The Spirit Is Willing (1967)

  
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Husband Sid Caesar, wife Vera Miles, and teenage son Barry Gordon rent a New England seaside house for the summer, unaware that it's already occupied by a trio of ghosts who died there a century earlier and don't like having their "slumber" interrupted. Horror auteur William Castle mixes scares with laughs in this spooky comedy. Mary Wickes, John McGiver, Cass Daley, John Astin also star; based on a novel by Nathaniel Benchley. 100 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo.
 
SKU: D44015
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    Category: Horror | Director: William Castle | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

    Format: | Starring: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman

    Famous as the film in which producer/director William Castle wired theatre seats to give customers mild electric jolts at key points, this offbeat chiller stars Vincent Price as a doctor who discovers ... more

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  • House On Haunted Hill (1959)

    Category: Horror | Director: William Castle | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: Yes

    Format: | Starring: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long

    A sinister host offers a group of people $10,000 each if they'll spend the night in his macabre mansion, then does his best (or worst) to see that no one collects! Spook-filled shocker from the legendary ... more

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  • House On Haunted Hill (B&W/Color Versions) (1959)

    Category: Horror | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

    Format: | Starring: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long

    A sinister host offers a group of people $10,000 each if they'll spend the night in his macabre mansion, then does his best (or worst) to see that no one collects! Spook-filled shocker from the legendary ... more

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  • 13 Ghosts (1960)

    Category: Horror | Director: William Castle | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: Yes

    Format: | Starring: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner

    William Castle's campy horror gem follows a family that inherits a mansion complete with a spooky housekeeper, a missing treasure and a baker's dozen of baleful banshees. Originally filmed in "Illusion-O," ... more

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  • The Old Dark House (1963)

    Category: Comedy | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

    Format: DVD-R | Starring: Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott

    In William Castle's spin on the J.B. Priestley novel, Tom Penderel (Tom Poston), an American car salesman living in England, gets a strange invitation to spend the weekend at the spooky old Femm Estate. ... more

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  • Project X (1968)

    Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

    Format: | Starring: Christopher George, Greta Baldwin, Henry Jones

    Shock master William Castle helms this sci-fi opus set in the 22nd century--the story of a spy (Christopher George) whose missing memories are sought by scientists trying to rescue them by way of an ... more

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    Shanks (Remastered Edition) (1974)

    Category: Cult | Rated: PG | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

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    This bizarre, mostly dialogue-free fantasy, the final film directed by horror icon William Castle, stars legendary mime Marcel Marceau in dual roles as put-upon, deaf-mute puppeteer Shanks and the elderly ... more

    Academy Award ®
    Nominee: Best Score (Dramatic Picture)
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  • The William Castle Film Collection

    Category: Horror | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

    Format: | Starring: Ronald Lewis, Tom Poston, Glenn Corbett

    Gimmick king William Castle added a "Fear Break" before the climax of "Homicidal" (1961), a gender-bending horror tale about a woman who pays a hotel bellhop to marry her, then murders the justice of ... more

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  • Burn, Witch, Burn! (1962)

    Category: Horror | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

    Format: DVD-R | Starring: Janet Blair, Peter Wyngarde, Margaret Johnston

    Peter Wyngarde is living a charmed life, with a caring wife and a promising career as a college professor. Things take a bizarre turn when he finds out that spouse Janet Blair is a witch whose voodoo ... more

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  • Bloody Pit Of Horror (1965)

    Category: Horror | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

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    Mickey Hargitay made this gruesome delight during a layover in Italy, where wife Jayne Mansfield was filming. The owner of a creepy castle is possessed by the spirit of a crimson-tighted ancestor and ... more

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