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William Castle Film Collection Comes To DVD October 20th!

17 August 2009 11:17 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »

Eight Classic Shockers from the Legendary Master Showman in One Chilling DVD Collection October 20 - William Castle Film Collection, Five-Disc Set Includes Three Films Making Their DVD Debuts: Zotz!, The Old Dark House, and 13 Frightened Girls!Plus The Tingler, 13 Ghosts, Homicidal, Mr. Sardonicus, and Strait-Jacket. Bonus Features Include the Award-Winning Documentary Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story!

Culver City, Calif. (August 17, 2009) – The master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks will be remembered on October 20 when the William Castle Film Collection debuts from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Sphe). The set features eight of the legendary producer/director’s most notable films, including The Tingler (1959), 13 Ghosts (1960), Homicidal (1961), Mr. Sardonicus (1961), and Strait-Jacket (1964). Also included in the collection are Zotz! (1962), The Old Dark House (1963), and 13 Frightened Girls (1963), each making their DVD debuts. The extensive bonus materials include original theatrical openings, alternate sequences, vintage footage and original theatrical trailers, »

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Stacked William Castle Box Set on the Way

17 August 2009 3:32 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

William Castle is a hero around the Dread Central offices. The man was a true showman in every sense of the word and knew how to deliver laughs, chills, and lunacy like no other! Come this October fans will be getting a box set to scream about courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment -- The William Castle Film Collection!

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The master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks will be remembered on October 20 when the William Castle Film Collection debuts from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The set features eight of the legendary producer/director’s most notable films, including The Tingler (1959), 13 Ghosts (1960), Homicidal (1961), Mr. Sardonicus (1961), and Strait-Jacket (1964). Also included in the collection are Zotz! (1962), The Old Dark House (1963), and 13 Frightened Girls (1963), each making their DVD debuts. The extensive bonus materials include original theatrical openings, alternate sequences, vintage footage, »

- Uncle Creepy

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The Diary of Anne Frank, 50th Anniversary Edition - DVD Review

25 June 2009 6:01 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

George Stevens. powerful film is given a new anniversary edition adding some new special features, but still showing that the film hasn.t lost any of the emotional power it displayed in 1959. In 1942, the Nazis invade and occupy Amsterdam. The Frank family, Otto (Joseph Schildkraut), Edith (Gusti Huber), and their daughters Margot (Diane Baker), and the young Anne (Millie Perkins), the van Daan family, Petronella (Shelley Winters), Hans (Lou Jacobi), and their son Peter (Richard Beymer), and Mr. Dussell (Ed Wynn) enter into hiding because the Nazis are rounding up all the Jews. The Franks have a secret loft over their factor and are aided in their confinement by Kraler (Douglas Spencer) and Miep (Dodie Heath). They »

- Jeff Swindoll

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[DVD Review] The Diary of Anne Frank

23 June 2009 9:01 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

After the works of Elie Wiesel, the manuscript of Anne Frank written during hiding in World War II may be the most essential memoir written by someone who experienced the Holocaust firsthand. Anne Frank’s diary relays the struggles of two families inhabiting a hidden attic at the height of Nazi occupation in Europe. The journal as is possesses incredible historic value; but when you consider Anne Frank died of typhus in a concentration camp, that her writings survived to tell her harrowing story of survival becomes borderline miraculous. Now, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is read by students around the world as a key piece of literature on the subject of Holocaust education. The English translation of Anne’s diary appeared in 1952 and quickly spawned a play and eventually a film adaptation by George Stevens.

These days when you tell someone you’re going to watch a three-hour-long Holocaust epic, »

- Lex Walker

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2009 | 2008

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