![]() As a filmmaker he is known as the master of the gimmick. A few years later, he leased a theater from Orson Welles and painted swastikas all over it to create a buzz around a play he had written in a weekend. Some here will be intimately familiar with William Castle, but for those who aren’t – as a tween, he goaded Bela Lugosi into giving him a manager position with the Dracula stage play. ![]() This post will not attempt to expand on these elements but instead, aims to suggest that William Malone’s “remake” of a 1959 William Castle film occupies an important, or at least an interesting place in horror history. ![]() I’ve spent considerable oxygen defending this film’s creature effects, its shlocky acting, and its oddly paced, tensionless plot.
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