Mr. Sardonicus (1961) + The Old Dark House (1963)
Mr. Sardonicus (1961) + The Old Dark House (1963)
A Films by William Castle
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:29:54 + 01:26:21 | 7,38 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: None
Genre: Horror, Mystery | USA
A Films by William Castle
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:29:54 + 01:26:21 | 7,38 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: None
Genre: Horror, Mystery | USA
Intrigued by the circus of Barnum and Bailey, New York stage plays, radio and the movies, William Castle (1914 - 1977) knew what he wanted to do with his life and spent most of his teenage years working on the stage in a number of jobs ranging from set building to acting. He left Broadway for Hollywood at the age of 23, going on to direct his first film (The Chance of a Lifetime) six years later.
Castle honed his craft over the next decade turning out every manner of film. He also worked as an assistant to director Orson Welles, doing much of the second unit location work for Welles’ noir classic The Lady from Shanghai, starring Rita Hayworth. Castle had a reputation for getting the work done, and eventually decided to produce and direct his own pictures. The first, Macabre, boasted ad lines like “See it with someone who can carry you home!” and “If it frightens you to death, you’ll be buried free of charge!” The hype worked and Castle became famous for directing films with many gimmicks, which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. By the mid-60s, he abandoned the gimmicks and went on to produce the Roman Polanski classic Rosemary’s Baby (1968). His autobiography was entitled “Step Right Up! I’m Gonna Scare the Pants Off America.”
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Mr. Sardonicus (1961):
Horror, Mystery, Drama
In 19th Century England, Dr. Robert Cargrave (Ronald Lewis) is urgently summoned by his former lover, Maude (Audrey Dalton, Kitten with a Whip), to the castle where she lives with her husband. Upon arriving, the doctor finds Maude lovely as ever, but everything else to be grotesque. There's a sinister one-eyed servant, Krull (Oscar Homolka, I Remember Mama), a maid being tortured with leeches, and Maude's husband, the wealthy Baron Sardonicus (Guy Rolfe, Ivanhoe), a tall, cruel man who wears a mask. Robert learns Sardonicus' story: In his younger days, the family was poor, until his father won a lottery. Unfortunately, the old man dies and is buried with the ticket in his pocket. Sardonicus goes and opens the grave to retrieve the ticket, but on seeing his father's rotting corpse, his own face is transformed into a hideous grimace. Sardonicus wants Robert to fix him, with a terrible consequence for failure: If the operation doesn't work, Sardonicus will order Krull to disfigure Maude, so that her face is as ugly as his. Will the doctor be able to save his unhappily wed love from the cruel fate of her gross husband, or will Maude suffer the kind of ugliness that's not only skin deep?
IMDB
Mr. Sardonicus (1961) + The Old Dark House (1963)
Mr. Sardonicus (1961) + The Old Dark House (1963)
Mr. Sardonicus (1961) + The Old Dark House (1963)
Mr. Sardonicus (1961) + The Old Dark House (1963)
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The Old Dark House (1963):
Horror, Mystery, Comedy
American-in-Britain Tom Penderel (Tom Poston) is invited by his friend, Casper Femm (Peter Bull, Tom Jones) to visit his ancestral home, Femm Hall. The visit isn't purely social: Casper is frightened that something terrible is going to happen to him.
Turns out, Casper has every reason to be frightened. The Femm family is a strange lot with an even stranger story. In order to avoid being cut off from the vast fortune left to them by their ancestor, a pirate, the entire family must spend every night in Femm Hall—which explains why Casper never sleeps in his apartment. The last Femm standing will inherit everything. Unfortunately, the remaining Femms—including nymphomaniac Morgana (Fenella Fielding, Carry On Screaming!), pompous Roderick (Robert Morely, Theater of Blood), dotty Agatha (Joyce Grenfell, The Belles of St. Trinian's), and cousin Petiphar (Mervyn Johns, The Day of the Triffids), who is building an ark—are barely standing at all, and as the night wears on, fewer and fewer of them are standing at all. It seems someone is trying to speed up the inheritance process, and this is a bad time to be a Femm.
IMDB
Mr. Sardonicus (1961) + The Old Dark House (1963)
Mr. Sardonicus (1961) + The Old Dark House (1963)
Mr. Sardonicus (1961) + The Old Dark House (1963)
Mr. Sardonicus (1961) + The Old Dark House (1963)
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Special Features:The Tingler (1959) + Zotz! (1962) fom this Boxset is here –> Link
The Old Dark House:
- Original Theatrical trailer
Mr. Sardonicus:
- Taking the Punishment Poll
- Ghost Story: Pilot (The New House) (55:26)
- Original Theatrical trailer
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