Would you take a look at the date! 10/11/12, what possible film would sync up so nicely with such a date as this? Why,
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Director:
WILLIAM CASTLEStarring: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner, Rosemary DeCamp.
Famous people: Margaret Hamilton, who is referred to in the movie by the family's son as a witch!
Synopsis: A 1950's-style family inherits a spooky old house from a dead uncle. The uncle "collected ghosts from all over the world." They inherit them, too.
This is one of those William Castle gimmick pictures. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it:
As with most of his productions, Castle used a gimmick to promote the movie. For 13 Ghosts, audience members were given a choice: the "brave" ones could watch the film and see the ghosts, while the apprehensive among them would be able to opt out of the horror and watch without the stress of having to see the ghosts. The choice came via the special viewer, supposedly "left by Dr. Zorba."
In the theatres, scenes involving ghosts were shown in a "process" dubbed Illusion-O: the filmed elements of the actors and the sets — everything except the ghosts — were displayed in regular black-and-white, while the ghost elements were tinted a pale blue and superimposed over the frame. Audiences received viewers with red and blue cellophane filters. Choosing to look through the red filter intensified the images of the ghosts, while the blue filter "removed" them. Despite Castle's claims to the contrary, not many heart attacks or nervous breakdowns were averted by the Illusion-O process; although the blue filter did screen out the ghostly images, the ghosts were visible with the naked eye, without the red filter.
Because the ghosts were indeed viewable by the naked eye, the movie ran for years on television with no viewer needed to see the ghosts. DVD editions have varied in their preservation of the Illusion-O effect, with the latest DVD release including versions with and without the ghost outlines and a set of special viewers.
Unfortunately, in this video-era (actually post-video era...! Digital era?) the gimmick for most of these movies is lost. Seeing the ghosts is part of the fun, though, and since they're right there in the movie without the aid of the special viewer, it doesn't matter so much for this one. The ghosts are pretty faint, though.
This movie might teach you something. Ouija is a combination of the French word for yes, "oui", and the German word "ja", also for yes! Amazing.
What I find most odd is that it wastes a lot of potential. Only about four of the ghosts are even described at all, and only half of those in any detail.
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Classic Horror Value: Pretty low.
And if anybody in Europe or a different timezone reads this thread, they can be sure to complain about how I got the date wrong.
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