Macabre
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Macabre

Duration:
72 min
Genres:
Horror | Thriller
IMDB rate:
5.8
Director:
William Castle
Details
Country: USA
Filming Locations: 5193 D Street, Chino, California, USA
Earnings
Budget: $90,000
Gross: $5,000,000 (USA) ( January 1970)
Cast
Actor
Character
William Prince
Dr. Rodney Barrett
Jim Backus
Police Chief Jim Tyloe
Christine White
Nancy Wetherby Tyloe
Jacqueline Scott
Polly Baron - Nurse
Philip Tonge
Jode Wetherby
Jonathan Kidd
Ed Quigley - Funeral Director
Dorothy Morris
Alice Wetherby Barrett
Howard Hoffman
Hummel
Ellen Corby
Miss Kushins
Linda Guderman
Marge Barrett
Voltaire Perkins
Preacher
Robert Colbert
Nick - Chauffeur (uncredited)
Robb White
Man Walking in Graveyard (uncredited)
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Trivia
The first of William Castle's "gimmick" films. In this one, admission included an insurance policy against "death by fright" issued by Lloyds of London.
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Film debut of Jacqueline Scott.
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During its initial theatrical release, attendees were given a small badge that said, "I'm no chicken. I saw 'Macabre'."
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Goofs
The closing credits incorrectly place Ed Quigley among the characters who died during the movie.
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Faq
Q
Lloyd's of London---What Did They Have to do With This Film?
A
Chicago Daily News, Wednesday, September 23, 1959, p. 64, c. 1:'TINGLER' TO ROCK THEATERSby Sam LesnerThere will be blood-curdling screaming in the movie theaters in the next few weeks when The Tingler" is unreeled on local screens."The Tingler" is producer William Castle's latest gimmick movie, which, it is said, makes the whole theater shake with firght, including the theater's seats.Earlier, Castle introduced the movie patron insurance policy, underwritten by Lloyd's of London, just in case a patron died of fright while viewing "Macabre."Then Castle introduced "Emergo," a projection gimmick that caused a human skelton to walk over the heads of the audience during the showing of "House on Hunted Hill."Both films made a bushel of money for Castle."If you can't have an all-star cast you've got to have a gimmick," Castle is fond of saying in defense of his horror films."The Tingler" goes a little deeper into the horror business, however.The film introduces Percepto, "a new dimension in tension and terror."Castle is telling prospective exhibitors that this is a spook story based on the eerie assumption that fear is not just a vague if sometimes paralysing emotion, but rather a living, parasitic organism which, it allowed to go unchecked within the body, will eventually grow to such size as to snuff out the life of its host.The way to check fear, of course, is by screaming.This concept, Castle added, actually has its roots in ancient Greek and Roman attempts to find the exact location of the soul.During "The Tingler," theater seats actually vibrate with fear.The film breaks in the projector, a silhouette of a "tingler" (loose in the projection booth) stalks across the white screen, the house lights are turned onk someone in the audience faints and is carried out on a stretcher.The projection booth operator will be kept busy pushing all sorts of controls on cue.Castle was asked whether projectionists might object to the extra work. He answered he didn't think so."One of the leading characters in the film is a projectionist. I think they like the publicity," Castle hopefully added.Well, it will be a change from the solitaire games and reading of paperback novels that some projectionists indulge in while a film unwinds, unattended._________________________________________________
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Photos from cast
Susan Morrow
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