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13 Ghosts
Why this pick
Another William Castle showpiece, blending a compact haunted-house tale with gleefully tactile theatrical gimmickry and brisk, old-fashioned scares.
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MOVIE1959 1h 22m USA
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It shares The Tingler’s Vincent Price magnetism, playful macabre tone, and Castle’s delight in making the audience feel implicated in a lurid fright-night spectacle.
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The Screaming Skull
Why this pick
A lean, low-budget psychological horror curio with a direct-address prologue, ominous sound design, and the deliciously disreputable showmanship of 1950s drive-in scares.
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Theatre of Blood
Why this pick
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Matinee
Why this pick
A loving recreation of the Castle-style horror experience, pairing a charmingly unscrupulous showman with affectionate, audience-facing scares and moviegoing nostalgia.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A pathologist, Dr. Warren Chapin (Price), discovers that the tingling of the spine in states of extreme fear is due to the growth of a creature that every human being seems to have, called a "tingler", a parasite attached to the human spine. It curls up, feeds and grows stronger when its host is afraid, effectively crushing the person's spine if curled up long enough. The host can weaken the creature and stop its curling by screaming.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Vincent Price
Dr. Warren Chapin
Patricia Cutts
Isabel Stevens Chapin
Pamela Lincoln
Lucy Stevens
Darryl Hickman
David Morris
Philip Coolidge
Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins
Judith Evelyn
Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins