Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story | |
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Directed by | Jeffrey Schwarz |
Produced by | Jeffrey Schwarz |
Starring | William Castle |
Cinematography | Adam Cindric Steve Coleman Robert Elfstrom Matt Faw Eugenia Fiumi David A. Ford David Hallinger Chris Meagher Jim Newport Mark Putnam Matt Stell Clay Westervelt |
Edited by | Philip Harrison Jeffrey Schwarz |
Music by | Michael Cudahy |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story is a 2007 American biographical documentary film directed by Jeffrey Schwarz about legendary Hollywood showman William Castle, who specialized in producing low-budget shockers.
Production[edit]
Hailed as a "fittingly lively portrait" [1] of its subject, the film features interviews with Castle's daughter Terry, John Waters, Joe Dante, John Landis, Leonard Maltin, Roger Corman, John Badham, Diane Baker, and Marcel Marceau, among others.
Release[edit]
Spine Tingler! premiered at the 2007 American Film Institute's AFI Fest and was awarded the Audience Award for Best Documentary.[2][3] It received many other festival honors [4] and was released as part of the William Castle box set[5] in 2009 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. In 2011 the film was released as a stand-alone Special Edition DVD and is currently streaming on Vimeo. It has aired on The Documentary Channel and TCM.
References[edit]
- ^ "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story". Hollywood Reporter. 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-29. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story". Tcm.com. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
- ^ Automat Pictures (15 October 2008). "N.O. Film Fest hands out awards". NOLA.com. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
- ^ "The William Castle Film Collection : DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". Dvdtalk.com. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
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