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William Castle has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s.
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Island of Terror
1966
Horror · Science Fiction

Asylum
1972
Horror

The Haunted Palace
1963
Horror

The Kiss of the Vampire
1963
Horror

The Reptile
1966
Horror

Mark of the Vampire
1935
Mystery · Horror

The House That Dripped Blood
1971
Horror · Mystery

House of Usher
1960
Horror · Drama

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.
Dir. William Castle · With Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
Dir. William Castle · With Vincent Price, Philip Coolidge, Judith Evelyn

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
Dir. William Castle · With Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson
The reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his sprawling mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune, but along with the property itself, they have also inherited the occultist's collection of thirteen ghosts.
Dir. William Castle · With Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner