkadaşı Jill'in (Goldie Hawn) teşvikiyle kendi salonunu açar ve finansman için muhafazakar iş adamı Lester'dan (Jack Warden) yardım ister. Ancak Lester, George'un karısı (Lee Grant), sevgilisi (Julie Christie) ve ergen kızıyla (Carrie Fisher) yattığından habersizdir. George arzularına direnip Jill'le yuva kuracak mı, yoksa daha da skandal ilişkilere mi girecek?
Film6.4KorkuBilim KurguA pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
The Tingler
1959 · 203 votes
Film5.8KorkuGizemThe reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his sprawling mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune, but along with the property itself, they have also inherited the occultist's collection of thirteen ghosts.
13 Ghosts
1960 · 169 votes
Film7.8BelgeselChronicles 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.
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007 · 17 votes
Film6.4KorkuGerilimA woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half-brother, Warren, who is about to inherit the estate of their late father. Who is the mysterious Emily and what are her intentions?
Homicidal
1961 · 89 votes
Film6.7RomantikKomediWhen a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
The Lady in Question
1940 · 26 votes
Film5.5KomediKorkuWhen Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.
The Spirit Is Willing
1967 · 23 votes
Film5.5GerilimKorkuA 12-year-old orphan who has just inherited a fortune is trapped on an island with his uncle, a former British intelligence commander who intends to kill him. A young girl is the boy's only ally against the sarcastic uncle, who uses hypnotism, a pool of sharks, fire, and poisonous mushrooms as weapons.
Let's Kill Uncle
1966 · 17 votes
Film5.8DramHarry Musk is one in a million. That means that he's the one out of a million children who is perfectly proportioned but will never grow larger than a typical six-year-old. Adult, pint-sized Harry longs to be part of the big world.
It's a Small World
1950 · 8 votes
Film5.3BelgeselKorkuA roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach movies, H.G. Lewis' gore-fests, William Castle's schlocky theatrical gimmicks, to 1970s blaxploitation, pre-"Deep Throat" sex tease films, Russ Meyer's bosom-heavy masterpieces, etc, etc. Over 25 interviews of the greatest purveyors of weird films of all kind from 1940 to 1975. Illustrated with dozens of films clips, trailers, extra footage, etc. This documentary as a shorter companion piece focusing on exploitation king David F. Friedman.
Film5.2FantastikKorkuMalcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
Shanks
1974 · 22 votes
Film8.0KomediSet in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940 · 1 votes
Film6.2GizemSuçA naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
When Strangers Marry
1944 · 34 votes
Film6.7GizemGerilimAn independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.
Hollywood Story
1951 · 24 votes
Film8.0BelgeselKorkuA look back at the classic 1964 film of horror and suspense starring Joan Crawford as an axe-murderer just released from the mental hospital. Includes footage of the filming and interviews with several of those involved, as well as a look at the movies it was influenced by and those that were in turn influenced by it.
Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
2002 · 1 votes
Film4.0DramTV MovieA thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her deteriorating career.
The Sex Symbol
1974 · 4 votes
Film8.0Documentary about the making of "The Tingler" (1959), produced for the DVD release.
Scream For Your Lives: William Castle and 'The Tingler'
1999 · 1 votes
FilmFeaturette about the production of Jeffrey Schwarz’s 2007 AFIFest Audience Award winning documentary.
Film5.6KomediFantastikJonathan Jones, a professor of ancient languages, comes into possession of an ancient coin. He translates its inscription, which gives him three powers: to inflict pain, slow down time or kill. Soon, he's pursued by enemy spies who have learned about the magic coin.
Zotz!
1962 · 20 votes
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Dizi7.4DramGizemGhost Story is an American television anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from 1972 to 1973. Executive-produced by William Castle, it initially featured supernatural entities such as ghosts, vampires, and witches. By mid-season, low ratings led to a shift -- for the most part -- away from paranormal themes and a title change to Circle of Fear.
Ghost Story
1972 · 9 votes