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This Friday, a very cool film forum started in NYC featuring a retrospective on the career of William Castle. Celebrating all things macabre, the festival runs until September 6th.
Read on for more from the press release: Don’t think that a little thing like being dead would preclude me from attending “The Return of William Castle” retrospective at the Film Forum in New York City beginning Friday, August 27th (http://www.filmforum.org/films/castle.html) I am very much present. And I do so remember how I loved scaring the living daylights out of all of you……But I’m not done yet. Not by a long shot. I am sure you are dying to know what to expect from me now that I’m back with FROM THE GRAVE!, a new tale of terror and my first novel, that will scare a corpse out of his own grave. So, everyone, if you get a whiff of my beloved Don Diego #5 cigars during “The Return of William Castle” retrospective, don’t be alarmed, know I’m there with a grin that stretches from here to eternity. And for the faint of heart, beware we might meet in the ‘Coward’s Corner.’ WHO: My daughter Terry Castle will be on hand Friday night to introduce the opening double bill of “The Return of William Castle” retrospective. The dear child had a most unusual childhood and has endured the legacy of a father who is indeed larger than life. I wonder what she will say about me? Does she believe I’m back FROM THE GRAVE? WHY: I never met a gimmick I didn’t like. Many consider me to be the godfather of the modern horror movie genre and and “experiential films.” And to think I died in 1977 thinking I was unsuccessful. Background: I made over forty B movies following a formula for box office success: low-budget chillers geared to the burgeoning Youth-sploitation market including The Tingler, House on Haunted Hill, 13 Ghosts, Macabre, Strait-Jacket (the latter scripted by Psycho's Robert Bloch), and Homicidal – which TIME magazine liked better than Psycho. They called me a master of ballyhoo who shamelessly promoted his pictures with highly effective gimmicks, some of which will be lovingly re-created for the Film Forum’s 15 film retrospective, “The Return of William Castle” running August 27 through September 6 in NYC. To Read the latest messages from, or leave a message for, William Castle: http://www.williamcastle.com For more info, check out Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100001154126369 or get more info on Twitter by following: @billcastle - Heather Wixson |
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